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  • HoABL soars high with dazzling Nagpur sebut

    HoABL soars high with dazzling Nagpur sebut

    MUMBAI: The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL), India’s largest branded plotted land developer, announced its grand arrival in Nagpur with a show-stopping aerial display over the city’s iconic Futala Lake.

    On 4 November 2025, three paramotor pilots painted the skies with massive banners, heralding HoABL’s foray into the Orange City and teasing its upcoming project, Nagpur Marina. Inspired by waterfront living, the development promises over 40 world-class amenities designed to bring together leisure, wellness, and celebration, a first-of-its-kind lifestyle for Nagpur.

    “Nagpur is fast becoming a powerhouse in Maharashtra’s growth story,” said HoABL CEO Samujjwal Ghosh. “Our entry here marks not just a new project, but a new chapter in how land is experienced, as a legacy built on trust, transparency and enduring value.”

    With its central location and growing connectivity through the Samruddhi Mahamarg and Smart City initiatives, Nagpur’s rise as a hub for premium living perfectly mirrors HoABL’s philosophy of creating spaces that breathe and evolve.

    Adding to the creative flair, chief marketing officer Saurabh Jain said the lake display reflected HoABL’s approach to “turn land into lifestyle” through immersive brand experiences.

    As the skies over Futala shimmered with banners and buzz, HoABL’s message was crystal clear, Nagpur’s real estate story just took flight.

  • Jaro hits the learning road to Tier-II India

    Jaro hits the learning road to Tier-II India

    MUMBAI: Jaro Education is taking knowledge on tour, and it’s making all the right stops. The leading executive and higher education player is expanding into Tier-II cities, opening new counselling centres in Kolkata, Nagpur, Jaipur and Indore to unlock untapped potential beyond metros.

    The move is part of Jaro’s larger mission to democratise access to quality education and career guidance, shaping India’s vision of a Vikshit Bharat, a developed and skilled nation where opportunity travels as fast as ambition.

    “Over the years, we’ve seen extraordinary potential emerging from Tier-II cities. These regions are not just expanding markets; they represent the next wave of India’s talent,” said Jaro Education CEO Ranjita Raman “Our presence here will help guide learners towards programs that truly transform careers.”

    Echoing this, Jaro Education founder and managing director Sanjay Salunkhe added, “Talent exists everywhere, opportunity must too. Strengthening our network in these cities means investing in India’s future workforce.”

    With established centres already in Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Noida, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kochi, Jaro has seen firsthand the drive of learners nationwide. The new hubs will offer personalised mentorship and industry-aligned career advice, turning aspiration into action.

    As Tier-II cities rise as hotspots of ambition and entrepreneurship, Jaro’s local approach bridges the gap between talent and opportunity, ensuring India’s growth story has no postcode barrier.

    Founded in 2009, Jaro Education partners with top global and Indian institutions including MIT IDSS, Wharton Interactive, Rotman, IIMs and IITs, offering 230 plus programs that have already empowered over 350,000 learners.

    With this expansion, Jaro Education isn’t just growing its footprint, it’s helping India learn its way to a brighter, Vikshit tomorrow.

     

  • Ad on the go gets a green glow as ETO and Cashurdrive team up

    Ad on the go gets a green glow as ETO and Cashurdrive team up

     MUMBAI: Billboards are so last decade now, your brand can ride shotgun on an e-rickshaw. ETO Motors, India’s largest electric vehicle fleet operator, has teamed up with transit advertising pioneer Cashurdrive to supercharge the future of green marketing. The duo has rolled out one of India’s largest sustainable advertising initiatives turning over 2,000 electric vehicles into roving, carbon-free ad canvases.

    This eye-catching, eco-conscious fleet includes 3-wheelers, 500-plus 4-wheelers and electric buses that will whizz through Hyderabad, Delhi, Kevadia, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Nagpur, and Bengaluru blending brand storytelling with street-smart climate action.

    “At ETO Motors, sustainability isn’t a buzzword, it’s a commitment,” said ETO Motors chief marketing officer Rajeev YSR. “We’re offering brands more than visibility, we’re offering visibility with values.”

    The move follows the success of a high-voltage pilot campaign at the Kumbh Mela, where an FMCG brand used ETO’s fleet to drive both awareness and impact. Building on that momentum, this initiative isn’t just innovative, it’s accountable.

