MUMBAI: Live Earth India, the massive concert promoting environmental awareness to be held in Mumbai on 7 December, has been cancelled due to the terror attacks.
A statement sent out late Friday night by the organisers, including former US vice-president Al Gore, one of the forces behind the venture, said that the event was called off.
The statement said that everyone involved with the concert was "stunned and saddened by the tragic events of the past few days" in which gunmen attacked two hotels and several major sites in Mumbai.
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MUMBAI: All India Radio's Guwahati station has planned a one of a kind premiere of a book, 24 Frames, penned by an AIR official, Utpal Datta. The book will be premiered on 30 November 2008 at 8 am in the course of a specially designed programme.
If a book is being premiered through radio, it demands some more attention from the listeners and from the programme innovators,... says National award winning film critic Datta, who is also AIR's programming executive for Halflong, Assam.
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MUMBAI: Indian Idol season one first runner up Amit Sana has become an active member of Goa based Hindi rock band, Sector 8 and is ready to launch an album.
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NEW DELHI: Changing its earlier stand, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today said it had decided to accept the views of the government on limiting the sources of news and current affairs for FM radio but recommended that a review for expansion of sources may be considered after three years.
Similarly, while it accepted the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's categorisation of content to be treated as non-news and current affairs broadcast, the scope of such content may be enlarged after a period of three years after reviewing the experience.
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MUMBAI: HT Media, which runs FM station Fever 104, has approved a proposal for the demerger of its radio business from its subsidiary HT Music and Entertainment Company Ltd (HTME).
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MUMBAI: The Mumbai leg of the Anoushka Shankar-Jethro Tull concert, billed as 'A night with the Piper and the Princess' scheduled for 29 November 2008 has been postponed indefinetly.
"We were thinking of going ahead with the concert till now but after the recent reports about the terror attacks, we have postponed it," confirmed E-18 CEO Farhad Wadia to Radioandmusic.com at 1.30 pm.
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MUMBAI: When Panditji was still recovering, I went to accompany him for his Riyaz – this was the first time that Panditji was singing at his home after an operation in 1999.
We knew Panditji was not in the best of his health, but at the same time we were surprised to see the aura and the inner power he displayed. After getting the tanpura tuned, his four disciples, Bharat Kamat on the tabla and I on the harmonium looked at Panditji eagerly.
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MUMBAI: The Jazz Utsav 2008 which was supposed to start from Friday evening at the Bandra Ampitheatre in Mumbai has been cancelled until further updates.
According to co organiser Bluefrog's official website http://www.bluefrog.co.in/, the three day annual festival that was to have featured several prominent bands, including international ones, will now be held at a later date. This is possibly the first fallout on the cultural landscape of the city, as an aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai.
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MUMBAI: Punk'd is back to rag Hollywood celebrities–Michelle Trachtenberg, Nicollette Sheridan, Travis Pastrana! Don't miss Michelle as she gets blamed for telling Joel Madden to drive ahead into a parking garage not withstanding a hanging water pipe that breaks above their car! Desperate housewives Nicollette is asked to help a guy propose to his girlfriend, but this back fires her as the guy drops the ring with the diamond falling out and the girl gets mad and leaves!
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Mumbai: The internationally acclaimed Gunidas Sangeet Sammelan will be held in Mumbai from December 4-6, 2008. Now in its 32nd year, this festival of Hindustani classical music will bring together vocal and instrumental maestros that include Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pt. Rajan & Sajan Mishra, Shri Gaurav Majumdar, Shri Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, Ganesh & Kumaresh and Shri Suhas Vyas.
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