MUMBAI: Yoga, meaning union in Sanskrit, is a composite of ancient spiritual practices, and also a school of spiritual thought that originated in India. It remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means to enlightenment. But how many of us really understand the benefits of it? Yoga is ‘therapeutic‘.

In today‘s world, we, human beings are increasingly becoming dependent on machines, to help us in our daily household chores and also at workplaces. This tends to make us lazy. People work for hours in office seated tightly on to their chairs, leading to total absence of any physical movement. Smoking, eating at odd hours, stress and other factors also lead to early degeneration of the human body. People are inflicted with ailments of the heart, liver and spine, quite early in their lives.

‘Yoga‘ comes to the picture, at this juncture. People hardly have time to work out in gyms. In contrast practice yoga at your leisure and in the comfort of your home. It not only relaxes you, but keeps you fresh, unwinds you and makes you feel energetic throughout the day.

‘No Full Stops‘ takes you through a different world of Yoga with its different forms and benefits.Yoga interlinks mind and body and given the right tools, it can find harmony and heal in itself. No Full Stops‘ takes a sneak peek at Power Yoga, artistic yoga, couple yoga and facial yoga.Power Yoga does not follow a set series of poses. In the west, it‘s described as fitness based approach to vinasa style yoga. Artistic Yoga is a completely new genre of yoga exercising, developed by Himalayan master Bharat Thakur. It is a flow of asanas (yoga positions) combined with pranayama (breathing techniques) that energizes the body and quietens the mind.The couple Yoga celebrates the relationship with yoga therapy,little massage and a lot of heart and soul communication. Isn‘t it romantic? Facial yoga is a series of toning exercises, for the muscles of your face, which claims to erase wrinkles.

So why wait? Tune into TIMES NOW this Saturday and have a spiritual, healing and a relaxing weekend in midst of a stress stricken environment and enhance your life for the better!

MUMBAI: Commemorating the spirit of true friendship in an absolute ‘Whatte Fun‘ style, Radio City 91.1FM is all set to observe ‘Friendship Day‘ with Radio Cityzens across the nation. Wholeheartedly rejoicing this day dedicated to honour friendship, the FM brand is hosting a series of activities and fun contests for listeners to celebrate this cherished bond.

Mumbai‘s Radio City 91.1FM is observing Friendship Day with the ‘City ka Dost‘ contest. This unique contest allows listeners to build their network of friends through the FM station. From July 31 to Aug 2, 2008, listeners are invited to register themselves for ‘City ka Dost‘. On every show, the RJ will select 2 lucky listeners and each one gets to start his own friendship chain. Over the course of each show, these listeners have to call their friends and invite them to vote for them. The one with the greatest number of votes wins this fun contest.

Building up to Friendship Day, Chennai‘s Radio City 91.1FM featured an innovative capsule called ‘Radio Card‘ with RJ Archana on ‘Endrendrum Punnagai‘ (2-5PM) all week from July 28 - Aug 1, 2008. This special capsule allows the listener to design and create his very own on-air Friendship Day Greeting for his dearest friends in his own voice! The listener can also choose his favourite music for the ‘Radio Card‘ and save his personalized message or song to be played in the background. The FM station will air ‘Radio Card‘ from Chennai‘s Radio Cityzens all day long on Sunday, Aug 3, 2008.

Sharing his thoughts on plans for the day, Mr. Rana Barua, Executive Vice-President and National Head - Programming and Marketing, Radio City 91.1FM said, "It‘s the simpler things in life which allow us to make a difference! As an FM station, we‘re constantly bridging distances and bringing people together by taking their messages across the city. This Friendship Day, we‘re bringing our listeners innovative programming like ‘Radio Card‘ and ‘City Ka Dost‘ among many others to further spice their celebrations for the occasion. We‘ve always endeavoured to enhance our bond with our listeners through these simple gestures and the feedback to each has been remarkable every time!"

Pune‘s Radio City 91.1FM is celebrating the spirit of friendship with 50 lucky Punekars who get to attend a Special Friendship Day Party on Sunday, Aug 3, 2008 organized by Centurion Hotels and Resorts. The station will salute some of the most famous Bollywood friendships - like Musical Maestro duo‘s Vishal-Shekhar, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Salim-Suleiman and Naresh-Paresh, who will go on-air on a special capsule titled ‘Bollywood Ke Best Musical Friends‘.

Lucknow‘s Radio City 91.1FM will welcome Friendship Day with the ‘Yaari Dosti Gang War‘ contest. Listeners are invited to register for this contest wherein they can bring along their ‘gang‘ of friends to East End Mall Wave Cinema on Sunday, August 3, 2008. Here they can meet their favourite RJs and participate in a collage making competition where the group that makes the best collage wins prizes courtesy Lucknow‘s Radio City 91.1FM.

