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Business Standard’s brand film highlights importance of curiosity

One of India’s leading English-language business newspaper, Business Standard, has released a new brand film that highlights a simple idea: the world looks different when one pauses long enough to notice what truly matters.

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‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ to release Feb. 6 in India

‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’, the latest instalment of the ‘The Strangers’ franchise, is set to release in Indian theatres on February 6, PVR INOX Pictures announced yesterday.

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Indian football body invites bids for ISL b’cast, media partners

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has invited bids to appoint a broadcast partner for the media, broadcast, digital and production rights of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2025–26 season, with the scope centred on end-to-end live production and worldwide distribution of matches across television and digital pla...

Mobile phone makers lobby Indian Govt for customs duty cuts

Mobile phone firms have sought a customs duty reduction on mobile parts like microphones, printed circuit boards, and wearables, as well as tariff correction on capital goods and other components, to lower the handset production cost, industry body ICEA said in its budget recommendations.

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BECIL hunts for partners to manage govt clients’ SM projects

Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd (BECIL), a unit under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has issued an expression of interest (EOI) to create a centralised empanelment of backend partners, vendors and associates for ideation, conceptualisation and execution of social media management projects f...

Disney’s ‘Zootopia2’ highest-grossing animated film of all time

Disney’s ‘Zootopia2’ is now the highest-grossing animated Motion Picture Association (MPA) film of all time, having just surpassed ‘Inside Out2’. This milestone also makes Walt Disney Animation Studios’ movie the #9 biggest film in history worldwide.

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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!