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Lalitya Munshaw Album Indian Chill Harmonics launched by Grand Mast Team
MUMBAI: The music launch of Lalitya Munshaw New Age Album Indian Chill Harmonics was a fun affair which was attended by several famous personalities from Bollywood and industrialist circle. It was unveiled by Bollywood actors Vivek Oberoi, actress Brunna Abdulla, Kainaat Arora, Manjiri Fadnis, Karishma Tanna, Sonali Kulkarni and Maryam Zakariya. The first to arrive was actor Vivek Oberai who was seen cutting the cake along with Lalitya Munshaw and Grand the Mast team who were eager to eat it. They were all in masti mood and managed to bring the audiences to splits with their naughty acts. Vivek Oberoi was seen praising Lalitya’s Album he said, “Indian Chill Harmonics album music is fantastic and it has International flavour and it is a different Kind of Album and I like it very much. I wish Lalitya a great Success.”
Actress Bruna Abdulla raised the temperature of party and was seen bonding and discussing with beautiful actress Manjari Fadhnis and Producer Satish Reddy about the latest trend in Bollywood. Charming actress Maryam Zakariya spread her magic on people and everyone was stuck to get a glimpse of the beautiful actress. She said, “The Music of Indian Chill Harmonic is a very beautiful and Lalitya has done a great job in this album. I wish Lalitya the great success for her album. Actress karishma Tanna was seen chatting with Kainaat Arora and Sonali Kulkarni about the album and the masti they did in their movie. Industrialist Dilip Piramal walked with his beautiful wife Shalini Piramal and was seen Bonding with Lalitya Munshaw, Gokul Indani and Industrialist Rubeen Malkhani. Lalitya was looking very gorgeous in black dress and she sang a beautiful song where everyone was stuck at one place for her enthralling performance. She said, “Its great pleasure to launch my Album Indian Chill Harmonics by Grand Masti Team. Indian Chill Harmonics has all the music breaks, infused drums and bass with classical melodies with fusion world and I thank Vivek Oberoi and all Grand Masti team for making it big day.”
Diya Sharma, Ankit Narayanan, Kannada actress Reshma D’souza, Mexican actress Rebbeca Mayouga and Ukrainian actress, Supermodel Nataliya Kozhenova who were seen shaking their legs on beautiful song And everyone was seen enjoying overall the saying says music and singer rules the hearth of the people.
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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.
