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Twitter appoints interim CCO; gets time from Delhi HC to be rules-compliant

Twitter Inc.’s India unit has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and will soon designate other executives to meet the country's new IT Rules, the social media giant said in a

BARC Rating 26th Week: Star Plus again leads in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 26th Week (26th June 2021 – 2nd July 2021) has released its report. In India, Star Plus is the most-watched pay-TV channel across all genres (All India 2+) with 2878...

‘Delhi Crime’ director Richie Mehta ready to make next project

Filmmaker Richie Mehta, who helmed the International Emmy Award-winning show ‘Delhi Crime’, will now direct a project based on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The director said, “The authors have done such a precise and

Sourav Majumdar new BT editor, Sid Zarabi to lead BT TV

After naming Udayan Mukherjee as its Global Business Editor, the India Today Group announced two more big-ticket appointments as part of its plans to bolster its coverage of business news in the post-pandemic economic order.

The network has na...

India’s largest news agency PTI challenges new IT Rules

The largest news agency in the country, the Press Trust of India (PTI), has challenged the constitutional validity of sections of India’s new IT Rules, though failed to get interim relief, which had been sought, from a Delhi court.

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!