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NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry's total plan and non-plan budget for 2012-13 has risen marginally to Rs 27.37 billion compared to Rs 26.44 billion last year and the revised estimates of Rs 26.05 billion. The allocation for the Ministry includes an outlay of Rs 935.5 million for projects in the north eastern part of the country including Sikkim.
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MUMBAI: Continuing their winning streak for the third consecutive year, Radio Mirchi bagged the Best Radio Channel award at the 13th Ficci Excellence Awards 2012. Besides Mirchi, Big FM won an award for the Largest Radio Network. In the film category, Rockstar's music swept away two awards: Best Music Director - AR Rahman and Best Playback Singer Male - Mohit Chauhan. Usha Uthup and Rekha Bharadwaj won the Best Playback Singer Female award for ‘7 Khoon Maaf’.
read moreNEW DELHI: The Government today placed "admission to entertainment or access to amusement services" in the Negative List – a new List for which there will be no service tax. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his budget speech for 2012-13 today announced exemption of the film industry from service tax on copyrights relating to recording of cinematographic films. He said that this was being done "to add to the spirit of celebration" since the year 2012 marks the beginning of the centenary year of Indian cinema.
read moreMUMBAI: The world is going online and Indian businesses and consumers are not far behind in accepting the notion of online purchases and e-commerce sites.
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MUMBAI: With an increasing demand of on the move streaming services, the new cloud based services are slowly yet steadily penetrating into the Indian eco-system. The use of cloud technology in a collaborative work of production in media and entertainment space, was the key discussion in the technically charged session at Ficci Frames 2012.
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MUMBAI: Indian-American multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale will release his critically acclaimed fifth studio album ‘Cinema’ with a special performance in India. Kale will release ‘Cinema 2012 – Special Indian Edition’ on 16-17 March at Blue Frog in Mumbai and Delhi respectively.
read moreBANGALORE: Radio One 94.3 FM has announced a quiz show to test the music quotient of its listeners. Titled ‘Radio One Bollywood Baadshah’, the quiz show will be held on weekdays from 6-8 pm till 25 March. The winner will win gold or cash prize worth over a lakh.
read moreMUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has launched an mDivine interactive service for Airtel users across India. The service will allow users to receive live audio visual feed from religious shrines and more. Users can access live darshan, aarti, shabd, hamd and mass ceremonies by visiting the Airtel mobile WAP site. The service allows users to create a playlist by tagging their favourite devotional videos and share it via SMS.
read moreMUMBAI: Sony Network entertainment has expanded its cloud-based digital music subscription service in the Canadian market, offering the users accessibility to music across the globe. The ‘Music Unlimited’ service offers tracks from a library of 15 million licensed songs from independent labels and publishers worldwide.
read moreMUMBAI: In a bid to replace MySpace, MTV has taken an initiative to launch a social site allowing artistes to customize their music, video, merchandise and ticket sales through ‘Artists.MTV’. Artists.MTV will cater established and aspiring musicians, providing an opportunity to gather their presence across MTV and its myriad sister channels and websites with aid of “digital homestead". The site will launch beta version in May with more than 10,000 artistes pages.
read moreMUMBAI: Responding to the shift in music consumption by users, Billboard has launched an on-demand songs chart taking into account online music streaming services like Spotify and Rhapsody.
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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
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
