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  • Harrow Bengaluru shines at Loop Awards 2025

    Harrow Bengaluru shines at Loop Awards 2025

    MUMBAI: When it comes to building brilliance, Harrow International School Bengaluru has truly raised the roof. The school has clinched the Citation award for Educational buildings at the Loop Design Awards 2025, outshining over 550 entries from 49 countries.

    Designed by CP Kukreja Architects, the campus marries heritage, ecology, and modern learning spaces. From airy classrooms and performance halls to sprawling sports arenas, every corner flows seamlessly into landscaped courtyards, creating an environment that inspires curiosity and community. The design draws on the 450-year legacy of Harrow School in the UK, giving the first Harrow-branded school in India a distinctive global identity.

    Sustainability is at the heart of the campus, featuring rainwater harvesting, bioswales, natural ventilation, shaded walkways, and locally sourced materials. These eco-conscious strategies earned the campus a USGBC platinum rating, positioning Harrow Bengaluru as a benchmark for sustainable educational design worldwide.

    Board of Governors chairman Aseem Chauhan said, “This award reflects our belief that learning flourishes where heritage meets modernity, where sustainability is a way of life, and where spaces themselves inspire curiosity and community.”

    The Loop Design Awards celebrate global excellence in architecture, interiors, and product design. Harrow Bengaluru’s recognition places it firmly in the international spotlight as a model for the future of educational spaces.

    Harrow International School Bengaluru continues to carry forward its 450-year legacy of British education while weaving Indian traditions and global perspectives, nurturing students ready to lead with courage, honour, and fellowship on a 60-acre campus designed to inspire.

  • MRUCI elects Shashi Sinha as chairman, Shailesh Gupta as VC

    MRUCI elects Shashi Sinha as chairman, Shailesh Gupta as VC

    Mumbai: Mediabrands India CEO Shashi Sinha and Jagran Prakashan director Shailesh Gupta have been unanimously elected as chairman and vice-chairman of Media Research Users Council India (MRUCI), respectively, for the year 2021-22. The announcement was made at MRUCI’s board meeting which was held shortly after its AGM.

    Sinha takes up the baton from Sakal Media Group chairman Pratap Pawar, who served as MRUCI’s chairman for two consecutive terms – from 2019-20 and 2020-21.

    While passing the baton, Pawar thanked all the board members and stakeholders and congratulated Sinha and the new board members. “We faced some challenging times due to the global pandemic, but I am glad we are soon returning to normalcy. With the change in name from Media Research Users Council (MRUC) to Media Research Users Council India (MRUCI), and the modification of IRS questionnaire, we will not only further boost our national stature and representation, but also successfully meet the fast-evolving needs and expectations of our stakeholders,” he said.

    New members have also been appointed to the board of governors:

    1. Sakal Media Group, chairman, Pratap Pawar.
    2. ABP Pvt Ltd, CEO, Dhruba Mukherjee.
    3. MM Publications, executive editor & director, Jayant Mammen Mathew.

    Sinha is actively involved in various industry bodies such as the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), The Ad Club, Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC). He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, where he has built a highly awarded team of professionals and organisations that today form the country’s leading media network.

    Sinha in his vote of thanks said, “I thank Pawar for his selfless leadership and valuable guidance, especially in these unprecedented times. MRUCI has long played a very crucial role in providing the industry with reliable, robust and realistic data, and now more than ever, the industry looks toward us to meet their expectations in maintaining and propagating the highest possible standards of integrity, fairness, and reliability in media research. As our Country slowly resumes to normalcy, our priority will be to begin the IRS fieldwork at the soonest, in consideration with the ground realities.”

    Over the last 25 years, Jagran’s Gupta has provided a new dimension to Jagran’s marketing strategy and has been at the heart of driving transformational change at the Jagran group. 

    He held several positions at leading industry bodies – elected as the youngest member of the managing committee of the Audit Bureau of Circulation for the year 2004-05, he was ABC chairman in 2012-13 and chairman of INS during 2019-20.

  • TV Academy makes major changes to Emmy Awards rules

    TV Academy makes major changes to Emmy Awards rules

    MUMBAI: The Television Academy has passed a group of new Primetime Emmy Awards rules, which reflect the increasingly varied and expanding television landscape.

     

    Television Academy Chairman Bruce Rosenblum said, “We are thrilled to announce that our Board of Governors and senior industry executives have taken meaningful time to address, in a forward thinking manner, many of our existing rules and procedures. Our over 17,000 voting members represents a dramatically changing television industry and we want to continue to make sure we honor their creativity in the most relevant and fair ways possible. As our growing membership creates and produces more content for ever-changing platforms, today’s changes in the rules and procedures are vital. We’re sure that in coming years we will continue to evolve our rules as our dynamic industry grows.”

     

    The changes include:

     

    Expansion of Final Round Voting: In an effort to increase member participation in the voting process, and to take advantage of the Academy’s extension of online voting to both rounds, all voters eligible to vote in a category’s nominating round are now eligible to vote in that category’s final round, so long as they meet two additional requirements: much like the former Blue Ribbon panel process, voters must watch the required submitted material online and attest to no specific conflicts of interest with the nominees.

