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NEW DELHI: India’s embattled media industry has launched a pre-budget offensive, demanding sweeping tax relief to stop linear television from collapsing and digital platforms from drowning...
NATIONAL: Ficci has fired the opening salvo ahead of the Union Budget 2026–27, urging the government to double down on defence, exports and domestic capital as...
KOLKATA: Britannia Industries has received an order from the Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Large Taxpayers Unit-1, Bengaluru, demanding Rs 63,91,842 under Section 73 of the...
NEW DELHI: India’s news broadcasters have taken their tax fight to the top. The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), led by president Rajat Sharma, has...
NEW DELHI:The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), the apex body of cable operators, has petitioned information and broadcasting minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and finance minister Ashwini...
MUMBAI: Eight years after its midnight launch, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) stands as a defining milestone in India’s economic reform journey. Introduced by the...
Self-employment is rapidly becoming one of the top choices among job seekers and businesspeople. It is one of the few employment opportunities where you need not...
Mumbai: The online gaming industry in India is rapidly evolving amidst a backdrop of regulatory scrutiny and technological advancement. With a staggering 28 per cent CAGR...
MUMBAI: According to a joint report by Assocham and EY, titled ‘GST on Online Skill-Based Gaming’, GST Council’s Group of Ministers (GoMs) are examining the GST...
Mumbai: The three largest online skill gaming associations in the country, E-Gaming Federation (EGF), All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) and Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS),...
MUMBAI: The GST Council reconstituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) in February 2022 to study the GST rates for casinos, racecourses, and online gaming. The panel’s...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television (NDTV) has decided to implement a salary cut for employees from 1 April as a cost-cutting measure on the back of decreasing...
India is the fifth-largest global destination in the retail space. With the budget 2020 being around the corner, there is a hope that the new policies...
MUMBAI: On 17thJanuary, 2020 Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman met the members of the executive body of News Broadcasters Federation (NBF). In the meeting, the NBF has...
The movie-exhibition business in India is stuck in contradictions. On the one hand, the country produces the highest number of movies in the world, on the...
The implementation of the Goods and Services Tax by the Indian government has been one of the most transformational legislations in the history of the country’s...
MUMBAI: At the 31st Goods and Service Tax (GST) council meeting, GST rates on several items have been decided to be brought down from the top...
MUMBAI: After Aparna Bhosle’s elevation in the Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (Zeel) from the premium English cluster head to now being the business head of Zee...
MUMBAI: History was created when the country witnessed the biggest and most important indirect tax reform-the goods and services tax (GST). The reform that took nearly...
MUMBAI: The introduction of GST regime has been India’s boldest tax reform since Independence. To mark the completion of the first year under this act, CNBC-TV18,...
MUMBAI: Though the announcement of ad guru and former WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s comeback strategy was announced yesterday in faraway London — a London Stock...
MUMBAI: According to the findings of the 16th Pitch Madison Advertising Report (PMAR) 2018, the advertising market slowed down to 7.4 per cent (Rs 53,138 crore)...
MUMBAI: WPP’s media investment group Group M has forecast the advertising expenditure (adex) in India to grow by 13 per cent in 2018 year on year....
The market size of the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector is estimated to be in excess of USD 20 billion. India has more than 180...
MUMBAI: When largely all television channels were struggling in the aftermath of the goods and services tax (GST) implementation, Food Food channel remained insulated from all...
MUMBAI: The plea of cable TV operators in Kolkata to reduce the goods and services tax (GST) from the current 18 per cent to 5 per...
MUMBAI: In an era of dime a dozen social experiments which do the rounds on social media, The Womb, as part of an investor education initiative...
MUMBAI: The year 2017 was when brands were unwillingly thrown into a roller-coaster ride only to emerge dizzy and faint. The highs weren’t enough to ride...
MUMBAI: For long, investors have given India’s DTH sector a pass-by saying the TV distribution sector (read cable TV) is rickety and has been digitised in...
BENGALURU: Indian digital cinema distribution network and in-cinema advertising platform UFO Moviez Ltd (UFO) reported a 12.8 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in consolidated operating revenue for...
NEW DELHI: In a major relief to the media and entertainment (M&E) sector, the goods and services tax (GST) has been slashed on a large number...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) has urged the government to fix 5 per cent as the maximum GST rate that should be...
MUMBAI: Entertainment lately seems to be affected the most with one tax after another — the GST and tax on watching television programmes. Now, in a...
MUMBAI: Union information and broadcasting minister Smriti Irani on Friday said the government saw agencies including the Censor Board “as facilitators” within the ambit of the...
MUMBAI: Marketing mavens are aware that a majority of brand spending in India takes place between August and December every year because of a range of festivals...
MUMBAI: A Tamil Nadu federation of unions to which hundreds of cable operators owe allegiance has alleged that the Arasu MSO has been following ‘monopolistic practices’...
MUMBAI: Asianet news, the top of the line news channel in the state, is ready to celebrate Onam with a varied range of special programmes. Sticking...
BENGALURU: The Essel Group’s television direct to home (DTH) Dish TV India Limited (Dish TV) reported 5 percent and 5.1 percent declines in subscription and operation...
NEW DELHI: All satellite television and private FM channels have been asked by the government to give adequate publicity to ‘Mission Indradhanush’ launched to expand immunisation...
MUMBAI: It’s been a hectic first quarter of FY 2018 for homegrown media power house — the Essel Group promoted Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel). The...
BENGALURU: The GST implementation resulted in deferral of advertising spends in late Q1-18 (quarter ended 30 June 2017, current quarter) says Network 18 Limited.: While April-May...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister M Venkaiah Naidu has urged the regional news framework to focus on local content, development and bottoms-up approach. He said...
MUMBAI: Twitter is the best place to know what’s happening around in India and to talk about it. Over the weekend, Twitter saw over one million...
MUMBAI: Minister of information and broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu, writing for a business newspaper, opined: “At the midnight of June 30, India will make a tryst...
MUMBAI: Even as the government has been attempting to convince the industry and the average tax-paper that the goods and services tax (GST) being implemented from...
NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) for set top boxes has been reduced to 18 per cent from the previously announced 28 per cent. Similarly, the...
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has assured the film industry that he will support the demand to lower the GST rate to 18% in...
BENGALURU: The largest DTH operator in India in terms of subscriber numbers – Dish TV Limited (Dish TV) reported less than one-sixth profit after tax (PAT)...
NEW DELHI: Taxation on entertainment, cable and DTH services shall come down under the Goods and Services Tax regime as the entertainment tax levied by states...
MUMBAI: Essel Group chairman and Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Subhash Chandra has welcomed the GST Bill while addressing the Upper House of the Parliament for the...
