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Cyber Media, HLL launch career show on DD Metro
MUMBAI: Fair & Lovely Career Baatein, a program on careers aimed at empowering young people, especially women, towards economic self-sustainability is being launched on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel tomorrow.
Fair & Lovely Career Baatein will initially run on DD Metro for a period of 13 weeks and will air every Thursday in the youth segment of the channel, reaching over 126 cities and covering 35.6 per cent of India’s population, an official release claims.
The half-hour program is aimed at the aspiring young Indian – students, young professionals – in cities across India in an interactive, innovative format. Given the weekday slot at 6:30 pm, which shows the maximum viewership for educational and informative programs (non news and current affairs category), it is positioned immediately before the switch to daily entertainment viewing.
Each episode aims to showcase a particular career and examine the issues around it, including insights from a career counselor. A special segment in every episode titled Fair & Lovely Super Achiever of The Week will also highlight an achiever from this particular field. This will be followed by general career tips along with information on admissions, entrance tests, etc, and a segment which highlights campuses of educational institutions – through the eyes of the students themselves and anchored by a student from the concerned campus itself.
This program has been produced in association with the Fair & Lovely brand from Hindustan Lever Ltd, as part of the effort to reposition the brand’s identity towards empowerment of women through economic self-sustenance. Towards this end, HLL Fair & Lovely has held career fairs in Nagpur and Chandigarh and has also set up a database on careers-related information, the release says. The program is part of the front-end effort towards this stated goal of empowerment.
The program has been conceived, co-produced and marketed by Cyber TV, a division of infotech media house Cyber Media India Ltd. Cyber TV has earlier produced The Zenith Computer Show, which was anchored by former Nasscom chief, the late Dewang Mehta, again on DD Metro.
“Cyber Media’s latest TV initiative, in association with India’s largest advertiser and on India’s second largest TV channel, is part of the Group’s positioning as India’s largest mid-size media house in the intelligent information space,” said Rachna Burman, advisor, new projects & corporate strategy, Cyber Media Group.
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Rising Bharat Summit 2026 spotlights India’s global ascent
PM Modi keynotes two-day event with ministers, diplomats and icons in New Delhi.
MUMBAI: India didn’t just host a summit, it threw a coming-out party for a nation ready to own the global stage. The News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2026, held on 27–28 February in New Delhi, emerged as a high-octane platform for ideas, vision and strategic dialogue, uniting national leadership, global policymakers, industry titans, defence strategists and cultural icons under the theme “Strength Within”.
Prime minister Narendra Modi set the tone with a keynote that framed India’s resurgence as a reclaiming of lost potential built over generations. “In previous industrial revolutions, India and the Global South were merely followers,” he said. “But in the era of Artificial Intelligence, India is a partner in decisions and shaping them.” He highlighted the country’s thriving AI startup ecosystem and the recent AI Impact Summit attended by over 100 nations.
Union minister Piyush Goyal (Commerce & Industry) stressed India’s readiness to scale exports and deepen manufacturing, while Ashwini Vaishnaw (Railways, I&B, Electronics & IT) positioned technology and infrastructure as twin engines of growth, especially in AI and digital trust. Jyotiraditya Scindia (Communications & North East Development) revealed India’s ambition to lead in 6G through the Bharat 6G Alliance and partnerships with over 30 countries.
Global voices added depth: former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo called India’s development “self-sustaining” and strategically vital; ex-UK Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter asserted India deserves a seat at the great powers’ table; and former US Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez joined ambassadors from Norway, Germany and Sweden in discussions on geopolitical realignment, sustainability and defence preparedness.
Other speakers included veteran investor Ramesh Damani, World Gold Council CEO David Tait, Vianai Systems founder Dr Vishal Sikka, DeepTech Bharat Foundation co-founder Shashi Shekhar Vempati, defence experts Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sunil Ambekar, Patrick McGee, Tom Cooper and Adrian Fontanellaz, plus cultural and sporting icons Kangana Ranaut, Saina Nehwal, PR Sreejesh, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mithali Raj, Anil Kapoor and Yami Gautam.
The summit was supported by Jio Financial Services (Presenting Partner), Phonepe and DS Group (Co-Presenting Partners), Pernod Ricard India and Kia Seltos (Powered By & Driven By), state governments of Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand (State Partners), and associate partners including NSE, M3M Foundation and Reliance Industries.
Broadcast live across News18 Network, CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz, the event reinforced India’s image as a confident democracy and emerging global power proving that when strength comes from within, the world can’t help but watch.
