MUMBAI: What started out as an open relationship for Vidhushi Khanna and Devanshu Bagga, grew into a commitment over the two years they were seeing each other . However, due to Devanshu?s flirtatious nature, Vidhushi always harbored an uncertainty about his commitment towards her; and along with her elder sister ? Alisha, decided to approach Emotional Atyachaar Team (EAT) to clear her doubt.

The investigation began on a shocking note as the EAT followed Devanshu inside a club, only to discover him getting close to a random girl! To garner more evidence of his flirtatious ways, the EAT team planted their undercover agent in a club next day where he was invited by a crew member for a party. Devanshu got up, close and personal with the agent during the party after which he and the agent exchanged a number of phone calls and text messages leading to Devanshu asking the undercover agent out for dinner.

Post hoc when they met up at the agent?s house; not only did Devanshu shock everyone by speaking about Vidhushi, like a bolt from the blue, calling her his ex-girlfriend; but also boasted about his one night stands and spoke at length about his various fantasies, which was enough to deem him a cheater.

Notwithstanding her boyfriend?s infidelity, Vidhushi?s heart sank after viewing the footage of Devanshu with the agent; while her sister Alisha breathed a sigh of relief as Vidhushi has finally seen her boyfriend?s true colors.

Watch a heart broken Vidhushi confront her boyfriend on Emotional Atyachaar this Saturday, 7 p.m. on August 21st, 2010 only on UTV Bindass.
 

MUMBAI: This episode of ‘I‘m Too Sexy For My Shoes‘ brings you the style quotient you were always looking for: When high fashion meets the masses, it gets christened as ‘HIGH STREET FASHION‘. Find out how everyone including Kareena Kapoor loves going the high street way.

Follow models Neha Kapoor and Acquin and actor Shazahn Padamsee shop for uber fashionable goodies. If you want to get the ‘DIVA LOOK‘ in 15 minutes in your budget, this is the show to watch.

Get an inside view of the celebs with Actor Shruti Hassan?‘The High Street Way‘. Lots of momentum and High Street look only on I‘m Too Sexy for My Shoes only on NDTV Good Times on Monday, 23rd August at 9:30 pm

NEW DELHI: Demonstrating the use of television to bring about changes at the grassroots level, a competitive show in Kerala has resulted in developmental projects ranging from dairy sector interventions, health care projects, panchayat-run courts to settle cases and organic farming.

Doordarshan?s Thiruvananthapuram Kendra commenced the 103-episode Green Kerala Express in March last year and ended with Elappully village panchayat in Palakkad winning the Rs. 10 million prize.

The Green Kerala Express was the first social reality show on Indian television showcasing the grassroots-level development initiatives of three-tier local bodies.

Encouraged by Doordarshan?s programme, Elappully which was mainly inhabited by debt-ridden marginal farmers had undertaken a Dairy project to enhance milk production. With a complete dairy village concept, Elappully achieved a four-fold increase in milk production in the past two years from 2,400 litres per day to 12,000 litres a day, helping the Dairy farmers to fetch a combined turnover of 75 million last year.

One hundred and fifty-two panchayats had vied with one another and Panchayat office- bearers were given half-an-hour slot to SMS their votes for the panchayats of their choice.
 

MUMBAI: Eight players from four teams have each been nominated in three different categories at the LG ICC Awards 2010.

Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis from South Africa, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag from India, Shane Watson and Doug Bollinger from Australia and Sri Lanka?s Mahela Jayawardena feature prominently in the long-lists for the awards, which will take place at a glittering ceremony in Bengaluru, India on 6 October. In addition, there are nine players who are nominated in two distinct categories.

All appear among the long-lists of nominations for prizes at the seventh annual LG ICC Awards, presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers? Associations (FICA).

This year?s LG ICC Awards includes nine individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year and the award to the side that has adhered most to the Spirit of Cricket.

For the first time, this year?s awards feature a new category, the LG People?s Choice Award. This award will be chosen by cricket fans around the world who will get a chance to vote for their favourite player online from a short-list of five cricketers who will be selected by the ICC selection panel on the basis of some innovative parameters, in sync with the values that embody the LG brand.

These include innovation, dynamism, strength in decision-making, performing well under pressure and executing a plan to distinction. The winner of this award should demonstrate an ability to engage spectators and should also embody the game?s unique spirit, both on and off the field.

The selection panel will nominate the five LG People?s Choice Awards candidates and the names will be posted on www.icc-cricket.com on 23 August. Cricket fans will then have an opportunity to vote for the cricketer of their choice online until 10 September.

?The LG ICC Awards are an opportunity for the ICC and FICA to acknowledge and celebrate the remarkable performances of the world?s top players,? said ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat.

?It is also a chance for followers of our great sport to reflect on some of the great cricketing feats they have witnessed over the past year. This will be the seventh time the awards have been handed out and picking the winners will not be an easy task for the voting academy,? he said.

The long-lists of nominations were made by a five-man ICC selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd. The panel also includes former international players Angus Fraser of England, Matthew Hayden of Australia, Ravi Shastri of India and Zimbabwe?s Duncan Fletcher.

