Advertisers seek safeguards as low viewership of Indo-Pak tie shows the game's showpiece is losing sheen.
The Customised Connectivity Tracking tool can be installed in the catchment area of a cable network and track frequencies.
Backed by US-based Hollywood film company Lionsgate Production, Hong Kong-based Tiger Gate Entertainment is all set to launch two English movie channels called Thrill and KIX in the Rs 250-crore (Rs 2.5 billion) domestic English movies market on television. India has around 10 English movie channels with STAR Movies and HBO, the two leaders in terms of revenue and viewership.
The film generates about Rs 20 crore in first weekend at the box office.
Permission for dual listing would require full capital account convertibility and therefore changes in regulations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
The deal, which will be the largest in the global telecom space, will be subject to South African government approval.
The Indian Premier League is facing a rough pitch. With a little over six months to go for the third leg of the most successful cricket properties of recent times, with a brand value of $2 billion, IPL is facing hostile bouncers -- four to be precise -- that it is finding hard to negotiate.
Airline managements are divided on the likely impact of the settlement of the Jet Airways imbroglio.
The government has sought to put an end to the ambiguities in the implementation of Press Notes 2 and 4, which significantly relaxed foreign direct investment (FDI) guidelines, with the Commerce Ministry requesting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to make changes in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) to operationalise the guidelines. The direction from the government follows a number of references and queries from investors.
Claim breach in procedure, demand probes; Reliance denies charge
Halving the productivity-linked incentive will make its salary levels unattractive and put a heavier burden on junior staffers.
The TAM numbers have managed to establish the supremacy of Doordarshan over competing news channels like AajTak and India TV (the top others, also established by TAM data) and also entertainment channels like STAR Plus, Colors and Zee TV (the top Hindi general entertainment channels) in 2009.
Eases regulatory hurdles for Bharti-MTN deal.
With the Maharashtra government ordering closure of all multiplexes and theatres in Mumbai till August 16 due to fast spreading swine flu, the film exhibition business may incur an overall financial loss of at least Rs 25 crore from the upcoming long weekend holiday on account of Janmashtami and Independence Day.
The five private DTH operators (Dish TV, Tata Sky and Sun Direct being the other three) are expected to add over six million new subscribers by the end of December, to take the overall subscriber base to over 17 million, a 57 per cent growth over December 2008.
Direct to Home (DTH) operators could be asked to provide inter-operable set-top boxes to their customers with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeing prima facie merit in a complaint filed by a consumer organisation that it is in violation of competition laws.
New Delhi, 7 August A strike call and its withdrawal proved an embarrassment for a former senior aviation bureaucrat.
Airline losses have more to do with their business models than the price of aviation fuel.
MTNL will be one of the few big telecom companies in the world to allow competitors to offer their brand on its network.
Airline asks for Rs 7,000 cr; may get half subject to conditions.