MUMBAI: Bhangra singer Malkit Singh has became the first Punjabi singer to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace, UK with the award of the Member of the British Empire (MBE).
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NEW DELHI: Former member of the Beatles group Sir Paul McCartney will give away his latest album with editions of the Mail on Sunday.
The Beatle alum's album, "Memory Almost Full," will be free with the May 18th edition of the newspaper. The album was released on Starbucks' Hear Music label last year.Last year, the Mail on Sunday gave away Prince's "Planet Earth" album for free, and more recently UB40 gave a 10 track sampler away as one of the paper's supplements, according to a report by Gigwise.com quoted by the World Association of Newspapers.
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MUMBAI: The use of MP3 players on mobile handsets has increased has increased by 78 per cent and the use of radio by a massive 140 per cent in 2007, according to a report by TNS Global Technology.
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Trained under his father Pt Shankar Ghosh, tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh is making waves with his brand of fusion music- "Rhythmscape". With Rhythmscape, Bickram has brought a unique dimension to the genre of fusion music. He also studied the intricacies of South Indian percussive traditions under celebrated Mridangam player S Shekhar. With many albums and film compositions coming his way, he is currently ruling the charts. Ghosh shares a moment with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer....
MUMBAI: LG has launched the latest additions to its Dynamite and Bullet series with the introduction of the KF 510 slim slider phone, KP 320 camera phone and the KP 110 music phone in the indian market. These handsets range from the budget-conscious to the high-level communication medium.
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