Flowers TV now exclusively available on YuppTV, in North America

New Delhi, July 25, 2017: Global OTT leader for South-Asian content, YuppTV has entered into an exclusive partnership with Flowers TV, a 24-hour Premium Malayalam Entertainment Channel for expat community in North America. Flowers TV will also be available for viewing in geographies other than North America on a non-exclusive basis.

Commenting on the latest development, Mr Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said, “We are glad to announce the exclusive partnership with Flowers TV, a premium Malayalam Entertainment Channel for North America. Flowers TV is recognized for creating strong, entertaining and riveting Malayalam content. We are affirmative that the expat community in North America and across the globe would be happy to watch their favourite Malayalam content.”

Elucidating upon the association, Mr. Sreekandan Nair, Managing Director of Flowers TV added, “We are excited to partner with YuppTV, a globally renowned OTT brand and present our shows to its extensive user base, spanning across the globe. At Flowers TV, it has been our constant endeavor to evolve with time and provide our viewers with the best content that they are looking for, both entertainment and otherwise. The association will enable us to reach out to new users, along with giving them access to our shows to watch at their convenience. We look forward to a warm welcome and positive response from YuppTV users.”

Flowers TV offers a vivid collection of shows, serials, movies, music and other content in Malayalam. With the latest addition, YuppTV is again registered its Industry leadership in providing high-quality South Asian entertainment to global users.

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.

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Blog Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/07/flowerstv-now-exclusively-available-on-yupptv-in-north-america.html

Ram Nath Kovind Elected as 14th President of India

BJP nominee Ram Nath Kovind's win as President-elect is an indicator of the changed political map with the saffron party and its allies picking up two-thirds of the vote.

BJP managers are not unduly perturbed by Congress's claim that Meira Kumar won the most votes by an opposition candidate, saying the result only showed the inversion of political equations.

"Usually BJP would, as the opposition party, get less than a third of the vote in such a contest. It's the other  

The support Kovind received across regions and from small parties and Independents points to BJP's increased acceptability and augurs well for the party's move to build a strong pan-India coalition ahead of the 2019 election, said BJP netas.

They argued that the support will help BJP expand its footprint beyond the party's existing geographical boundaries.

Poll managers said Kovind has attracted close to around 115 votes in excess to their estimates. Other than 18 NDA

"More than 30 MPs in excess to our calculations voted for Kovind," said a senior BJP leader. The advantage was somewhat lost with BJP calculating that 13 of 21 MPs who cast invalid votes were from its camp.

Maximum number of cross voting was reported from Maharashtra where reports suggest probably 13 Congress-NCP legislators voted for the NDA nominee.NCP chief Sharad Pawar had expressed his doubts about the viability of an opposition candida ..

Of 288 legislators in Maharashtra, 287 voted. Of them, 208 legislators favoured Kovind, 77 voted for Congress nominee Meira Kumar, while two votes were declared invalid. Going by the BJP-led alliance's strength, Kovind should have got 185 votes -122 of BJP and 63 of Shiv Sena - plus votes of other alliance partners, but he got 208 votes.

Cross-voting was reported in Gujarat, home state of PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. At least eight MLAs from Congress seem to have voted for t ..

Kovind received votes of 132 MLAs in Gujarat and the UPA nominee Meira Kumar 49. Congress has 57 MLAs in the 182-member state assembly. Cross voting in Gujarat is being attributed largely to Congress rebel leader Shankarsinh Vaghela. 

 

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