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India expects Twitter follows local laws, irrespective of ownership

Even as India issued amendments to the country’s IT Rules on Friday and twitterati here remained divided over the impact of Elon Musk’s takeover of the micro-blogging site, the government made it clear that it expects Twitter, and al...

MIB Secy: Deregulation process on to make India uplink hub

The government will soon deregulate existing rules in a bid to make India an uplinking hub for satellite TV channels.

Addressing the India Space Congress in New Delhi on Friday, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Ch...

‘Fighter’ to hit theatres in January 2024

Actors Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone-led ‘Fighter’, billed as India's first aerial action magnum opus, will arrive in theatres on January 25, 2024. The film, directed by Siddharth Anand of ‘War’ fame, will feature the lead stars as Indian Air Force pilots. Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures are producing the project...

aha Telugu onboards Anil Ravipudi as Chairman

aha Telugu onboarded director Anil Ravipudi as Chairman of its new non-fiction ‘Comedy Stock Exchange’. The special stand-up show is produced by SOL productions. The show is all set to bring celebrated comedy figures who make their way to t...

Sony YAY! announces multi-platform initiatives

Sony YAY! is all set to extend its three-pronged approach of Entertain, Experience, and Explore with its array of offerings this festive season. The channel is all set to welcome its audiences into their Happyverse – A unique world that brings the audience ...

Times Network elevates Gaurav Dhawan as CRO

India’s premium broadcast network, Times Network announced Gaurav Dhawan as its Chief Revenue Officer. Gaurav will spearhead the Network’s broadcast ad revenue operations and drive monetization strategy for the bouquet of channels across Hindi & English new...

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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!