MUMBAI: The action just gets hotter in the UEFA Champions League and a thrilling climax is in the offing as Europe?s premier club championship enters it quarter-finals stage.

And Ten Sports, the most watched sports channel of the sub-continent, which has the exclusive rights for the Champions League in the Sub-continent, will be there along with its ace presenter Joe Morrison to add to the excitement of the live action from all four first-leg quarter-final matches on Tuesday, April 1, and Wednesday, April 2.

Tuesday?s action sees the top two scorers in the championship so far ? Manchester United?s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona?s Lionel Messi (both six goals) ? getting ready to add to their tally when the English Premier League leaders Man United take on Italian Serie A side AS Roma at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, while Spanish giants Barca travel to Germany for a match-up against FC Schalke.

And on Wednesday, three Premier League teams will be in action when Ave Grant?s Chelsea plays away against Turkish side Fenerbah?e, followed by the much awaited clash between Arsenal and Liverpool, twice finalists in last three years.

The Roma-Manchester match kicks off the proceedings at 11:30 pm IST on Tuesday, April 1, followed by the Schalke-Barcelona match at 2:15 am IST early Wednesday morning. The matches will be repeated from 9:30 am on Wednesday.

The Arsenal-Liverpool clash on Wednesday starts 11:30 pm IST, followed by the Chelsea?s match against Fenerbahce at 2:15 am. Repeat telecast of the matches will start Thursday morning at 8:30 am IST.

Premier League leaders United face Roma in a repeat of last season?s bitter-sweet fixture for the English club. The first leg was marred by the stabbings of 12 United fans outside the Stadio Olimpico stadium ? and the Red Devils went on to lose. In the return fixture, Roma were humiliated at Old Trafford, suffering a 7-1 thrashing.

The two teams were also drawn in the group stages this season where United triumphed 2-1 at home before drawing 1-1 away.

At the Emirates Stadium, the all-Premier League clash between Arsenal and Liverpool should be interesting. Arsenal have been in poor form in recent weeks, dropping from title leaders to trail by six points in third place. But having dumped the defending champions AC Milan in the pre-quarters, you can?t really hand it over to Rafa Benitez?s men, despite the awesome form of striker Fernando Torres.

Chelsea have a somewhat easier route playing Fernabache, in Turkey, while Barcelona should also make a move into the semi-finals with a victory against Schalke.

MUMBAI: It was Chak de for the ‘Chak De India‘ team at the Sunsilk Apsara, The Producers‘ Guild Award 2008. Chak De India dominated the Sunsilk Apsara, The Producers‘ Guild Awards for excellence and achievement in theatrical motion by sweeping a total of 8 Apsara trophies. ‘Chak De India‘ was declared the ‘Best Film Award‘ for the year 2007 ? 2008, while Shimit Amin picked up the ‘Best Director‘ and Shahrukh Khan picked up the award for ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role‘ for his performance in the film.

Kareena Kapoor won praise for her role in Jab We Met, picking up the award for the ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role‘. Life in A?Metro swept 2 awards as both Konkana Sen Sharma & Irfan Khan won the ‘Best Actress in a Supporting Role‘ and ‘Best Actor in a Supporting Role‘ respectively.

The Producers Guild Awards 2008 lived up to the expectations of being an extraordinary night with thrilling performances by Salman Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor that set the stage ablaze. The performances were choreographed by duo Pappu Mallu and Ganesh Hegde, who wowed the crowd with his solo performance. Prankster Javed Jaffery and Indian Hockey team Captain Vidya Malvade took over the Master of Ceremony proceedings.

The star studded evening was also graced by Yash Chopra, Anurag Basu, Rakesh Roshan and mega stars Shahrukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Jeetendra, Saif Ali Khan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Upen Patel, actress from the south Shreya, the Chak de Girls, and Sameera Reddy amongst others. The new couple Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor walked in together causing a stir with the fans present.

Promoters and partners of the show, NDTV Imagine presented awards to Akshay Kumar for ‘NDTV Imagine Best Entertainer of the Year‘, while Govinda and Salman Khan won the award for ‘NDTV Imagine Best Jodi of the Year‘.

Shah Rukh Khan presented the ‘Award for the Best Contribution to Indian cinema‘ to non other than Mr.Yash Chopra. Under the special category, the ‘ARY Style Icon Award‘ was presented to Hrithik Roshan and Stunning Katrina Kaif was presented the ‘ARY Style Diva Award‘. ARY, the popular Pakistani news network presented these awards on behalf of the fan falling present for the Indian Cinema in Pakistan.

