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Watcho streams special original series for Valentine’s Day
MUMBAI: With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Dish TV India Limited, India’s leading DTH Company is all set to premier two new shows on its OTT platform, Watcho. Watcho is giving a chance to its viewers to get immersed in the season of love through their daily episodic show ‘Love Horoscope’and feel the thrill of the season with their new series which explores different aspects of love, ‘Love Crisis’.
Directed and written by Bhaan Sen, ‘Love Crisis’ revolves around an extramarital affair while weaving a complex web of emotions. The series is a cautionary tale, uncovering the dark side of a ‘happy marriage’. The series exposes the depravity that the human mind is capable of, if it can justify its actions as acts of Love. On the lighter side of things, ‘Love Horoscope’ is a daily episodic show anchored by renowned astrologer Dr. Ajai Bhambi. The show offers advice to its viewers to reignite the passion in their love lives and in some cases win their partners over by sharing predictions, do’s & don’t’ s for dating and love life for individuals basis their sun-signs. In addition to this, viewers can also binge watch recently launched supernatural fiction show ‘Ardhsatya’.
Commenting on the launch of exhilarating new series on Watcho, DishTV & Watcho corporate head – marketing Sukhpreet Singh said, “At Watcho, we are constantly looking for new ways to entertain our viewers. We are continuously investing time and effort in understanding content consumption pattern of viewers across platforms and provide them with entertaining content as per our viewer’s needs. We are thrilled to announce the launch of these new series that you can binge watch with your loved ones and making the entire experience worthwhile. As the platform continues to grows, we plan to further expand and provide a more robust and personalized experience to our users.”
Focused on short format storytelling apt for digital consumption, Watcho also offers many other original fiction shows like Vote The Hell, Mission Breaking News, Chhoriyan, Rakhta Chandana and original influencer shows like Look I can Cook, Bikhare Hain Alfaaz to name a few. Watcho content cuts across all genres including but not limited to; Drama, Comedy, Thriller, Romance, Food, Fashion and Poetry.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
