News Broadcasting
Sohn India Investment Conference to hold on 3 June in partnership with CNBC-TV18
MUMBAI: The Sohn Conference Foundation in partnership with CNBC-TV18 has announced the inaugural Sohn India Investment Conference to be held on June 3, 2016 at Taj Land’s End in Mumbai. Expanding its global footprint, the meet will convene top investors from India and around the world for a day of fresh market insights while raising critical funds to support cutting-edge pediatric cancer care in India.
“As home to the largest number of listed public equities in the world, India stood out as an ideal location to continue the Sohn Investment Conference’s international expansion,” said Sohn Conference Foundationco-chair Doug Hirsch. “India’s considerable market potential and open-ended growth lends itself well to uncovering compelling investment ideas, and we look forward to welcoming the best and brightest investors onto the Sohn India stage to share their insights, all to benefit children with cancer in India.”
The annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York City is recognized globally as the original and premier investment event, rallying the global financial community to benefit the Sohn Conference Foundation’s efforts to fight childhood cancer. “We are thrilled to welcome the world-renowned Sohn Investment Conference to India,” said Sohn India co-chair and Kora Management’s Nitin Saigal. “This inaugural Sohn India Conference in Mumbai brings together the investment community in India, along with the broader global investment community, in support of the Foundation’s mission to treat and cure pediatric cancer across the globe.”
The speaker lineup for the Sohn India Investment conference includes:
·Raamdeo Agrawal,Joint Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
·Kenneth Andrade, Former Head of Investments, IDFC Asset Management
·Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Founder, Rare Enterprises
·S. Naganath, Chief Investment Officer, DSP Blackrock Investment Managers
·Sankaran Naren, Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential Asset Management
·Akash Prakash, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Amansa Capital
·Shiv Puri, Founder and Managing Director, TVF Capital Advisors
·Shankar Sharma, Founder and Head of Global Strategy, First Global
·Rukhshad Shroff, Portfolio Manager and India Country Specialist, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
·Sunil Singhania, CIO Equity Investments, Reliance Mutual Fund
Since its inception in 1995, the foundation has raised $70 million to treat and cure pediatric cancer and other childhood diseases, while expanding the worldwide presence of its conferences to Canada, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and now India.
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.
