MUMBAI: He is truly one of India's most precious jewels. And late last evening, a communique from the President Pratibha Devisingh Patil announced that Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, the renowned Hindustani classical music exponent, was to be decorated with India's highest civilian honour: the Bharat Ratna.
Pandit Joshi, 86, belongs to the kirana gharana, has been performing since the age of 19. Born in Karnataka on 19 February 1922, Joshi has already received several honours like the Padma Vib...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Indu Shekhar Sinha to take up the role of India Business Development Manager for one year. From November 2008, Indu Shekhar will manage BBC World Service's multimedia distribution and business development activities in India.
Indu Shekhar replaces Vineeta Dwivedi while she is going to work for the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) Consortium as Project Director for one year.
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BANGALORE: After six years, Bangalore based band Bhoomi is set to give listeners what they have been waiting for – their first full fledged studio album.
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BANGALORE: Activists allegedly owing allegiance to the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) attacked and vandalized offices of the Sun TV controlled 93.5 SFM in Mysore on 1 November, which is celebrated as Karnataka Day.
According to reports, around 20 activists, angered over the fact that the station was airing Hindi songs instead of Kannada songs on Karnataka Day, broke into the office and broke computers, fax machines and other office paraphernalia, and injured a security guard. Media reports peg the damage at about Rs 800,000.
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MUMBAI/ BANGALORE: The nation is gearing up for what is considered the ultimate act when it comes to the international psy-trance circuit. Infected Mushroom's- Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani (also known as 'Duvdev') have been stalwarts in the genre for over a decade now and their live act is known to be a high energy performance complete with psychedelia and unparalleled musicianship.
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MUMBAI: Over the last 13 years, The Great Indian Rock Festival has provided a platform for bands like Parikrama, Orange Street and Indian Ocean and helped them get noticed However, this year the festival went national with gigs lined up across seven major cities, namely, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Shillong. GIR also got three international metal acts to perform in the festival
Spread over two days, the festival kickstarted in Mumbai last weekend. ...
NEW DELHI: Sameer Panwar of Delhi has won the first-ever SanDisk Singathon... – a Karaoke contest – that commenced in the National Capital Region of Delhi - Gurgaon, Noida and Delhi – on 18 October.
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MUMBAI: Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL) has posted a standalone loss of Rs 32.77 million for the quarter ended 30 September, as against a net profit of Rs 6.39 million in the corresponding quarter last fiscal.
The company says that it has incurred loss due to amortization of licence fee and depreciation charges on equipments in 22 new stations.
During the quarter, ENIL's income has jumped 15 per cent to stand at Rs 615.63 million, as compared to Rs 535.21 million in the year ago period.
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MUMBAI: Rock On for Humanity, a charity event initiated by Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Arjun Rampal and the Nargis Dutt Memorial Charitable Trust generated a whopping sum of Rs 32 million at the MMRDA Grounds in Mumbai last evening. The funds raised through the live music concert were donated to the Nargis Dutt Memorial Charitable Trust in order to help the flood-affected children of Bihar.
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