News Broadcasting
Shemaroo releases ‘Dus’ on DVD, VCD
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Video has released the VCDs and DVDs of the film Dus. The movie stars Abhishiek Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Zyed Khan, Suniel Shetty, Shilpa Shetty, Esha Deol and Pankaj Kapoor.
Dus is a thriller with special effects and foot-tapping dance numbers. Shemaroo states that the song Dus Bahane took the country by storm.
The DVD has subtitles in English, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu. There is also a Behind the scenes and star speak special feature. The film deals with a conspiracy ariound a planned bomb explosion. The bomb is ticking. Master terrorist Jamwal has the plan, the network and the target. The Anti terrorist squad has just seven days to flush out Jamwal and uncover the plot. The deadline is closing in. DIG Siddhant (Sanjay Dutt) of the ATC and his elite squad – Shashank (Abhishek Bachchan), Aditi (Shilpa Shetty), Aditya (Zayed Khan) along with Canadian police officer Dan (Sunil Shetty) and Neha (Esha Deol) must face the challenge head-on. If the ATC fails, 26,000 innocent men, women and children die.
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.
