MUMBAI: Zee TV announces the launch of, the first of its kind, family game show ?Wheel Ghar Ghar Mein? ? fursat ke lamhe starting 20th April 2009, Mon-Fri at 7pm. A unique family-based game show which is all about ?mohalla, masti and lots of fun is being made by the makers of the country?s most popular musical talent hunt ?Sa Re Ga Ma Pa?, the Zee TV in-house team. This is a distinctive concept in the Hindi GEC that combines emotions, entertainment, people and of course, loads of money!

The show is a competition between two families who will be asked simple questions that get tougher as the rounds progress. Each family will have one anchor by their side, and the two people who have been selected to essay this role are Manish Paul (Ex VJ Zee Muzic and Radio Jockey for a popular channel) and Vipul Roy (winner of the Best Screen Personality award in the country?s only talent hunt India?s Best and the anchor for Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Spotlight).

Commenting on the show, Mr. Nitin Vaidya, COO of ZEEL and Business Head of Zee TV, said, ?We are traveling through the length the breadth of the country and are picking people from various cultures and traditions. What has emerged so far is a beautiful lattice work of incredible India! Also noteworthy is the fact that we have a segment on home remedies in the show for which we have set up a local panel in each city. This panel will consist of people from various fields who are known names in travel, healthcare, medicine, beauty, lifestyle etc. These quick tips are sure to be found very useful by our viewers.?

Besides the daily winners in each episode, the show will also announce a mega winner every week. The mega winner will be amongst the families who have been competing with each other through the week. The daily winners get to take home cash prizes, sarees, a gift hamper from Wheel and other expensive gifts while the weekly winners get the opportunity of winning ?gold to the amount proportionate to their body weight and a holiday package worth Rs. One lakh?, in addition to their daily prize!!

MUMBAI: Come the auspicious festival of Baisakhi on 13th of April and BIG 92.7 FM listeners in Delhi, Chandigarh and other Punjab stations will enjoy a volley of offerings lined up by the Stations. Starting on 9 April, BIG FM will customise its programming content in true Punjabi style with oodles of humour, music and contests.

Baisakhi is all about starting afresh and in keeping with this thought, BIG FM has lined up some great on-air and on-ground offerings which will make this festival truly memorable for its listeners.

BIG 92.7 FM?s Delhi Station is all set to make this Baisakhi ?Meetha ? Chatpata ? Namkeen? for its listeners! Delhi-ites don?t need a reason to celebrate and have fun, but live each day to the fullest and it would be no different this Baisakhi. Beginning with the on-air offerings, BIG FM will invite listeners to share their ?Meetha?, ?Chatpata?, and ?Namkeen? moments in the year gone by. Along with this, listeners will also get the opportunity to sing their favourite song in true Punjabi style on-air and win fabulous prizes. As part of the highly engaging on air offerings, an interesting contest will played which will challenge listeners to recite evergreen Bollywood dialogues in Punjabi style! The winners of these contests will get a change to have a Baisakhi special meal with their favourite RJs. On Baisakhi Day, famous Punjabi singer ? Shankar Sahney will visit the BIG FM studios and celebrate the festival with lucky listeners. Shankar will also treat listeners to some excellent music.

At the BIG FM Chandigarh Station, BIG RJs ? Anubhav and Satya will visit the City Centre Shopping Mall and organise various fun contests like ? Lassi Drinking, Turban Tying, Fancy Dress and a special Treasure Hunt. As part of its on-air offering, listeners will get a chance to win special Baisakhi gift vouchers by answering simple questions of the Baisakhi contest.

BIG FM Jalandhar will organize a ?Pagdi Tying? Competition for the Male listeners and a ?Giddha? competition for female listeners at the City Shopping Mall. The city residents will get to win lost of prizes by participating in the Pagdi Tying and Giddha competitions at the shopping malls. The station will also celebrate its 2nd anniversary with some special on air programming mix called ?Double Music? starting from Baisakhi.

Going the traditional way, BIG FM Patiala will celebrate Baisakhi with the Farmers of the adjoining villages. BIG FM?s RJ Rohit will visit various villages adjoining the city with traditional music instruments like the dhol and play them with farmers in a true ?Baisakhi? style. Following the tradition RJ Rohit will also distribute some fresh Ladoos amongst the farmers. The station is plying Punjabi Music to celebrate the spirits of the festival. The Station will also offer some special Punjabi Programming Mix as a part of the Baisakhi celebrations.

