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Star English Network continues to dominate with 48% Market Share
MUMBAI: Star World continues to dominate the English GEC category and the Star English Network (SW, FX and Fox Crime) has 48% market share in latest 4 weeks where the Star channels are blazing all guns on the ratings front. 9 out of the top 10 shows of the current week belong to Star Network. Masterchef Australia S5 continues to be the No 1 show followed by Fringe on FX , Koffee with Karan S4, X Files and Two and A Half Men.
The popular talk show ‘Koffee with Karan’ enters its 4th season, with first episode featured the evasive Salman Khan who is not a regular celebrity on any talk show. With 3 successful seasons already underway, the fourth season began with a bang as its launch week delivered 222 TVT’s and its original airing dominated with 78% share of English GEC on the Sunday 9PM slot. The show accumulated 6,19,000 viewers across its airings during the week of launch.
With its dynamic content and exclusive guest line-up Koffee with Karan also delivered big impact on the digital space and garnered huge popularity with the print and electronic media. On You Tube alone the launch episode with Salman Khan has delivered over 1.7 million views in a span of 1 week. On twitter the show conversations were at another level. Over11M+ accounts were reached as a pre-show launch build up with over 75000 tweets received delivering 80 million impressions thereby driving high-engaging conversation around the show launch. The opening episode also saw Koffee with Karan trend on twitter for approx. 24 hours and trended in the no.1 position on Facebook.
It does not stop here. The Electronic and Print media have also taken well to the show. KWK S4 has received over 150 stories amongst the mainstream papers and over 50 TV networks have covered stories of the show launch across the country ensuring that Koffee becomes the flavor of the season.
Speaking on the staggering success of the fourth season Kevin Vaz, General Manager – English channels, Star India said, “Koffee with Karan has taken the silver screen by storm with an impressive rating and the faithful viewership it continues to receive. We have always looked at airing the best quality content and entertainment, allowing Star World to surge ahead in the English GEC universe. Having seen the success in the week of launch, the future looks bright for Koffee with Karan.”
The show has already seen a number of high profile celebrities grace its sets this season including Salman Khan, Kapoor cousins Ranbir and Kareena. The coming Sunday’s episode marks a first again as it will showcase the ever-elusive Aamir Khan with wife, Kiran Rao taking the couch opposite celebrity-director and host, Karan Johar.
So stay tuned to Star English network of channels and continue to enjoy the steamy cups of Koffee this winter only on Star World.
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India at 100: self-reliance must power the next leap, says Vineet Jain
Times Group MD calls for strategic depth across AI, energy, defence and data as India eyes developed status by 2047
NEW DELHI: India’s next act will not be written by growth alone but by grit, capacity and hard-edged self-reliance, Vineet Jain said, setting the tone at the Times Now Summit as the network marked 20 years and turned its gaze to the republic at 100.
Opening the summit, Jain framed the moment as a rare convergence of economic momentum, demographic heft, digital muscle and geopolitical weight. The question, he argued, is no longer what India has become—but what it must still build to meet its 2047 ambition.
The answer, he said, lies in a broader, sharper doctrine of Aatmanirbhar Bharat—one that rejects isolation but demands strength in the sectors that define sovereignty and competitiveness. Self-reliance must stretch well beyond factories into the commanding heights of the century: artificial intelligence, data governance, education, defence, energy, critical minerals, frontier technologies and digital platforms.
Control over data will shape the architecture of the future, Jain noted, while AI will drive productivity, security and knowledge. Energy dependence, he warned, leaves economies hostage to volatile supply chains; access to critical minerals will decide the winners of the green and tech transitions.
India must also stop “importing capability” and invest deeply in human capital, he said, arguing that strategic autonomy is credible only when backed by indigenous strength across defence and technology.
For decades, India was tagged as a nation of promise. That era must give way to execution—reform, institution-building and sustained national focus. The window is finite. “We must grow rich before we grow old,” Jain said, calling it a civilisational urgency as the country seeks to convert its demographic dividend into jobs, skills and productivity gains.
Hitting developed-nation status by 2047 will demand second-generation reforms, more competitive institutions, faster urbanisation and heavier bets on research and innovation, alongside a public discourse that rewards long-term thinking over short-term reaction.
Jain cast the summit as a platform not just to question power but to elevate national purpose—moving from commentary to solutions in what he described as a shared project spanning government, industry and citizens.
The message was blunt and forward-leaning: anniversaries don’t transform nations—ambition and execution do. India’s century mark is in sight; the harder task is building the muscle to meet it.
