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In 2025, nationalistic films sizzled, star-driven ones fizzled out

Bookended by two nationalistic hits in ‘Chhava’ and ‘Dhurandhar’, the Hindi film industry had a mixed year where star-driven vehicles like ‘Sikandar’, starring Salman Khan, and Hrithik Roshan-fronted <...

AI content labelling mandate likely soon: IT Secretary

The government has completed consultations with the industry on the proposed mandatory labelling of AI-generated content, and the related rules are set to be issued shortly, IT Secretary S Krishnan has said. Krishnan told PTI in an interview that the ind...

Shaily Mehrotra joins Shark Tank India S5 as new Shark

Entrepreneur and Fixderma Founder and CEO Shaily Mehrotra has joined ‘Shark Tank India’ Season 5 as the newest Shark, bringing with her over 15 years of experience in building a science-backed skincare brand from the groun...

Cricket, celebs, creators dominate India’s social buzz: Comscore

Cricket stars, film celebrities and digital creators continued to drive conversations across social platforms in India, according to the latest India Weekly Social Scorecard released by Comscore for the period between December 15 and December 21, 2025. The dat...

Paramount, Netflix fuel US’ Nov TV growth; YouTube, Disney lead

Television viewing in the United States in November 2025 was shaped by a mix of live sports, marquee streaming releases and holiday-driven consumption, according to Nielsen’s latest Media Distributor Gauge. Paramount and Netflix emerged as the biggest gainers during the month, posting double-digit growth over October...

India pay TV revenues to continue declining over 2024-29: GlobalData

India’s telecom and pay TV services revenue is forecast to increase a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6 percent from $46.3 billion in 2024 to $61.9 billion in 2029, driven by revenue contributions from mobile data and fixed broadband segments, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

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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!