Johri, who last served as Discovery Networks Asia Pacific's Executive Vice-President and General Manager for South Asia, will take up his new assignment on June 1.
The tax authorities challenged a Gujarat high court judgement that had dismissed their appeal holding that Karnik could not be held guilty of even deemed concealment. A Bench headed by Justice D K Jain, while posting the matter for final hearing, rejected Karnik's counsel P K Manohar's plea to allow him to file a counter affidavit.
Discovery Networks India Executive Vice-President and MD Deepak Shourie said that the DTH platform has been able to quickly penetrate cable homes by reaching out to 5 million subscribers within a couple of years. Discovery Communications globally offers channels such as Discovery Health, Military Channel, TLC, Science Channel, Investigation Discovery among others. The group might bring in one of these channels for the DTH platform, sources indicated.
Until 2014, Discovery's channels were distributed as part of a joint venture with Multi Screen Media.
After heading the apex body for six years, and being instrumental in placing the Indian IT industry on the global map.
Discovery Networks India, on Wednesday unveiled its new channel 'Discovery Travel and Living', the country's first 24-hour international lifestyle channel.
Discovery Networks Asia, a division of real-world entertainment company Discovery Communications and Nokia are reinventing the concept of filmmaking by providing mobile phone users access to knowledge and technology of a new genre - mobile filmmaking
The episode will premiere on August 12 and will be showcased in more than 180 countries across the world on Discovery network of channels.
NDTV announced on Thursday a distribution tie-up with One Alliance, which is a joint venture between Sony Entertainment Television and Discovery Networks India.
Bajaj sold his 18-month-old start-up WhiteHat Jr to Byju Raveendran for $300 million in an all-cash deal - over the video conferencing platform Zoom. The deal is the biggest in the Indian edtech sector by far.
While it is heartening to see companies chipping in with their messages of support, they are probably walking a tightrope here.
'In the next five years both online and TV viewership will grow and complement each other.'
Have you decided what will happen to your social networking accounts and your digital possessions when you are no more?
Discovery Channel will soon telecast an inspiring program on people who have overcome physical handicaps.
Cartoon characters created and developed in local animation studios are enchanting Indian kids like never before, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The six are English dailies the Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Telegraph; their sister publications The Hindustan and The Hindu Tamil; and Ananda Bazar Patrika.
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