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<ul><li><keyword id="4487411" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="bigg-boss-tamil">Bigg Boss Tamil</keyword> Season 3 was the highest watched entertainment show on Hotstar over the past year in India. </li><li>People also watched Koffee with Karan, <keyword id="83396" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yeh-Rishta-Kya-Kehlata-Hai">Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai</keyword>, Bigg Boss Telugu, Kasthooriman (Malayalam) and Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali). </li><li>Hotstar saw 63% of its total entertainment consumption come from non-metro cities. </li><li>Over 40% of the video content was consumed in regional languages with Telugu, Tamil and Bengali at the top. </li></ul>Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 was the highest watched entertainment show on Hotstar over the past year in India. Part of this can be attributed to rise in regional language content. Over <a href="http://secure-media.hotstar.com/media-website/indiawatchreport2019/India_Watch_Report_2019.pdf">40% of the video content was consumed</a> in regional languages with Telugu, Tamil and Bengali at the top. According to Hotstar, 35% of Bengali consumption comes from outside the state. Whereas, most (80%) of Tamil and Telugu consumption came from the native states. Some other regional language content includes Bigg Boss Telugu, Kasthooriman (Malayalam) and Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali). Hotstar had a great year. It saw 5400 million downloads⁠— <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hotstar-india-watch-report-2019-shows-95-consumption-came-from-mobile-phones/articleshow/72456426.cms">an average of 555 installs per minute in 2019 </a> — thanks to India’s increasing smartphone penetration and cheap data. People chose entertainment over sports on Hotstar — with drama being the favorite genre. As we approach the end of 2019, here are the top 6 shows that India watched the most on Hotstar: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai (Hindi) <div type="image" title="Capture6" msid="72468038" hostid="261"></div>

 Director: Romesh Kalra, Rishi Mandial, Ram Pandey Star: Shivangi Joshi, Monsin Khan Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai is the fourth longest running soap opera in India. It was started a decade ago. The current show stars Shivangi Joshi and <keyword id="6372882" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mohsin-khan">Mohsin Khan</keyword>. More than half the audience of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Hotstar audience is women Koffee with Karan (English) <div type="image" title="Capture5" msid="72468011" hostid="261"></div>

 Director and Producer: <keyword id="3778" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Karan-Johar">Karan Johar</keyword> Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Sara Ali Khan, Ananya Pandey, <keyword id="133664" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tiger-Shroff">Tiger Shroff</keyword> etc. People love coffee and Bollywood gossip. Every year Karan Johar’s Koffee with Karan brings the latest news from the Indian film industry. This year Sara Khan’s debut to the show was the most watched Koffee with Karan episode — with 1.4X the average viewers, according to Hotstar. Moreover, a third of viewers of the show are from Mumbai. Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 <div type="image" title="1569223471-1569171310_losliya-cheran-bigg-boss-tamil-3" msid="72467911" hostid="261"></div>

 Stars: Mugen, Sandy, Losliya, Sherin Shringar, Kavin, Cheran etc. Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 was crowned as the most watched entertainment show on Hotstar. It registered 1.5X the consumption of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (top Hindi show), according to Hotstar. The third season of the reality show began on 23 June with 17 contestants and <keyword id="6354603" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="kamal-haasan">Kamal Haasan</keyword> as the host. Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3 <div type="image" title="bigg-boss-telugu-3-winner-759" msid="72467929" hostid="261"></div>

 Stars: Ali Reza, Himaja, Punarnavi Bhupalam, Varun Sandesh etc. Another Bigg Boss regional content in the top category was its Telugu version. The third season of Bigg Boss Telugu began on 21 July 2019 and was hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna. It also had a guest host — Ramya Krishnan. Kasthooriman (Malayalam) <div type="image" title="64915950" msid="72467940" hostid="261"></div>

 Director: Sunil Karyatuukara, Krishna Moorthy, Sachin K. Ibague Stars: Sreeram Ramachandran, Rebecca Santhosh, Beena Antony Kashthooriman is a Malayalam soap opera first premiered in 2017. The show is about the life of a widow and her three unmarried daughters. It is the top viewed series on Malayalam television, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali) <div type="image" title="Capture" msid="72467965" hostid="261"></div>

