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Longest serving BBC Indian correspondent retires
NEW DELHI: Satish Jacob, who is the BBC Delhi deputy bureau chief and BBC News’ longest serving correspondent in India, has announced his retirement from the Bureau after 20 years of service.
Jacob will take up his retirement on his 63rd Birthday which falls next month but will maintain his links with the corporation as a commentator and correspondent on a freelance basis. Jacob joined the BBC in 1970’s as a stringer in Addis Ababa. Five years later, he moved to Delhi where he teamed up with Mark Tully. Together they covered the most dramatic events in modern Indian history.
Satish reported for the BBC on stories ranging from the defeat of Indira Gandhi in the 1977 general elections; Sanjay Gandhi’s death; the Punjab violence; Operation Bluestar; the assassination of Mrs Gandhi and the uprising of Kashmiri separatists in 1990. He worked his way up in the organisation until he became the Deputy Bureau Chief in the early nineties. Satish Jacob made his announcement to colleagues on Wednesday, according to a press release from BBC.
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Book Cricket gets a digital century on News18 amid T20 fever
Nostalgic classroom game revamped in English, Hindi plus Telugu on web and app.
MUMBAI: When the T20 World Cup fever hits fever pitch, News18 decides to flip the script straight back to the classroom. The digital news platform has revived the timeless schoolyard favourite Book Cricket as an interactive online game, perfectly timed to ride the cricket wave gripping fans across the globe. The reimagined Book Cricket ditches textbooks for smartphones, blending old-school nostalgia with modern gameplay. Once a sneaky recess pastime played by flicking book pages to score runs, the digital version now offers seamless fun for anyone craving a quick cricket fix between overs.
Available in English, Hindi and Telugu (with more languages planned across News18’s network), the game sits within the platform’s fast-growing gaming portfolio of over 20 titles, all built in-house. It joins event-driven hits like ‘Kursi Catcher’ and ‘Result Rewind’ during the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections, plus festive specials such as ‘Durga’s Astras’ for Durga Puja and ‘Mouse Modak’ for Ganesh Chaturthi.
News18 Digital CEO Mitul Sangani said, “Gaming is a key pillar of our engagement strategy. At News18, we uniquely combine our newsroom agility with immersive gaming experiences. By blending credible content with interactive formats, we are creating meaningful engagement in an era defined by shrinking attention spans and evolving consumption habits.”
Select titles have expanded beyond News18.com to CNBC-TV18.com and Firstpost.com, reflecting the network’s push to deepen user interaction across platforms. The Book Cricket game is live now at https://www.news18.com/games/book-cricket/.
In a tournament where every boundary counts, News18’s digital Book Cricket proves the simplest games can still deliver the biggest smiles no syllabus required, just pure cricket joy one page-flip at a time.
