A pirate can assemble a system -- including a dish, a receiver and a decorder (together called an STB) for as low as Rs 900-1,000. This, tuned into different frequencies, can steal signals of most of the DTH operators. According to IMI, which represents over 50 companies including big labels like Saregama, Tips, Venus and Sony Music, the music industry derives a substantial amount of their revenues from TV and Internet rights.
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With the Games Organising Committee expressing its inability to provide additional chairs and TV sets, the Indian Olympic contingent's Chef de Mission Rakesh Gupta has now decided to buy them through the country's embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Hockey India President Narinder Batra had on Tuesday lashed out at Gupta and other IOA members for ignoring the complaints of players in Rio de Janeiro. "Following a request from our hockey teams to provide them with more chairs and TV sets, I had spoken and also written to the Organising Committee (OC) to do so," Gupta said in a press release.
Flipkart has started working on it big day sale around six months ago.
'There is pent-up demand for cricket after last year when no tournaments were played on Indian soil due to the pandemic.'
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The actress sought an interim order against the media till the time the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai, completes the investigation and files an appropriate report before the competent court.
Ashish Narsale brings you the first look.
The unit of Reliance Communications may raise debt, equity
Lux Anatharaman designed iTwin, a cable-less cable, which has two identical USB drives with which you can access files kept remotely in a PC. The idea behind iTwin is, "to make remote access simple and secure."
Ambulance operators were refusing to carry patients due to fear of harassment.
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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who suddenly left Islamabad for Dubai reportedly to undergo some regular medical tests, is said to be on his way out, apparently under pressure from the powerful army.
Quoting unnamed officials from the Obama administration, The Cable blog of Foreign Policy magazine said that growing expectations inside the US government are that Zardari may be on the way out. A former US official told the Cable that parts of the US government were informed that 56-year-old Zardari had a "minor heart attack" on Monday night and flew to Dubai via air ambulance.
The recall affects 5- and 6-Series BMWs built between 2003 and 2010, BMW said in a statement.
Did Vinod Sehgal die in Tsangdgar or was he taken PoW to Tibet or China? Why has the IAF kept so quiet for all these years, asks Claude Arpi.
According to officials, ten men and three women died and 28 head of cattle perished in cyclone related incidents despite authorities evacuating as many as 81,948 people to 471 relief centres in Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Ramanathapuram, Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Tiruvarur districts.
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The main trend of these cables have shown that "our government has been succumbing to American pressures... particularly on foreign policy (with the government) accepting the broad thrust of US policies," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat told media persons in New Delhi.
We asked you, dear readers to share your pet pics. This is what Rediff reader V Srinivas from New Delhi had to share.
The cable industry on Friday set a deadline of December 15 for implementing the much-delayed conditional access system in South Delhi zone.
Bradley Manning, a United States soldier accused of disclosing secret cables to WikiLeaks, made his first court appearance for a pre-trial hearing on Friday. His lawyers argued that the reserve officer presiding over the proceedings should recuse himself for perceived bias. The proceedings in a Maryland court are being held to determine whether Bradley, 24, should be tried on charges of staeling secret US cables and passing them over to WikiLeaks.
Shrug off the yoke of the imperialism of Delhi. That is why the DMK manifesto offers what it offers: The promise that Tamil Nadu will, one day, become an independent republic, notes Aditi Phadnis.
An overhead television camera suspended by cables crashed to the ground in the Olympic Park on Monday, lightly injuring at least three people among the crowds below, the latest in a string of mishaps to hit South America's first Games. A TV news report showed two of the injured looking dazed, sitting on the ground near the heavy black camera housing. One woman, bleeding from her head as medics arrived, was taken away on a stretcher. The other walked from the scene wearing a neck brace.
Drishyam 2 fulfills all the criteria required for a blockbuster in terms of story, message, performances and execution, aplauds Divya Nair.
France, not sure about Pakistan's nuclear deterrent, has decided against supplying nuclear energy technology to it, according to a secret United States diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Rediff reader Murali Krishnan Ambati, 47, from Bengaluru shares an interesting formula to save money.
Contrary to Pakistani military's persistent assertion that it will not allow foreign troops to operate within the country, United States special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops for intelligence gathering and were also deployed on joint operations in their territory, according to secret US diplomatic cables.
The growth was led by family-owned companies and business groups with presence in pharmaceuticals, information technology services, and consumer products.
India on Wednesday banned 118 more mobile apps with Chinese links, including the popular game PUBG, citing data privacy concerns and a threat to national security, taking the total count of Chinese-linked mobile apps banned by New Delhi to 224.
Strict lockdown-like restrictions are already in place in the southern stateand the Pinarayi Vijayan government decided to clamp the complete shutdown in the wake of severe spike in the positive cases.
This Mohanlal suspense drama may well go down as yet another modern day classic, raves Joginder Tuteja.
The petition also seeks to restrain the media from publishing the contents or extracts of any alleged private chats, including those on WhatsApp, between her and third parties.
Expressing deep displeasure over India's response to the WikiLeaks cables, veteran BJP leader L K Advani on Thursday said "even now, they (the United Progressive Alliance) should correct themselves".
Much before the Tri-Valley University scam that affected many Indians was exposed in the United States, the American Consulate in Mumbai had expressed concern over the steep jump in lesser qualified student visa applications, a leaked US diplomatic cable has said.
Politics in Kashmir is "as filthy as Dal lake" and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks.
The district court of The Hague, Netherlands, has upheld the decision of the arbitration panel that VSNL must allow Flag Telecom an access to Flag Europe Asia cable landing station in Mumbai. Flag Telecom (now known as Reliance Globalcom), a subsidiary of Anil Ambani's Reliance Telecom, wanted access to Mumbai landing staion of Flag Europe Asia cable (FEA), a submarine fiber optic cable that runs from England to Japan, for the purpose of enhancing its capacity.
The Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu on Friday scrapped another pet scheme of the Karunanidhi regime by ending free colour TV distribution on which over Rs 3,600 crore was spent in the past five years.
