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  • Zee TV begins pan-India auditions for ‘DID Super Moms: S3’

    Zee TV begins pan-India auditions for ‘DID Super Moms: S3’

    Mumbai: After receiving an overwhelming response to the previous two seasons that introduced audiences to some truly exceptional talent and gave a chance to all the ladies for becoming a ‘Super Mom,’ Zee TV is all set to launch the third edition of its popular non-fiction property – “DID Super Moms.” Well-known Bollywood choreographer Remo D’Souza will be seen as one of the three judges on the show.

    Before the show starts, “DID Super Moms” has kickstarted a country-wide talent hunt through online and on-ground auditions. “The online auditions of ‘DID Super Moms’ have already begun and to register yourself for this audition all you need to do is WhatsApp us two dancing videos of one-and-a-half-minute duration on 9137857810 or 9137857830 with your details like name, city, and age. Alternatively, you can also give a missed call on 8291829164 to receive the registration link,” said the channel in a statement.

    In the coming few weeks, Zee TV will also conduct on-ground auditions in Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Lucknow, and Chandigarh, said the statement.

    Meanwhile, after returning to the channel for “DID L’il Masters” this year, Remo D’Souza has also joined as a judge for “DID Super Moms.” “All the Super Moms, get ready as we are coming to your city for your auditions in order to give you a chance to showcase your talent and achieve your dreams through ‘DID Super Moms,’” said D’Souza.

    “DID Super Moms” new season is all set to premiere soon on Zee TV.

  • Lyxel&Flamingo promotes six leaders as partners amid business growth plans

    Lyxel&Flamingo promotes six leaders as partners amid business growth plans

    Mumbai: Lyxel&Flamingo (L&F), a Gurugram-headquartered digital-first marketing agency on Tuesday announced major restructuring of its leadership team. The company has elevated six homegrown leaders as new partners to further strengthen the focus on scaling its business pan-India.

    The company’s partner comprises of Nishant Singh (creative director – copy), Nishit Mohan (head of technology), Shivam Singh (team lead R&D), Hitanshu Gupta (solutions architect), Upesh Verma (head of e-commerce) and Ashish Sharma (delivery head). “The six newly-minted partners have already spent more than half a decade with the company and have risen through the ranks to now lead very important and profitable businesses within the L&F fold,” said the statement. 

    “We are incredibly proud to elevate six of ‘our own’ to partners as they represent what homegrown talent can do for the growth of any company. Having come up through the ranks, they embody & exemplify the strong cultural values our organisation is exceedingly proud of,” stated L&F co-founder and CEO Dev Batra. “A few of them began their professional careers with us and have soldiered on through thick & thin to have reached this pivotal point in their careers. They have demonstrated the same perseverance and other core values integral to L&F like any other partner has and hence, this elevation only makes natural sense.”

    The four original co-founders, Dev Batra (CEO), Yesh Miranda (CCO), Shreyansh Bhandari (COO) and Priya Batra (director – people strategy and growth), shall dilute as much as 20 per cent of their equity in order to help more than 30 leaders within their company become partners over the next three years in an industry-first restructuring and organisation building process, said the company in a statement.

    “As a team we have always had the unwavering belief that L&F has what it takes to grow into a globally relevant, multinational, marketing agency from India. To strengthen our mission of ‘Building For The Future’ and further build on our vision, the natural step was to groom the next generation of leadership within a structure where they hold more equity in the company & build on the momentum of growth & new competencies,” Batra further said.

    “The company’s growth culture is an integral part of our outlook. We focus on doing things passionately and always pushing the envelope – yet giving complete independence to our people to decide their own growth and enabling this in a decentralised manner,” commented Priya Batra. “This is where the six new partners are going to bring their expertise to the table – Building For The Future in the process- for brands & for the organisations alike.”

    In the last few years, L&F has established competencies across digital, social, analytics, tech, CRM and automation. The company has business spread across Gurugram, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Vancouver, Canada and Wyoming, US. 

  • BL Agro expands retail footprints in South India

    BL Agro expands retail footprints in South India

    Mumbai: North India-based edible oil and food products company BL Agro Ltd has now expanded its horizons to South India. Rooted in Uttar Pradesh, the company has been on an aggressive market expansion mode since the beginning of this year and has since ventured into states of Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and now Karnataka. In the state, Bengaluru is the first city the company has zeroed in to set its base, given the market demand and opportunities.

