Competition Commission of India has asked companies to explain within 30 days why probe should not be ordered. Antitrust experts had warned the merger could face intense scrutiny.
Star India was to license TV broadcasting rights for ICC events to Zee for 4 years, starting this year. Zee, however, quit $1.4 bn deal after missing its first $200 mn payment.
The media unit of Reliance, controlled by Mukesh Ambani, and its affiliates are expected to own at least 61% of the merged entity, with Disney holding the rest, the report said.
Disney also announced it would launch ad-supported streaming in Europe, Canada and provide US subscribers with a new, ad-free package in coming months.
Disney & Florida Governor have been locked in battle, when its then-CEO, Bob Chapek, criticized the legislation that would limit discussion of gender identity, sexuality in schools.
Murdoch and Shankar previously worked together at Star India, which became the country’s largest media company before Walt Disney’s takeover of a swath of 21st Century Fox’s assets.
This 750-acre property is styled like a frontier campground and includes stand-alone cabins that don’t share ventilation systems to help contain Covid cases.
The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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