The individual player awards will be selected by an academy of 25 highly credentialed cricket personalities from around the world. The academy includes a host of former players and respected members of the media, representatives of the Emirates Elite Panels of ICC Umpires and ICC Match Referees.

The nominations from the Women?s Cricketer of the Year were decided after a committee of former players, current administrators and journalists created a long-list. The award will then be voted for by a separate 25-person voting academy.

The Spirit of Cricket Award was voted on by all international captains as well as all members of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees. The Umpire of the Year Award was voted on by the captains and the match referees based on the umpires? performance statistics.

There is also an Emerging Player of the Year award again this year. To qualify for that award a player must be under the age of 26 and have played fewer than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs at the start of the voting period.

The Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year award serves to recognise and reward the efforts in all international matches of the outstanding cricketers from the teams outside the ICC Full Members. This year, Ireland boasts the most number of nominees with three names on the list. This is followed by the Netherlands, Scotland and Afghanistan with two nominations each and Canada with one name.

Based on the period between 24 August 2009 and 10 August 2010, the LG ICC Awards 2010 ? presented in association FICA ? will take into account performances by players and officials in a remarkable period for the game.

That period includes such high-profile events as the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 in South Africa, ICC World Twenty20 2010 in the West Indies and the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 2010 in the Netherlands as well as several bilateral Test and ODI series.

The LG ICC Awards ceremony is now in its seventh year and this year it will be held in Bengaluru, India. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007 and 2009), Dubai (2008).

MUMBAI: A gang of robbers, lead by career criminal Charlie Croker, create the largest traffic jam in Los Angeles history, giving them time to pull off a theft of gold bullion. They get away in their Mini Coopers, which are small enough to drive on sidewalks so they can make a clean get away before the traffic jam clears.

 
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18, India?s No. 1 business medium in association with CNN-IBN launched Raghav Bahl?s - ?Superpower? : The Amazing Race between China?s Hare and India?s Tortoise?, a debut and non-fiction book which provides excellent insights into two of the most evolving global economies, India and China, undergoing a transformational shift in the race of becoming the next global superpower. This book reiterates whether India is ready for the superpower status or not and are we irretrievably behind in the game of catching-up with China. The book was launched by the hands of Union Cabinet Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shri Kamal Nath, at Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in New Delhi on August 17, 2010.

In his career as one of India?s top entrepreneurs, Raghav Bahl, Founder and Editor, Network18, has often faced a barrage of questions from visiting business people bewildered by India: Why are Indian regulations so weak and confusing? Why is your foreign investment policy so restrictive? How come your hotels are world-class, when the roads leading to them are so pot-holed? Why don?t you lower your voice when you make fun of your politicians? Why do you control the price of oil and cable TV? How is it that you speak such good English? Inevitably, the questions are followed by the observation: But, you know, that?s not the way it is in China.

Indeed, even as the dragon and elephant economies are together projected to dominate the world in a matter of decades, there is a palpable difference in the way China and India work on the ground. China is spectacularly effective in building infrastructure and is currently investing almost half it?s GDP; it is crafting a new economic idiom that has stood textbook wisdom on its head. Meanwhile, India is the classic example of a ?promising? economy: more than half its GDP is consumed by its billion-plus population; half its population is younger than twenty-five, giving it a unique demographic advantage; 350 million Indians understand English, making it the largest English-using country in the world; and it is, of course, the world?s largest democracy.

In the race to superpower status, who is likely to breast the tape?China?s hare or India?s tortoise? China?s awe-inspiring sweep, compared to India?s relatively mild rise, could tempt an easy answer. But Bahl argues that the winner of the race with the biggest stakes ever might not be determined by who is investing more and growing faster today, but by something slightly more intangible?who has superior innovative skills and more entrepreneurial savvy and is grappling with and expanding in the most intensely competitive conditions. In the end, it might come down to just one deciding factor: Can India fix its governance before China repairs its politics?

Providing informative insights into the two Asian powers? histories, polities, economies and cultures- Superpower? : The Amazing Race between China?s Hare and India?s Tortoise is a brilliantly written, superbly documented, rich and comprehensive account of the race to dominance between the two neighbours. For anyone looking to understand China and India and the ways in which these two nations are about to change the history of the world, this is the book to read.

Speaking at the launch of his debut book, Mr. Raghav Bahl, Founder and Editor, Network18, said, ?The moral ? Slow and Steady wins the race of the famous story of the Hare and a Tortoise righteously has been interpreted in my debut book - Superpower? : The Amazing Race between China?s Hare and India?s Tortoisei. It is indeed a critical commentary on the political economy of India challenged by China to race her. I would recommend this book to all aspiring citizens of our nation to gain a new perspective of the future global power. ?

Raghav Bahl?s - Superpower? : The Amazing Race between China?s Hare and India?s Tortoise is published by Allen Lane, Pengiums Books India and is available for Rs. 699/-.

The book launch witnessed the presence of luminaries such as Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India; Mr. M Damodaran, Former Chairman, SEBI; Mr. Bimal Jalan, Former Governor, RBI and Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express. These luminaries and India?s biggest Economic thought leaders explored the most crucial aspects of the socio-economic and political framework of both the nations through an interactive discussion with Mr. Bahl at the launch of his book.