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  • Voice your opinion on IBN 7’s ‘Hindustan Ki Kasam’

    MUMBAI : Embarked on the principles of Khabar, Har Keemat Par, IBN 7 will air a daily “public opinion” driven show, ‘Hindustan Ki Kasam’ at 6:30 pm. The show will discuss an identified topic of national interest with programming over a week. The show would be a true piece of INCLUSIVE JOURNALISM that would involve the people’s voice and participation at every stage.

     

    ‘Hindustan ki Kasam’ a reporter led show with representation across the country, will be a campaign based series which will serve as a platform for the Indian citizens to raise their voice and share their opinion. The feedback received from viewers across the country on the show will be featured on a daily capsule from Monday to Sunday at 6:30pm on IBN 7.

     

    The topic for this week is ‘Dalit Ka Dard (Plight of the Dalit)’. In present day modern India, the state of millions of Dalits has not improved. In this weeklong campaign, IBN 7 will set ‘Chaupals’ and will have a panel of discussions comprising of Dalit leaders, social activists working for the fortification of Dalits, lawyers and many more discussing on the current status of Dalits in our country. The findings of the weeklong series will be summarized in Sunday’s episode pf Hindustan Ki Kasam at 6:30PM.

     

    Portraying a vision for the show, Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN & IBN 7 said, “Our expertise has always been in content and immediacy, as part of our broader strategy we want to focus on national issues that involves the common man. Thus we decided to produce Hindustan Ki Kasam, a show concentrating on various issues in the country, providing a fair vocalization platform for the people of India.”

     

    “We strongly feel that issues like Plight of Dalits deserve attention. We believe in INCLUSIVE JOURNALISM and our aim has always been to air shows which involve common man. This show provides a platform to voice his opinions on subjects which matter to the nation. We are confident that viewers will appreciate this initiative.” added, Ashutosh, Managing Editor, IBN 7.

  • ZEE News and ZEE Business are promotional partner for international film festival of India , Goa

    ZEE News and ZEE Business are promotional partner for international film festival of India , Goa

    MUMBAI: Zee News and Zee Business is the “Promotional Partner” for the 37th International Film Festival of India – the annual celebration of cinema –is starting from November 23rd and will go on till December 3rd 2006 in Goa, India. This time of the year will be seeing some of the best stars of various regions across the country along with the Bollywood biggies to sprinkle the glamour in Goa.

     

    As the official promotional partner, Zee News and Zee Business will be bringing some of the rare visual treats of the Film Festival exclusively for its viewers.

     

    With the festival just a day ahead, Zee News is gearing up for the “Grand opening Ceremony” which will be showcasing the diversity and a mammoth platform that Indian Cinema has created. The channel is going to cover the event extensively that will include interviews, special bytes and exclusive visuals of the 37th IFFI, Goa. From children competition to events, from national, international and regional concerts to movie screening, all the happenings will fill colours to the imagination of the viewers of the channel.

     

    Zee News will exclusively bring special encounters with the most happening stars of the glamour world. Big names like Bipasha Basu, Vikram Phadnis, Shankar Mahadevan, Boney M to name a few, will be part of the promotional interviews on the channel. With all the dignitaries and the distinguished guests, the channel will be covering the glitterati of the festival with regular capsules for its viewers.

     

    Watch Zee News and Zee Business to catch all the actions of 37th International Film Festival of India, Goa.

  • NRS revises Dainik Bhaskar readership in Rajasthan

    MUMBAI : NRS 06 has revised it readership figures, and in the process has also upwardly revised the readership figure of Dainik Bhaskar.

    It has stated an increase of 1 Lac 14 thousand readers and now the Dainik Bhaskar readership in Rajasthan stands at 1 crore 11 lacs.

    With this revision the total readership of Bhaskar group is 2.67 crores.

    Bhaskar group is the largest read newspaper group of the nation.

    The Bhaskar team treats this upward revision of the readership figures as an endorsement of its reader’s faith and trust.
     

  • R & D facility in Bangalore will work on key components of SanDisk products

    BANGALORE, INDIA, FEBRUARY 7, 2006 – SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced the opening of SanDisk India Device Design Center Pvt. Ltd. in the country’s technology hub of Bangalore, where engineers will work on the core elements of the company’s flash memory products. The announcement was made at a press conference in Bangalore that was attended by Sanjay Mehrotra, SanDisk chief operating officer, and other company officials.

