MUMBAI: South Indian televison‘s popular reality show "Idea Star Singer:Season 4"to find the most talented young singer,is celebrating the completion of 150 episodes.Upcoming Super star of Malayalam Cinema, Prithwiraj was the chief guest for the special event . Asianet Managing Director K.Madhavan, Idea Marketing Manager Balaji , Actress Mallika Sukumaran, Jury members Sarath, K.S.Chithra , M.G.Sreekumar ,Pop Singer Usha Uthup,fondly called "deedi" by music lovers,Asianet Senior Vice President R.Sreekandan Nair etc were some of the special dignitaries who attended the ceremony.

Viewers from all over the world tune in to watch the show that has seen some of the best musical talents in Kerala,wherein contestants battle it out for the top slot. Film stars , musicians and celebrities from various walks of life will appear as special guests in every episode of the show.

The 150th episode celebrations will be a m?lange of glamour , music and showmanship.The contestants showed their multi talented skills by performing dance, skits, acrobatic performances and needless to say rendered melodious & fast and peppy numbers specially for their dear viewers.

Asianet is all set to telecast the 150th episode celebrations of "Idea Star Singer - Season 4 in two parts, Nov. 27th & 30th Nov, 2009 at 8.30 PM IST ( 20.30 Hrs ).
 

MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM, India?s first and leading FM radio network has partnered with the vibrant and eagerly awaited ?Celebrate Bandra Festival?, bringing to all the revelry and pomp of the Queen of Mumbai?s suburbs. This bi-annual event is an initiative of the Celebrate Bandra Trust and Fountainhead Promotions & Events Pvt. Ltd and in the 2-week long schedule; it fills the city with effervescent and pulsating action from November 14 right until November 29, 2009.

The festival truly brings alive the flavour of Bandra with a combination of performing arts, music, dance, literature, sports, theatre, cuisine and of course every woman?s? delight ? SHOPPING. There are endless activities to join in. Designed for both children and adults, the event offers workshops such as origami, poetry readings and even a photography exhibition throughout the festival duration. The festival aims to showcase the diverse cultures alive in the popular suburb and is larger and more varied than ever before. Radio City 91.1 FM takes immense pride in associating with this festival as the plethora of choices and never-ending action from the beautiful suburb called Bandra is to be experienced to believe. Bandra is, after all, Queen of Suburbs.

Radio City 91.1 FM catches all this action on air and has designed interesting, trivia based contests for listeners across all shows giving them a chance to win passes to the fun filled festival. All the money raised through this event goes directly back into the community to support NGOs and deserving groups in Bandra.

So, all you Mumbaikars tune into Radio City 91.1 FM for more on Bandra Festival!!!

A sustained focus on understanding listeners and leveraging the synergies of music expertise and innovative programming, allows Radio City to deliver a unique listening experience. Also be an integral part of the lives of listeners. Aggressively looking at spreading the Radio City experience across the country, Radio City 91.1FM is committed to growing the market and creating superlative content for premium audiences.

MUMBAI: To pay homage to the victims of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, NDTV India urges the viewers to join in its campaign to light a candle in the name of all the victims of that dastardly attack that shattered Mumbai & India a year back. NDTV India?s initiative will be supported by people throughout the country. People from all walks of life will light a flame in remembrance of the precious lives lost on this very fateful day, a year back.

The campaign will include on ground events where people will come together and light a candle in memory of those who lost their lives and observe a two minute silence to pay respect to the victims. The campaign will be spread across the country in major cities like New Delhi - Select City Walk, Saket; Chandigarh ? Plaza, sector 17; Bangalore - Central, Near Mehoul Hall, MG Road and many other places across India. 

The viewers can also join the campaign online as it is also integrated on Face book & Twitter via NDTV social. To know more about the campaign visit our site: www.ndtv.com/eklau

Come join us as we pay tribute to all those who lost their lives on this fateful day, a year back. Watch the live telecast of this campaign on NDTV India on 26th Nov, 2009 from 7 P.M. onwards.
 