     

    Expansion of Nominees for “Comedy” and “Drama” Series Categories: Due to the dramatic increase in series production, the number of nominees for “Comedy” and “Drama” series has been increased from six to seven.

     

    Definition of a “Comedy” and “Drama” Series: To clarify the difference between the “Comedy” and “Drama” series categories, series with episodes of 30 minutes or less are defined as a “Comedy”; those with episodes of more than 30 minutes are presumed to be a “Drama.”

     

    Producers may formally petition a new Academy industry panel to consider their series’ eligibility in the alternative category. This nine-member panel will include five industry leaders appointed by the Television Academy Chairman and four appointees from the Board of Governors. A two-thirds vote of this Industry Panel is required for petition approval.

     

    All programs entering the competition this year will be grouped according to these new definitions.

     

    Definition of “Series” and “Limited Series”: “Mini-Series” will be changed to “Limited Series” and defined as programs of two or more episodes with a total running time of at least 150 program minutes that tell a complete, non-recurring story, and do not have an ongoing storyline and/or main characters in subsequent seasons. “Comedy” and “Drama” Series will continue to be defined as programs with a minimum of six episodes which have an ongoing storyline, theme and main characters presented under the same title and with continuity of production supervision.

     

    Producers may formally petition for review by the aforementioned industry panel to change category eligibility.

     

    Definition of “Guest Actor”: Only performers appearing in less than 50% of a program’s episodes are now eligible to submit in the “Guest Actor” category.

     

    Split of Variety Series category: The Variety Series category is now split – Outstanding Variety Talk, to be awarded during the Primetime Emmy telecast, and Outstanding Variety Sketch, to be included in the Creative Arts Emmy program.

  • Namit Malhotra nominated to International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society’s 2014 Board of Governors

    Namit Malhotra nominated to International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society’s 2014 Board of Governors

    MUMBAI: Namit Malhotra, founder of Prime Focus (and Chairman & CEO, Prime Focus World) has been nominated to the prestigious 2014-15 Board of Governors of the International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society. 38-year old Namit is the first ever Indian to make it to the Board of the global Society. Incidentally, Prime Focus World had won the Society’s annual Creative Arts award in ‘Theatrical Motion Picture — Outstanding 2D to 3D conversion’ category for its spectacular work on Gravity in late January.

    Mike DeValue, Director of Advanced Technology at The Walt Disney Studios, and Tom Cosgrove, President and CEO of 3net and 3net Studios will serve as co-chairs. Kappei Morishita, Vice President and General Manager at Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL), will serve as the Society’s vice chairman.
     

    Commenting on the nomination, Namit Malhotra, Founder of Prime Focus (and Chairman & CEO, Prime Focus World) said, “it is a great honor to be part of the Society’s board and be collaborating with the brightest minds in the industry comprising of content creators, creative service providers, technology companies and delivery platforms. Post the unprecedented success of Gravity, 3D has regained its rightful position under the sun, and audiences and filmmakers alike are looking at 3D in a whole new way as an enabler of compelling story telling. I look forward to interesting times.”
     

    Nominated as governors also were Grant Anderson of Creative Monster Productions, Paul Becker of Gener8, cinematographer Matt Blute, Chuck Comisky of Chromium Labs 3D, Doug Davis of BitSpeed, William Foote of Samsung Electronics, Ron Geller of Dolby Labs, Thierry Henkinet of Volfoni, Matt Liszt of MasterImage 3D, Ingo Nadler of 3doo, Barry Sandrew of Legend 3D, Steve Schklair of 3ality Technica, William Sherak of StereoD, Lisa Truitt of National Geographic Cinema Ventures, Corey Turner of Paramount Pictures (News – Alert), Mark Turner of Dolby Labs, and Bob Whitehill of Pixar.
     

    “3D movies and premium content formats continue to be a strong part of the entertainment industry’s business plan. In 2013 alone, 16 of the top 20 highest grossing worldwide box office movies were 3D feature films. And over the last 5 years, 11 3D movies have been honored with a remarkable 30 Academy Awards,” stated Society President Jim Chabin. “With professional members in the US, China, Japan, Canada, the UK, and the EU, the Society is truly at the intersection where movies, television, games, and media will build their futures as premium consumer experiences. Our board brings together the world’s best experts on the media of tomorrow. They help insure that we will maximize the return on all of our investments in content and digital technology,” said Society President Jim Chabin.
     

    The International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society was founded by leading creative stakeholders, including The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Sony, Paramount, IMAX, Dolby, Panasonic, MasterImage and others to advance the creative arts and sciences of stereoscopic 3D and 4K. With chapters in the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, the E.U. and the U.K., the organization has more than 1,800 professional members in over 20 countries active in improving the arts and technologies of 3D and 4K excellence. The organization hosts professional education seminars and awards throughout the world.