    “India is a logical place for us to expand our global network of research and development centers because of the great talent pool here and because of our existing relationships with companies that support us in hardware, firmware and software testing,” said Mehrotra, who is also SanDisk’s co-founder.

    India, he added, is expected to become a major market for SanDisk products as a result of booming consumer demand for mobile phones and MP3 audio players. “We need to have a solid presence to promote our brand and to leverage the opportunities for growth in the retail sector,” he said. “As we increase our production of flash memory this year, we intend to focus more attention on India, including the addition of more distributors and storefronts.”

    The SanDisk India Design Center will initially concentrate on projects involving NAND memory – the heart of SanDisk’s flash memory cards, USB drives and MP3 players. Later, the team will be expanded to include development work on ASIC controllers, which are the gatekeepers for data in flash memory cells.

    Although the India Design Center is SanDisk’s first stand-alone facility in India, the company already has engineers assigned to several projects at two SanDisk technology partners in India, Wipro and RelQ. Wipro is the world’s largest third party R&D services provider, offering design engineering, product lifecycle management and product realization. RelQ is an independent software testing and validation company. Both have major operations in Bangalore. In total, SanDisk currently has approximately 60 engineers among the three facilities.

    Mehrotra noted that SanDisk’s rapid growth as the leading supplier of flash memory cards requires global strategies in design and manufacturing. In addition to its extensive R & D activities in Silicon Valley, California, SanDisk has research facilities in Israel, Japan and Scotland. And the company has teams of process/device/design engineers located at the semiconductor fabrication plants that are operated in partnership with Toshiba in Japan.

    Ceremonies inaugurating the Design Center were also attended by Yoram Cedar, SanDisk’s executive vice president of handset business and corporate engineering; Tom Baker, vice president of human resources; and Simon Stolero, vice president of Israel operations.

    SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S

  • Star One’s ‘Shhh… Phir Koi Hai’ premieres with a rating of 2.68

    MUMBAI: Shhh…Phir Koi Hai, the one-hour premiere episode, which aired on Friday 3 November 2006 burst through the TRP scales delivering a rating of 2.68 on CS4+.

    The premiere episode has witnessed a robust growth in channel shares touching 2.8 on CS4+ HSM, making Shh…Phir Koi Hai one of the many successful shows that have been launched on Star One, asserts an oficial release.

    Star India senior creative director Shailja Kejriwal said, “We are extremely delighted at the response that we have got from the audience for Shh…Phir Koi Hai. We hope that the line up of more exciting and varied content combined with a brilliant mix of programming will keep the viewers entertained and coming back for more.”

    Star One shows like Nach Baliye one and two, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Bluffmaster and Mano Ya Na Mano have diversed from the regular TV fare and Shh…Phir Koi Hai is another addition to the lot, adds the release.

  • Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes exclusive coverage on Ten Sports

    Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes exclusive coverage on Ten Sports

    9th November: The world’s richest and most exciting cricket sixes tournament, The Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes, takes place this weekend and Ten Sports has exclusive coverage of all the action.

    The twelfth edition of the event will see some of the best known names in cricket take to the field at the Kowloon Cricket Club including Darren Gough and Dominic Cork of England, South African Nicky Boje, West Indian Champions Trophy representatives Carlton Baugh and Marlon Samuels and Pakistanis Imran Nazir and Yasir Arafat.

    Add to that the considerable talents of Indian Reetinder Sodhi, last year’s Player of the Tournament, and Sri Lankan Saman Jayantha, who won the accolade in 2003, and all the ingredients are in place for another explosive weekend of cricket.

    India, Australia, West Indies, England, New Zealand Kiwis, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Hong Kong are the nine teams that will be competing for the coveted trophy but before they are able to claim victory the winning side will have to battle through two round robin stages and then the knock out stages to reach the final.

    And for the first time on Ten Sports the channel will have a female commentator on its team. Kass Naidoo is South Africa’s first female cricket commentator and she will be making her Ten Sports debut this weekend at the Hong Kong Sixes.

