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George Nolfi’s ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ to get Indian adaptation

Hollywood filmmaker George Nolfi’s acclaimed 2011 sci-fi romantic thriller ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ is set to get an Indian language adaptation. Nolfi has teamed up with Sharad Devarajan, the founder and CEO of Graphic India, to reimagine the popular Hollywood film for Indian audiences. According to a PTI report, the upcoming project will be j...

‘Mahabharat’ returns to national TV with AI-powered twist

Collective Media Network’s Historyverse has announced an all-new AI-powered adaptation of the 'Mahabharat', set to make a grand return to Indian television. The much-anticipated series will premiere on WAVES OTT on October 25 before making its television debut on Doordarshan every Sunday at 11 am, starting November 2. According to an...

Hollywood, Bollywood groups lobby DPIIT on AI models’ content use

Hollywood and Bollywood groups are lobbying an Indian panel for stricter copyright protection that will prevent artificial intelligence firms from using their intellectual property to train AI models, letters show.

The movie industry is particularly concerned that AI tools could scra...

At Frames ’25, JioHotstar, Meta, Google dwell on AI & media

At FICCI Frames 2025, a thought-provoking discussion unfolded on how artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of media, storytelling, and audience engagement in India.

The session, titled ‘The AI-Powered Media Revolution: From Personalization to Interactive Storytelling’...

UK PM visits YRF studio; bats for upping creative collabs

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday visited the iconic Yash Raj Films (YRF) studio in Mumbai, marking a major step toward strengthening cultural and creative collaboration between the British and Indian film industries.

According to a PTI report from Mumbai, the Brit...

Ragini Das joins Google as head of Startups-India

Entrepreneur and co-founder of leap.club, Ragini Das, has joined Google as the Head of Google for Startups – India, marking a full-circle moment in her decade-long career in the startup ecosystem. Announcing the move on LinkedIn, Das wrote, “Life has come full...

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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!