News Broadcasting
HTMT signs new ERP project order for 2.2 m US dollars
BANGALORE: Hinduja TMT (HTMT), the IT flagship company of the Hinduja Group today announced the winning of a new IT Services contract awarded by a large automobile assembling and manufacturing company based in the Middle East.
The ERP project, in the initial phase, will generate a revenue of USD 2.2 million or 100 million rupees over the next 18 months. The contract has been signed with the customer with an agreement for an advance payment of 25 per cent.
According to an official release, work is expected to commence immediately. The company is also in dialogue with the customer and other corporates in the Middle East for offerings in different areas of software development and maintenance where potential for business growth is high.
HTMT, IT division President and CEO R Mohan said, “With the required robust domain expertise in the manufacturing segment and the recent implementation of an analogous project for Ashok Leyland, we are confident of delivering this prestigious project well in time. This project reiterates our leadership position in this segment.”
The project will cover modules relating to Material Management, Production Planning, Finance and Marketing and will be implemented using a multilevel architecture. HTMT would bring some of the best practices that it has developed over the years to enhance the Information Management of the various manufacturing processes and would provide substantial cost savings and improvement of efficiency of operations to its client, added the release.
The system would ensure the availability of information where it is most required and the proactive analysis of data that would enhance planning and coordination.
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.