    Coverage of the tournament begins at 19.00 hours IST

    ABOUT TEN SPORTS: Only launched in April 2002, Taj TV’s Ten Sports is watched by more viewers than any other sports channel in the sub-continent and is available in more than 50 million cable/ satellite households worldwide. In just a short span of three years, Ten Sports has also become the world’s biggest producers of cricket. The Channel broadcasts cricket from Sharjah, the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Morocco throughout the Indian sub-continent and Asia, as well as in Europe and the Middle East. Other cricket properties broadcast by Ten Sports in certain territories include internationals from India, the World Cup 2003 and the ICC Champions Trophy 2004.

     

    FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TEN SPORTS PROGRAMMES, CONTACT:

    Murtuza Madraswala – Taj Television India Pvt Ltd, 403 Manish Commercial Complex, Dr. A.B. Road, Mumbai, India. Tel no: +91 22 6662 3101; Fax no: +91 22 6662 629; Email: murtuzam@tajtv.com or visit www.tensports.com

  • Amitabh Bachchan launches International Indian Film Academy commemorative book

    Amitabh Bachchan launches International Indian Film Academy commemorative book

    Dubai, June 15th 2006: Amitabh Bachchan the brand ambassador of the International Indian Film Academy today launched the IIFA commemorative book- Lights, Camera, Masala! at the Grand Hyatt, during the IIFA Weekend presented by Tiara Residence in Dubai.

     

    The book LIGHTS CAMERA MASALA is an insider’s look at the glitz, grit and grandeur of Hindi Cinema , the world’s largest film industry. It is a celebration of contemporary Hindi cinema – popularly known as Bollywood. The book documents the fascinating process of making a typical commercial Hindi film through the adventures of a pair of fictitious characters called Vijay and Ravi as they endeavor to make a Hindi film of their own.

     

    Famous film personalities – from seasoned scriptwriters such as the Salim-Javed duo, to celebrated actors such as Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai, and renowned directors like Ramesh Sippy and Karan Johar – all share their experiences and provide fresh insights into film making. Lights Camera Masala also records he stories of the behind-the-scenes people who are such an intrinsic part of the Hindi Film industry machinery – a light boy, a make-up artist, a choreographer among others. Featuring the emergence of stars as brands and culminating with the glitzy IIFA awards, the book is a visual extravaganza.

     

    Sheena Sippy’s stunningly evocative photographs capture the grandeur, grit and madness that is ‘Bollywood’. Luxuriously packaged in an avant-garde design with over-the-top special features, including a fold-out poster and a star studded pinwheel, Lights, Camera, Masala!is a rich tribute to the chaotic, entertaining world of Hindi cinema.

     

    The book has been authored by Naman Ramachandran, a screenwriter, film-maker, film festival programmer and film critic who writes for several publications including the British Film Institute’s prestigious Sight and Sound. Naman is currently attached to several Hindi film , British and American projects as screenwriter and/or director. He divides his time between London, Los Angeles and Mumbai.

     

    The book is published by India Book House is a leading publisher of large-format, illustrated volumes on Indian history and heritage, specializing in architecture, fine art, decorative arts, film, environment, and lifestyle. In Dubai the book Lights, Camera, Masala is being distributed by Jashanmal’s, Dubai’s leading lifestyle stores. Lights Camera Masala will be available for purchase in every leading book store across India and Dubai.

  • Star Movies To Premiere ‘Shattered Glass’ On 17 Th November

    Star Movies To Premiere ‘Shattered Glass’ On 17 Th November

    MUMBAI: Don’t believe everything you read… Read between the lies! This Friday, watch the exclusive premiere of a thought-provoking thriller about honesty and integrity in news reporting. Watch Shattered Glass, which is a story of a very talented and at the same time very, flawed character.

    It is also a look inside one of the noblest professions, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called int question. Tune in to the exclusiv premiere this Friday night, November 17th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

    This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at “The New Republic” for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Glass’ articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events – chronicled in Buzz Bissinger’s September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which “Shattered Glass” is based – suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

    Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down…

  • Special DD film on women living with AIDS

    MUMBAI: Are women alone responsible for the spurt in AIDS cases in this country? Or is that the husbands bring it home.
    Doordarshan will telecast a half hour special film titled “A New Beginning” on women living with AIDS. The film will be telecast on November 30 at 9.30 am on the National Network on DD-1 and also on December 1, at 10 pm on DD News to mark the World Aids Day.

    The film seeks to tackle these and other issues.

