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Channel [V] VJ Pooja dies in Delhi car crash
Pooja Mukherjee, popular host of the Channel [V] show What Woman Want, died in a car crash in New Delhi early today.
The accident occured when the Maruti 800 in which she, along with four others, were travelling was hit by a truck on Delhi’s Lodhi Road at 2:20 am in the early hours of the morning. All the four – documentary filmmaker Nishit Sharan, Pankaj Kakkar, Ashish Puri and Shivali Malhotra – were also killed in the accident.
Twenty-year-old Pooja, a student of Delhi’s prestigious Lady Shri Ram College, shot to fame through What Woman Want. The show had a number of celebrity guests in it, including Nandita Das, Raveena Tandon, Madhu Sapre, Pooja Batra, Rinke Khanna and Meghna Gulzar.
Pooja also featured in advertising campaigns for Pepsi, Hyundai Santro and LG Electronics as well as in two music videos.
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News18 India to air Sabse Bada Dangal on 4 May counting day
Channel promises fastest results, live trends and analysis across five states.
MUMBAI: Ballots will do the talking and screens will do the shouting. As counting day approaches for high-stakes Assembly elections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, News18 India is gearing up for an all-day broadcast of its flagship election show, Sabse Bada Dangal, on 4 May from 6 am onwards. The Hindi news channel plans to deliver continuous, real-time updates as votes are tallied, combining live counting data with on-ground reporting and studio analysis. With political fortunes set to shift through the day, the coverage will track every swing, surge and surprise as trends turn into results.
The broadcast will feature a mix of senior political leaders, analysts and experts, offering instant reactions and decoding the evolving electoral picture. Expect heated debates, quick takes and detailed breakdowns as the numbers settle across all five states.
For News18 India, counting day has long been a high-visibility moment. The network is banking on its reporting reach, editorial bandwidth and technology-driven coverage to stay ahead in what is often a fiercely competitive news cycle.
With multiple battlegrounds and shifting narratives, the day promises both drama and data in equal measure. And if all goes to plan, Sabse Bada Dangal will once again turn the counting of votes into prime-time spectacle.