    Clients can now access a real-time dashboard to monitor impressions, track kilometres driven, and even measure the environmental benefits of their campaigns. Advertising, meet analytics with a conscience.

    Cashurdrive, managing director Raghu Khanna calls it “a leap forward in green advertising.” He adds, “With ETO’s EVs and our expertise, brands get to go bold and green in the same breath.”

    As net-zero ambitions grow louder, this collaboration offers a timely marketing makeover: brand visibility that doesn’t cost the Earth literally. With mobility, measurability, and mission in sync, it’s advertising that hits the road running and leaves only impact, not emissions.

  • BharatPe plans to scale up to 65 cities by December 2020

    BharatPe plans to scale up to 65 cities by December 2020

    NEW DELHI: Merchant payment app BharatPe has announced aggressive expansion plans across tier-1, 2 and 3 cities in India, under which it aims to scale up its presence in 65 locations across the country. The company is currently present in 35+ cities, and has set its sights on adding another 30 cities to its list by December 2020. 

    The cities include tier-1 cities like Kolkata and Chennai, emerging cities like Coimbatore, Kochi, Dehradun, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Patna as well as tourist hubs like Amritsar, Varanasi, Agra, Allahabad, amongst others. The company aims to add another three million merchants to its existing list of over 5 million merchants by the end of FY21. 

    The announcement is in line with the company’s commitment to become the preferred financial services partner for over 60 million SMEs in India. BharatPe will be rolling out its one-of-a-kind interoperable UPI QR with zero transaction fees, and it’s recently launched zero rental, zero fees card acceptance machine (BharatSwipe) in the new cities. Additionally, the app would be extending attractive collateral-free loans of upto Rs 7 lakh at competitive interest rates to merchants, with the objective of helping them grow their business. BharatPe will offer its hybrid repayment model with a combination of daily QR/POS collection and weekly payments made directly from the bank account to the merchants availing loans. 

    BharatPe group president Suhail Sameer said, “The pandemic has fuelled exponential growth of the digital payments industry in the country as a large number of customers are opting for cashless payments. We have seen our business grow manifold over the last few months. Our payments vertical has recorded consistent double digit growth on a month-on-month basis. Also, our lending vertical has scaled very well and we are on track to disburse loans of Rs 1000 crores by the end of the year.” 

    Added Sameer “We are committed to create a well-rounded financial ecosystem for SMEs with our variety of products including payments, loans, gold and insurance. This decision to double our footprint in the country is in line with this. We have handpicked cities that are either business hubs or emerging commercial centres, for this phase of expansion. We look forward to enabling millions of more businesses in the new cities we are venturing in.” 

    BharatPe will be rolling out its range of financial services for merchants, across all the new cities. These include Amritsar, Kota, Guntur, Kakinada, Rajmundri, Jodhpur, Coimbatore, Madurai, Nagpur, Kochi, Trichy, Raipur, Trivandrum, Bilaspur, Durg Bhilai, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Chennai, Agra, Allahabad, Aurangabad, Dehradun, Patiala, Rohtak, Silchar, Agartala, Shillong and Varanasi.
     

  • BCCI extends India media rights submission till 3 April

    BCCI extends India media rights submission till 3 April

    MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has extended its last date for submission of bids for the media rights for international and domestic matches at home for the next five years from 27 March to 3 April.

    The BCCI media rights contract with Star India has been extended by 15 days to accommodate the Indian women team’s ODI series against England, according to a report.

    The decision was taken by BCCI because the Indian women team is supposed to take on England in a three-match ODI series, which is part of the ICC women’s ODI championship, on 6, 9 and 12April at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur. Star’s contract with the BCCI was earlier supposed to end by 31 March but now will end on 15 April 2018.

    The rights have been split across three categories – global television rights plus rest-of-world digital rights package, an Indian subcontinent digital rights package, and a global consolidated rights package.

    BCCI has set Rs 33 crore per match base price for the global TV rights and the rest of the world digital rights package, Rs 7 crore for the digital rights package for the Indian sub-continent, and Rs 40 crore for the consolidated package for global rights. This gives the bidders an option to submit separate bids for the global rights, Indian subcontinent rights or a consolidated bid for all the rights. The bid increment was fixed at Rs 50 lakh for the global TV and digital rights as well as the consolidated global rights and at Rs 12 lakh for the Indian sub-continent digital rights.