Other awards from the Popular Category were as follows:

Best Choreography ? Farah Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Best Lyrics ? Gulzar (Tere Bina ? Guru)
Best Female Playback Singer - Shreya Ghosal (Barso Re - Guru)
Best Male Playback Singer ? Shaan (Jab Se Tere Naina ? Saawariya)
Best Music ? Pritam (Jab we Met)
Best Screenplay ? Jaideep Sahni (Chak De India)
Best Dialogue ? Imtiaz Ali (Jab we Met)
Best Actor in a Comic Role ? Vinay Pathak (Bheja Fry)
Best Actor in a Negative Role ? Neil Nitin Mukesh (Johnny Gaddaar)

An evening of glamour and glitz!!

The Producers‘ Guild Awards 2008 was promoted and presented by NDTV Imagine and Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, who also conceptualized the show.

MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 - India‘s leading business medium, along with Arena Animation - the Global leader in Animation Education, presented ‘The Golden Cursor Animation Awards‘ powered by Animation Xpress.com, at a glittering award ceremony, which took place in Mumbai. Mr. Tim Mostert, creator of the ‘Speedy‘ comic strip in South Africa was the chief guest and Animation Director & Co- Founder of Spark Unlimited, Mr. Sunil Thankamushy was the guest of honour for the evening.

‘The Golden Cursor Animation Awards‘ is a path breaking initiative that has been conceptualized with the objective of enhancing and shaping the future of the Indian Animation industry and to create a unique foothold in the international animation arena.

While commenting on the need for the awards in this space Shilpi Singh, Senior Manager, CNBC - TV18 said, "Animation in India is currently riding on two key factors - a large base of highly skilled labour, and low cost of production. While the industry is gaining prominence steadily, several important factors such as the government‘s role in supporting the animation industry, producing original content locally, and the importance of training, will steer the industry to greater heights. India definitely has a lot of advantages and tremendous potential to develop the animation industry. While the industry is gaining prominence, The Golden Cursor Animation Awards, brings to light some of the best work that this industry has projected in the last few years."

Says R. Krishnan, Global Head, Arena Animation, "The Indian Animation Industry has taken off in a big way in the past 3-4 years owing to the recognition of India‘s IT expertise, creative skills & the entrepreneurial drive of companies. In addition to inherent factors like creative skills, manpower availability and cost advantage, external factors like growing maturity of animation studios, increase in number of co-production ventures, development of Intellectual Property, and the attractive domestic market opportunity have immensely contributed to this industry‘s growth."

"Arena recognized the potential of the Multimedia & Animation over a decade back & in 1996, embarked on a journey to create and train professionals to power the industry. Arena has always encouraged and honed talent & our association with the Golden Cursor Award is an initiative to give the creative professionals a recognition in the animation industry." Added Krishnan

‘Tech2 and Arena Animation along with CNBC-TV18, and Aptech have instituted ‘The Golden Cursor Awards‘ powered by Animation Express, felicitated the animation developers in two major categories - professional and amateur. The Professional entries were further divided sector wise, which includes films, TV commercials, mobile entertainment, TV channels and animation games.

The winners of these awards were chosen after a comprehensive three-stage process that involved the Indian Animation Industry nominating some of their best work across categories. Post that, a panel of experts short listed the top 3-5 nominees in every category and the same were presented to an eminent jury panel comprising an expert team of animation experts from The Cell (The network 18 graphics & animation team), AnimationXpress.com, Editorial team & Tech2 editorial team & experts from Arena Animation, short listed the entries based on the pre- determined parameters.

Prior to the awards ceremony, The Golden Cursor Animation Award team devised an Amateur storytelling contest. The contestants had to tell their story within 4 frames, each entry was judged on characters, props and design and story concept. The best story was developed into a movie, which was executed and showcased at the awards. The winner Kristofer Paul Mendonca was awarded at the ceremony by our revered guest Tim Mostert.

MUMBAI: An apocalypse is looming. A battle royale is unfolding. Find out when Heroes season finale explodes on STAR WORLD on Tuesday, April 1st at 9 pm.

