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Rural GEC Azaad launches its new show

Azaad, the Hindi general entertainment channel, has unveiled ‘Kasturi’, a story inspired by the life of Padmashri Rajkumari Devi, popularly known as ‘Kisan Chachi’ (Farmer Aunty).

It shows the story of a village girl, who broke conventional myths with her spontaneous grit an...

Google announces new features for Meet

Tech giant Google on Wednesday announced that it is sharing new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom and Google Meet. For those using the Google Workspace for Education Plus or Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Google said it is adding features focused on increasing interconnectivity, control, and efficiency in the classroom to Google Meet. ...

TRAI extends deadline on media ownership paper

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) extended the deadline on its recently floated discussion paper related to media ownership till June 28. TRAI said the deadline for written comments, which was earlier set for June 7, 2022, has been extended after requests from stakeholders for more time. “TRAI had released a consultation paper o...

Crime drama ‘She’ S2 to premiere on Netflix June 17

The second season of the Imtiaz Ali-created crime drama ‘She’ will start streaming on June 17, Netflix announced Wednesday.

The series follows Bhumika, played by Aaditi Pohankar, a timid Mumbai constable who realizes the potential of her dormant sexuality when she goes under...

Google announces merger of Duo, Meet

American tech giant Google has announced that Meet and Duo will be merged. According to ANI, Google will integrate all of the Meet capabilities into the Duo app starting “in the coming weeks”. The Duo app will then be changed to Google Meet “later this year”, making Meet the company’s sole video communications ...

TV9 Bangla honours Bengal’s leading real estate players

TV9 Bangla, a part of the TV9 Group, the undisputed number one news organization in the country, organized Real Estate Excellence Award 2022 titled ‘Bhalo Basa’ at ITC Sonar wh...

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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!