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Supreme Court sets aside Madras HC order on Copyright Rules

The Supreme Court has set aside an interim order passed by the Madras High Court in a writ petition filed by some broadcasters and FM radio stations, challenging Rule 29(4) of Copyright Rules, 2013, legal website Livelaw.in reported on Wednesday.

Zee admits in regulatory filing top shareholders want EGM

Zee Entertainment Enterprises said on Wednesday the company's top shareholders have called for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the company.

Invesco Developing Markets Fund and OFI Global C...

Indian Govt. hopes tech cos. will not use encryption as ‘excuse’

India expects that technology companies will not use encryption as an excuse to hold up investigations and will play their part in bringing criminals to justice, the top government official in India's technology ministry said on T...

Viacom18 appoints Rajaraman Sundaram as Biz Head, Colors Tamil

Viacom18, Monday, has announced the appointment of Rajaraman Sundaram as Business Head. He will be responsible for managing the overall business and operations for Colors Tamil, and will be reporting to Rajesh Iyer, Head, Regional Entertainment (Bangla, Odia, Tamil and Gujrati Clusters), Viac...

SC issues notice to TRAI in NTO 2.0 case; next hearing Oct 8

India’s Supreme Court Monday issued notice to broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI in a case related to its tariff regulations, challenged by the broadcasters and some others like Star TV, Zee and Sony. TRAI has to file its views on the

NBDA elects Rajat Sharma as President

India’s leading body of news broadcasters, News Broadcasters and Digital Association (NBDA), on Monday announced Rajat Sharma, chairman and editor-in-chief, India TV, has been elected the President at the board meeting. The board also elected Avinash Pandey, chief executive officer,

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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!