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NDTV India: Bouncing back to profitability
MUMBAI: News broadcaster New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV)continues on the path to recovery. Its fourth quarter results for 2013 (up to 31 March) surprised many. The company‘s revenues are up and it appears to have got some amount of control on its bottomline which was getting battered a while ago.
Consolidated revenues at Rs 186.56 crore as compared to Rs 137.96 crore in the corresponding previous quarter are clearly looking good – a jump of 43 per cent. On a consolidated level its operating profit has shot up to Rs 42 crore for the quarter ended 31 March 2013 Rs 8.35 crore in the corresponding quarter the year before. Net profit was at Rs 27.81 crore as against a loss of Rs 41.33 crore.
The consolidated expenses were up 13.16 per cent in the last quarter to Rs 160.90 crore as compared to Rs 142.19 crore in the previous corresponding period. Its expenses were at Rs 120.71 crore in the immediate preceding quarter to 31 December 2012. Contributing to the increase in expenses was a surge in production costs (Rs 40.12 crore in Q4FY2013 vs Rs 25.43 crore in Q3 FY2013 vs 29.90 in Q4FY 2012), employee costs (Rs 41.37 crore in Q4FY2013 vs Rs 38.35 crore in Q3 FY2013 vs Rs 37.20 crore in Q4FY 2012) and marketing distribution and promotional expenses (Rs 42.63 crore in Q4FY2013 vs Rs 22.73 crore in Q3 FY2013 vs Rs 35.65 crore in Q4FY 2012).
Says NDTV Group CEO & executive director Vikram Chandra said, “The main reason for the increase in production costs and marketing costs is that we held some really big events like Support your School and Toyota University Cricket Championship. Correspondingly if you see, our revenues for the last quarter have also shot up and the events are one of the main reasons.”
On a consolidated basis the group reported revenues of Rs 526.81 crore in the year ended 31 March 2013 as against Rs 483.37 crore in the previous financial year. The NDTV group reported a net profit of Rs 1.91 crore as against a loss of Rs 87.38 crore in the previous year.
The company‘s share hit an intra-day high of Rs 77.30 before settling down to Rs 75.15 from its opening of Rs 72.60.
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Eight-year-old coder steals the show at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Ranvir Sachdeva meets Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, links ancient philosophy to modern AI
DELHI: Amid a sea of global tech chiefs and policy heavyweights, the loudest buzz at Bharat Mandapam this week came from a boy barely tall enough to see over the lectern.
Ranvir Sachdeva, eight, became the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, elbowing his way into a line-up dominated by chief executives, founders and ministers. Calm, bespectacled and fiercely articulate, he declared himself a technologist — and spoke like one.
“I’m here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I’m talking about how I’m linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I’m also covering the different approaches which the rest of the nations are building AI,” he told news agency ANI.
He added: “I’m talking about how India is building AI with. I’m sharing my own use case of an Indian AI model just released and how I’m contributing to India’s GDP and driving AI literacy with it.”
The summit, held from February 16 to 21 in New Delhi, has drawn global names. Ranvir met Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on the sidelines, sharing photographs of the encounters. He has previously met Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
In 2024, he met António Guterres, United Nations secretary-general.
His most high-profile brush with corporate royalty came earlier. In 2023, during the opening of Apple’s Delhi store, Ranvir demonstrated his Swift coding skills to Apple chief executive Tim Cook in a one-on-one session. Cook later posted: “What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket!”
What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket! pic.twitter.com/5Jmi79ixzl— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 20, 2023
Ranvir replied publicly: “Thank you so much, @tim_cook! It was great meeting you today and showcasing my Apple Swift coding skills! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023!”
Thank you so much, Tim! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023 ! 🙂 https://t.co/BVthznLjD8— Ranvir Singh Sachdeva (@ranvirsachdeva) April 20, 2023
The invitation followed. Cook extended a personal call for Ranvir to attend the Worldwide Developers Conference 2023 at Apple Park in Cupertino.
This is not Ranvir’s first turn on the global stage. In 2025, aged seven, he addressed the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva as its youngest keynote speaker. He spoke for 20 minutes on “Agents of Change: A 7-Year-Old’s Lens on Generation AI for Good”, in front of more than 10,000 attendees from over 180 countries and 53 UN partner organisations.
He shared the broader stage with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and Turing Award winner, alongside senior figures from Amazon, Meta and Salesforce. According to a LinkedIn post by the Ardee School, Ranvir argued that “Generation AI are the true changemakers”, highlighting healthcare breakthroughs from bionic solutions and exoskeletons to assistive devices for ALS patients. He called for the democratisation of such tools to bridge the digital divide.
The precocity runs deep. At six, he became the world’s youngest TEDx speaker, speaking on technology and innovation. At five, he won a gold medal as a “Super Presenter” in the 2022 Global Reading Challenge. Media reports say that in 2021 he built a prototype rocket aimed at supporting NASA’s Mars exploration, earning recognition from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2023, he became the youngest recipient of a robotics and AI certification from IIT Delhi after a summer workshop at the I-HUB Foundation for Robotics.
He began coding at three.
At an event otherwise obsessed with trillion-dollar valuations, sovereign AI stacks and regulatory guardrails, it was a small voice that cut through. Linking Sanskrit thought to silicon chips, GDP to generative models, Ranvir Sachdeva did more than make history. He made the grown-ups listen.
#WATCH | Delhi: At #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Ranvir Sachdeva, Child Prodigy, Technologist, Global Author says, "I'm here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I'm talking about how I'm linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I'm… pic.twitter.com/e3OGgtxyDK— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2026
