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India’s largest news agency PTI challenges new IT Rules

The largest news agency in the country, the Press Trust of India (PTI), has challenged the constitutional validity of sections of India’s new IT Rules, though failed to get interim relief, which had been sought, from a Delhi court.

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Anurag Thakur gets MIB; Ashwini Vaishnaw to helm Meity, Telecoms

Well, the Indian PM reshuffled his council of ministers on Wednesday and the media and telecoms industries have new Ministers at relevant ministries of Information and Broadcasting,

India officially admits Twitter has lost liability protection

Twitter Inc. no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the US microblogging giant has failed to comply with new IT Rules, the Indian government said in a cour...

Indian govt. insists in court Twitter failed to be IT Rules-compliant

India’s federal government Monday told the Delhi High Court that social media giant Twitter Inc. has failed to comply with India's new IT Rules, which is law of the land and is mandatorily required to be complied with.

Koo brings out first compliance report

India’s home-grown microblogging website Koo has proactively moderated 54,235 content pieces, while 5,502 posts were reported by its users during June, the compa...

Delhi court refuses to stay India digital norms; new hearing date set

The Delhi High Court Monday refused to stay the new Information Technology Rules, which seek to regulate digital news media, saying it was not in agreement with the petitioners on passing such an order at this stage.

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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!