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BT to host Banking Summit & Best Banks Awards ‘26 today

The Business Today is set to host the BT Banking and Economy Summit & BT Best Banks Awards 2026 on February 28 at the National Stock Exchange Atrium, Exchange Plaza, BKC, Mumbai. The summit will bring together leading voices from banking, financial services, policy and academia to deliberate on key trends shaping India’s financial ecosystem ...

Nikita Kandhari role at Prime Video, MGM Studios expanded

Nikita Kandhari has taken on an expanded role at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where she will now lead content marketing for the Hindi slate across the platforms.

In a LinkedIn post yesterday, Kandhari announced that her new mandate will cover marketing strategies for original ...

Raghavan hopes ‘Ikkis’ will get more audiences on OTT platform

Filmmaker Sriram Raghavan says he was baffled by the response to his war drama ‘Ikkis’, but now hopes that more people will watch the movie following its debut on a OTT platform. Released on January 1, the film is a biographical drama based on the life of Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal featuring Agastya Na...

Vivek Raina steps down as Excitel CEO after over a decade

Vivek Raina has stepped down from his leadership role at Excitel Broadband, the company he co-founded and led for more than a decade, according to an update shared through his LinkedIn profile. The development marks a significant transition for the broadband service provider, which has expanded rapidly since its ince...

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan joins S2 of ‘Elle’

Actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is set to join the second season of the ‘Legally Blonde’ prequel series ‘Elle’, stepping into the role of Sam, an intellectually formidable rival to teenage Elle Woods. According to a UNI report, Ramakrishnan’s character is introduced as the head of the school newspaper and a self-appointed guardian o...

SC judge Nagarathna says media can’t perform under constraint

Supreme Court judge Justice BV Nagarathna yesterday said media cannot perform its role under constraint, fear or influence and the most serious threats to press freedom arise not from direct censorship but from regulations, ownership rules, licensing laws and economic policies.

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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!