With open offer to buy 26% stake, Adanis seek to become majority shareholder in NDTV

In a stunning move with the potential to change the media landscape, billionaire Gautam Adani launched a hostile takeover of media giant NDTV, first with an indirect acquisition of a 29.18 per cent......

Showing soon in Los Angeles: Bollywood glitz

Cooking With Stella will open the 8th annual Indian Film Fetsival of Los Angeles, to be held April 20 to 25 at Arclight Hollywood. The festival will showcase 33 films from five countries, including......

An eventful year for Indian-American journalists

When the South Asian Journalists Association was formed in 1994, there were only a few Indian-American bylines in the mainstream press, mostly in the business pages. There were some folks in the......

Build systems if not leadership

August 25, 2003: An otherwise normal, warm, Mumbai workday was shattered with news of bomb blasts ripping through the city. For several hours pandemonium reigned as panic-struck citizens jammed......

Disney, Reliance sign deal to create Rs 70,000 cr behemoth

Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries on Wednesday announced signing of binding pacts to merge their media operations in India to create a Rs 70,000 crore behemoth. Photograph: Reuters Reliance......

Govt loosened purse strings with fiscal deficit in mind, willing to do more: FM

On the Goods and Services Tax, Sitharaman said the focus is on making the network more efficient so that difficulties in compliance are done away with, and added that Infosys chairman Nandan......

Will Arnab recreate his magic with Republic TV?

Analysts say that Republic TV has to hit the top spot in the shortest possible time if it has to make a dent in the ad market and break even, writes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.  Illustration:......

'Indian media needs the next Raghav Bahl or Prannoy Roy'

More people from the content side should be running the business of media if the industry has to grow, Bloomberg's Parry Ravindranathan tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. IMAGE: Prannoy Roy, centre,......