Three of the five paid DTH platforms in India — Tata Sky, Airtel Digital and D2h — have announced multi TV, or multiple connection, plans under the new TV channel tariff regime implemented by TRAI this month. The new schemes, which give discounts on a...
Airtel offers 100 GB data per month on Samsung Galaxy S10
Bharti Airtel said it has opened pre-booking for Samsung Galaxy S10+ and S10 on its online store. The S10 will be available for a total cost of Rs 81,000, including a downpayment of Rs 9,099, plus 24 equal monthly installments of Rs 2,999. In comparison,...
TRAI TARIFF: TV18 cuts prices of some channels & packs
Barely three weeks into the new pricing regime, TV18 has become the second group — after Star — to tweak its pricing and bouquet structure to make them more attractive to customers. Most of the changes are on package structuring and composition, rather than on...
TRAI PLANS: Star launches cheaper Sports, English channel packs
Cable and DTH users can now watch Star India’s sports and English channels at 30% lower cost as India’s largest broadcaster has introduced smaller, more affordable channel packs in these two genres. The move is seen as a reaction to the feedback given by the...
DNA newspaper shuts Jaipur edition
DNA, the newspaper from Zee Group, has shut its Jaipur edition, days after it shut its Delhi edition. There will no DNA newspaper printed and circulated in Jaipur from tomorrow, Diligent Media Corporation, which publishes the paper, said. The decision was taken to “optimise cost...
Royal Enfield waiting period down to zero as Jawa readies to vroom
Royal Enfield, the country’s largest maker of mid-sized motorcycles, said it has cut down on the waiting period on most of its motorcycle models, and promised to keep the excitement going as it deals with new competitors like Jawa. The comments by Siddhartha Lal, CEO...
SpiceJet starts daily flights from Bhopal, Gorakhpur, Jaipur & Dharamshala
SpiceJet, the most aggressive low-cost airline in India, announced 12 new flights from March 31. The new daily flights connect towns such as Surat, Bhopal, Gorakhpur, Jaipur and Dharamshala to Mumbai and Delhi (see table below). It is also offering promotional fares starting at Rs...
TRAI SCHEME: 85% users have chosen MSO packs – GTPL
85% of the customers who have shifted to tariff packs under TRAI’s new tariff plan have gone with packages created by the cable operator, said Aniruddhasinhji Jadeja, founder and MD of GTPL Hathway, one of India’s largest cable networks. Jadeja said, as of Feb 12,...
Infosys pays Rs 34.35 lakh to SEBI over severance to Rajiv Bansal
Infosys said it has paid Rs 34.35 lakh to settle the investigation into the incident of the company paying over Rs 17 cr as severance pay to Rajiv Bansal, who resigned as its finance head in October 2015. There have been allegations, including from the...
L&T gets “mega” contract to construct an airport
Larsen & Toubro, India’s biggest construction firm, said it has secured a mega contract for design and construction of a major airport. Mega contracts are defined as those that will generate more than Rs 7,000 cr of revenue for the company. In October, Larsen &...
TRAI RULES: Republic TV biggest gainer; Hindi entertainment channels biggest losers
Free-to-air English news channels like Republic TV and Al Jazeera have got a massive boost in their reach, while paid Hindi entertainment and movie channels have seen the biggest drop in reach after the implementation of the new TRAI tariff scheme, according to data from...
MULTI TV: D2h to charge only Rs 50; Tata Sky, Airtel yet to announce plans
D2h, a DTH brand from Dish TV India, said it will give a discount of Rs 80 to all additional connections to its existing customers under its Multi TV scheme. In other words, if you already have a D2h connection, you can get a second...
Harvest TV to be renamed ‘Tiranga TV’ after TDSAT order
Harvest TV, led by journalists like Barkha Dutt and Karan Thapar, has got permission from an industry disputes settlement body to use the name ‘Tiranga TV’. The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has overruled the objection by the government of India that Tiranga referred...
Jawa opens motorcycle showrooms in several cities ahead of launch
Jawa, the retro motorcycle brand from Mahindra & Mahindra, has opened showrooms in many cities, indicating that the launch will happen within one month. Kerala, as the biggest market for such bikes, has seen the opening of several such showrooms in the last few days,...
Airtel launches 4G on ‘Band 8’ in Mumbai to boost indoor coverage
Bharti Airtel has deployed LTE on 900 MHz band, which has the ability to pass through walls and other obstacles much better than other 4G bands. With this, customers with handsets that support this frequency will see an improvement in 4G signal levels. This is...
Prepoll survey predicts sweep for Congress in Kerala as Sabarimala hurts Left
One of the biggest and first pre-election surveys held in Kerala has pointed to strong gains made by the United Democratic Alliance led by the Congress, and the National Democratic Alliance led by BJP due to the Sabarimala controversy. Even as the Left Front was...
BS-VI to hurt sales of diesel cars, boost electric vehicles – M&M
The introduction of BS-VI fuel standard a year from now is expected to make small diesel engines too expensive to be of practical use and push the market for smaller vehicles towards petrol, CNG and electric vehicles, automaker Mahindra & Mahindra said. Managing Director Pawan...
Tata Sky Case: Delhi High Court pulls up TRAI for modifying roll-out plan midway
Delhi High Court, hearing a challenge by DTH and cable companies against TRAI’s new tariff scheme, today expressed its displeasure over regulator modifying tariff roll-out process of the new tariff system without even informing the court. Chief Justice Rajendra Menon asked the regulator to file...
BS-VI switchover could bring mega deals for consumers
Consumers planning to purchase a vehicle towards the end of this year may consider postponing their purchase as automakers may offer big discounts in February and March in an attempt to flush out old stock ahead of the shift to BS-VI fuel standards. According to...
Mahindra Jawa sold out till September, launch “soon”
Mahindra Jawa, the reincarnation of an old Polish motorcycle popular in the 1960s through the 80s, has been sold out till September 2019, company officials said, promising that the bike will be launched “soon”. “We are sold out till September 2019 based on the production...