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Dish TV ties up with 5 intl channels
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Dish TV, the country’s first KU-band direct-to-home television service has signed exclusive deals with five international channels.
The deals, signed at at MIP TV in Cannes recently, include those with Eurosport News, Fashion TV, Trace by MCM, Malibu TV and Platinum TV Network.
Eurosports news channel is the world’s only sports news specific channel. Trace by MCM is another international English music channel and depends heavily on European music. Malibu TV is a nature sports channel and viewers will have access to 24 hours of action on para-sailing, mountaineering and surfing. Apart from FTV, which is available on cable networks in India and is hugely popular despite criticism from the moral brigade here, another channel that focuses on lifestyle will be Platinum TV, which will cover various genres of programming like health shows, celebrity lifestyle, travel, good food and living, among others.
Dish TV is a company promoted by Essel Group’s ASC Enterprises Limited. At present, the platform managers claim to have over 100,000 subscribers with a bouquet of 50 channels. Dish TV is in the process of increasing its capacity to 108 channels by May 2004.
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India’s AI Future Gets a Neural Kick-Off in Delhi
NDTV IND.AI Summit on 18 Feb 2026 to debate governance, ethics, and India’s big-tech ambitions.
MUMBAI: Artificial intelligence is about to get a very Delhi welcome smart, spirited, and ready to out-think the room. On 18 February 2026, New Delhi plays host to the inaugural NDTV IND.AI Summit, a high-stakes pow-wow that promises to put India’s AI ambitions under the brightest spotlight yet. Billed as a deep dive into how artificial intelligence is already rewiring the nation’s economy, policy playbook, and strategic dreams, the one-day event is curated by NDTV in partnership with the Startup Policy Forum. At its core lies a single, sharp question: how do you unleash AI’s transformative power while keeping trust, equity, and sanity intact?
The guest list reads like a who’s-who of global AI heavyweights. Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak headlines a special session on AI in governance, sharing hard-won lessons on how the technology is reshaping statecraft and decision-making. Joining the fray are OpenAI’s Chris Lehane, UC Berkeley’s AI safety pioneer Stuart Russell, and Google’s James Manyika, voices that will anchor India firmly in the international conversation on accountability, risk, and cross-border cooperation.
Beyond the policy wonks, the Summit rolls up its sleeves for real-world impact. General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja and other top-tier investors will unpack how AI is redrawing the rules of capital, innovation, and long-term value creation. Separate tracks will tackle AI’s footprint in workplaces, large-scale adoption, productivity shifts, evolving job roles, and organisational culture. India’s digital public infrastructure, often hailed as a global blueprint for inclusive tech gets its own spotlight, alongside a dedicated segment on AI sovereignty: what does true national control look like in a borderless tech universe?
NDTV CEO and editor-in-chief Rahul Kanwal framed the event’s bigger picture, “The IND.AI Summit is about the kind of future we are choosing to build. India has the scale, the talent, and the moral imagination to shape how AI serves society and this Summit is our way of bringing the most credible voices together to define that direction.”
In a world where AI chatter can feel abstract, the New Delhi gathering aims to ground the debate in India’s own story, one that ties cutting-edge innovation to public purpose, domestic priorities to global influence, and raw ambition to responsible stewardship. Whether you’re an algorithm enthusiast or just mildly curious about tomorrow’s headlines, this Summit is India signalling it’s not just catching the AI wave, it intends to help steer it.
