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Rajat Sharma to relinquish NBDA prez post

Well-known broadcaster Rajat Sharma has decided to relinquish the Presidentship of NBDA, according to sources. After leading news broadcasters’ largest body for the last six years, in a voluntary decision, Sharma ...

Meta introduces ‘Community Chats’ for messenger

Meta announced Discord service-like ‘Community Chats’ for Messenger and Facebook groups.

Large Facebook messenger groups can now organize chats into categories — real-time audio and video channels, and admin-only chats for announce...

‘Brahmastra’ director Mukerji feels ‘big event’ films the future

At a time when luring the audiences to theatres was becoming increasingly difficult for Bollywood, director Ayan Mukerji's most ambitious film ‘Brahmastra Part One: Shiva’ has achieved the feat renewing his faith that "big event" movies are the future of Indian cinema. The fantasy action adventure epic starring real-life couple Ranbir ...

Govt. panel for fresh online skill games’ law & safety measures

India should create a regulatory body to classify online games as based on skill or chance, introduce rules to block prohibited formats and take a stricter stance on gambling websites, a government panel said in a report seen by Reuters.

The panel of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's to...

Vaishnaw promises more telecom reforms; urges industry to play its part

The Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the telecom sector in the country will witness more reforms in coming years, but asserted that the industry too will have to do its bit and reciprocate by improving quality of service significantly.

GEC Zindagi will now be available on Airtel’s platform

Indian GEC Zindagi has been instrumental in bringing stories from across the border that have engaged and entertained audiences, and above all inspired them. Now Zindagi is set to launch as a special service on Airtel platform.

Zindagi will aim to bring audiences a plethora of unique and entertaining offerings. ...

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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!