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Vaishnaw feels AI, creativity will co-exist; strong guardrails needed

Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology and Information & Broadcasting, yesterday said the government is engaging with ministers from more than 30 countries to develop technical and legal solutions to tackle the growing threat of deepfakes, misinformation and data misuse.

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Congress MP Shukla joins clamour for digital content, AI monitoring

Congress MP Rajeev Shukla yesterday urged Parliament to tackle the rising threat of artificial intelligence-generated fake videos, calling for urgent legislative and institutional action during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, includi...

Govt’s OTT accessibility guidelines gives 36-month implementation period

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has come out with its final guidelines for content accessibility on streaming platforms aimed at ensuring that persons with hearing and visual disabilities can independently access and engage with online video content.

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NHRC notice to MIB as separate petition filed against ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’

A writ petition has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking a stay on the release and streaming of an upcoming Netflix film titled ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’, with the petitioner alleging that the film’s title and proposed content are defamatory and communally offensive to the Brahmin community.

India world’s 2nd largest 5G market with 400mn+ users: Scindia

India has emerged as the world’s second-largest 5G subscriber base, trailing only China, with more than 400 million users now on the next-generation network, Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said yesterday, highlighting the pace of adoption here is also among the fastest globally setting new benchmarks...

Haryana gets digital platforms to drop 67 songs promoting violence

Sixty-seven songs promoting gang lifestyle, glorifying weapons and violence have been removed from digital platforms, the Haryana Police said in a statement yesterday. However, the police in its statement did not name the songs that have been removed or blocked.

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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!