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: 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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BANGALORE: "Lets Pool In", a public seeking car pooling initiative by Radio One and CommuteEasy in partnership with Bangalore Traffic Police to help citizens commute safe and fast was announced in Bangalore.
The initiative was launched in the presence of Bangalore Traffic Police Additional CP (Traffic), Praveen Sood, CommuteEasy Founder Vipul Kasera, and Radio One station head Shyju Varkey The event also saw commentator Charu Sharma, cricketer Robin Uthappa and Anu Prabhakar participate in the movement by traveling together to the launch venue.
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MUMBAI: Mohammad Vakil, who shot into the limelight after his 1998 win on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma lauched his second album 'Guzarish' on Tuesday at a suburban mall in Mumbai. The album was launched by singer Sonu Niigam.
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MUMBAI: Coming Sunday, Channel [V] will showcase a two-hour special on the showman of Bollywood, Subhash Ghai.
The channel will, from 5 pm to 7 pm, air hit music from Ghai's films interspersed with scenes from his films ranging from Karz, Karma, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Khal Nayak, Pardes, Taal, Yaadein, Joggers' Park, to his latest release Yuvvraaj.
The special will also see interviews with "the showman" himself talking about his journey, his experiences, his favourite actors and other interesting tit-bits.
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