Tag: television

Bodhi Tree to invest $1.78 bn in Viacom18; Reliance to pump in $216 mn

Bodhi Tree to invest $1.78 bn in Viacom18; Reliance to pump in $216 mn

Reliance and Viacom18 on Wednesday announced a mouthwatering and potentially disrupting strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree Systems, which is a platform of James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and Uday Shankar, to form one of the largest TV and digital streaming companies in India.

FM highlights India’s steps towards digitization

FM highlights India’s steps towards digitization

Highlighting several digitization-related progressive steps in the Budget this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that there is a continuous digital nudge by the government across different sectors. Sitharman’s remarks came during the ‘Business Roundtable: Investing in India’s Digital Revolution’ organized by the Federa...

Anurag Thakur exhorts Netflix to help make India content production hub

Anurag Thakur exhorts Netflix to help make India content production hub

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday, while lauding the streaming platforms’ contribution in bringing stories from India to the world, urged Netflix to increase local productions that will help India become a major content and post-production hub. Speaking on Indian stories that inspire humanity and a long-term coll...

Kangana, comedian Munawar Faruqui speak on child abuse in ‘Lock Upp’

Kangana, comedian Munawar Faruqui speak on child abuse in ‘Lock Upp’

Shining a spotlight on child abuse and sexual assault, actor Kangana Ranaut recounted her experience when she was "inappropriately touched" in her childhood years by a youth in her hometown in Himachal Pradesh. The actor talked about the incident on the reality show ‘Lock Upp’, on which she serves as a host, after contestant and comic Munawar...

Mobile phone primary mode for consuming digital services: IT Minister

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...