News Broadcasting
Reliance launches Recharge Voucher @ 15 paise a minute
-Sensational Voucher 495 also allows unlimited night calls
MUMBAI, January 20: Reliance Infocomm has launched a new Recharge Voucher with a very attractive 15 paise-a-minute rate for calls to Reliance IndiaMobile phones within the Circle.
Calls to Reliance fixed phones and all other mobiles within the Circle will cost just 40 paise and 80 paise a minute respectively on this Rs 495 voucher. The Recharge Voucher is now available at all Reliance Infocomm outlets and channel network across the country.
The significant benefit of this 30-day validity voucher is the high Rs
275 worth of talk time it offers.
With the new Recharge Voucher, a subscriber can effectively make 1,800 minutes worth of day-time calls over a month and free, unlimited night calls within the State to any Reliance IndiaMobile.
Heavy business users, youth and similar segments having high night calling needs would find the voucher very useful.
“We have launched this power-packed Voucher based on market feedback and it is designed to benefit millions of our subscribers who have a high calling requirement. It combines the benefits of low daytime rates and free night time calls to Reliance IndiaMobiles and a high talk time for calling other phones,” said S P Shukla, President – Wireless, Reliance Infocomm.
Reliance Infocomm had recently launched Recharge Voucher 430, which also offers attractive tariff. Intra-circle calls to any Reliance IndiaMobile on this voucher cost just 40 paise during the day while night calls are free and unlimited.
Subscribers can choose from these two vouchers and get highest minutes of talking between the two – more than what is on offer today in the market.
Reliance Infocomm Ltd. is the flagship company of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group, India’s largest private information and communications services provider with over 17 million subscribers. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group is a member of the Reliance Group founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002).
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B N Kumar
Corporate Communications
Reliance Infocomm Limited
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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.
