News Broadcasting
Bollywood Fashion Awards to be held on 30 April
MUMBAI: The fourth International Kingfisher Bollywood Fashion Awards 2004 is taking place tonight at Xanadu, Trump Taj Mahal and Casino, Atlantic City, USA. The announcement was made on 29 April.
Top International designers, ravishing models and the hottest celebrities are gathering in the award ceremony to honour the colliding worlds of fashion and entertainment. This is the fourth event of such an International stature honouring the outstanding achievements of Indian fashion designers for the year 2003, confirms a press release.
Aashna Patel and Padmalakshmi are going to be the host for the night. The organisers have roped in performers like Reggie Benjamin, ARROW – Alphonsus Cassell and America’s sexiest belly twins Veena Neena for the show.
In addition to the awards, the ceremony will also see models like Aditi Govitrikar, Mehek Chanchal, Tania Soni, Anjali Lavania, Nikita Anand, Ritu Kamal, Ujjawala Raut, Aryan Vaid, Shahwar Ali, Tejaswani Kolhapure, Amit Gaur and Zulfi Sayed amongst others, on ramp with the collections of leading designers Manish Malhotra, JJ Valaya and Alia Khan.
Commenting on the awards, The UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya said, “The Kingfisher Bollywood Fashion Award is yet another step in the direction of keeping its commitment and promoting fashion not just in India but Internationally. These awards provide a platform for Indian designers and Indian fashion to be showcased Internationally.”
Founder of the Bollywood Fashion Awards Sonia Dandona seems to be thrilled at the line-up: “Ravishing models, stylish celebrities, and awesome performances.It’s going to be a spectacular night.”
Kingfisher as a brand has been closely associated with the world of fashion. It went international by sponsoring International Fashion Shows of some of the known names of the Indian fashion industry such as Ritu Beri, Rohit Bal and Tarun Tahiliani. Now Kingfisher steps into the world of Bollywood by holding the Kingfisher Bollywood Fashion Awards.
The aim of the event is to stimulate creativity amongst the world’s most talented fashion designers and to bring awareness to India’s most remarkable fashion industry.
Awards will be given for the best collections as well as to Indian celebrities who display outstanding sense of individual style.
Some of the celebrities attending the show include Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Kareena Kapoor, Urmila Matondkar, Hema Malini, Tanisha, Jimmy Shergill, Rajesh Khanna, Shankar Mahadevan and Chithra amongst others.
ARY digital networks will be the official channel to cover the event. The channel will air it on 30 April and 1 May 2004.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
