MUMBAI: ICICI Bank Business banking presents CNBC-TV18 ‘Emerging India Awards London-2008‘ creates a global mark, with its theme ‘Think Global Go Global‘, India‘s biggest initiative for Small and Medium Enterprises Sector. The Emerging India Awards London- 2008 felicitation ceremony for the winning SMEs is scheduled for July 8, 2008 in London where the Honorable Chief Guest Mr. L N Mittal, Chairman and CEO, Mittal Steel will felicitate the winners.

The award ceremony will be graced by stalwarts like Rt. Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Mr. Kamalnath, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, who will felicitate some of the winners from the 16 categories.

The second round of screening will result in the short listing of 3 entities per category. Each of the 3 short listed entries made a final round of offsite presentations about their respective businesses to a jury of independent experts. The jury selected the winners in each category after evaluating the SME‘s overall business, financial and management strengths and their ability for sustainable value creation for key stakeholders. This year a new factor has been taken into consideration for the International SME‘s where their business linkages with India and strategic focus on the Indian market will be been evaluated. The evaluation was also done keeping in mind the economic dynamics of regions and the company‘s efforts.

MUMBAI: UTV Movies, the Hindi movie channel by UTV Network, announces the launch of its movie festival - Josh-e-Jawaani. The festival in the month of July, begins on the 6th of July and celebrates the josh of youth. The movies would be showcased every Sunday in the slot "Sunday ke Funday" at 12:30 p.m.

The festival consists of great movies centered around the youth like Lakshya, Yuva, Delhii Heights and Jab We Met. All these movies have been hits in their own right and have earned accolades for their stupendous performances and story lines.

Commenting on the festival, UTV Movies, COO, Dilshad Master said, "Josh-e-Jawani is about movies that inspire the youth to excel and at the same time are high on life and entertainment. Josh-e-Jawaani is dedicated to the young Indians who play an important role in making movies successful at the box office. So, here‘s a month-long festival on UTV Movies especially for them which brings them movies they can relate to."

Tune-in to UTV Movies every Sunday in July at 12:30 pm for entertaining blockbusters centered around the youth:

• 6th July - Delhii Heights - Jimmy Shergill and Neha Dhupia
• 13th July - Yuva - Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi
• 20th July - Jab We Met - Shahid Kapur and Kareena Kapoor
• 27th July - Lakshya - Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta
  

MUMBAI: This episode of Salaam Zindagi talks about a problem in the society, a problem which is now taken the shape of tumor as it is hushed up in the dark corners. It is hidden even though it is prevalent because there is a shame, a stigma attached to it. The victims are those who do not even understand what is happening to them; do not even know if it is right or wrong but they face it in their tender age?.when their mind is naive of all the grime in the society.

Catch Naghma Sehar speaks to veteran director Anurag Kashyap, of Black Friday fame, along with three other brave people on the show who have been victims of child sexual abuse, but able to come out of it and now gather the courage to talk to us about it on Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 6:00pm and its repeat telecast on July 7, 2008 at 2:30 pm, (Part I) & July 8, 2008 at 2:30 pm (Part II) only on NDTV India.

MUMBAI: Outlook Group launches PEOPLE, the world‘s leading celebrity news magazine, in India under a licensing agreement with Time Inc. Time Inc. is the largest magazine publisher in the United States.

With the India edition, PEOPLE makes its overseas debut as a fortnightly national celebrity news magazine. Priced at Rs 30, the first issue [114 pages] will be launched nationwide on 4 July, 2008.

PEOPLE revolutionized personality journalism in 1974 and is today the world‘s most successful and popular magazine. Every week, the PEOPLE brand in the United States brings more than 43 million consumers the latest news, exclusive interviews and in-depth reporting on the most compelling people of our time. PEOPLE India will be a fortnightly magazine. It will be a celebrity news magazine that will showcase ‘Extraordinary People ‘ and ‘Extraordinary Stories‘. The first issue will be available on newsstands July 04, 2008 nationally.

Mr. Indranil, President, Outlook Group, while announcing the launch said, "We are delighted to be associated with Time Inc, one of the world‘s largest magazine publishers and to bring PEOPLE‘s unique editorial mix to India. The launch of PEOPLE will actually create a new genre, which is the "celebrity news magazine".

"The economic growth and opportunity in India right now makes this an ideal time to bring one of Time Inc‘s signature brands into the country," said Mr. Jim Jacovides, Vice President, Licensing and Syndication, Time Inc. Mr. Jacovides group is responsible for the licensing and syndication of Time Inc.‘s leading brands globally. "We are pleased to add PEOPLE to our roster of 35 international editions published under license. "

Ms. Saira Menezes, Editor, PEOPLE in India, said, "We hope to be the biggest, most credible source of information on the people you want to know and the moment that shapes their lives. PEOPLE strives to tell stories that resonate, tell them well and to be at the same time fair, objective, factual and true."