Commenting about this festive offering, Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, Regional Head (North & West) ? BIG 92.7 FM, said ?Baisakhi is a festival to celebrate a brand new season and we are extremely excited to celebrate it with our listeners, in true Punjabi style! We look forward to making Baisakhi truly special for them by offering a plethora of programming and on-ground activities which are not only fun to listen to but to participate in too. It is our endeavour at BIG FM to offer listeners superlative quality of entertainment, and occasions and festivals such as Baisakhi become yet another reason to celebrate and ensure high entertainment. We wish all our listeners a very happy Baisakhi.

MUMBAI: Bharat Matrimony and BIG 92.7 FM has come forward to celebrate April 14th, 2009 as ‘Matrimony Day‘ on-air. All the shows of BIG 92.7 FM starting from Kalakkal Kaalai hosted by RJ BIG Dheena will have content based on matrimonial, For example what is Matrimonial day and why is it celebrated etc.

The shows will also have listener‘s point of view on marriages and husband and wife sharing their wedding experience. Apart from innovative content there will also be experts from various fields who will talk about various concepts related to wedding.

There is also an innovative on-air contest, where listeners can get to win cool prizes. If any listener‘s wedding day happens to be on 14th April he/she can SMS to 55454 to enter the contest and win gifts from BIG 92.7 FM.

To know more about ‘Matrimony day‘ tune in to BIG 92.7 FM

MUMBAI: The new season of the MotoGP starts with the season-opener in Qatar, and the race from Losail, followed by the entire season, will be available live and exclusive on Ten Sports, the most watched sports channel in the Sub-continent.

Live telecast of the CommercialBank Grand Prix of Qatar, which is held under lights, starts 10:15 pm IST on Sunday, April 12.

Valentino Rossi begins the defence of his MotoGP World Championship this weekend, and the Yamaha rider is in high spirits ahead of the first race of the year, even though rival Casey Stoner seems to have a hold in Qatar, where the Aussie will be going for his third straight win this year.

Rossi, who won at Losail in 2005 and 2006 but finished fifth last year, said: ?Qatar isn?t one of our strongest tracks, but we still have a few cards to play and I hope that a little more work will see us improve for the first race.?

Rossi?s immediate concern is the pace being shown by Stoner on his Ducati, but the Italian said not much should be read into the tests.

?Tests really mean nothing once you get to racing, the situation is totally different and really we have little idea what will happen until we get there. It?s all very exciting!

?I?m feeling confident, we?re in good shape even if we?re going to what was our worst track during testing, but I am happy about the performance of my M1 in general; Yamaha have done a great job and so this makes me happy.?

Meanwhile, Stoner issued an early warning to his rivals by clocking the fastest time in the first free practice for the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix on Friday, thus laying to rest any worries about his left wrist surgery last November.

Despite no lateral movement in the wrist, he timed 1 minute, 57.053 seconds around 17 laps of the Losail circuit in pleasant conditions. Rossi was second in 1:57.439

MUMBAI: Public Relations Council of India (PRCI), in a glittering function in Bangalore on April 3-4, 2009 presented "Annual PRCI Chanakya Awards 2009" and the "PRCI Corporate Collateral Awards 2009." Deepak Jolly, Vice-President, Public Affairs and Communication, Coca-Cola India, received the PRCI Corporate Collateral Awards 2009. He also spoke about the efforts undertaken by the Coca-Cola towards sustainability.

He specializes in the field of Corporate Communications, Public Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Consumer Response and Incident Management & Crisis Resolution. The event also featured the much awaited The ‘Hall of Fame in PR - 2009‘ for communication professionals across the industry during the meet. The meet focused on the role of PR and corporate communications with special emphasis on social issues.

This is the third award in 2009 after Coca-Cola India was conferred upon the Golden Pegasus Award and Golden Peacock Award for their initiatives towards Water and Environment Conservation early this year.

This year‘s theme focused on the various social issues that are affecting the world today, including communal disharmony, terrorism, social intolerance, global warming, female infanticide, meltdown, corruption, traffic woes, water scarcity amongst others and role of communications thereof. The meet also discussed on how, as responsible citizens and as experienced PR communication practitioners, these issues can be tackled and addressed.