 Director: Pijush Ghosh Stars: Pallavi Sharma, Biswajit Ghosh, Bulbuli Panja Ke Apon Ke Por is a family drama where Joba gets married to Param Sengupta, a member of the Sengupta family where she was a house help.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Mike Segar/ReutersAmazon has come under fire in a piece from the Times.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon facilitated contributions to charities flagged as having links to Islamic extremism, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/amazon-scheme-supports-extremists-vdzsfvsls">The Times first reported</a>.</li><li>The donations were made through Amazon Smile, Amazon's charity programme which lets online shoppers donate a small percentage of their purchase's value to charity.</li><li>Among Amazon's listed charities were two backed by Haitham al-Haddad, an Islamic scholar described as a "hardcore Islamist" by thinktank Quilliam and identified by the UK government as an Islamist speaker.</li><li>Amazon said in a statement that it relies on the UK's charity regulator to determine which organisations are eligible to participate in Amazon Smile.</li></ul>Amazon facilitated donations to UK charities with links to Islamic extremism through its service Amazon Smile, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/amazon-scheme-supports-extremists-vdzsfvsls">The Times reports</a>.The Amazon Smile scheme donates 0.5% of a shopper's Amazon purchases to their chosen charity. Amazon donates the money, and the programme launched in the UK in November last year.At least two of the charities listed by Amazon as eligible for donations were backed by Haitham al-Haddad, a controversial imam who has been classed as an Islamist preacher by the UK government. The charities are the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF), and Helping Households Under Great Stress (HHUGS).Al-Haddad is an Islamic scholar who advocates hardline orthodox beliefs, such as homosexuality being a sin, that men should not be questioned for beating their wives, and that the punishment for adultery should be stoning. He has said that he is against ISIS and other extremist groups.While al-Haddad is now the former chairman of the MRDF, chief executive of counter-extremism think-tank Quilliam Haras Rafiq told Business Insider that he is still the spiritual head of the organisation. He described al-Haddad as a "hardcore Islamist."The UK government's counter-extremism commissioner Sara Khan told The Times, "Haitham al-Haddad's views are misogynistic, racist and homophobic. They promote a supremacist 'us versus them' world view that wrongly makes Muslims feel that they can't be fully British."Business Insider also spoke to Imtiaz Shams, chair of Humanists UK's Faith to Faithless group, which defends people who have left their religion. Shams has met Haitham al-Haddad, and described him as a "very, very slippery guy.""No charity should have someone like that," he added. To Shams, al-Haddad's anti-gay and anti-apostate rhetoric means "he should be treated like a neo-Nazi."The charities were first identified in a <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/HJS-Islamist-Charity-Report.pdf">paper published in February</a> by the right-leaning thinktank the Henry Jackson Society. Researcher Emma Webb, who specialises in non-violent Islamic networks in the UK, told Business Insider: "It became apparent to us quite quickly that a lot of these groups had charitable organisations attached to them."In a statement sent to Business Insider, Amazon said that it was investigating the allegations from The Times but that it takes its cues from the UK's charity regulator."We rely on the Charity Commission, the official charity regulator in England and Wales, to determine which organisations are eligible to participate. If a charity no longer has charitable status because that organisation supports, encourages or promotes intolerance or discrimination and has been removed from the Commission's register, we will remove them from the service."The... organisations in question are approved by the Charity Commission, however, due to the serious nature of these concerns, we have referred these allegations to the Commission and will be conducting a full review to ensure they do not violate our policies," an Amazon spokesman said. He also said that the company has 6,000 charities listed on Amazon Smile.It isn't clear how much money Amazon may have funnelled to these charities."In my view there has been a number of failures here," said Quilliam's Rafiq. He said Amazon had a legitimate defence in relying on the UK's charity watchdog for guidance, but also that the tech firm may need to look at how its platform could be manipulated."Amazon is one of the last tech organisations to really look at who they're actually supporting," he said. He attributed this to the fact that social networks like Facebook and Twitter have had to get to grips with extremist content on their platforms, while Amazon is predominantly a shopping service.Business Insider contacted the Charity Commission and the MRDF for comment. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-donald-trump-backlash-is-coming-2018-9">Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: There's going to be an 'enormous backlash' against Donald Trump's lies</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Amazon facilitated charity donations to Islamic extremists through its Amazon Smile scheme

