FB’s Free Basics’ Gate locking unacceptable: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Speaking at the Global Conference on Cyberspace Security, the IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that Gate Locking by Facebook’s Free Basics cannot be approved in the country. He explained that the idea behind Free Basics was that everything will be free, namely eduction, health, entertainment and others, if one enters the Net through one gate i.e. Facebook.

DD extends deadline to submit bids for agency to monitor ‘must carry’ channels

This is the second time that DD has stretched the deadline for bid submission for appointing an agency to monitor DD’s ‘must carry’ channels on cable TV headends and direct to home (DTH) platforms. The new last date to submit the bids is now 5 December.

Manish Dawar resigns from DEN Group

Manish Dawar, Group CFO, Den Networks, has resigned from Multi system operator. He came to DEN in February 2015. Earlier, Manish was the CFO of Vedanta Group-owned Konkala Resources. Having 17 year experience, Dawar is considered as a highly talented CFO.

Voot to start its latest original series ‘Time Out’

On 28 November, Viacom18’s OTT platform Voot will start its latest or tenth original series ‘Time Out’. Since Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are aggressively procuring and creating original series to keep the users hooked, Indian OTT platforms like ALTBalaji too are investing huge money in original series. 

Airport of Chandigarh launches its radio station; partners with Radio Indigo

In a major move, Chandigarh International Airport has partnered with International radio station Radio Indigo to start Chandigarh International Airport Radio (Chial Radio). As part of agreement, Radio Indigo will play international songs at the airport.

Irdeto & Foxtel partner for secure delivery of content

Foxtel an Australia pay-TV operator and Irdeto, which offers digital platform security, have partnered to deliver premium content in a secure way. It will minimize revenue leakage from all forms of piracy. According to company, Irdeto Cloaked CA will now securely deliver content through Foxtel’s latest fleet of set-top boxes (STBs).

24 IIS officers transferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Twenty four senior officers of the Indian Information Service (IIS) have been transferred according to an official order by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B). The list of officers transferred included M V V S Murthy, who was the director general (DG) of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) in Bengaluru; he has been transferred as the DG (South), PIB, Chennai, whereas K S Dhatwalia the current DG in PIB, New Delhi, has been made the DG (Northeast), PIB, Guwahati. There were also transfers of 22 additional director generals.