MUMBAI: MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 - the baap of all rides meets its end at Kuala Lumpur and Ashutosh Kaushik, the seedha-saadha village boy was declared the ultimate Roadie! The exhilarating journey which began with a big bang in Goa finishes off with an explosion in Malaysia where the most laid-back no non-sense guy turned out to be one of the ultimate schemers of MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0.

This small town ‘dhaba-wala‘ went through three rounds of auditions in Delhi, Lucknow and finally Jaipur where he was chosen on account of his astounding ape-like antics. The simpleton thought airports had platforms and was unsure whether he‘d get food on the flight! Along with the Thai-boxing escapade he was the only Roadie who got away with not eating the nauseating oriental fare. Love at first sight was just a village fairy tale till he set his eyes on fellow Roadie, Sonel! So at the end of it, third-time-lucky Aashu had first-hand luck all the way. Even though he wore his heart on his sleeve, his mind was on the game and feet on the ground, showing true Roadie spirit all through the journey! Says Ashish Patil, General Manager MTV India and VP Creative & Content, "After a 16 week long grueling journey full of action, adventure, fights, betrayals, drama, accidents, romance, jealousy across 3 countries - MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 reached its climax. Where two friends fought it out to find the last Roadie standing. This has by far been the most explosive season of Roadies!"

Comments an ecstatic Ashu, "Roadies ne mujhe joh sikhaya hai woh mein apni puri zindagi mein nahi seekh paata. Duniya ki sair bhi ho gayi aur naye dost bhi ban gaye!"

The Roadies have come a long way with the hard-hitting reality of dangerous tasks and even more dodgy contestants. Every vote-out was a bitch-fest, filled with back-stabbing and lying. In the midst of all the bogus comradeships and phony flirt-trips there did surface friendships, bhaicharis and a whole lot of love stories!

Says Raghu, AVP, Shows-MTV, "Throughout the journey crafty schemes, devious plots and blatant deception all lived in harmony. Roadies is a reality show that not only tests how strong you are physically but also mentally. This is time around the tasks were more dangerous and the game more twisted and Aashu outsmarted them all!"

MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 showed an astounding 60% increase in viewing, rating over this season and has a fan following of over 1,50,000 members on Orkut and 13,000 members on Facebook. The mere popularity of Roadies has generated an underground cult following that discusses each Roadies Episode, contestants, the task and much more. For more information on MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 and to apply for auditions for the 6th season log on to mtvindia.com/roadies.

The 5th season of MTV Hero Honda Roadies, presented by Hero Honda Karizma, rolled out with telecom partner Airtel and associate sponsors Wrangler Helmets, Mountain Dew, Wrigley‘s Doublemint, Garnier Fructis and Sony Ericsson. The partners on ‘MTV Hero Honda Roadies‘ 5.0 include IBN7, Red FM, PVR, Giftmate, Zapak and Caf? Coffee Day.

MUMBAI: South Mumbai?s favorite movie destination INOX gives you one more reason to go to the movies. Refuel, its in-house F&B outlet is all set to entice patrons with the best thing about summer ? Alphonso mangoes! Mango Magic, Mango Pastry, Mango Smoothies are just some of the delicious mango based desserts on offer at INOX.

Mr. Arun Bhatia, General Manager - INOX Nariman Point said "?The mango festival has always been a huge success and is back again due to popular demand. We always try and give our patrons a variety of snacks to choose from ? and what can be more apt than Mango based desserts this season??

INOX offers easy and convenient modes of ticket booking. Patrons can book
their movie tickets from the INOX box office, from their mobiles by SMSing INOX to 575757, online on www.inoxmovies.com, or get them delivered to their doorsteps by calling (022) 66595959.

Live the movie only at INOX!

MUMBAI: The excitement of the upcoming Star Parivaar Awards 2008 unfolds with another nomination episode of the series on Sunday, 25 May, 10 pm only on Star Plus.

In keeping with the upbeat mood, the second nomination episode is an exciting episode with members from the older family, Tanya (Rakshanda Khan) and Ganga (Shilpa Saklani) meeting the new families and breaking the ice between them. Rano (Aarti Singh) and Simar (Khushbu) are invited to the Virani household and are asked to please Ganga and Tanya so as to get an invite for the much awaited Reliance Mobile Star Parivaar Awards. Rano and Simar make a beautiful Rangoli to earn their invitation to the awards.

Meanwhile, Gattu (Deven Bhojani) is at his home, calculating the awards his family is expected to bag at the upcoming award ceremony. He is filled with excitement on hearing that Ragini (Parul Chauhan), Sadhna (Sara Khan) and Alekh (Angad Hasija) are going to visit him soon. Baa (Sarita Joshi) expresses her desire that the new parivaar should imbibe the family values and traditions from the older members of the family.

