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Intellectuals, celebrities hail TV9 Bangla’s Baithak

Celebrities pondered over some of the perennial imponderables of the Bengali persona and came up with fascinating interpretations in a spectacular and glittering event during the TV9 Bangla Baithak on March 25, Friday. Organized to discuss Bangaliana, the umbrella theme to celebrate the first anniversary of TV9 Bangla from the country’s numbe...

Kichcha Sudeep – starrer ‘Vikrant Rona’ to release in July

South star Kichcha Sudeep's upcoming 3D action movie ‘Vikrant Rona’ will hit the theatres countrywide on July 28, the actor announced on Saturday. Sudeep, known for starring in blockbusters like ‘Eega’, ‘Veera Madakari’, ‘Kempe Gowda’, ‘Maanikya’, ‘Ranna’, ‘Pailwan’, and ‘Dabangg 3’, ...

Rashmika Mandanna boards Ranbir Kapoor’s ‘Animal’

Actor Rashmika Mandanna has joined the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer 'Animal’, the makers have announced.

The Hindi-language crime drama is directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga of ‘Kabir Singh’ fame and backed by T-Series. T-series announ...

WhatsApp suspended 1.4 mn Indian accounts in Feb

WhatsApp has banned over 1.4 million Indian accounts in February as per their ninth User Safety Monthly Report that was published on Friday. The Meta-owned messaging app banned over 1.8 million accounts in January. The company said that it has invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state-of-t...

Havas Creative Group India names Samarpita Banerjee as director marcom

Havas Creative Group India has appointed Samarpita Banerjee as director of marketing and communications. In her new role, Banerjee will work across all agencies of Havas Creative Group India, including Havas Worldwide, Havas CX, Think Design, Conran Design

Meity says national data governance policy in the offing

The Indian government is preparing grounds to publish a national data governance policy to streamline data collection and its sharing, especially those related to individuals’ personal data even though a separate legislation is proposed through the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019.

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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!