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Divya Bhaskar to donate funds to Surat Flood victims
Mumbai, August 10, 2006: The Divya Bhaskar Gujarat Team will contribute a day’s salary alongwith the Bhaskar Group, contributing similar funds, to assist the victims of the Surat floods. 36 lakh residents of Surat have been marooned since Tuesday as almost 95 per cent of the city has been drowned in 10-15 feet of water.
Divya Bhaskar has been the only newspaper that was printed and distributed in Surat during the last two days of the unprecedented flood situation. This has been largely possible, by the dedication and hard work of the Divya Bhaskar Surat team in-spite of suffering huge personal losses, ensured that the newspaper is brought out as compared to other newspapers who had a very skeleton print run today.
Bhaskar Group is a 1700 crore business conglomerate with strong presence in Newspapers. Television, Entertainment, Printing, Textiles, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Oils, Solvents and Internet Services.
The group has rocketed to the top of the print media industry in India with its flagship Hindi daily newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar, and the Gujarati newspaper, Divya Bhaskar. Brand ‘Bhaskar’ is today synonymous with success, quality, dynamism and ethics in millions of households across India and the corporate world alike.
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Network18 channels lead YouTube news viewership in March 2026
CNN-News18, News18 India and CNBC channels top categories with record views
MUMBAI: When the world hit refresh on breaking news, Network18’s channels were already streaming ahead. As geopolitical tensions and war-driven headlines fuelled a surge in global news consumption, the network’s digital playbook delivered big clocking record Youtube viewership across English, Hindi and business news categories in March 2026.
At the forefront was CNN-News18, which emerged as the clear leader in the English news segment with 130 million live and video-on-demand views. The channel edged past competitors such as Times of India (126.5 million), Times Now (101.1 million), India Today (88.2 million) and NDTV (77.5 million), according to Databeings data for March.
In the Hindi news arena, News18 India delivered a commanding performance, racking up a staggering 3,297 million views on YouTube. The channel comfortably outpaced NDTV India, which recorded 3,119 million views, underlining its deep reach and consistent engagement with mass audiences, as per Playboard data.
The network’s dominance wasn’t confined to general news. In the Hindi business segment, CNBC Awaaz topped the charts with 92 million views, narrowly ahead of Zee Business (90 million) and well ahead of ET Now Swadesh (57 million). Meanwhile, its English counterpart CNBC-TV18 posted a strong 58 million views, reinforcing the network’s cross-category strength.
The spike in viewership reflects a broader shift in audience behaviour, with viewers increasingly turning to digital platforms particularly Youtube for real-time updates and in-depth coverage during high-intensity news cycles. For Network18, the numbers signal more than just scale; they underline the effectiveness of a multi-platform strategy that blends speed, credibility and continuous coverage.
In a month where the news never paused, it seems viewers chose to stay tuned where the stream never stopped.