Coimbatore‘s Radio City 91.1FM is celebrating Friendship Day with the ‘Whatte Friend‘ contest on Saturday, Aug 2, 2008. The FM station is inviting pairs of friends to register themselves for this mini-treasure hunt. On Aug 2, 20 such lucky pairs will be invited in-studios where 10 teams will be shortlisted to participate in the ‘Whatte Friend‘ mini-treasure hunt. The first pair to complete the hunt around Coimbatore city and reach the Radio City office stands to win this contest with loads to prizes to win courtesy Coimbatore‘s Radio City 91.1FM.

Extending the friendship waves across Bangalore city, Bengalurina‘s Radio City 91.1FM will bridge the geography of the nation by creating the longest chain of friends. RJs across shows would be connecting with listeners across the city and would be patching them up with their friends - both known and lesser known. The FM station also be distributing friendship bands to these listeners across the day

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 and be an integral part of the lives of listeners. Aggressively looking at spreading the Radio City experience to new markets across the country, Radio City 91.1FM is committed to growing the market and creating superlative content for discerning audiences.

MUMBAI: Zee News rocks and again makes its way to the top!!

As per the latest TAM (Television Audience Measurement) results, for week 30, Zee News has been recognized as the most preferred news channel. The research analysis also signifies that the average time spent by each viewer watching Zee News is fifty minutes.

The findings showcase that Zee News has emerged as one of the desired news channels. Viewers spend their maximum time watching Zee News even when country was going through National crises which include political crises and terrorism. The ratings clearly highlight the credibility and the reliability factor that audiences trust and believe in Zee News.

Highlighting the success, Barun Das, CEO, Zee News Ltd. said, "We at Zee News have always believed in the power of authenticity and credibility of news. We respect our audience, their intelligence and time. We have always endeavoured to provide them with news that is real, relevant and newsworthy. The TAM results are very encouraging and we are confident that we will repeat the success by offering content that is informative and educative for our viewers."

The recently declared TAM results have placed Zee News ahead of other Hindi News channels like Star News, India TV, NDTV India, Aaj Tak, IBN 7 among others.

MUMBAI: Cricketnirvana.com, the soul of Indian cricket, is a cricket information platform which is truly one of a kind. How else can someone explain the fact that within just four months of being launched, the website has 75000 registered users, 1 million unique views and a whopping 10 million page views. In fact it is all set to cross the 10 million page views per month mark in August 2008. This number is expected to jump to an unbelievable 30 million with the upcoming cricket season from October to December 2008.

Perhaps these numbers were proof enough for PC World to award it with the ?best in design? award recently.

The platform boasts of a massive amount of information on cricket, be it featuring young and upcoming players like Cheteshwar Anand, who is touted as being ?the Next Wall? to a special section on women?s cricket. Cricketnirvana is the only site that has a section dedicated specially to women?s cricket, where it regularly features Indian & international women cricketers.

Cricketing ?action? takes a whole new meaning on Cricketnirvana , with the Video on Demand (VoD) service, using which registered members can watch latest matches at any time and also exciting shows like SportsZone, Dial C for Cricket and Cricket Tadka Maarke which could previously be watched only on NEO Cricket.

Coming as a big surprise is the fact that in spite of being a new entrant in the cricketing cyber world, the Cricketnirvana has been successful in being the first one to break global cricket news. Within a span of 4 months, Cricketnirvana has become a force to reckon with, as established players like Cricinfo and wire services like ANI and Indian and International publications like Sydney Herald, Mid-day and Mumbai Mirror have been quoting stories from the site.

Cricket lovers would know that the first time they read about

Mohd. Asif testing positive

ICC CEO Malcolm Speed being sacked or

Lloyd taking over as ICC cricket committee chairman was on Cricketnirvana.

The site is able to do this because Nimbus Communications, the group which Cricketnirvana belongs to, has bought the global media rights (terrestrial and global satellite TV, radio and broadband) for cricket in India upto 2010 through a $ 612 million (Rs. 2600 crore) bid.

Cricket fans would be happy to know that now; they too, can own a team, albeit a virtual one, a la Shahrukh Khan. Members can take part in the contest ?Fantasy Cricket? and create their virtual teams using real world players. The fun doesn?t end there. Winners of this contest get to appear on NEO Cricket?s interactive show, Dial C for Cricket and also get a chance to meet their favourite cricket stars.

With news, information, contests and exciting prizes, Cricketnirvana is definitely a boon for cricket lovers.