News Broadcasting
Coruscant Tec launches Anant Pai’s ‘Shiri’ comic strips on R-World
MUMBAI: Mobile video clips are in vogue! Various services such as news, entertainment, sports and games can be accessed and what’s more, Coruscant Tec has now launched videos of the Anant Pai comic entitled Shiri.
Shiri is a political satire and along with the Surabhi Foundation, Coruscant Tec will be showcasing its monuments, temples, places of interest, culture and people on the Reliance Infocomm network.
The Reliance subscribers can view interesting videos of the ancient Khajuraho Temple, Konark Temple, Golden Temple, Alleppey boat race, peeling of a coconut with fingernails in record time through R-World. The Surabhi videos will be accessible for Rs 7 per view. The video clips are a mix of religious sites, the unusual and places of interest. All clips are approximately 45 seconds long with a background musical score.
On the other hand, the Shiri comic strips are available for Rs 2 per view and are updated weekly.
“Today people explore their mobiles increasingly for entertainment combined with information and visuals. The videos from Surabhi foundation have exciting Indian monuments and places of religious interest, which are very appealing to people with traveling interests. At the same time, the Shiri comic strips will appeal to all age groups. We will continue to develop such innovative and exciting applications in the mobile content space,” said Coruscant Tec founder and MD Ajay Adiseshann.
Surabhi, a popular cultural show, which used to air on the DD network in the 90’s was anchored by Siddharth Kak and Renuka Shahane and is still regarded as the quintessential audiovisual archive of Indian culture and monuments.
R-World holds a wide range of applications, which includes TV news clips, ball-by-ball cricket score and other information, latest movie clips, city and TV guides, railway reservations, banking, bill payment and examination results.
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: 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.
