MUMBAI: DQ Entertainment has been awarded the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2007 for the second consecutive year. The companies were ranked based on their steady growth rate, skilled manpower and expansion initiatives.

DQE was also ranked last year among the top 50 Technology fast companies in the Indian sector of the Deloitte rankings. The companies are ranked on different areas like software, communication & networking, computers & peripherals, instrumentation and many more with business locations in Taiwan, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, New Zealand and Thailand.

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific awards, now in its sixth year is an initiative by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, an organization of member firms including more than 80 per cent of the world‘s largest companies from around the world, devoted to client service excellence.

On receiving the award, Mr.Tapaas Chakravarti commented, "The Deloitte awards ranking is a great honour to add to DQE‘s hall of fame, recognizing us as a company of technological innovation in the creative sector."

DQ Entertainment has been listed in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) raising $54 million approximately for its expansion plans and joint ventures. DQE has recently entered the home video market in strategic association with Moser Baer for the distribution of their animation series ‘Pet Pals‘ and ‘Ratman‘ in collaboration with Gruppo Alcuni, and Stranemani of Italy.

DQ Entertainment operates seven technologically advanced production facilities in Hyderabad, India, and currently employs over 2200 full time employees. DQE plans to consolidate its high-end game development with a newly launched Technology Centre III, a state of the art facility for in-game animation content development for next generation consoles like XBox 360, PSIII, Nintendo, hand held, online and mobile games. The company is also foraying into publishing of comics, merchandising of international ownership of IP‘s and is well on the way to develop Indian IPs with global appeal for TV, DTH videos as well as foray into Hindi feature films in quality co-productions.

MUMBAI: Star Utsav presents its viewers a chance to win cash prizes everyday! You can have your share of fun and entertainment and bag cash prizes too, by participating and answering simple contest questions, only on Star Utsav.

This all and much more, as the prizes will be given to the viewers by their favorite Khushi Chachi, played by Asawari Joshi.

To participate in the contest, the viewers have to answer simple questions that will air between 2 pm to 12 midnight during the shows airing on the channel.

Questions will be followed by three multiple choice answers. Only one of the multiple choices answers shall be the correct answer to that question. The questions consist of a mix of general knowledge question(s) and content that is telecast on the channel. Viewers who answer the question correctly can win a cash prize of Rupees Five Thousand. Three winners will be chosen each day.

MUMBAI: Zee TV‘s immensely popular Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li‘l Champs has announced that the hunt for India‘s most promising young voice has reached a crucial turning point. The series that kicked off with twenty-eight young aspirants from across the globe has lent the children a golden platform to showcase their talent. The kids are being groomed by none other than Sonu Niigaam and Suresh Wadkar. Featuring some of the bollywood‘s biggest names on its panel of celebrity judges the show has successfully made its popular anchor Aditya Narayan a national heartthrob and its little contestants household names.

Speaking on the latest developments on the show, Tarun Mehra, Zee TV, Business Head said, "We are proud that Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L‘il Champs has met with a stupendous response from an audience that cuts across barriers of age, demographics and culture. The show has now reached an exciting milestone with only 9 super-talented kids vying for the title. With each child delivering stellar performances episode after episode, there‘s no predicting who could emerge victorious. Needless to say, we are headed for a nail-biting final?. And it‘s now time for the public to ensure that their favourite contestant makes it to the top ."

The 9 chote ‘Mahaarathis‘ who will be seen braving the battle are Lucknow ke chote nawab Tanmay Chaturvedi, papa ke ankhon ka tara Nagpur ka Rohit Shyam Raut, Delhi ka Shahrukh Vibhor Parashar, Delhi ki roshni Vasundhara Raturi, Prince of Patiala Sardar Rohanpreet Singh, Surma bhopali Aamir Hafiz, Bhopal ki chimnee Vaishali Raikwar, the Li‘l poetess Mariani Assam ki Anamika Choudhari and Tripura ki aandhi Smita Nandi.

Also biting their nails would be the mentors, Sonu Nigam and Suresh Wadkar, who have invested great time and effort in grooming them.

The twenty-eight contestants who made it to the show have enjoyed the opportunity of learning from fraternity stalwarts and celebrities such as Sonu Niigaam, Suresh Wadkar, Asha Bhosale, Karisma Kapur, Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Mithun Da, Amrita Rao, Usha Uthup and Alka Yagnik. What a joyride!

MUMBAI: Satiate your weekly cravings of Bollywood stars up-close-and-personal as CNN-IBN‘s popular celebrity talk show - ‘To Catch a Star‘ returns.As a part of its third season, the show will focus on the eminent music personalities of Indian cinema with Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN‘s Entertainment Editor, interviewing the likes of Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar, AR Rahman and Lata Mangeshkar. Beginning 19 January, the show will air every Saturday at 10:30 pm with a repeat on Sundays at 1:30 pm.

‘To Catch a Star‘ is a show that attempts to delve beneath the superficial, and bring out aspects of the interviewee‘s personality that have as yet remained unknown. Catch Masand as he speaks to the musical geniuses about their passions beyond their profession and what inspires them to create music whose popularity goes beyond national frontiers!

"With some of the country‘s most talented and admired music talents expected to appear on ‘To Catch a Star‘, season 3 of the show will make its comeback with a bang!" Said, Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN & IBN 7

MUMBAI: This Friday Jan 4th episode will see Shekhar Suman and Sunjeevani being eliminated from the show Jjhoom India leaving the last three fantastic jodis to compete further.
Here is a gist of Saturday 5 January episode of SaharaOne Television Jjhoom India.

Coming Saturday, our top 3 jodis namely Sachin-Madhushree, Varun-Akriti and Roshni-Vinod will be seen rendering some mind blowing performances. With the competition getting even tougher and just two weeks for the grand finale, the three amazing teams have worked really hard on their voice. Next week, the two finalists will be declared.

The jodis who have made it to the top three positions are :

• Roshni Chopra - Vinod Rathod
• Sachin Tyagi - Madhushree
• Varun Badola - Akriti Kakar

But this week is not easy. This week, there will be two difficult rounds. Round 1 will be judges choice where in the our jury will give three song options to the jodis on the spot. Jodis will choose one among the three songs and sing the song impromptu.

Round 2 will see our actors give solo-performances. But the difference will be that co-contestants will give two songs option to the actor who will perform on stage. The actor can then decide on what suits him or her best and render the song.

Watch Jjhoom India elimination episode on 4 January and performance episode on 5 January at 9:00 pm only on SaharaOne Television.