Listeners know Neelesh Mishra as the man behind the lyrics of 'Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai' and 'Chalo Tumko Lekar Chale' but the multi-tasking lyricist has not stopped there. With Anurag Basu's 'Kites', Anees Bazmee's 'It's My Life', Kunal Deshmukh's 'Jashan', Piyush Jha's 'Sikandar', Tanushree Basu's 'Puraani Jeans' and Guddu Dhanoa's 'Deewana Must Die' in the pipeline, the journalist – lyricist – novelist is up to something BIG this time.
In an interaction with Chirag...
MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society has obtained a Delhi High Court order against the Event and Entertainment Management Association, stating that the EEMA has no judicial interim relief to seek exemption from the payment of license fees.
According to the IPRS, the EEMA, a conglomeration of event management companies, filed a writ in the Delhi High Court in July 2008 against the IPRS, and its sibling organisation, the PPL, protesting the payment of license fees for use of music in public events.
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MUMBAI: South Korean prosecutors indicted NHN Corp., and Daum Communications Corp., the nation's two largest Web portal operators, on Tuesday on charges of facilitating on-line piracy.
The Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors' Office said it indicted NHN, operator of the country's largest portal Naver, and Daum and one affiliate under each company for not restricting illegal trading of copyrighted music files through their various services.
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MUMBAI: The Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha will set up its community radio station in Gulbarga, Karnataka within an estimated three months' time.
With this, the number of CRS will increase to 39 in the country.
According to a government release, the ministry of information and broadcasting has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) with the Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha, a Gulbarga base NGO.
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MUMBAI: Music label Sony BMG and social networking site ibibo.com have taken their association a notch further with the launch of an application for soon-to-be-released movie Raaz - The Mystery Continues... (RTMC).
The RTMC application on ibibo offers for the first time in India an opportunity for the audiences to Karaoke to the tracks of the movie and sing straight from their mobiles. The film will release on 23 January 2009.
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Intex has announced the availability of water, sweat and dust resistant, music handset IN 3030 for a price of Rs 3500 in the Indian market.
The handset comes with FM radio, audio player, voice and audio recording features and the company claims that the model conforms to Japanese JIS (IPX grade 5) standard for water resistance. Further the handset can also operate in conditions of low temperature as well as high temperature with high humidity, says Intex.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, India hottest Christmas station!!!!
No more empty socks and endless wait for gifts, just tune in.
To add some sheen and excitement this Christmas, Radio Mirchi 98.3FM, India's hottest radio station will take all its listeners on a gifting spree with its �Mirchi Bana Santa' campaign.
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MUMBAI: Warner Music Group has asked Google-owned Youtube to remove all its content after the talks between the music content major and the video-sharing site collapsed over revenue sharing.
The order may affect hundreds of thousands of video clips, as it covers tracks by artists signed to Warner Music like Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Kid Rock, as well as songs published by its Warner/Chappel unit, which includes many artists not signed to the label.
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MUMBAI: Mumbai's favorite Radio Station, BIG 92.7 FM in its endeavor to reach out to the youth in the City, is partnering with a host of leading college festivals. Beginning with the NM College festival �Umang 2008' earlier this year, successful partnerships were extended to Mithibai College's �Kshitij 2008', Jaihind's �Talaash 2008' and Sydenham's festival �Brouhaha 2008'.
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MUMBAI: Ethnic electronic artiste Tatva Kundalini released the album Swaraaj under the Times Music label on Monday night in Mumbai.
Consisting of 12 tracks, Swaraaj is a compilation album and features nine artsites like Aguaflames, Ambrish, A.I.A, Key Fx, Surbahar, Latrama, Kliment, Infra and Taamara from India. The album was launced by well known percussionist Taufiq Quereshi.
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