Deep below Primatech Paper in Odessa, TX, Peter‘s (Milo Ventimiglia) reunion with Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) turns violent when the brothers, Matt (Greg Grunberg) and Hiro (Masi Oka) all clash thanks to Adam (David Anders) and his pursuit of the deadly Shanti Virus. After watching his heroic cousin captured by a street gang, Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey) turns to the one person who can help him save Monica (Dana Davis) -- his mom (Ali Larter). Meanwhile, Maya (Dania Ramirez) tragically learns how much of a monster Sylar (Zachary Quinto) really is during his kidnapping of Molly (Adair Tishler) and Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy). Meanwhile, Elle (Kristen Bell) decides to play hero to get back into her father‘s (Stephen Tobolowsky) good graces. Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee and Hayden Panettiere also star.

Revolving around a group of ordinary people who possess extraordinary power, Heroes has been listed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the best sci-fi shows from the past 25 years. Lauded by critics, it picked up two Golden Globe nominations and was named Favorite New Drama at the People‘s Choice Awards.

On Tuesday, April 1st at 9pm, catch the explosive conclusion to a season-long thrill ride as the Heroes finale airs first and exclusively on Star World.

MUMBAI: Outspoken Pakistani writer and poet Fatima Bhutto joins CNN?s Anjali Rao on TALK ASIA this weekend. The niece of slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Fatima tells Rao about her childhood memories of her aunt and why she blames her aunt for the death of her father, Benazir?s brother. Fatima also condemns Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf?s current rule as a dictatorship and criticizes his alliance with the U.S. in the War on Terror.

On her instantly recognizable last name, the young writer says it?s neither a blessing nor a curse: ?It?s just a name, it?s funny to be held accountable, to a surname, I think if you change my name, it doesn?t change who I am??.

Fatima Bhutto has had an acrimonious relationship with her aunt and was one of her most outspoken critics: ?My criticism to her was political, not personal. But when she died, it became very clear to me that I knew two Benazirs, I mean I knew two very different women.? Bhutto tells Rao: ?I knew the other Benazir, who was in power, and caused a lot of sufferings for the people of Pakistan, presided over a large scale corruption, recognition of Taliban government, human rights abuses and her negotiation for national reconciliation ordinance with General Musharraf that was unrecognizable to me.?

Fatima tells Rao, ??as for my father?s murder, yes, I did blame her??

On fighting terrorism in Pakistan, Fatima says the United States should ?mind its own business?they don?t combat terrorism by empowering a military dictator, they don?t combat terrorism by arming Pervez Musharraf to fight his own people.?

Rao?s conversation with Fatima also moves away from politics, towards her other passion, her writings. She talks about her recent book, a collection of first-hand accounts from the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan: ?It was a generation of young Pakistanis that were wiped out. I mean 80,000 people lost their lives in the earthquake.? The reason behind her putting this collection together: ?I found these young children, young boys and girls who were so desperate to talk.? and ?They?ve always been described passively as victims, but they were very much survivors.?

To get the full transcript of this interview and more information on the program, go to www.cnn.com/talkasia once the show is first aired.

MUMBAI: BBC World, the BBC‘s commercially-funded international 24-hour news and information channel, has produced a series of short programmes entitled Nature‘s Business, which explore how a company can effectively apply business strategies and practices gleaned from nature. The one-minute short programmes are to be sponsored by Suzlon Energy, marking the launch of their first-ever international corporate campaign, and will target business decision makers and upscale audiences across the regions of North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South Asia. The series has been on air on BBC World for the last few weeks.

The six executions of Nature‘s Business are: Grizzly Bear, Butterflies, Forest, Birds, Waders and Meadows. Renowned writer and biomimicry consultant Janine Benyus gives various astounding examples in each of the vignettes. The illustrations range from how butterflies achieve feedback and have been known to change their environment accordingly, to how diversity is critical to the sustainability and survival of a meadow. The series was filmed in Montana, USA in December 2007.

Seema Mohapatra, Regional Director - Advertising Sales, South Asia, BBC Worldwide, says, "We are happy to be the platform Suzlon has chosen to effectively communicate their core brand message. Some of BBC World‘s programming and projects last year have been extremely successful in creating awareness on the subject of climate change and sustainable development. With Nature‘s Business we efficiently bring out examples from nature that can be applied as key business practices. "

Vivek Kher, Vice- President, Corporate Communications, Suzlon says, "Suzlon is a business built on the principle of sustainable development. We help harness the limitless power of the wind to power sustainable development around the world. Our association with BBC World, which has been building awareness on the challenge of climate change, reflects this commitment. "

Suzlon has also sponsored World Business Report on BBC World in Asia Pacific and North America.