News Broadcasting
HTMT promotes Yagnesh Sanghrajka and B N Narashima Murthy
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd. (HTMT) has announced two senior level elevations in the company – Yagnesh Sanghrajka as the global CFO and B N Narashima Murthy as the senior VP business transition and domestic markets with immediate effect.
The company issued a statement stating, that the global CFO Yagnesh Sanghrajka will be responsible for finance, accounts and administration departments of India operations apart from continuing his existing roles of corporate finance, accounts and treasury as well as F&A monitoring of all HTMT locations and subsidiaries worldwide.
The finance / accounts heads from all HTMT locations in India and overseas locations will be reporting to Sanghrajka. He will be based in Bangalore.
On the other hand, B N Narasimha Murthy will be responsible for the planning of operations for HTMTs IT enabled services and domestic markets. He will also be responsible for all domestic business acquisition, delivery and support.
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.
