MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM, the only station in Chennai which celebrates "Tamilian‘s Pride" today conducted a Blood donation camp in association with Lions blood bank Chennai. The camp was conducted in Marina and Besant Nagar beach, in continuation to the ongoing celebration of BIG 92.7 FM‘s second anniversary.

The camp was lead by RJs of BIG 92.7 FM who donated blood as a mark to thank all their listeners for supporting them for the past two years. Listeners of BIG 92.7 FM also participated in the camp.

About BIG 92.7 FM‘s anniversary celebration:
BIG 92.7 FM Chennai celebrated its second anniversary on 27th September 2008 with a BIG Bang. BIG 92.7 FM‘s birthday The celebration included loads of fun, listener interactions, prizes and activities made all Tamilians feel proud of being associated with the radio station.

On 26th September 2008, BIG 92.7 FM went live from outside the studio as all the RJs of BIG 92.7 FM did their shows live from various touch points of the city. The RJs touch based with Chennaites and played on-air games and contests thereby gratifying listeners with various gifts and goodies on the spot.

Speaking about the celebration PB Ramaswamy, Cluster Director, BIG 92.7 FM, TamilNadu said, "In Continuation with our tagline, Kekkalam Pesalam life Kondadalam, for the past two year we have been entertaining our listeners as well as creating awareness pertaining to various issues and events and will continue to do the same for the years to come. BIG 92.7 FM believes in involving its listeners in any celebration and hence we had lined up great on-air content and on-ground events exclusively to entertain our listeners."

MUMBAI: After 12 weeks of anxiety, applause, criticism, tension, disagreements & drama, the battle of sexes has reached its Grand Finale. Along with high-voltage dance, the show has always been high on strategy and skill sets, where both teams play their best cards to win the trophy for the ‘Champions of the Series‘. Keeping a watchful eye on all the movements of the contestants is the none other than masterji SAROJ KHAN, who will join the judges in the finale! But to everyone‘s surprise, the culmination of Zara Nachke Dikha takes a bizarre and unexpected turn, as one of the teams opts for a unique way of showing their disapproval. The unforeseen protest leaves all the 3 judges shocked and upset. Watch the biggest battle of the sexes on the dance floor end in a 3-hour nerve-wrecking special on Sunday, September 28 at 8 pm, exclusively on Star One.

To keep your pulse racing in the finale, ravishing Malaika Arora Khan and funnyman Chunky Pandey take the dance floor by storm. In this maha-exciting Grand Finale episode, all the 5 rounds will be a ‘Lagi Bet‘ round, where both teams will double their stakes to the finish line. Higher the bet, higher the gain or the loss! The only saving factor is perfect strategy & enthralling naach!

Here‘s a glimpse of some performances to look out for in the Grand Finale?

That‘s not all? Bringing respite to the tense atmosphere are the The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 4 contestants, Bharti and Albela. Gul Panag and Amrita Arora also join in to encourage both the teams and promote their upcoming movie "Hello". Not to be left behind are the effervescent hosts, Mr. Cool Karan Singh Grover and Ms. Wow Shweta Gulati, who enthrall the audience and judges with their scorching act!

Who will earn Sarojji‘s seetees? Who will be the Zara Nachke Dikha Champions? The entire nation awaits these answers! Tune-in to Star One for the best of entertainment & dance, on Sunday, Sept 28 at 8 pm and join in the celebration on the Zara Nachke Dikha Grand Finale!

MUMBAI: Zubin Mehta is coming to India next month to perform at a concert with the famous & most talented musician Placido Domingo and the finest Orchestra of the world ? The Vienna Philharmonic. Catch master conductor Zubin talk about this and more in an exclusive interview to NDTV 24x7.

Watch Zubin in a candid chat on his life, music and his days soaking in the sights, sounds and smell of India.

"I‘ve still not gotten used to western food, and chillies are my saviour... The chillies are not Indian, of course. I get whatever hot chillies I can lay hands on. You know for instance they have these dinners after concerts and sponsors?you know what kind of food you get there...that‘s when chillies save me," said Zubin Mehta on his taste for things Indian. He goes on to describe his love for Indian food and how he misses speaking Gujarati.

MUMBAI: CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards 2008 was held in Mumbai today to felicitate India‘s most preferred brands. The ceremony was presided over by esteemed luminaries like Sharad Pawar - Hon. Minister of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, Praful Patel - Hon. Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Mr. Vaidyanathan - Executive Director, ICICI Bank.

Leading research organisation ‘The Nielsen Company‘ conducted the research spanning 17 product and service categories across the country in 21 cities and 84 rural centres, with around 10,000 respondents covering all strata of society - voicing their opinion about their most preferred brands.
Keeping the brand perspective in mind, most companies have now started exploring lucrative opportunities in rural market and are making their brands available in these areas, as trends indicate that these rural markets are coming up in a big way and growing twice as fast as the urban ones. However, to tap these markets, the companies must communicate with their audiences in Hindi as it happens to be a major driving force for mass communication.

CNBC AWAAZ, India‘s No.1 Business Channel has been a pioneer in the Hindi business and consumer channel segment and has always captured the pulse of the market. Hindi as a language is witnessing increasing attention from advertisers. This phenomenon was discussed at an interactive session at ‘CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards 2008‘. Another discussion that gained a lot of audience participation was about consumer perspective on ‘Brand India‘. The discussions were hosted by the dynamic duo of Anuradha Sen Gupta - editor-anchor of CNBC-TV18‘s flagship feature show "Storyboard" and Prasoon Joshi- Chairman (Asia Pacific) - McCann-Erickson.

Commenting on the CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards, Mr. Neel Chowdhury, Vice President, Marketing CNBC-TV18 and CNBC AWAAZ said: "The marketers who understand the rural consumer and fine tune their strategy are sure to reap benefits in the coming years. In fact, the leadership in any product or service is linked to leadership in rural India. That is why CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards laid special emphasis on rural areas, with a quest to figure out India‘s most preferred brands. Over the years CNBC AWAAZ continues to be the Voice of the Indian Consumer by adding new insights to its awards every year".

MUMBAI: Intrigue, suspense, assassinations rules this September festival.

Different spices have different ways of tricking the protagonist. Be it sexy Angelina Jolie, Unruffled yet Calculative Jet Li, Kung Fu antics of Jackie Chan, Vengeful vendetta of Uma Thurman: a whole spectrum of the best of spies and assassins will thrill you this September on Bindass Movies.

If you think this is enough to hold up to wait as with Saturday XL cult and blockbuster movies- heating up Bindass movies extravaganza coming in October. As the new version of Batman and Joker have set the screens ablaze this season the original Joker Jack Nicholson terrorizes Gotham with his madness. As Adam Sandler comes to earth leaving his father- the satan, and as red headed Lola redefines action in Cult blockbuster Run Lola Run ? the final Sat XL this September is the second and final volume of Kill Bill- the movie which rewrote the rules of action saga.

We wanted our viewers to get electrified by action, drama hence we are encoding the Hollywood Hottest Spies and Assassins Festival this month along with world class movies being premiered on our channel to spice up the season", says Mansi Sapre,Head of Programming and Acquisition Bindass Movies.