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Helo partners with India’s biggest entertainment show ‘Bigg Boss Season 13’
Mumbai: Reiterating its commitment to provide its community of over 50 million monthly active users access to popular, trending and engaging content, Helo has launched a strategic partnership with leading entertainment show Big Boss Hindi Season 13, hosted by Salman Khan.
As part of this partnership, Helo is offering users exciting opportunities to meet and engage with the contestants of the hit reality show. One lucky Helo user will stand a chance to meet the contestants and feature with them in one of the weekend episodes.
This partnership between Helo and Bigg Boss Hindi Season 13 comes after a series of successful stints with the regional versions of the show in Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Tamil. As a part of its Bigg Boss Kannada partnership, Helo launched an in-app engagement campaign, where Helo users got to interact with their favourite BBK contestants by following the trending hashtags #ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಚಾಲೆಂಜ್ as well as the contestants’ personal accounts. Through the hashtag #ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಚಾಲೆಂಜ್, Helo users selected tasks for the BBK contestants to perform during the show.
Helo also recently partnered with Bigg Boss Marathi for its second season as its social media partner and gave select Helo users a chance to become the ‘Caller of the Week’ and ask their favourite contestants in the Bigg Boss House quirky and fun questions of their choice.
Mahesh Shetty, Head, Network Sales, Viacom18 said, “With Bigg Boss being our flagship property, it has a huge fan base and our association with Helo will help us expand it further. Our aim has always been to make the show more engaging and entertaining for our viewers so that they also feel a part of the fun-filled journey of the inmates. Through this partnership, we hope to bring our audience closer to the Bigg Boss experience.
“We’re delighted to partner with Bigg Boss again, this time for Bigg Boss Hindi Season 13. Our partnership with Bigg Boss is in line with our mission to constantly connect our users with their favourite content, in the language that they are most comfortable with. Following our previous regional partnerships, which saw unprecedented engagement from Helo users with over 20 billion combined impressions on the app, we are looking forward to reaching greater heights when it comes to engaging our users with Bigg Boss Hindi.” said Chhandita Nambiar, Head of Entertainment, Helo.
Helo users will also get day-to-day updates on all activities at the Bigg Boss house and the show’s contestants, by following the official handle of Voot/Colors on the app. To further engage with the viewers and Helo users, official Bigg Boss fan page of the reality show’s contestants will provide all the latest news and updates from the show. This fan-generated content will be shortlisted and featured on the Bigg Buzz episode. Each week, one fan will win a hamper or referral point from Helo. The show went live on 29th September, airing from Monday to Sunday.
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
