News Broadcasting
Bombay HC allows Invesco plea against order on EGM to remove Zee’s Punit Goenka
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed an appeal filed by Invesco Developing Markets Fund, the largest shareholder of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel), against a single-judge order granting an interim injunction on holding an EGM to remove Zeel MD and CEO Punit Goenka.
A division bench of Justices SJ Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav quashed and set aside the single bench order of October 2021.
“The appeal is allowed. The single bench order is quashed and set aside. We have held that the requisition notice (sent by Invesco to Zee) is neither illegal nor incapable of being set aside,” the court said.
Senior counsel Aspi Chinoy, appearing for Zee, sought the court to direct for a status quo to be maintained.
The court then directed for the status quo to be maintained for three weeks.
The bench also said it has quashed all the observations made by the single bench in its order.
In September 2021, Invesco had put out a requisition to the Zee board of directors to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) because it felt the company was not running as smoothly as desired.
The firm sought to remove three directors from Zee’s board, including Goenka.
When Zee refused to respond to the requisition, Invesco moved an application before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in Mumbai, which directed Zee to consider the requisition under law.
Zee then approached the high court, seeking a declaration that the requisition notice by Invesco to hold the EGM was illegal and invalid.
A single bench of justice Gautam Patel had in October 2021 in an interim order granted an injunction against holding of the EGM.
Subsequently, Invesco filed an appeal against the interim injunction order on the ground that the high court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter and that it ought to have been heard and decided by the NCLT.
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.