Are you ready for a tango with the devil and some chicken soup with the angel – in real time and on camera? Well, we commoners are not allowed there yet, but the Good and the Bad will be out there in their true colours at <keyword id="26022" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="bigg-boss">Bigg Boss</keyword> Season – Saath (Season 7), one of the most popular TV reality shows in India. It’s the first time that the organisers have come up with the theme of jannat (heaven) and jahannum (hell) – the Wow and the Aao – and <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> Superstar <keyword id="6354583" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Salman-Khan">Salman Khan</keyword> will host the show as before on <keyword id="35780" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="80" keywordseo="colors">Colors</keyword>. 
 
‘Sallu’ has been on a roll here, hosting the show for the fourth year running. In fact, he has been so smitten that he vows not to “leave it” until Colors channel asked to do so. But there’s another reason why Salman has stuck to the show. It’s the Rs 5 crore fee per episode, but the 47-year-old has jokingly told the media that the amount is higher than that. He has reportedly doubled the money he was charging the previous season, but the actual amount is anybody’s guess. 
 However, Colors does not seem to be that generous with its <keyword id="1866240" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Celebrity-contestants">celebrity contestants</keyword>. For one, Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been reportedly dropped for demanding Rs 1 crore or so. That’s definitely bad news for viewers as he would not have been a damp squib like The Great Khali of Season 4. Music composer Aadesh Srivastava won’t be in either, because he asked for Rs 70 lakh, media reports say. We just hope the prize money hasn’t shrunk as well. Last season, it was Rs 50 lakh, but the big news doing the rounds is that the amount might be double this time. 
 Produced by Endemol India, <keyword id="1632182" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bigg-Boss-season-7">Bigg Boss Season 7</keyword> will hit the air on 15 Sept prime time, that’s 9 in the evening, and the subsequent episodes will be aired daily for the next 104 days. But what will be on the cards at Lonavala, the house of the Bigg Boss, this time? Most people are already drooling over Sallu and his double avatar – that of angel and devil – in tune with the theme. That is bound to grab more eyeballs than before. And in true ‘bad boy’ style, he promises a “hell of a ride” for the 14 celebrity contestants. 
 
We still don’t know for sure who all are joining that coveted list. But the regular dose of glitz and glamour should not be missing either, going by the earlier track record. Loud verbal wars and fisticuffs, mushy scenes and marriage even (remember how Sara Khan and Ali Merchant tied the knot in the Bigg Boss house a couple of years ago). And there was big money in it – it is said that the live-in couple walked away with a whopping wedding cheque of Rs 50 lakh. 
 
It is almost certain that stand-up comedy king Kapil Sharma will make a special appearance on Bigg Boss 7, like he did last time. But the artiste denies joining the show as a house mate. That’s a pity as we all love a clean and clear laughter break after emotion-charged fights, sob scenes and playing politics in and out of the Confession Room. But then, that’s the sticky factor of the show that keeps it at the top of TRP rankings. 
 
Modelled after the popular show Big Brother, the Indian version has a host of celebrity contestants who stay in an isolated house, are cut off from the rest of the world, work through the tasks assigned to them and do some active politicking to vote each other out of the contest till they reach the last leg for the big prize money. Contestants are constantly monitored by in-house TV cameras and one must don an audio microphone all the time, as long as he/she is in the house. 
 
So what are you waiting for? Buckle your seat belt, take a deep breath and keep your hold firmly on the remote this Sunday evening when all ‘hell’ will break loose and ‘heaven’ will await you. Any last moment wish, dear viewers, before the show begins? 
 
Only one, most avid fans of Bigg Boss confide. Let’s change the Bigg Boss (not the show, but the man), too, at the end of each season. Tell us who the Bigg Boss is at the end of the show and we can also judge how sound he was as a judge throughout those gruelling days. Are you ready to take up that challenge, Bigg Boss? 
 
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