From the Editor Prosenjit Datta

Star India Chairman & CEO, Uday Shankar, is known for his out of the box strategies. Will they pay off?

Star India won the global broadcast and digital rights of IPL for Rs 16347.5 crore for the next five years, a staggering amount considering the BCCi is in the middle of an administrative crisis.

The construction period of the projects is 36 months. As per the plan, the corridors will be constructed 60 meters above the existing NH 1 and 8.

Star India's online streaming website Hotstar announced its partnership with Arnab Goswami's new venture Republic TV. This would be the first time for an online portal to stream the news channel in India.

After paying tribute to the parliamentarian and former Union minister E Ahamed, finance minister Arun Jaitley tables the Union Budget 2017 as scheduled. Catch all the live updates here.

For spectrum, the government proposes to auction as much as 2,100 MHz of airwaves for telecom operators.

As the BJP-led NDA government completes two years in office, an industry chamber described it as \"work in progress\" but said that \"a lot more is required\" to be done on the issue of tax disputes, while concerns remain on the huge bad loans incurred by the banking system.

CEOs of the top media houses appreciated PM Narendra Modi for energetic and dynamic leadership and expressed optimism about the future of India

Most of the shares were purchased by Balaji Telefilms' promoters - Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor - and Group CEO Sameer Nair.

The Jury for the International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter has chosen the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group, Aroon Purie, as the 'Editor of the Year'.

\"The deal will allow Star India to strengthen and expand the content brand online while taking the awards platform to the next level\", Star India CEO Uday Shankar said.

\"Every story needs to have a structure. Every story can become big if it is told in the right context,\" says Star Plus GM Gaurav Banerjee.

Revolutionary breakthroughs in digital, communication and the industrial Internet of things provide us with a range of tools that can be leveraged to develop digital solutions to achieve this goal.

Quick look at people who made news this past fortnight.

Star India CEO Uday Shankar says the show was never meant to be a profitable property. \"We were defying the traditional definition of entertainment content … [and] prepared to take losses,\" he says.

The fourth edition of this comprehensive work includes a fresh chapter on digital media

A Star India spokesperson claimed Mahabharat has garnered the highest TV ratings among all TV shows of the last three years. The company bet heavily on Mahabharat and is known to have spent close to Rs 20 crore on its marketing alone.

Top Mumbai executives - most of them chairmen, CEOs and managing directors - got together at the Business Today Power Breakfast, in association with the Oberoi Group, to wonder aloud whether they would rather do business in India or overseas.

The new Mahabharat, to run over 128 episodes, is being touted as the country's most expensive TV series - Star has invested Rs 100 crore on the project and spent another Rs 20 crore on marketing the show.