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MUMBAI: After a two-year journey of assembly, tripleS, sensational 24-member K-Pop girl group is now complete, making waves with their groundbreaking mega-group strategy (second in terms of group size to boy group NCT), with the release of their highly anticipated debut full-length album ASSEMBLE
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MUMBAI: After witnessing major shifts in consumption resulting in mediocre sales, the global music industry has finally reported an increase of 0.3 per cent after a gap of 13 years, according to the annual digital music report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The industry states that its global sales rose last year for the first time since 1999, raising hopes that a long-sought recovery might have begun. It broke its jinx by posting trade revenue of $16.2 billion to $16.5bn from 2011 to 2012.
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MUMBAI: The music album of the much awaited film of 2013, ‘Nautanki Saala’ was launched on 26 February at a suburban mall in Mumbai. Living up to its storyline, the music launch of the romantic comedy witnessed a lot of drama and entertainment by the cast and crew of the film. Fever FM’s RJ Glenn commenced the evening with two ‘draamebaaz’ Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunal Roy Kapur who entered the stage atop a toy train witnessing massive cheers from the crowd. They were accompanied by small clowns grooving to the peppy track ‘draamebaaz’.
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MUMBAI: Even as the Punjabi film industry is growing at a spectacular rate, the biggest Punjabi Film Awards, from the PTC Network, are poised to grow even bigger. This year, the PTC Punjabi Film Awards will be telecast deferred live in India and all over the world, making it the world's single largest Punjabi Commercial Movies' Awards Extravaganza.
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MUMBAI: The Jiyo Dil Se awards culminated at a gala awards ceremony in Jaipur on 24th February evening. The awards aimed to acknowledge and honor the hard work and commitment of the common people towards betterment of the society and highlighting their determination and resolve which will further inspire others to do the same.
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NEW DELHI: Radio broadcasts of BBC World Service in English are being jammed in China. "The BBC has received reports that World Service English shortwave frequencies are being jammed in China," London-based public service broadcaster said, adding that it “strongly condemns this action which is designed to disrupt audiences' free access to news and information."
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MUMBAI: As Indian cinema celebrates its 100th year of entertaining audience, various tributes are pouring in from all quarters for the industry and some of its most esteemed stars. In a similar tribute, renowned singer Sukhwinder Singh has rendered a track for Amitabh Bachchan.
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MUMBAI: A line-up of popular playback singers including Sunidhi Chauhan and Sukhwinder Singh will perform at a special musical evening organized by the Times of India Film Awards, as part of its inaugural week. The concert will be held on 4 April at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. The special concert will feature performances by Sukhwinder Singh, Mohit Chauhan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Hard Kaur, Shalmali Kholgade and Shiamak Davar.
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MUMBAI: Metallica has returned with the second edition of its festival, Orion Music + More to be held in June. This year’s line-up of artistes includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rise Against, Deftones and Bassnectar amongst others. Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Metallica will headline the two-day fest. The event will also feature acts like Gogol Bordello, Foals, Tomahawk, The Joy Formidable, Death Grips and local Detroit bands apart from the metal band itself. It will be held from 8-9 June in Detroit's Belle Isle.
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MUMBAI: Lead singer of pop group Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger has been honoured with the Artist of the Year prize by Harvard University at their 28th annual Cultural Rhythms festival. The pop singer received the honour in recognition of her music career and philanthropic efforts for women and those with special needs. Past recipients of the award include Jackie Chan, Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, Shakira, and Will Smith.
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MUMBAI: Over 10,000 posts and more than 6,000 jobs are lying vacant in All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan, government said today. Addressing a question in Lok Sabha, Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari said that the number of vacant posts as on 1 December last year, in AIR is 10,081 and Doordarshan is 6,186.
read moreNokia Life surpasses 95 million global user milestone and debuts in the African country MUMBAI: Nokia today announced that Nokia Life, one of the most popular mobile services for high growth markets, will launch in Kenya, one of Africa's largest economies. Continuing on its path to connect 'the next billion and beyond', Nokia Life services will be available to the subscribers of Kenya's leading mobile operators, Safaricom and Airtel.
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MUMBAI: India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, Red FM, proudly welcomed the neread more
MUMBAI: MY FM, known for its commitment to bring the best in music and entertainment to the listeread more
MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
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