• Shemaroo releases home video of Kishore Kumar songs

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 11

    MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has released ?101 DUETS OF KISHORE KUMAR?, another addition in the 101 Series of original video songs.

    The pack includes a rare treat for Kishore Da?s fans. It has a song where Kishore sings with his son Amit Kumar (Desh Premee) and his wife Leena Chadavarkar (Lover Boy) and to add the perfect icing to the cake the compilation ends with the last recorded song of Kishore Kumar "Guru Guru Aa Jaao Guru?" which he recorded for Waqt Ki Awaz with Asha Bhosle, a day before he expired in October 1987.

    Kishore Kumar sang most of his duets with Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar which are still counted among his most remembered works. Teen Deviyan, Jawani Diwani, Aandhi, Kasme Vaade, Aap Ki Kasam, The Great Gambler, Yeh Vaada Raha, Kaalia are all featured in this pack. The pack also features his duets with other singers like Sulakshana Pandit, Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alisha Chinay and many more.

    Kishore Kumar followed the footsteps of his idol K. L. Saigal and became a singing star singing only for himself and occasionally for Dev Anand. But he turned to playback singing full time in 1969 after he lent his voice for Rajesh Khanna in Aradhana and Do Raaste.

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  • BloombergUTV honours visionaries of financial sector

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 10

    New Delhi: BloombergUTV, India?s premier business news channel, presented the FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2012 to honour the extraordinary Financial Leaders and Visionaries of India?s Financial Sector. The Hon?ble Finance Minister, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee and a host of other dignitaries from the industry presented the awards to winners.

    The Financial Leadership Awards were bestowed on 20 corporates across Banking, Equity, Currency, Commodity, Insurance and Mutual Fund sectors. This year, BloombergUTV has instituted two new awards viz., ?Woman Leader of the Year? and ?Life Time Achievement Award? to recognise and honour the achievements and contribution of individuals from the sector.

    Deepak Lamba, Business Head ? BloombergUTV, speaking on the occasion said, ?It is an honour and privilege for BloombergUTV that Shri. Mukherjee consented to grace the Financial Leadership Awards this evening. I would like to extend hearty congratulations to all the winners. This is the second consecutive year that Shri. Mukherjee joined us to honour and recognise the visionaries and achievers of the Indian Financial Sector, which is a testimony to the fact that these Awards are held in high esteem by all the stakeholders of the Indian financial sector.?

    Mr. Deepak Parekh, Chairman ? HDFC has guided and nurtured the growth of HDFC to the conglomerate that it is today and was aptly honoured with the ?Life Time Achievement Award?. Ms. Shikha Sharma, MD & CEO ? Axis Bank was awarded the ?Woman Leader of the Year? award.

    In the Banking Category, Axis Bank bagged the ?Fastest Growing Bank? award; Bank of Baroda won the ?Best PSU Bank? award; Karur Vyasa Bank won the ?Best Private Sector Bank; and Standard Chartered Bank won the ?Best Foreign Bank? award.

    In the Insurance Category, HDFC Standard Life Insurance bagged the Life Insurer of the Year award; United India Insurance Co. Ltd. bagged the General Insurance of the Year - Public Sector and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd. won the ?General Insurance of the Year - Private Sector? awards.

    In the Mutual Funds category, HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd. won the ?Best Mutual Fund ? Equity? award and Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. Ltd. won the ?Best Mutual Fund ? Debt? award.

    In the Broking Category, Religare Commodities Ltd. was awarded the ?Best Commodity Broker?; Nirmal Bang Commodities Pvt. Ltd. won the ?Best Emerging Commodity Broker? award; Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. bagged the ?Best Equity Broker? award and SMC Global Securities Ltd. won the ?Best Currency Broker? award.

