Ram Nath Kovind defeats UPA nominee Meira Kumar, calls his election 'democracy's greatness'

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Ram Nath Kovind bagged 65.65% votes over his rival the UPA's Meira Kumar to become the 14th President of India.

Returning office Anoop Mishra announced Kovind got the votes of 522 MPs (3,69,576 vote value), while Kumar managed 225 votes (1,59,300 vote value) of Parliament members.
He succeeds Pranab Mukherjee whose Presidential term will end on July 24.

Kovind becomes the second Dalit to occupy the office after K R Narayanan, who was at the Rashtrapati Bhavan from 1997 to 2002. He will take oath as President on July 25.

An emotional Kovind said: "I represent the many Kovinds who work hard for their livelihood."
He added: “I thank all who supported me from across the country. I feel very emotional.”
Kovind thanked and congratulated Meira Kumar. “It is an emotional moment for me today.

Rashtrapati pad par mera chayan Bhartiya loktantra ki mahaanta ka prateek hai (My election is a symbol of democracy’s greatness).”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi too congratulated Ram Nath Kovind, saying he was gladdened by the extensive support the NDA nominee got. Modi also congratulated Opposition nominee Meira Kumar for her campaign, stating the contest was in the spirit of democratic ethos and values which "we are all proud of".

The presidential poll on Monday saw nearly 99 per cent voting, the highest ever, according to returning officer. 32 polling stations including the one in Parliament House, were set up in various states. A total of 4,895 voters -- 4,120 MLAs and 776 elected MPs -- were eligible to vote.

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Malabar 2017: India, US, Japan Ready For Naval Drills In Indian Ocean, China Concerned

As the United States, India, and Japan gear up for the annual Malabar series of naval drills in the Indian Ocean on Monday, China said that it hopes the naval exercises aren't aimed at "a third nation".

The 10-day drills in the Bay of Bengal include warships from Japan, the US and India, which has deployed its largest-ever fleet. The warships began arriving on Friday.

"We hope that this kind of relationship and cooperation will not be directed against third country and that it will be conducive to the regional peace and security," said a spokesperson for the Chinese government at a time when the Indian and Chinese armies are locked in a stand-off at the Sikkim border.

The Malabar exercises started out as India-US drills in 1992 but have included Japan every year from 2014. Australia was refused permission to join this year because of fears of antagonising China. The exercises are held in the Indian Ocean as well as close to the disputed South China Sea, which Beijing claims as its own.

Dozens of warships, submarines and aircraft will take part in the drills, which are aimed at getting the three powerful navies used to working together including for possible joint patrols across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

India has been concerned about at least six submarine deployments by China in the Indian Ocean since 2013 and with Chinese submarines docking in Sri Lanka and its long-time ally Pakistan to signal Beijing's increasing influence in India's immediate neighborhood.

India and China have both refused to back out of a confrontation that began last month. China says Indian soldiers crossed Sikkim into its territory of Donglang (Doko La for India) and stopped the construction of a road. India and Bhutan say the land where the road is being built belongs to Bhutan. The last few weeks have seen Beijing issue near daily warnings including of "serious consequences" if India does not withdraw its soldiers.

The disputed area lies in a part referred to as the "tri-junction" of India, Tibet and Bhutan. India has said the new road is a serious security concern because it lies near the so-called Chicken's Neck, a thin strip of land that connects India to its seven northeastern states.

Today, the tension was somewhat defused in Germany where Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines the G-20 summit. Despite China yesterday stating aggressively that there would be no bilateral meeting -India retaliated that it hadn't asked for one - the leaders talked informally at a session of BRICS which groups the economies of Brazil, Russia,  India, China and South Africa.

YuppTV teams up with Dharma Productions to offer the best of movie catalogue on YuppFlix

YuppTV users can now watch Baahubali : The Beginning (Hindi), Kapoor & Sons, Ok Jaanu & other blockbusters from Dharma Productions

New Delhi, June 20, 2017: YuppTV, world’s leading OTT brand for South-Asian content has entered into an alliance with Dharma Productions, one of the most successful productions houses in India today. As part of the association, YuppTV users across the globe, excluding India, can now watch various blockbusters by Dharma Productions, including Kapoor & Sons, Ok Jaanu, Brothers, Baahubali: The Beginning (Hindi), Humpty Dharma ki Dulhania and more. The movies will be available on YuppFlix, an on-demand movie streaming platform by YuppTV.

Commenting on the association, Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said, “We are happy to announce our partnership with the Dharma Production, one of the most renowned hubs for cinematic brilliance. The association is set to present our global users with an exciting collection of blockbusters by Dharma, including Baahubali: The Beginning (Hindi), Kapoor & Sons and more. We are affirmative that our users across the Globe will enjoy the latest and popular cinema on YuppFlix .”
YuppTV has been actively refreshing its movie catalogue. YuppFlix, the on-demand movie streaming platform by YuppTV, offers its users latest and exciting collection of movies that are rigorously updated. Users can access the latest movies by Dharma Productions on YuppFlix.

About YuppTV
YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment, and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and recently launched YuppTV Originals to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. Originals will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 13 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yuppflix.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yuppflix.com/top-story/yupptv-teams-dharma-productions-offer-best-movie-catalogue-yuppflix/

If you're an Indian expat, YuppTV's newly launched 'Mini Theatre' will make you happy

 The movie shall be made available on a pay-per-view basis with a 6-hour viewing window

New Delhi, May 10, 2017: The global OTT leader in the South-Asian content, YuppTV, announced the launch of its new platform, Mini Theatre. YuppTV makes new movies available on the Mini Theatre platform on the first day or the following weekend of theatrical release, even in geographies where the movie is not available outside of India. The movies shall be made available on YuppTV platform only on Samsung, Apple, Roku, LG, Sony TV Devices/interfaces.