    In Bengaluru, the company has tied up with two super stockists and has deployed its team to ensure ‘Nourish’ products are readily available in the retail market. The company wishes to penetrate and mark its presence across mom-n-pop stores, supermarkets, and wholesalers in the city. The products can also be purchased from the company’s website.

    BL Agro plans to market its brand ‘Nourish’ in Bengaluru through a series of ATL and BTL activities. The company had recently announced a marketing push worth Rs 150 crore to fuel the expansion plans of the company and drive aggressive growth pan-India, said the statement.

    BL Agro, managing director, Ashish Khandelwal said, “We have gained and retained the trust of consumers in Northern India, and this forms the very foundation of our expansion to the southern part of the country starting with Bengaluru. I am confident that our food products brand ‘Nourish’ that promises wholesome nutrition, will gain the same goodwill as our signature legacy mustard oil brand Bail Kolhu”.

    BL Agro, national head, Sanjeev Tripathi said, “Our foray into Karnataka market is a part of our strategy to expand our footprint in the southern part of India, very soon we will expand our reach to Goa and Hyderabad market.  As a part of Healthy India campaign, we remain committed to offering the best of the grains available across India using the best and latest of the technology through our brand Nourish and Bail Kolhu.”

  • 30 MSOs got provisional licences in Oct, taking total to 1033

    30 MSOs got provisional licences in Oct, taking total to 1033

    NEW DELHI: With 30 more multi-system operators (MSOs) getting provisional registration in October, the total has risen to 1033 with just around seven weeks to go for switching off analogue signals and completion of digital addressable system for cable television around the country.

    While the total of provisional licences as on 31 October went up from 774 to 804, the number of permanent licences (10 years) remained static at 229.

    The Information and Broadcasting Ministry today released the list of 42 MSOs – as against 29 MSOs at the end of September — licences of which had been cancelled and cases closed. In addition, there are four cases — Godfather Communication Pvt. Ltd of Amritsar, Kal Cables Pvt Ltd of Chennai, Digi Cable Network (India) Pvt Ltd of Mumbai, and Intermedia Cable Communication Pvt. Ltd of Delhi — in which high courts stayed the cancellation orders in petitions filed by these MSOs.

    The number of cancellations or cases closed has gone up by 15 since 2 June this year. Most of the other cases in the list of cancelled registrations had failed to get security clearance from the home ministry. However, there are cases of many MSOs holding provisional licences not completing certain formalities relating to shareholders and so on.

    According to the latest list up to 31 October 2016, the areas of operation of four MSOs (two each in the permanent and provisional list) have been revised or corrected after 30 September 2016. Of the new licencees, two — Enyes Network Communication Private Ltd of Tamil Nadu and Satcom Satellite Network of Mumbai – have got pan-India licences.

    The other new registrations after September 2016 include the states of, or specific districts in, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Punjab.

    With the home ministry directive about doing away with security clearances for MSOs not being communicated in writing to the MIB, the pace remains slow.

    The permanent licence issued to Kal Cable of Chennai had been cancelled on 20 August 2014, but this cancellation was set aside by Madras High Court on 5 September the same year. However, Kal Cable’s name continues to be in the cancelled list – presumably because the cases are still pending.

    In the last meeting of the DAS Task Force, it was revealed that though there were a reported 6000 MSOs in the country but only a handful of them had come forward to register.

    Also read:  MSOs finally cross 1000 as pan-India DAS deadline nears

  • 30 MSOs got provisional licences in Oct, taking total to 1033

    30 MSOs got provisional licences in Oct, taking total to 1033

    NEW DELHI: With 30 more multi-system operators (MSOs) getting provisional registration in October, the total has risen to 1033 with just around seven weeks to go for switching off analogue signals and completion of digital addressable system for cable television around the country.

    While the total of provisional licences as on 31 October went up from 774 to 804, the number of permanent licences (10 years) remained static at 229.

    The Information and Broadcasting Ministry today released the list of 42 MSOs – as against 29 MSOs at the end of September — licences of which had been cancelled and cases closed. In addition, there are four cases — Godfather Communication Pvt. Ltd of Amritsar, Kal Cables Pvt Ltd of Chennai, Digi Cable Network (India) Pvt Ltd of Mumbai, and Intermedia Cable Communication Pvt. Ltd of Delhi — in which high courts stayed the cancellation orders in petitions filed by these MSOs.

    The number of cancellations or cases closed has gone up by 15 since 2 June this year. Most of the other cases in the list of cancelled registrations had failed to get security clearance from the home ministry. However, there are cases of many MSOs holding provisional licences not completing certain formalities relating to shareholders and so on.