MUMBAI: They started off with a simple idea like selling shoes online. Today they have their eyes set on revenue of nearly Rs. 6 crores. What inspired these entrepreneurs to dare the odds? How the model works and will they meet their target? The Showcase startup for the week - BigShoeBazaar.com takes center stage.

A network spanning 500 institutes and over 70,000 students in all of 6 years. That?s the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), initiated in the year 2003, to promote entrepreneurship in educational institutes. Backed by the likes of IIT-Bombay, IIM-Ahmedabad, BITS Pilani, SP Jain Institute and IBAB, NEN has lived up to its core mission for the past 7 years ? to nurture and foster tomorrow?s entrepreneurs.

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MUMBAI: CNBC AWAAZ, India?s No.1 business channel along with Arms (a division of Arcil) will launch Responsibility aur Rupaiya, a pioneering initiative which will endeavor to make children more responsible towards financial decision making.

Aimed at making children aware of various financial crises that exist and ways to tackle them, this initiative is a combination of ground activities and on air programmes. The initiative will see eminent jury of people with sound experience in their respective fields travel across four metros and meet the students from the eight & ninth grade and determine their financial decision making abilities. To engage these students, the initiative will be presented in form of case study that will depict real life financial situations, in an easy to understand format for the students.

CNBC AWAAZ will host a competitive session in each of the four metros with teams from four to five schools presenting their solutions to these case studies. The students will need to present these solutions in the form of a skit or a poem or a report or a power point presentation. From the four winning teams, the top two teams will be invited to Mumbai for the final round of the competition. The four winning teams and the overall winners will be awarded exciting prizes. Each competition will be featured on CNBC AWAAZ in the form of a half hour telecast.

Commenting on this pioneering initiative, Mr. Neel Chowdhury, Vice President, Marketing CNBC-TV 18 & CNBC AWAAZ said, ?It is essential to mould children and make them responsible towards understanding the value of money. ?Responsibility Aur Rupaiya? is a one of its kind show presented in an interesting format which will help create awareness among children and make them better decision makers of tomorrow.?

Supporting the initiative Mr. S. Khasnobis, Managing Director & CEO of Arcil said ?Indian society is getting exposed to consumerisation too rapidly. Keeping in pace with this cultural transformation, borrowings as a means of funding individual growth aspirations is becoming a way of life. There is a need to understand the responsibility one assumes for debt repayment obligation. Whether debt comes as a ?right or privilege? for the future generation, the responsibility associated with it, if not owned up, will invariably lead to social disaster. ?Responsibility and Rupaiya? is an attempt to make the future borrowers aware of and also make them learn to own up responsibility as also fulfil obligation for the well being of the Society.?

MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM, Delhi‘s most popular FM station and Pepsi recently launched an innovative activity titled ‘Pepsi My Show My way", wherein for the first time ever, a 10 feet high radio studio was created in the shape of Pepsi My Can. The activity was held at different venues in Delhi. Fever DJs hosted their shows, live, from within this unique studio. With an introduction of such an inimitable concept, Fever
104 FM, together with Pepsi reinforced their brand image of being today‘s youth icons.

Pepsi My Can Studio was built on a canter, imitating a real Pepsi My Can look. Fever 104 FM‘s DJ Paran; DJ Vidhi & DJ Tuhin hosted their shows live from this customized PEPSI MY CAN studio. Along with this, contests were held around the canter, at selected venues of DU, Lajpat Nagar, PVR Saket and South Ex II on the theme of Pepsi My Can My Way, out of which the most wittiest & hilarious answers got a chance to go on- air with Fever 104 FM‘s DJ!

Speaking on this exciting initiative, Mr. Neeraj Chaturvedi, National Marketing Head said, "Fever 104 FM has a large audience base which is attractive to clients and we are well-equipped to handle large scale events and activities for our clients thereby providing a complete solution for them ‘Pepsi My show My way‘ concept goes well with our audience and is a perfect example of radio providing a 360 degree solution to clients. We are happy to partner with Pepsi to create this unique experience for the youth of Delhi."