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‘Dr. Strange’ star Cumberbatch says would love to revisit India

Benedict Cumberbatch's connection with India goes back to his teenage years and the ‘Doctor Strange’ star says he hopes to return one day to interact with the country's "first superhero". The British actor, who took a gap-year after his school to travel to Darjeeling to teach English at a Tibetan monastery, fondly remembers his six mon...

NXTDIGITAL’s ‘NXTHUB’ bags the ‘Best Innovative Project Of The Year’

The prestigious National Feather Award for the 'Best Innovative Project of the Year' was awarded to NXTDIGITAL Limited for its innovative and future-ready digital NXTHUB project; at a function in Mumbai. The NXTHUB is a one-stop digital solution – delivering digital TV, broadband, OTT, and WIFI. The “NXTHUB” concept was designed and rolled ou...

Bad Bunny to play Marvel hero El Muerto for Sony Pictures

Rapper Bad Bunny has been roped in by Sony Pictures to essay the role of Marvel hero ‘El Muerto’ and will be headlining a standalone movie.

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart Nez Ocasio, will be the first-ever Latino actor to headline a live-action Marvel film...

Zee TV launches ‘Pyaar Ka Pehla Naam Radha Mohan’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Zee TV is all set to launch a brand new show titled ‘Pyaar Ka Pehla Naam Radha Mohan’. A mature romance based in modern-day Vrindavan, the show will introduce viewers to Mohan (played by popular TV star Shabir Ahluwalia) who was once an effortless and easygoing charmer with the whole world wrapped ...

iTV Network launches The Business Guardian newspaper

India’s fastest-growing news network iTV Network officially launched the first edition of its latest publication, ‘The Business Guardian’. The newspaper will cover news and views related to the domestic and global business sphere. The business daily will ...

Mobile phone primary mode for consuming digital services: IT Minister

People at the bottom of the pyramid should be at the core of digitisation, Minister of Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, adding efforts are on to augment manufacturing of electronics and spread digitisation in the country. Addressing a session on "Leverage Digital Platforms to Build a Future-Rea...

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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!