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Meghna Gulzar begins filming for ‘Sam Bahadur’

Meghna Gulzar has started shooting for her much-anticipated film ‘Sam Bahadur’, the filmmaker announced on Monday.

The film is based on the life and times of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, one of India's greatest war heroes. He was the chief of the Indian Army in 1971 when Ind...

Reliance Jio launches new streaming platform

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has launched its new streaming platform ‘JioGamesWatch’ under its JioGames offering. JioGamesWatch is the service’s streaming platform that provides an immersive and interactive game streaming platform experience across multiple Ji...

Guest Column: Will mandated digital TV tuners be advantage FreeDish?

By Rajiv Khattar

Over the past six to eight weeks a few communications have been exchanged between various government organisations, which indicate that the Indian policy-makers could be moving towards a regime that mandates all TV sets sold in India should ...

Shemaroo partners Amagi for FAST platform in US

Shemaroo, a leading entertainment company in India, has partnered with Amagi, a SaaS (Software as a Service) company, to create, distribute and monetize a new channel for the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) platform, Plex, in the US. Shemaroo won’t ...

MX VDesi brings new K-Drama in August

Leading super app for entertainment, MX Player's new category - MX VDesi which hosts India’s largest catalog of dubbed shows in local Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, has announced new shows every Wednes...

India plans to tighten antitrust laws; Big Tech M&A could be under lens

India aims to tighten rules around the scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions under proposed legislation that could particularly affect global tech firms that do a lot of business there.

The proposal is part of an overhaul of India's competition law in a bill that was introduced in par...

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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!