Commenting on the latest development, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “At YuppTV, we have a great opportunity of bringing best quality South-Asian content to our users across the Globe. Launching Mini Theatre is another step in the same direction. The release of various Indian movies is often limited only to very few selected geographies across the world and sometimes limited only to the Indian subcontinent. Hence, users end up missing out on these high-quality and entertaining movies missing a worldwide release. Following the launch of Mini Theatre, our users outside of India will have the opportunity to access new Indian movie releases, just like they used to, back at home in India. Furthermore, filmmakers may now showcase their movies to a global audience, notwithstanding exorbitant investment for an overseas release. Since the launch is slated to benefit every stakeholder in the ecosystem, we look forward to receiving a huge response from both, expat audiences and filmmakers.”

YuppTV is further exercising complete piracy control of the movies showcased in the Mini Theatre. Users need to accept the piracy agreement conditions before they start watching the movie. The movie shall be made available on a pay-per-view basis with a 6-hour viewing window. Furthermore, the movies are secured with DRM, Invisible user based/Forensic watermarking and encryption and users are authenticated by mobile and location verification. Under the Invisible or Forensic Watermarking, each user who will get the stream to watch the movie will have unique identification in the invisible mode. It is an imperceptible & non-removable unique identifier that is embedded in the video, enabling YuppTV to trace any content breach. The pirate, if in case found guilty of breaching the privacy guidelines, will be charged with a heavy penalty.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and recently launched YuppTV Originals to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. Originals will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 13 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/05/yupptv-launches-mini-theatre-to-premier-new-movies-for-indian-expats.html

YuppTV makes Live Streaming effortless with the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Live Streaming Platform

Las Vegas, April 24, 2017: One of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, YuppTV, announced the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Freedocast Live Streaming Platform. Providing end-to-end solutions for users to go LIVE instantly, anywhere anytime, the Pro Device & Live-Streaming platform also enables users to broadcast live videos on multiple platforms such as, Facebook and YouTube Live, Twitter/Periscope and others.

The latest offering, Freedocast Pro Device broadcasts live videos in HD Quality. The Device can be connected to any video source including camera and switcher to go live and can be easily controlled via Android/iOS App. The App can be used to preview, control & monitor live broadcasts. The Device also has a rechargeable battery supporting over 2 hours of continuous live streaming and offers HDMI IN/OUT & MIC-in for AV source connectivity.

To best suit the needs of broadcasters, Freedocast Live Streaming Platform is designed as a one-stop-solution providing cloud transcoding & Adaptive Bitrate streaming for best viewing experience in low bandwidths, real-time analytics, viewer interactivity with chat moderation, Ad-integration, pay -per-view, geo-blocking & password protection for control of events. Any external encoder can be used to go live through Freedocast Platform and simultaneously stream to multiple platforms

Commenting on the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “The rapid growth of Live broadcasting could change the way users consume content. In this age of information overload, people expect to see events unfold in real-time. Globally renowned for our technical superiority in the field of internet TV and OTT, we at YuppTV are now extending the same expertise in live-streaming. With the launch of Freedocast Pro Device & Freedocast Live Streaming Platform, we further intent to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and robust LIVE broadcasting solutions. We shall continue to innovate and provide the best services to constantly address the needs of our users.”

Freedocast offers tailor-made solutions for broadcasters to aggregate, edit and broadcast events in-real time to their studios and multiple platforms. This solution is aimed to improve Broadcasters efficiency and productivity to stay ahead of competition. Celebrities and influencers can maximize the value of their social media programs by hosting special interactive sessions through Freedocast. Broadcasting sporting events, webinars, etc can be streamed to multiple platforms to increase the audience size and bring in new revenue streams for the broadcasters.

YuppTV will demonstrate its new offering Freedocast Pro and Freedocast Platform at NAB show 2017 at YuppTV booth SU11402CM, Las Vegas Convention Centre.

About Freedocast

Freedocast is a product by YuppTV, pioneer and one of the world’s largest online over-the-top (OTT) entertainment solutions provider. Freedocast is a live broadcasting solution which enables the user to live stream instantly anywhere anytime. Broadcast simultaneously to multiple platforms like fb Live, YouTube Live, etc. Freedocast provides Adaptive Bitrate Streaming which enables streaming even in low bandwidth.

For more information: http://www.freedocast.com

 

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/04/freedocast-pro-device-launched-by-yupptv.html 

Endukila Episode 1: Telugu Web Series

Like promised the First episode of Endukila Web Series released on 19^th April, so here it is:

YuppTV Originals‘s first Web Series Endukila is about a boy whose bad luck follows him from the birth. Everyone in his family and friends aware of his luck factor and keeps taunting him.

Dhanush Rishi (DhaRi) is born to Subramanyam  a software engineer and Padma a house wife. DhaRi faces misfortunes throughout the start from his life and bad luck becomes synonymous with his name.

Watch the first episode of Endukila and know how bad luck become the second name of the innocent idiot Dhari.

Follow all the episodes at http://www.yupptv.com/tvshows/Endukila or http://www.yupptv.in/#!/shows/yupptv-originals/endukila 

YuppTV App Links: https://goo.gl/DFcrJR https://goo.gl/jhi73p

Article source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/04/endukila-episode-1.html

Gujrat Welcomes Modi - A Huge Road Show

PM Narendra Modi landed to a rousing reception in Surat, Gujarat. People from all walks of life joined the public reception to catch a glimpse of the PM. Tremendous enthusiasm gripped people as the Prime Minister's cavalcade made its way ahead. 

 

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