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Timescity launches app for Android, iOS & Blackberry10
MUMBAI: Timescity.com, a lifestyle portal of Times Internet has launched its mobile app for android, iOS and Blackberry10.
The app offers one-click, up-to-date access to favourite food / nightlife listings and reviews, movies and events in the city.
It‘s a quick, easy location-based app with instantaneous, up-to-date and relevant information about restaurants, pubs, bars, theatres, movies in addition to events like music concerts, fairs, exhibitions and festivals.
Timescity.com, Times Food and Nightlife Guide content have now been merged thereby allowing users to read reviews, lookup their addresses and phone numbers get directions and call restaurants from within the App.
Users can also view cinema listings, movie trailers and movie reviews for each selection. The app features listings and recommendations based on location, type of venue or date. Users can filter the listing based on their preference of distance, ratings and price. From pubs to foodie heavens, from curry houses to cafes, the app has all features of the website and much more, thus becoming the virtual city guide, to suit every occasion and budget.
Users can also view critic reviews in the restaurants reviews section. Critics like Rashmi Uday Singh, Marryam Reshii, Karen Anand and Suresh Hinduja add detailed critics reviews in all centers weekly.
Timescity.com & Times Food and Nightlife Guide business head Siddhaarth Jalan said: “We are happy to launch the Timescity app on Andriod, iOS & Blackberry 10 to let the users discover the best of going out in their city in an intuitive, easy-to-use format. We will be launching the app on all other platforms shortly”.
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Inshorts Group chief Deepit Purkayastha joins IAB video council for Southeast Asia and India
The co-founder and chief executive of the short-form content platform has been inducted into the IAB SEA+India Video Council, giving India a stronger voice in shaping digital video frameworks
NOIDA: India has long been the world’s most chaotic, multilingual and mobile-first digital market. Now, one of its most prominent short-video executives is getting a seat at the table where the rules are written.
Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder and chief executive of Inshorts Group, has been selected as a member of the IAB SEA+India Video Council for 2026. Run by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the council brings together senior leaders from Southeast Asia and India to shape standards, best practices and measurement frameworks for the fast-evolving video and digital advertising ecosystem.
The timing is pointed. According to the IAMAI-Kantar Internet in India Report 2025, over 588 million Indians are now consuming short-video content, with growth increasingly driven by rural and non-metro audiences. India’s active internet user base has crossed 950 million, with 57 per cent of users now coming from rural markets. Yet the frameworks that govern how video consumption is measured and monetised were largely designed for single-language, Western markets and have struggled to keep pace with the scale, diversity and complexity of India’s digital landscape.
Purkayastha is no stranger to these debates. He already serves on the AI Council at Marketing and Media Alliance India and as co-chair of the Digital Entertainment Committee at the Internet and Mobile Association of India. His induction into the IAB SEA+India Video Council extends that influence into the global video standards arena.
Inshorts Group sits squarely at the intersection of these forces. Its flagship product, Inshorts, India’s highest-rated short news app, reaches 12 million active users with 60-word news summaries. Its sister platform, Public App, reaches 80 million monthly active users across more than 700 districts and 12 languages, serving communities that most global platforms barely register.
Purkayastha said the opportunity was about building something more representative. “India today sits at the centre of the global video ecosystem, but the frameworks that define how value is created and measured have not always kept pace with the realities of our market,” he said. “Being part of the IAB SEA+India Video Council is an opportunity to contribute to a more representative and future-ready approach, one that accounts for diversity in language, context, and user intent.”
As a council member, Purkayastha will contribute to shaping regional standards across video advertising, measurement and platform governance, with a focus on frameworks that are native to India’s multilingual, mobile-first ecosystem rather than imported from global benchmarks designed elsewhere.
For years, India has been content to play by rules written for other markets. Purkayastha’s induction is a signal that it is done waiting to be consulted and ready to start writing them.
