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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
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Topic: Viacom18

Viacom 18 acquires BCCI media rights in TV & digital medium for next five years

BCCI Secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter to make the announcement. The home international matches of India will now be shown on the channels/platform owned by Viacom 18.

Reliance strikes deal with Warner Bros, JioCinema library to have Succession, Harry Potter series

The content deal between Reliance's Viacom18 & Warner Bros Discovery could bring in thousands of hours of streaming content onto JioCinema, which is famous for steaming IPL for free.

James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree reduces planned investment in Reliance JV Viacom18 by 70%

In April last year, Reliance Industries said that Bodhi Tree would spend Rs 135 billion out of planned Rs 151.45 billion investment in media behemoth.

Mukesh Ambani’s consumer empire gets a cricket spin after bagging IPL digital rights

Beating Amazon, Disney and Sony to the Indian Premier League was only half the battle. Now the world’s seventh-richest man needs to work out how to make money from it.

Nawazuddin wanted ₹1 for Manto— Promotional gimmick or Bollywood upholding artistic cause?

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the lead actor in the film Manto, offered to do the role of the Urdu writer for a nominal fee of Re...

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With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Munir indicates that he’s willing to go for broke, even if it risks taking his country “and half the world” down with him. It’s important to understand where he is coming from.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.