On the other hand, the Virani household is filled with noisy activity as Gudiya (Shewta Keswani) from Baa Bahoo Aur Baby strolls in and announces in her heavy Punjabi accent that she intends to wear a Bengali sari for the award function. Ganga offers to get her help from Gauri (Pallavi Subhash) of Karam Apna Apna in draping her Bengali saree. Gauri promptly aggress to help Gudia with her saree but only if Tanya agrees to help her with some garba steps.

Suhana (Daljeet Kaur), accompanied by her father Parikshit (Diwakar Pundhir) from Santaan, also visits Ganga and Tanya to grab their invite for the Star Parivaar Awards A game of dumb-charades follows where they imitate popular characters from STAR Plus? shows.

Chotu (Bharat Chawda) of Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki and Madan (Shaleen Bhanot) of Sangam engage in an aggressive arm wrestling in order to grab the only invite left until Tanya separates them.

Yudishtir (Kapil Soni) of Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat is the next to face Tanya?s bullying. Relenting Tanya?s demands, he finally agrees to sing a song in order to bag the coveted invite!

To catch all the excitement, don?t miss the action packed Nomination Special II of Reliance Mobile Star Parivaar Awards 2008, Sun, 25 May, 10 p.m. only on Star Plus!

MUMBAI: Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth solutions, has selected Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) for its regional network in the Northeastern U.S. Infinera will bring the speed, responsiveness and flexibility of an Infinera Digital Optical Network to Zayo?s business, giving Zayo contiguous service from Chicago to New York and Washington, DC.

Based in Louisville, Colorado, Zayo Bandwidth, a Zayo Group business, operates regional networks in the Northeast, Midwest, Minnesota and the Memphis, Tennessee area. Zayo offers a wide range of telecom services including private line, Ethernet, wavelength, Internet and colocation services to customers in the telecom, enterprise and government sectors and other bandwidth-intensive organizations. Zayo has raised more than $340 million in private equity and debt financing to support an aggressive plan to provide telecom services in selected regional markets where demand is growing rapidly.

Zayo has deployed Infinera in the busy northeastern corridor from New York to Washington, DC as well as interconnecting Chicago to the east coast to serve the increasing bandwidth requirements of its customers. Zayo chose Infinera because the Infinera Digital ROADM offers high capacity and integrated, reconfigurable switching, enabling Zayo to provision or reconfigure bandwidth quickly and cost-effectively.

?The Infinera system is very easy to provision and operate,? commented Zayo Bandwidth Vice President of Engineering Troy Kau. He added: ?Zayo Bandwidth?s mission is to be responsive, and Infinera enables us to be agile and configure our network quickly to meet the needs of our customers.?

?Zayo has a visionary business plan to offer the latest technology and great customer service to its customers and we are delighted to support their efforts with an Infinera Digital Optical Network,? said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.

The Infinera DTN system is based on Infinera?s innovative large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate more than 60 optical devices on a pair of chips, to enable an optical system with 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of capacity on every line card. The PIC-based system enables Infinera?s Bandwidth Virtualization, an architecture where a wide range of services, from 1 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s today, and 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s services in the future, can be quickly provisioned and reconfigured from a pool of readily available bandwidth which is installed in 100 Gb/s increments.

The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.

MUMBAI: Duncans Tea Limited (DTL) has announced a distribution tie up with IRCTC (catering division of Indian Railways) to serve Double Diamond tea bags to all passengers traveling on select routes in the country.

Through this tie-up, DTL aims to tap the "huge market potential" provided by the Indian Railways. To start with, DTL will be supplying Double Diamond Tea bags to Indian railways.

DTL has also adopted some new marketing strategies with their tie-ups with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL). DTL tea packets will now be available with the LPG suppliers when they go to deliver the LPG cylinders to customers.

In an endeavor to explore other distribution channels, DTL has also entered into a tie-up with CSD canteens of the Indian Army to cater to the armed forces even at remote locations.

It has also launched the tea brand "Sargam" in the Army CSD canteens at a lower price with the purpose of "catering quality tea to the custodians of the nation". DTL has tied up with Central Police canteen, which is a new setup to cater to the other branches of the armed forces.

Speaking on the occasion, Duncans Tea Ltd COO M. C. Appaiah said, "We are proud to be associated with these leading organisations and are actively exploring several alternative and innovative channels of distributions. These distribution tie-ups will help us reach out to all sections across the country."

MUMBAI: Terry Evanshen had a perfect life: at twelve he met Lorraine, his true love, future wife and mother of his three daughters Tara, Tracy and Jennifer, and decided to become an Canadian football star, which the hunk did brilliantly.

After a near-fatal car accident, Canadian football pro Terry Evanshen (Elliott) awakens with no memory of his wife, Lorraine (Crewson), his kids or the life he had. Evanshen and his wife must struggle to reconstruct the pieces of their life together. Based on a true story, this romantic tale chronicles one couple?s attempts to find the love that first brought them together.

Are Lorraine‘s flash-backs to happier days just a cruel memory, or can he learn to become their loving husband and dad again?