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  • Don’t mind if IPL is shifted out of Maharashtra, water is more important than cricket: CM Devendra Fadnavis

    Don’t mind if IPL is shifted out of Maharashtra, water is more important than cricket: CM Devendra Fadnavis

    MUMBAI: Controversy and IPL go hand in hand. While the cricket lovers await the kick off of the million dollar league, water crisis controversy threatens to take the tournament away from Maharashtra. Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants are the Maharashtra based franchises and a total of 20 matches is scheduled to be played in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.

    “Water is more important for us than cricket. So, even if the cricket matches are shifted out of Maharashtra, I don’t mind,” Fadnavis told reporters in Mumbai.

    Several districts of Maharashtra are facing acute water shortage and objections have been raised over the “wastage” of water to maintain cricket grounds across the state. Petitions have been filed against hosting the Indian Premier League in the state at a time when people are finding it tough to arrange water even for their daily needs.

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ comments will certainly not sound sweet for cricket lovers of the state,”

    “The last moment change can leave a big impact on the tournament, specially from sponsors point of view as it needs some time to create the creatives which in result will generate the eyeballs,” says a sports media planning expert.

     

  • Don’t mind if IPL is shifted out of Maharashtra, water is more important than cricket: CM Devendra Fadnavis

    Don’t mind if IPL is shifted out of Maharashtra, water is more important than cricket: CM Devendra Fadnavis

    MUMBAI: Controversy and IPL go hand in hand. While the cricket lovers await the kick off of the million dollar league, water crisis controversy threatens to take the tournament away from Maharashtra. Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants are the Maharashtra based franchises and a total of 20 matches is scheduled to be played in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.

    “Water is more important for us than cricket. So, even if the cricket matches are shifted out of Maharashtra, I don’t mind,” Fadnavis told reporters in Mumbai.

    Several districts of Maharashtra are facing acute water shortage and objections have been raised over the “wastage” of water to maintain cricket grounds across the state. Petitions have been filed against hosting the Indian Premier League in the state at a time when people are finding it tough to arrange water even for their daily needs.

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ comments will certainly not sound sweet for cricket lovers of the state,”

    “The last moment change can leave a big impact on the tournament, specially from sponsors point of view as it needs some time to create the creatives which in result will generate the eyeballs,” says a sports media planning expert.

     

  • Maharashtra cable ops plan statewide entertainment tax protest

    Maharashtra cable ops plan statewide entertainment tax protest

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra is in for a major rally and cable TV blackout come 16 December if the state’s operators have their way. The reason for the strike: it is their way of protesting against the Rs 45 per subscriber entertainment tax that the state levies on them.

    The rumblings of the current agitation began in the city of Nagpur. On 9 December around 600 cable operators across 11 districts of the Vidarbha region got together at Patwardhan ground, Sitabuldi raising their ire against the “harsh government tax”.  Simultaneously, the cable ops switched off their signals to their subscribers in the region.

    “Approximately, 12-15 lakh STBs were switched off between 9 am to 7 pm. Our intention was not to deprive consumers of their entertainment, but to inform them about the tax regime,” says Nagpur District Cable TV Operators’ Association president Subhash Bante. “We had earlier asked the government to inform consumers about entertainment tax, which wasn’t done, so we have taken the baton in our hand.” 

    Even this did not get a revert from the Maharashtra government; hence they intensified their agitation with at least two cable TV operators going  on a  hunger strike from 10 December onwards. “We want to meet Maharashtra revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat and express our view point,” informs Bante.

    And even if this does not get them an audience, Bante says the protest will spread throughout the state with the rally that is being planned for next week. The exact date has not been fixed “but associations from across the state will participate in the rally. We are in talks with the Maharashtra Cable Operators’ Federation and others for the same. Also, there will be state level switch off on the day,” he reveals. 

    5000 cable operators are expected to participate in it along with 50 consumer associations. Supporting the cable operators are consumer associations like Maratha Seva Sang, Sambhaji Brigade and Mulnivasi Mukti Manch among others.

    So what are the LCOs demanding? For starters, the LCOs feel that the quantum of entertainment tax is too high, as compared to other states. “Then we want a centralised system for entertainment tax. Consumers should be made aware that they need to pay Rs 45 per TV as entertainment tax. Many are not aware that they have to pay it, and those who have become aware are unwilling to make the payments,” elaborates Bante. “Finally, the backlog of entertainment tax for the past 10 months should be waived off.” 

    Bante reveals that most cable TV operators have expressed that taxes on cable TV should be a central government prerogative which should be imposed uniformly nationally, and not be left to the states. He explains: “The central government can form a committee which includes cable operators from all over India. They can decide on an entertainment tax amount which is uniform for all states and that it collects just like it does with income tax. It can later re-distribute the amount to the states.”

    However, what is troubling the cable ops the most is the backlog of entertainment tax. “No revenue was generated from April-June 2013, since we were seeding STBs.”

    Also, according to the circular issued on 7 March by the state government, the multi-system operators (MSOs) were asked to pay the entertainment tax. This was seen by the LCOs as a move to deny them the ownership of their consumers. However, since it was the LCOs who had been paying the entertainment tax since the start, the move was resisted by the LCOs who then under the leadership of MCOF and Nashik District Cable Operators Federation moved to the Bombay High Court, seeking a stay on the circular. In the interim, the Maharashtra government in November again issued a circular asking the LCOs to pay entertainment tax directly to the district collector.  

    Nagpur’s cable TV ops have been striking since 10 December

    It was during this period that the LCOs did not collect any entertainment tax from the consumer. “Now, this has led to an outstanding amount running into crores over the past 10 months,” says Bante. His estimate is that the backlog for Nagpur alone is at Rs 22 crore. “If Nagpur city alone has such a huge outstanding, one can only imagine the amount of backlog for eight districts which includes: Nagpur, Thane, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nasik, Kalyan-Dombivali, Mumbai city and Solapur,” he says.

    Though the voices of the striking LCOs have not yet been heard, Bante is hopeful. “We are currently waking up the consumer. I am sure, the state government will surely lend its ear to us,” he opines.   

    “The winter session is on right now. Though the operators are on strike, no one seems to be bothered about them. I will be presenting their issues to the assembly session next week regarding the same,” Cable Operators Distributors Association president Anil Parab told indiantelevision.com when we contacted. Parab, a Sena activist, has in the past made unsuccessful attempts to get Maharashtra’s revenue minister to lower the amount levied as entertainment tax. 

    The key question, however is will the Nagpur cable ops, along with consumer organisations, and the MCOF be successful? Watch this space!  

  • PVR consolidated Q2 net up 13% to Rs 161.4 mn

    PVR consolidated Q2 net up 13% to Rs 161.4 mn

    MUMBAI: PVR‘s consolidated net profit rose 12.86 per cent to Rs 161.4 million for the quarter ended 30 September from Rs 143 million a year ago.

    The film exhibition and distribution firm‘s net income from operations increased 36.5 per cent to Rs 1.89 billion in the second quarter from Rs 1.39 billion a year ago. PVR‘s movie exhibition business contributed Rs 1.76 billion to net income, while movie production and distribution contributed Rs 72.1 million.

    Consolidated Ebitda for the second quarter was Rs 375.2 million, up 15 per cent from Rs 326.6 million a year ago.

    PVR chairman and MD Ajay Bijli said, “We are extremely pleased that 2012 is shaping up as a great year at the box office. The revenues and profitability in the quarter and half year has shown a robust growth over the same period last year.”

    During the first half of the year the company added six new multiplexes with 31 screens at Jalandhar, Ujjain, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Bilaspur and Pune. The company now operates 44 properties with 197 screens in 27 cities across the country.

    The company has significant expansion plans and intends to add another 51 screens in the remainder of the fiscal.

    “We have a significant screen rollout this year and are opening our flagship cinemas in Kurla, Mumbai (8 screens), Orion Mall, Bangalore (11 screens), Mysore (4 screens) which are all expected to open in the next few days. We are also launching our 1st IMAX screen in Bangalore with “Skyfall” on 1st Nov, 2012,” he added.

  • PVR launches nine-screen multiplex in Pune

    PVR launches nine-screen multiplex in Pune

    MUMBAI: PVR Ltd has launched a nine screen multiplex at Viman Nagar, near Baker Company, Pune.

    The multiplex, spread across an area of 79,345 sq. ft. has a capacity of 2081 seats, promises to provide an exceptional digital movie experience to cinegoers of the city at a pricing ranging from Rs 70 to Rs 300.

    With the launch of the multiplex in Pune, PVR today stands at 197 screens in 44 cinemas in 13 states and 27 cities across India.

    The multiplex chain now has 48 screens and nine multiplexes in six key cities of Maharashtra including four in Mumbai, one in Latur, one in Aurangabad, one in Nagpur and Nanded respectively.