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MUMBAI: In a country of over a billion people, the common man faces many challenges. Getting ahead in life is not easy – there is a long line no matter which direction one looks in. So how does one get ahead? Leveraging its signature ‘ingenuity’ and ‘sharp wit’ to inspire the youth, Sprite is all set to unveil its integrated communication campaign for 2013 - ‘Chalo Apni Chaal’.
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MUMBAI: India’s most authentic camp-out music festival- Storm kicked-off at Coorg, Karnataka, on the 1st and 2nd of February 2013.
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MUMBAI: In the first quarter of fiscal year 2013-14, Universal Music plans to partner with Australian cricket star Brett Lee’s 'Mewsic' as a part of their corporate social responsibility. The music major will use the funds from ‘Cause song’ for this partnership with Lee’s 'Mewsic’. ‘Cause song’ will be for social change by music for anyone interested to make a mark in music industry, whereas, Mewsic rehabilitates underprivileged children in India
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Born and brought up in Canada, singer Samidha Joglekar, like many NRIs straddles two worlds. Having trained in Hindustani Classical music under gurus like Narendra Datar, Veena Sahasrabhuddhe and Dr Prabha Atre Jogelakar she has emerged as a talent to be reckoned with. Her exposure to the world of international pop where ‘effective’ use of style rules, has also made her immensely versatile- enough to be selected to sing for Deepa Mehta’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ under music director Nitin Sawhney.
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MUMBAI: On Sunday, Delhi hosted the city finals of Radio Mirchi and HDFC Life’s ‘Spell Bee – India Spells 2013’, Season 5. In what can be termed as India’s biggest and the only spelling contest, Bhargavi Goel from Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj, Delhi emerged as the winner along with the 1st runner up Mahashweta Chakravorti from Blue Bells School school will now proceed to compete in the semi-finals stage of the competition. HDFC Life Spell Bee India Spells 2013 is the Indian counterpart of the highly acclaimed Scripps National Spelling Bee, USA.
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MUMBAI: Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Manish Tewari has given assurance to media and advertising fraternity regarding framing of policies relating to the sector. Speaking at the inaugural IAA Leadership Awards 2013 held in Mumbai on Saturday evening (2 February), to more than 400 senior professionals from advertising, media and marketing fields from all over the country, Tewari said, “issues are contentious, no doubt, but if you delay decisions, situation will engulf you completely”.
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MUMBAI: Musical broadways and plays can only be revived if an infrastructure for theatre is in place, multi-talented singer-actress Sharon Prabhakar said. Prabhakar, who made her mark as an actress with roles in Broadway classics like ‘Godspell, ‘Evita’ and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and as a pop singer for much of the 80s and 90s laments the lack of support for theatre- a medium she loves and believes can give platform to hundreds of actors and singers to exploit their talents.
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MUMBAI: American hard rock band Bon Jovi is gearing up for a busy year with his new album to release in March followed by a worldwide tour in support of it. The band’s year has started on a high note with its official video of its single ‘Because We Can’ (released on 29 January) has already received more than 4,50,000 views on YouTube in less than a week. The video, directed by Fisher Stevens, features the band performing at a boxing match, and at a strip club.
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MUMBAI: A host of pop stars have suffered a huge cut in the number of views on video sharing site YouTube. Following an audit conducted by YouTube to clear any old videos, over 2 billion views were wiped out. Lady Gaga saw her official YouTube account reduced by 156 million views. Other big label artists who suffered the wipeout included Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Beyonce. A large amount of ‘dead’ videos- clipped that are no longer viewed or used by the artists- have also been removed.
read moreNew Delhi: Reliance Communications (RCom), has announced partnership with Lenovo to redefine the CDMA device ecosystem in the country and launch a range of innovative smart phones. The complete range of smart-phones across screen sizes and processor speed will be attractively priced and work on CDMA and GSM network simultaneously. It will use the Reliance ‘Dual Core’ network advantage that switches calls between the two networks automatically based on the strength and quality of RF signals.
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MUMBAI: Once again music luminaries from across globe will come together to pay homage to legendary guru and tabla maestro Ustad Allarakha, fondly known as Abbaji on his 13th Barsi. The event is scheduled to be held on 3 February at Shanmukhanand Hall in Mumbai.
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