MUMBAI: Irshwin Balvani, business head of music televison channels Zee Muzic and ETC Music, passed away, following cardiac arrest on Wednesday evening.
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MUMBAI: The 56th 'Sawai Gandharva Mahotsav'started in 1953 to commemorate the first death anniversary of Sawai Gandharva, the noted Hindustani vocalist and Guru of Pt Bhimsen Joshi will be held between 11 and 14 December at Shaniwar Peth in Pune.
Many Well known musicians and practising artists gather in Pune to pay homage to the great musician in the form of this colourful festival, every year. The festival will see performances by artistes like Pt Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor), Pt Jasraj (Vocals), Pt Rajan and Pt Sajan Mishra (Vocals), Pt Ronu Mujumdar (Flute) and many more.
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MUMBAI: Times Music presents a real treat for the music connoisseur with its new release Draupadi, an album that is replete with melodious compositions in Hindustani Classical Music and has been performed by none other than the senior disciple of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia and the torch-bearer of the Maihar Gharana of flautists, Rupak Kulkarni.
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MUMBAI: The music retail business in India will touch a figure of Rs 49.54 billion by 2010, according to Online and mobile music company Soundbuzz . A sizeable chunk of this revenue, Rs 45.04 billion, not surprisingly, will come from the mobile music business.
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MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to pass any interim direction on a plea of noted singer Rabbi Shergill for the deletion of a certain song in the recently released Hindi film 'Sorry Bhai!', which he claimed was his copyright, says a PTI report.
A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia turned down the plea of senior counsel K T S Tulsi who made the plea during the "mentioning time".
The bench said it would hear the matter after it is listed for hearing.
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MUMBAI: Nokia has announced the new N-Series flagship phone N97, a gadget that could pose a threat to the iPhone.
The phone features almost everything that the N96 has and probably a little more. The N97 will have the Nseries version of S60, which means there will be a number of extra applications including Internet Radio, FM transmitter, Home media (UPnP) and Photos.
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NEW DELHI: My FM's Indore station initiated �Radio united for peace' and brought the entire radio fraternity including all the four stations and people of Indore together to pay homage to all those who had fallen prey into the hands of terror attack in Mumbai on 30 November.
The city of Indore came together to observe a candlelight vigil in support of the Mumbai terror victims and martyrs.
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Mumbai: BIG 92.7 FM – India's no. 1 FM station had it's Mumbai station undertake a special drive to urge each and every Mumbaikar to join them and speak up against Terrorism. �Mumbai Halla Bol- Ab Chup Rehene ka Waqt Nahi' saw people from all walks of life joining the initiative including Celebrities like Rahul Mahajan, Ad Film maker Prahlad Kakar, Singers Shaan & Ismail Darbar, Tops Security Chief Director Mr. Ramesh Iyer, Dr.
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