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UC News to promote ‘Tubelight’, partners SK Films
MUMBAI: UC News, a part of Alibaba Mobile Business Group, with over 100 million monthly active users in India and Indonesia, has partnered with SK Films to promote the most awaited movie of the year – Tubelight.
As the official ‘Trending Partner’ of the movie, UC News continues its strategy to offer diverse, exclusive, and comprehensive content by offering users exclusive behind the scene footage and a dedicated section on UC News featuring special footage, news, comments and videos related to the movie Tubelight.
UC News also employed an innovative strategy of movie promotion by launching an engaging digital game on UC News and later promoting the movie at Times Square in New York. The game invited users to join Salman’s squad to find his brother by uploading their images on UC News and sharing with friends. The game registered over 2.3 million page views while over 1 million users participated in the game (in just five days) to help Salman find his brother. After receiving 1 million shares, the poster of the movie was featured at New York’s Times Square where the selected fans pictures were put together with Salman Khan and Sohail Khan’s poster.
Alibaba Mobile Business Group head of international business department Young Li said, “The consumption of entertainment related content, especially Cinema is at its highest in India. As one of the leading digital news aggregator, we understand Indians’ love and passion for Bollywood. In our continued commitment towards bringing best content for the users, we are delighted to announce our collaboration with SK Films for Tubelight. The collaboration will enable millions of UC News users to have direct access to some of the best and exclusive content of the much awaited movie.”
Salman Khan Films COO Amar Butala added, “At SKF we have always focused on bringing best of the content for the audiences. We are delighted to partner with UC News and are hopeful that with its reach we’ll be able to make our content accessible to millions of Hindi Cinema fans not just in India, but also across the world.”
Salman Khan, in an interview with UC News, revealed details of his new co-star Matin Rey Tangu, who loves calling Salman as ‘Bibing Salman’. He said, “He is like one of the amazing kids I have ever met. He is superb and on a different level. He calls me Bibing Salman which means older brother. He’ll call everyone ‘Uncle’ but he’ll call me Brother.”
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
