It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India.

If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…

Google has confirmed yesterday’s reports - YouTube has inked rights from the big-money Indian Premier League’s (IPL) licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures to live-stream all 60 matches of the 45-day tournament, starting March 12. It’s YouTube’s first deal to live-stream a big global sport - no mere domestic competition, IPL…

Is the super-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition about to go global in a deal with YouTube? Several reports from Indian media say Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the Bord of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will on Wednesday announce a live streaming deal. YouTube had already hosted match…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to host Bengali movies on YouTube as well as post literary works of renowned novelists on the web. As per the release, West Bengal IT Minister Debesh Das is quoted as stating Google has evinced an interest to include Bengali classical literature and movies in…

Sure enough, the days without incident were indeed numbered. T-series has issued a notice to Guruji.com amongst other websites including MSN, MySpace and Bharatstudent. It has accused them of allowing users to upload content on their platforms. The report features quotes from T-Series, VP (digital content), Neeraj Kalyan, stating in…

Eros International, the film production and distribution giant, posted 47% rise from 2007 in pre-tax profits $45.5 million. Its sales were 70% higher in the last financial year to 113 million dollars. 5 out of the top 10 box office successes were Eros releases with Om Shanti Om becoming the…

I just checked, and Youtube India has gone live today, with a host of Indian content partners - NDTV, UTVi, Bindass, Zoom and Indiaglitz are broadcast partners, content from Rajshri Media, and music related content from Music Today (part of the India Today group) and PhatPhish Records. There’s sports related…

ContentSutra has learned from various sources that YouTube is planning to launch an India site on the 7th of May. Apparently, as with all things Google (NSDQ: GOOG), this has been a closely guarded secret, and we have contacted Google for an official comment. We’re trying to get more details,…

—- It seems like we are not as UGC lazy as it may seem. Last year we had covered Linardos, Head of Mosh, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Internet and mobile social networking site, claiming India has been their number one market in terms of usability. Our sister site, Moconews, has an…

While writing the previous story on Saavn providing content to Verizon (NYSE: VZ), I did a search on YouTube for the UTV channel, looking for promos of the movie Race. I chanced upon this series of videos of the entire movie up on YouTube (see the clips uploaded by the…

ContentSutra had learned that Harbinder Narula, formerly the Head of Content for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India has put in his papers, and will be joining Aryty, to set up their India and Middle East operations. We contacted Narula, and he has confirmed the move: he will be joining as VP…

The Delhi High Court has given YouTube and T-Series time to settle their copyright infringement dispute, and the case will be heard next in July. Representing YouTube and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), legal bigwig Arun Jaitley said that YouTube doesn’t upload the content on the site - people from all over…

[by Cerius Shah] As a result of the Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority’s (PTA) ban on Youtube there was a worldwide outage of the video sharing behemoth for around 2 hours. Pakistan Telecom apparently gave the order to the 70 ISP’s operating in the country. Multiple reports blame it on a mistake…

The National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) has uploaded video lectures from professors from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) on YouTube, reports HT. Plans for this had been reported in November last year. Currently there are 18 segments with as many as 655 videos - on VLSI design,…

Reader Ravi Venkatraman directs us in the comments to this post, to a notification (Pdf) from India’s official domain registry, which states that YouTube acquired the domain names http://www.youtube.co.nz, http://www.youtube.co.in and http://www.youtube.in for a sum of NZ$8000 (around Rs 2,44,000 or 6100 USD) from Rohit Kohli from New Zealand.

You’re reading this here first: Super Cassettes Industries Limited, better known as T-Series, has obtained an interim restraint order against YouTube.com LLC and its parent company Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from the High Court of Delhi; the order restrains YouTube and Google from disseminating or displaying on their websites, or infringing…

I’m not sure of what to make of this story in the Hindustan Times, which quotes Shashi Seth, Head of Monetization at YouTube as saying that the company is planning to launch YouTube India - YouTube.in - between Jan and March 2008. The site will host Indian content - movie…

The Ministry of Tourism has tied up with YouTube to host 18 promotional films, reports DNA. The Incredible India channel is hosted here. Strangely enough, the “India” account was created on “December 15, 2005”, though the videos have only been added over the last week. So far, the channel has…