MUMBAI: What?s The Next Stop For Crude Oil ? Will it go up further or down. Find out from legendary investor and commodity market guru Jim Rogers as he speaks out in an exclusive interview with English business news channel UTVi. ?Hot Commodities? will air on Saturday at 2:30 & 11:30 pm and on Sunday at 1:30 pm & 4:30 pm respectively.

Interviewing Jim Rogers will be Stocks Editor Rahul Arora, who hosts UTVi?s prime time stock market shows like Dealing Room & Tomorrow?s Bets. In the half-hour interview, Jim speaks on speculation in the oil market, the need for investments in gold, the need for correction in base metals, agri-commodities, the recession of the dollar in the US market, advice about investment as well as the future of India and China.

Jim Rogers is a legendary top-down global investor; he takes bets on countries. He was George Soros‘s partner for 10 years and chose to "retire" in 1980 to pursue another career. Between 1990 and 1992, he traveled the world on a motorcycle to gain firsthand knowledge of the world. He wrote about his experiences in Investment Biker: Around The World With Jim Rogers and followed this up with a unique combination of travel, adventure, risk, economics and investing. He went around the world once again in the late 1990s, this time in a modified Mercedes and wrote Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip Jim follows commodites very closely and wrote a book on the subject three years ago. The title - Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World?s Best Market.

Rogers likes to enter a country and buy stocks before any other foreign investor. And he is known to short a country just when everybody‘s else is turning bullish. Besides managing his own portfolio, he has taught Finance at Columbia Business School and hosted finance shows on television. So tune in to UTVi this weekend for an exclusive tete a tete with Jim Roger.

MUMBAI: What do these Hollywood blockbusters - Da Vinci Code, Pink Panther, Munich and Rush Hour 3 have in common? Not only do they owe their success to excellent film-making, but also attribute its success to the visually captivating and one of the most splendid landscapes and architectural masterpieces of France!

Closer home, Raj Kapoor‘s 1964 blockbuster hit "Sangam" was the first Indian movie shot in France, and after the success of Don and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom more Indian producers are now viewing France as the next hot Film shoot destination.

Last week a delegation of Indian producers visited the regions of Provence-Alpes-C?te d‘Azur and Rh?nes-Alpes, with the purpose of using France as a location for their future shoots. Put together for the giants of the Indian film fraternity by Maison de la France India and Film France, this was the very first time that the national agencies for promotion of tourism and film came together to put up such a project.

This trip, aptly nicknamed "Sangam Tour" - a tribute to the 1964 masterpiece created by Raj Kapoor, the very first Indian film shot in France - has enabled these great directors of Indian cinema to discover PACA and Rh?nes-Alpes. After being astonished with the number of spectacular landscapes of Nice, they then discovered the regions of Provence, le Lub?ron, Lyon and massif of Mont Blanc. "I didn‘t expect such diversity in landscapes: The different number of backdrops which we can use in our films has surpassed all our expectations. All of us are very tempted", confides Suresh Laxmanan, producer of the 2007 super hit movie Billa.

"Helping them discover the regions of C?te d‘Azur and the Alpine mountains has allowed us to broaden the Indian producer‘s perception of France. In this manner we will be able to increase the number of Indian film shootings in France which, in these last few years, were concentrated only on Paris and Corsica", explains Franck Priot, Deputy Director of Film France.

While Niranjan Patwardhan has already made plans to return to France in August to shoot his next blockbuster -Fashion with leading Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra, Mr. Ravi Gupta, C.E.O of Mukta Arts in Bombay appreciates the quality of light in the south of France, and how fast it is to travel from the Mediterranean to the Alps. "I am convinced that filming in France is economically reasonable when you consider all that you will be capturing on camera; A rich heritage of natural and historical landscapes", says Ravi Gupta.

Maison de la France, the French tourist office in India aims at promoting France as a tourist destination whereas Film France, a part of the Ministry of culture strives to popularise France as a filming destination. The nuptial of cinema and tourism is the very first one of its kind. "Promoting France to the Indian producers is the current important project we are working on and which is fundamental for our strategy in this market. In India, Cinema and Tourism are intimately linked to each other, every Indian production that is accomplished in France will increase the tourist inflow in the country", explains Karim Mekachera, Director of Maison de la France India.

The Producers Who Visited France:
Mr. Sridhar Viswanathan Lakshmi- Oscar Films Pvt Ltd
Mr. Ravi Gupta - Mukta Arts
Mr. Niranjan R. Patwardhan - UTV Motion Pictures
Mr. Suresh Laxmanan - Ananda Pictures Circuit
Ms. Shenazz Bomanshah Nadirshah - freelance producer representing Pictures Ltd and Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd.