MUMBAI: Had enough of exams and the studies? Can?t wait to plan for your summer holidays? POGO has the perfect answer. Enter the fun, simple and exciting ?Dholakpur Entrance Test? by tuning into POGO and answer easy questions about your favourite Indian animation character ? Chhota Bheem daily and you could win a dream vacation to Kuala Lumpur and Jaipur!

Krishna Desai, Director, Programming, Turner International India Pvt. Ltd., said, ?March is exam time for kids. As kids? favoured destination, POGO offers them a breather in the form ?Dholakpur Entrance Test? - a simple and fun initiative that offers kids? an opportunity to plan for their summer vacation alongside exams!"

Kids aged between 4-14 yrs can appear for the ?Dholakpur Entrance Test?, running daily on POGO through March. Every day a question related to ?Chhota Bheem? will be asked on POGO and kids need to simply SMS their answers on 58558 or call on the 58888388 or log on to www.pogo.tv. If they clear the Dholakpur Entrance Test, they win the Dholakpur citizenship. The participant with the maximum correct responses stands to win a vacation to Kuala Lumpur. Second runner up wins a trip to Jaipur. Participants can also win consolation prizes like Skateboards, Remote Operated cars and Wristbands. The contest ends on 31 March, 2010.

Chhota Bheem is a huge hit, making POGO the No. 1 national channel during its airing**. Currently in its 4th season, Chhota Bheem has received ?The Best Animated TV Series (Released)? award at the ?Golden Cursor Awards 2009?. (**Source: TAM Media Research, CS 4-14 All India audiences, Period: Week 1- 10 of 2010)
 

MUMBAI: SND, the distribution company of major French television channel M6, recently chose GlobeCast?s Cinema Delivery solution for the digital delivery of Rob Marshall?s film ?Nine?, which premiered in France on Wednesday 3 March. The solution was used for several movie theaters of the CGR chain.

This solution, offered by GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom ? Orange, allows all audiovisual professionals . to securely transfer DCP files and other audiovisual content from GlobeCast?s management and storage platform located near Paris.

A quick and easy distribution process
A few days before the French premiere, the film laboratory Eclair sent a digital copy of the film via GlobeCast?s platform. Once available on the platform, the CGR movie theaters equipped with GlobeCast Cinema Delivery could download the digital copy within a few hours, thanks to broadband connections with an average bandwidth of 40 Mbps. On March 3rd, the original copy of ?Nine? was ready for its French debut.

GlobeCast Cinema Delivery: a simple solution for professionals
In addition to CGR, other cinema chains have expressed their interest in this digital content transfer solution. Recently, Eclair Group signed an agreement to create more digital content management solutions with GlobeCast.

The ease and reliability of this product helped it win over a major distribution company SND ? subsidiary of M6.

The deployment of GlobeCast Cinema Delivery, which was officially launched at the IDIFF trade show in January, has taken off thanks to the recent agreement with Eclair Group (?clair Laboratoires/Teletota). GlobeCast is currently engaged in talks with other film professionals; cinema chains and theater programmers, film and trailer distributors and other film laboratories.

MUMBAI: On Thursday 18 March 2010, the BBC?s international news services will broadcast SuperPower Nation, an experimental interactive event that will provide a six-hour snapshot of a global conversation as it unfolds ? on radio, TV and online.

The event will take place with a live audience at Shoreditch Town Hall, London from 13:00 to 19:00 GMT, and will invite people from around the globe to interact with one another and join in the global discussion, enabling people to communicate with one another, regardless of languages they speak.

The event will be filmed and recorded for the BBC?s international news services, and audiences across the world will be able to listen in, watch and read the discussion online, in real time. The live audience will also be actively blogging, tweeting and aggregating throughout the event.

A live message board will translate online comments into Arabic, Chinese, English, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Audience members from across the world can join the conversation via bbc.com/superpower. People can also follow the conversation on Twitter (@BBC_SPnation), Facebook (BBCSuperpowerseason), the season blog (bbc.co.uk/blogs/superpower) and on Flickr (flickr.com/photos/47661717@N07)

The BBC?s international news services will be broadcasting live from SuperPower Nation:

BBC Arabic TV will broadcast 10-minute live reports, presented by Samir Farah and Liliane Daoud, at 45 minutes past every hour, from 14:45 to 18:45 GMT on Thursday 18 March. BBC Arabic radio will also broadcast from the event at 16:45 and 17:45 GMT.

BBC Persian TV will broadcast regular live reports from the event throughout the afternoon, and Pooneh Ghooddoosi will present a special hour-long programme live from SuperPower Nation at 15:35 GMT.

BBC World News will be reporting live from the event at 20 minutes past every hour from 17:50 to 22:50 IST on Thursday 18 March. Ros Atkins will also present a special half-hour live SuperPower Nation programme at 21:00 IST.

BBC World Service will broadcast its flagship global discussion programme, World Have Your Say, presented by Ros Atkins, live from Shoreditch Town Hall at 18:00 to 19:00 GMT*.

Other services taking part in the event include BBC Brasil (bbcbrasil.com), BBC Chinese (bbcchinese.com) and BBC Mundo (bbcmundo.com).

MUMBAI: The Quilas of Patiala are surrounded by shops selling phulkaari juttis and parandis. Anchor Amrita Gandhi travels through Patiala and finds a flame that has been burning since the days of the first founder of the kingdom - Baba Aala Singh. She then meets the modern day women of Patiala - Preneet Kaur and Rishma Kaur, mother in law and daughter in law who have made Patiala their own.

A fencing lesson at the National Institute of sports and then Amrita heads out to Kapurthala. Here a French style palace and a Marakesh inspired mosque await. These are the legacies of a well travelled King, a Francophile Maharajah Jagatjit Singh, whose grandson Brigadier Sukhjit Singh is the present day custodian of Kapurthala?s history.

Your Royal date this Wednesday, March 17, 2010 is in Punjab at 10.00 pm with a repeat telecast on the following Friday at 10.30 pm only on NDTV Good Times

MUMBAI: In an edition of CNN?s Eco Solutions, Mumbai based international correspondent, Mallika Kapur takes viewers on a scenic tour of India‘s greener side. A few small institutions to corporate India have focused on green initiatives and significant changes are visible today from cutting-edge clean technology to innovative grassroots projects. Eco Solutions Greening India captures

The impact that the green movement is making in India in a half-hour special airing 18 March 2010 at 2 pm. CNN Eco Solutions journey starts from Shirdi, a holy destination in the western region of India where solar cooking is revolutionizing life at one of India‘s most celebrated temples. Solar cookers have replaced heavy-polluting traditional stoves making it cheaper and greener for the temple to host hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visiting daily.

Next, Eco Solutions visits a remote village in South India where the solar lamp is lighting up thousands of life stories. Solar energy may be the answer to India?s huge energy deficit as today almost half of the country?s population lives without power.

Deepak Gadhia of Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. said, ?We soon realized what India needed was appropriate technology, not high technology. The most satisfying projects are the ones we do in the villages, where we can convert the whole thing into a smoke free village. We realize that it‘s not about technology, it‘s about social engineering. For those who cannot afford it, we have to social engineer so that they can pay from the profit and not from the pocket. India would change if we could have this technology in 500,000 villages in India.?

Greenpeace India Siddharth Pathak said, ?In India, you still have a long, long way to go for environment friendly technology innovation, but the potential is immense. We need to exploit that potential rather than waiting for the world to change and world technologies to come into India. I would say India can take on a leading role in developing solar or renewable technologies in the world.?

India is known around the world as a burgeoning car market and CNN?s Eco Solutions takes a closer look at India?s homegrown brand that hopes its green technology can capitalise on this potential. Kapur finds out how an electric car company has big plans for more than one billion people in India and even bigger plans for the world.

MUMBAI: The war has come to an end and the winners have conquered the thrown. MTV - India?s number one youth destination has announced Riya and Parag as the hottest couple in the country. As the winners of the third season of the hit reality show, Vodafone MTV Splitsvilla 3; Riya & Parag, will get to host their very own show on MTV along with a cash prize of 5 lakh each!

With the most unexpected finale, this season of Vodafone MTV Splitsvilla 3 saw moments that were truly shocking. The last episode saw the winning task, ?the leap of faith? where the winners, Riya and Parag were challenged by co-competitors Kriti & Vikas. For the final clincher task, the boy hung upside down, more than 20 feet above the ocean... and the partner had to run, jump on a diving board, catch their partner?s hand, and HANG! This challenge was won by Riya & Vikas in a matter of seconds!

Ecstatic Riya & Parag say, ?It was a big deal for us to win this show as we didn?t expect to get to the finale, forget winning considering the tough competition we had. Each couple was giving their best. It has been a long and exciting journey & we?re thrilled to be crowned King & Queen. We?re looking forward to be on MTV on our very own show! Yippie!?

This twisted tale of love has finally found its winner and has come to an end after a long loving combat. The winners will be seen on MTV hosting their very own shows bringing to the viewers entertainment like never before.