News Broadcasting
Dr E Sreedharan bags Zee Business Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award 2006
MUMBAI: The first Zee Business Pinnacle Awards, instituted by Zee Business, has announced its first recipients amidst the blitz of corporate glitterati of the country.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation MD Dr E Sreedharan, MD was presented the ‘ZeeBusiness Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contributions to growth and development of the transportation system in the capital city.
Jaipal Reddy, Minister of Urban Development, attended the award presentation ceremony as the Guest of Honour to share the illustrious moment of the real estate industry.
The ceremnoy was attended by personalities including S K Mitter, CEO, LIC Housing Finance, Ashwani Kumar, minister of State for Industries, Sahib Singh Verma, senior BJP leader and Vaidyanathan V country head ICICI Retail.
The Pinnacle Awards were given out in 19 categories from the Construction, Building and Allied industries in Real Estate. It acknowledged talents for their contribution in Technical, Creative and Individual achievements. The highlights of the award ceremonies were the announcement of Zee Buisness Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award conferred on Dr E. Sreedharan, MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Pinnacle Paint Award to Asian Paints, Pinnacle Steel Awards to Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), and Pinnacle Bank to HDFC Bank, informs an official release.
The details of the winners are listed below:
Technical Awards
Pinnacle Cement ’06
J.K Lakshmi
Pinnacle Paint ’06
Asian Paints
Pinnacle Plywood ’06
Green Ply
Pinnacle Steel ’06
Steel Authority Of India Limited
Pinnacle Tiles ’06
H&R Johnson
Pinnacle Bank-Home Loans ’06
HDFC Bank
Pinnacle Sanitary Ware ’06
Parryware
Pinnacle Electrical ’06 (Cables and switches)
Havells
Pinnacle Marble ’06
R.K Marble
Creative Awards
Heritage Buildings ’06
Taj Colaba
Pinnacle Awards Commercial building ‘06
Inorbit Mall
Pinnacle Residential Building ‘ 06
K.Raheja Group
Pinnacle Promotion – Print ’06
Omaxe Group
Pinnacle Promotion-TV ’06
Green Ply
Pinnacle Special Jury Award
Godrej Property for Planet Godrej
Pinnacle Corporate Building
ICICI Corporate Building Bandra Kurla
Individual Awards
Pinnacle Architect ’06
Sonali Bhagwati Spazzio
Pinnacle Interior Designer ‘06
Sanjay Wadhwa, Director SWBI Architects
Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr E. Sreedharan, MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Speaking on the occasion, Zee News Ltd director Laxmi Goel said, “We are thrilled to have this opportunity to honor individuals and organisations who best reflect their commitment towards the development and growth of the real estate sector in India. We have received an overwhelming response from all participating corporate houses and professionals. The fact that we have received much more entries than what we had expected is a testimony to the fact that these awards were long overdue”
Goel further added, “We are very pleased to put-together a mix of national and internally acclaimed professionals to select the true winner in each of our award categories. We are really thankful to all our jury members for accepting our request and we are confident that through our full proof judging structure we would come out with the list of most deserving candidates in their respective domain”.
The Jury: Laxmi Goel, Director News Group, Zee News Ltd, Vahid Mehrinfar, executive Principal & Chief Brand Architech, Vahid Associated, Dubai, Jeffery West, Director, DTZ’s Indian Project Management Services, Subir K. Saha, Director, School of Planning & Architecture, Dr. Darlie Koshy, Executive Director, National Institute of Design, Ranu Das, CEO, Fairwood Consultants for the Technical Awards. The jury for the Creative Awards included Ankur Shrivastava, Managing Director, DTZ India, Anurag Batra, anagind Director & Editor-in-Chief, exchange4media Group, Shashi Sinha, Executive Director, Lodestar Universal, Ravi Deshpande, Chief Creative Officer, Contract, Ravi Kiran, CEO, South East Asia, Starcom, Mukesh Gupta, Managing Director, Graphis ads.
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.
