MUMBAI: Music director Jatin Pandit has been awarded the fifth Annual FOSAAC Friends of South-Asian American Communities Award in Los Angeles.
The award is known to be one of the biggest South-Asian Awards. The theme for this year was celebrating the friendship between the United States and India and Jatin Pandit received the FOSAAC RD Burman Award for outstanding achievement in music and for composing the album America Mein India – a hit in the USA.
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MUMBAI: India's first rural Community Radio station will go on air on 15 October 2008, World Rural Women's Day. Named Sangham Radio, the station will be launched in Machnoor Village in Medak District of Andhra Pradesh.
Sangham Radio is an initiative by the DDS Community Media and the first radio to be owned and managed by all women from marginalised communities It is also a historic justice that the DDS Community Radio will be manned by women from the margins of the Society, people who have been excluded and rendered voiceless in any public forum.
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MUMBAI: Swedish vodka brand Absolut has launched legal proceedings against Absolute Radio, the rebranded Virgin Radio, for trademark infringement.
Virgin Radio was reborn as Absolute Radio on 30 September, some months after its takeover from SMG by Times of India subsidiary TIML, as the Virgin brand reverted to its owner Richard Branson.
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NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM, a collaboration of HT Media and Virgin Radio has launched its first ever television commercial, based on the theme, �It's all about the music'.
The TVC went on air on all general entertainment channels and music channels like MTV and Channel V from Friday night.
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