    According to the latest list up to 31 October 2016, the areas of operation of four MSOs (two each in the permanent and provisional list) have been revised or corrected after 30 September 2016. Of the new licencees, two — Enyes Network Communication Private Ltd of Tamil Nadu and Satcom Satellite Network of Mumbai – have got pan-India licences.

    The other new registrations after September 2016 include the states of, or specific districts in, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Punjab.

    With the home ministry directive about doing away with security clearances for MSOs not being communicated in writing to the MIB, the pace remains slow.

    The permanent licence issued to Kal Cable of Chennai had been cancelled on 20 August 2014, but this cancellation was set aside by Madras High Court on 5 September the same year. However, Kal Cable’s name continues to be in the cancelled list – presumably because the cases are still pending.

    In the last meeting of the DAS Task Force, it was revealed that though there were a reported 6000 MSOs in the country but only a handful of them had come forward to register.

    Also read:  MSOs finally cross 1000 as pan-India DAS deadline nears

  • Reliance Jio to raise Rs 3000 crore via debentures

    Reliance Jio to raise Rs 3000 crore via debentures

    MUMBAI: Even as it gears up to launch its much touted 4G service pan India, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to raise Rs 3000 crore by issuing secured redeemable non-convertible debentures on private placement basis.

     

    As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, Reliance Jio is slated to launch its 4G services across India on 28 December, which also happens to be the birth anniversary of the family’s patriarch Dhirubhai Ambani.

     

    In a regulatory filing, Reliance Jio said, “… pursuant to the approval of the board of directors and shareholders, the company proposes to issue secured redeemable non-convertible debentures aggregating up to Rs 3,000 crore on private placement basis,”

     

    It may be recalled that in May this year, Reliance Jio had taken a 12-year loan of Rs 4500 crore from Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure) for its 4G rollout. The funds were to be used to finance goods and services from Samsung Electronics and Ace Technologies Corp, which are being tapped for its infrastructure rollout. Thereafter in July, the company announced plans to raise Rs 4,500 crore through debentures.

     

    Reliance Jio is currently present across all 29 Indian states, with a direct physical presence in approximately 18,000 cities and towns, and more than one lakh villages. Ambani plans to launch 4G services with an approximate investment of Rs 100,000 crore.

  • Pan India Internet acquires IndiaOnline.com

    Pan India Internet acquires IndiaOnline.com

    NEW DELHI: Pan India Internet, an online internet company based out of Delhi (India), has recently acquired the top level domain –www.IndiaOnline.com – for an undisclosed amount.

     

    The acquisition comes as a major breakthrough for the company, which is already running India’s largest online network of 350 city-based websites by the name India Online Network, under the main portal – www.IndiaOnline.in

     

    Each city and state of India has been covered through an identical website like www.DelhiOnline.in,www.MumbaiOnline.in, www.ChennaiOnline.inetc.

     

    Each city website under the network acts as a one stop platform for the users to search for any kind of information within any city of India. Each city site further offers multiple services like – local search engine, news and weather updates, classifieds, events, city guide, discussion forums, jokes, games etc. The company has also launched the IndiaOnline.in mobile app, which can be downloaded through the Google Play Store.

     

    IndiaOnline director Rahul Jalan said, “Acquiring the domain IndiaOnline.com is a major breakthrough for us considering the importance of a dot com domain for a network like ours. The network will continue to run under the main site www.indiaonline.in and this new domain indiaonline.com will simply be used to redirect users to our main site. This domain was originally owned by a foreign based company and we are extremely proud to bring this domain back to India.”

  • Reserve price for the auction of telecom spectrum in 1800 MHz and 900 MHz bands finalised

    Reserve price for the auction of telecom spectrum in 1800 MHz and 900 MHz bands finalised

    NEW DELHI: The reserve price for 1800 MHz band has been fixed for Rs 1,765 crore per MHz Pan India, which works out to be Rs 8,825 crore for 5 MHz Pan India.

    The Union Cabinet has approved the finalisation of the reserve price for auction of spectrum in 1800 MHz band for all service areas and for 900 MHz band in Metro service areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.

    According to the recommendation of the Empowered Group of Ministers, the reserve price for 900 MHz band of Rs 360 crore, Rs 328 crore and Rs. 125 crore per MHz in Metro service areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata respectively.

    The decisions will result in further efficient utilisation of the scarce natural resource of spectrum facilitating expansion of telecom services in the country.