    This film features four HIV positive women from different parts of the country who have made possible something which were considered impossible. A life which seems to be directionless due to HIV/AIDS has made a new beginning.

    The film portrays the trauma undergone by these women due discrimination stigma, lack of awareness, gender inequality and also speaks their journey for seeking their own identity.

    The film also examines how the population of HIV + Women is growing at a great pace. Out of 5.2 million HIV + Infected people in India, there are 2 million Women. In other words women form 39 percent of the total number of people affected with HIV/AIDS in India.

    The film has been produced by B.D. Mohanty deputy director, Programmes, Doordarshan in association with Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union and UNDP, under the project “Inspiring examples of human triumph against HIV/AIDS in Asia Pacific”.

    Earlier, it was a common understanding that women sex worker were the ones infected with HIV virus but with today’s changing times even housewives have been known to be infected with the virus.

    The film seeks to delve into this new, challenging scenario.

  • The 2006 34th American Music Awards on Star World

    The 2006 34th American Music Awards on Star World

    Mumbai, November 21, 2006: One of the biggest music events of the year … A star-studded show featuring celebrity presenters, live performances and loads of other surprises .. The 2006 24th American Music Awards…Live and exclusive telecast on Wednesday, November 22nd at 6. 30 a.m. with a prime time repeat at 8 p.m. only on STAR WORLD. Twenty awards will be given out representing the best of Pop/Rock, Country, Soul/Rhythm & Blues, Rap/Hip Hop, Latin, Alternative, Adult Contemporary and Contemporary Inspirational music.

    Mariah Carey, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas and Nickelback lead the nominations with three nods each. Carey, a nine-time American Music Award winner, has been nominated for Favorite Female Artist in both the Pop/Rock and Soul/Rhythm & Blues categories, as well as Favorite Album in the Soul/Rhythm & Blues category for The Emancipation of Mimi. The Red Hot Chili Peppers received Pop/Rock nominations for Favorite Band, Duo or Group and Favorite Album for Stadium Arcadium, along with a nod for Favorite Artist in the Alternative Music Category.

    Hip/Hop Funk sensation The Black Eyed Peas are up for Favorite Band, Duo or Group and Favorite Album for Monkey Business in the Rap/Hip Hop category, along with a nomination in the Soul/Rhythm & Blues category for Favorite Band, Duo or Group. Nickelback’s hit album All the Right Reasons helped earn them three American Music Award nominations. The group is up for Favorite Album and Favorite Band, Duo or Group in the Pop/Rock category and will compete against the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam for Favorite Artist in the Alternative Music category.

    The 2006 American Music Awards is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and will emanate from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. The special is produced by Dick Clark Productions, Inc. Performers announced for the special thus far are Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Dixie Chicks, Gwen Stefani, Josh Groban, Mary J. Blige, Nelly Furtado, Pussycat Dolls, Rascal Flatts, Snow Patrol and Tenacious D.

     

    Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, Jamie Foxx, Pussycat Dolls, Rascal Flatts, T.I., Carrie Underwood and Kanye West each received two nominations. 2006 break-out artists Chamillionaire, Pussycat Dolls and Carrie Underwood are nominated for Favorite New Breakthrough Artist, which encompasses all genres of music.

     

    So, make sure you tune-in to the Live and exclusive telecast of ‘The 2006 24th American Music Awards’ on Wednesday, November 22nd at 6. 30 a.m. with a prime time repeat at 8 p.m. only on STAR WORLD.

     

    About Star
    STAR is a leading media and entertainment company in Asia. STAR broadcasts 60 television services in nine languages to more than 300 million viewers across 53 Asian countries. STAR channels cover all genres including general entertainment (Star Plus, Xing Kong, Star Chinese Channel, Star One, Star Utsav, Star World, Vijay, Phoenix Chinese), sports (ESPN, Star Sports), movies (Star Chinese Movies, Star Gold, Star Movies), music (Channel [V]), and news and current affairs (Star News, Star Ananda, Phoenix InfoNews Channel).

     

    STAR controls over 20,000 hours of Indian and Chinese programming and also owns the world’s largest contemporary Chinese film library, with more than 600 titles, featuring superstars including Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Bruce Lee. In partnership with leading companies in Asia, STAR businesses extend to filmed entertainment, television production, cable systems, direct-to-home services, terrestrial TV broadcasting, wireless and digital services. STAR is a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation. www.startv.com