    The Jury Panel comprised of well-known and highly respected personalities from the Indian Financial sector. The jury members were Ashok Wadhwa (Group CEO - Ambit Holdings), Keki Mistry (Vice Chairman & CEO - HDFC Ltd.), Shardul Shroff (Managing Partner - Amarchand Mangaldas), Ridham Desai (MD & Co-Head - Morgan Stanley), G N Bajpai (Former Chairman ? SEBI), Dr. Janmejaya Sinha (Chairman - Asia Pacific ? BCG), Shailesh Haribhakti (Exec Chairman & Managing Partner - BDO Consulting), Amarjit Chopra (President ? ICAI), Tamal Bandopadhyay (Dy. Managing Editor ? MINT), Kaushal Aggarwal (MD - Avendus Capital), Dr. Chiragra Chakrabarty (Director - Financial Advisory, Deloitte), Karthik Srinivasan (Co-Head - Financial Sector, ICRA) and L Shivakumar (Sr. Group VP & Head - Western Region ? ICRA)

    The BloombergUTV Financial Leadership Awards were presented by MCX and powered by Sonata with ICRA as the Knowledge Partner, Taj Lands End as the Hospitality Partner and DSN as the OOH Partner. The detailed list of winners is annexed along with.

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  • Bengaluru Changes the Game with Pepsi T20 Football

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 09

    Mumbai: Bangaloreans witnessed football being played in a revolutionary new format inside a unique metallic cage at the City Finale of Pepsi T-20 Football. 224 amateur players showcased their game changing moves in front of the rising star of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli and other football fans at the Phoenix Market City Mall. The fever of football gripped the city as the Youngistaanis enjoyed the thrill of the sport. Friends and families of the players and other football fanatics were seen cheering the teams and celebrating every goal that was made. The crowd was seen enjoying the sport and the exciting environment comprising of music, dance and Pepsi.

    32 teams of 7 players each played the knock-out matches of 20-minutes each and after a series of matches over Saturday and Sunday, the __________ team headed by Captain ______ emerged as the city finalists. This team will get an opportunity to represent Bengaluru in the finale scheduled to take place in Delhi in June this year. Final Game Changing team will be coached by an international football star and play football against the Indian cricket stars.

    Homi Battiwalla, Category Director - Colas, Hydration & Mango Based Beverages, PepsiCo India said, ?We are delighted to see the excitement around the city finale and would like to congratulate the winning team on their success. Pepsi T20 Football takes forward the brand?s philosophy of Change the Game by taking football outside the conventional domain and giving it a refreshing twist. It?s a unique grassroots level initiative mounted at a never before scale in India that aims to take the excitement around the sport to the next level. We are delighted with the spectacular response for the sport here in Bengaluru and the city has truly Changed the Game?.

    Congratulating the winning team and talking about the initiative Virat Kohli said, ?I would like to congratulate the winning team and to all players for putting forward an exciting game of football. I am glad that Pepsi is taking the initiative to popularize the sport in our country and hope that the Youngistaanis take forward the spirit and make it big?.

    Pepsi T20 Football is a revolutionary new format for amateurs, which combines the excitement and fun of T20 style of playing with the speed, thrill and spirit of football. Amateur footballers between the age of 14 & 30 years were asked to register in 7-member teams at designated venues. Chennai already has its finale winning team and after selecting the finalists in Bengaluru, the league continues to Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Ludhiana and Delhi for similar knock out style matches over the next few weeks. A total of 8 teams, including 1 winning team from each city and 1 wild card entry will compete to emerge as ?Game Changers?. They will then get the opportunity to be coached by an international football star before they face the Cricket Stars at the Grand Finale.

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  • Weber Shandwick receives accolades in Hong Kong

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 09

    New Delhi: Weber Shandwick has received two winning awards and a certificate of excellence at the recent 2011 Asia Pacific Campaign PR Awards in Hong Kong.

    Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick won Consumer Launch Campaign of the Year for Shave Sutra ? Gillette Mach3 Turbo Sensitive, and Public Affairs Campaign of the Year for EVERY ONE ? Save the Children at ghe event held on 30 March at the JW Marriott.

    Weber Shandwick China received a certificate of excellence for Healthcare: Ethical Campaign of the Year for Pfizer?s Enbrel Awareness in China .

