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Aaj Tak launches online guide for academics, jobs

Aaj Tak, India’s No. 1 news channel, has launched Aaj Tak Campus (ATC), a one-stop online guide for college admissions and competitive exams, offering creative solutions to students for career planning and skill building.

The ATC platform provides students with an opportunity to take...

Sony Max brings World TV premiere of ‘Toolsidas Junior’

Hindi Movie channel, backed by Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), is ready to premiere the family comedy film ‘Toolsidas Junior’ on Sony MAX on May 22, 2022. Starring Varun Buddhadev as Toolsidas Junior, Sanjay Dutt as Mohammed Salaam, and the late Rajiv Kapoor in his last film as ‘Toolsidas’. Based on true ev...

ZEE5 to premiere RRR in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

ZEE5, India and Bharat’s largest home-grown video streaming platform and multilingual storyteller, on the eve of superstar NTR’s birthday, announced the release of the blockbuster movie ‘RRR’ on ZEE5 from May 20, 2022. Expanding its TVOD portfolio, ZEE5 is set to launch the movie in multiple regional languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Mala...

Anuradha Aggarwal joins Amazon Pay as CMO

Anuradha Aggarwal has joined Amazon Pay as director, user growth, and CMO. The former head of the English, Infotainment, and Kids cluster at Disney-Star India announced the news on her LinkedIn account. She left Disney-Star in December 2020 and was working part-time as a strategic business advisor to D2C startups till March 2022. She joine...

‘Govinda Mera Naam’ is a trippy film says Kiara Advani

Describing her forthcoming feature ‘Govinda Naam Mera’ as a ‘unique film’, actor Kiara Advani says she is thrilled to be part of the project. Also starring Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar, ‘Govinda Naam Mera’ is expected to be released on June 10. ‘Govinda Naam Mera’ is directed by Shashank Khaitan and is produc...

Prime Video to release ‘Modern Love Mumbai’ in May

Prime Video on Monday announced that ‘Modern Love Mumbai’, the first of the three localised Indian versions of the widely acclaimed international series ‘Modern Love’, will premiere on May 13. The Mumbai chapter of the loved US original anthology series ‘Modern Love’, helmed by John Carney, has brought together six filmmakers Vishal Bhardwaj,...

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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!