    ?We are extremely proud and at the same time humbled to have won awards for both our shortlisted campaigns at the Asia Pacific PR Awards 2011?, said Shiv Reddy, CEO India, Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick. ?We remain ever committed to excellence.?

    Atul Ahluwalia, President, Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick added, ?I am delighted at the recognition we have received through our award wins at the Asia Pacific PR Awards. Our consistent wins, amidst stiff competition across the Asia Pacific region, are a testimony of the innovation and creativity of the India team.?

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  • Zee Studio?s Powerplay showcases NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 09

    Mumbai: Zee Studio?s newest property, Powerplay, is all set to showcase National Treasure: Book of Secrets, this Wednesday at 11:40PM.

    While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth?s diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth?s diary. Thomas Gates, Ben?s great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben?s great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln?s murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest the have to go to Ben?s mother, Patrick?s divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President?s desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President?s Book. But in order to see the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It?s obvious. With Wilkinson close on their tail, they find the book in the Library of Congress. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore where the clue was on the hills, but (according to the Book) President Calvin Coolidge had the faces carved in so no one can find the City of Gold. When they get there they find out that they must work with Wilkinson since he has some clues of his own. Who will claim Cibola? And will the name of Gates be known as murderer?

    The movie stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (titled National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets) is a mystery adventure film. It is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and is part of the National Treasure franchise. It was directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

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  • BBC World News Horizons examines advances in nanotechnologyin Houston, USA and Cambridge, England

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 09

    Mumbai: In the second episode of the series, Horizons presenters Adam Shaw and Saima Mohsin travel to the United States and the United Kingdom to explore the burgeoning science of nanotechnology. The technology enables scientists to arrange atoms and molecules to create new materials and devices which could have the potential to change our world through applications in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production.

    Horizons co-presenter Saima Mohsin begins at Rice University in Houston, Texas where she meets Professor James Tour, one of the world?s leading pioneers of nanotechnology. Saima explores technology that enables engineers to manipulate substances at the nano-scale and advances which could see the development of much faster and even flexible electronics, such as the production of a carbon based ink which can be printed onto flexible films to create electronic circuits powered by radio waves. Saima also learns about what?s being called the next super material-- Graphene, one of the strongest and most conductive materials ever found.

    Professor James Tour said: "Graphene is a single sheet of graphite only one atom thick. This is an amazing material. It?s made up of all carbon and the carbon bond is one of the strongest bonds in the universe. The other thing about Graphene that is really quite amazing is its electronic properties. You can move information through Graphene at a very high rate, probably one hundred times faster than we can compute today. It has materials applications, electronics applications. The applications go into entirely new types of devices we haven?t even begun to envision yet. It?s huge."

    Back in the UK, award-winning business journalist Adam Shaw visits Cambridge to learn about two companies using nanotechnology in applications which could save lives. At Endomagnetics, Adam finds out how nanotechnology research is already offering an alternative way to detect breast cancer, using a new technology called Sentimag which uses magnetic tracers that are safer and more widely available than the radioactive tracers currently in use. He sees the technique being trialed by specialists at Guys Hospital in London and explores whether it could ultimately revolutionize the treatment of cancer globally.

    Mr Michael Douek, Guys Hospital, London explained: "I have been working on breast magnetic resonance imaging for many years. It?s the first time we can use a hand held device to guide us to something we can actually see on magnetic resonance imaging. It does assist the surgeon in finding the lymph gland to drain a breast tumour. The technology is novel and has many exciting applications in breast cancer treatment."

    Finally Adam visits Owlstone Nanotech, another Cambridge-based company which is leading the field in chemical detection systems. Using the latest nanofabrication techniques, the organization has created a device that can be programmed to detect a wide range of airborne chemical agents in extremely small quantities. This technology could have a huge range of applications including, as Adam discovers, the development of a breathalyzer that would allow doctors to detect the presence of individual chemicals in a subject?s breath which could play a vital role in the non-invasive diagnosis of disease like diabetes in the future.

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