Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi on Sunday announced his engagement with Bollywood actress Lara Dutta on social networking site Twitter. He joined an enviable club of tennis stars who have courted or married those from the entertainment industry.
The Essel Group on Monday rebutted news reports that it is setting up parallel cricket boards across different countries in collaboration with Ten Sports Network but said it is now geared up to enter the sports business at a global level, focusing on cricket.
Indian Premier League supremo Lalit Modi has accused player unions of using a security threat against overseas players as leverage to gain bargaining status with the IPL and the Indian cricket board.
Kalanithi Maran's Sun Network and Subhash Chandra's Zee Entertainment, the two homegrown media companies, have maintained their number one and two positions, respectively, in the Asia-Pacific pay broadcaster ranks for the second year in a row.
Jio will woo consumers with new products as well as technology, offering them quadplay services - TV, data, voice and mobile - seamlessly working across the platforms, with a single bundled offer and just one bill.
The TAM numbers have managed to establish the supremacy of Doordarshan over competing news channels like AajTak and India TV (the top others, also established by TAM data) and also entertainment channels like STAR Plus, Colors and Zee TV (the top Hindi general entertainment channels) in 2009.
Entertainment conglomerate Time Warner will put in a bid of $1.5 billion for the debt-laden hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, says a media report.
A sneak peak into 14 gadgets released recently: six in India and the rest worldwide.
'It could tempt investors to pick stocks that are not fundamentally sound.'
Namrata Thakker looks at the most popular Bollywood stars on Instagram.
Small and big advertisers are making their presence felt this year far more than they did earlier, bringing a smile to the faces of the tournament's organisers and partners.
Earlier, the film was to be produced by London-based Aingaran Films International (P) Ltd. Now, a press release from Sun TV Network Ltd -- one of India's largest entertainment conglomerate -- says that the movie division of Sun Pictures will produce Endhiran.
Facebook, which announced the move in a post on its official blog on Wednesday, is working with streaming music services Spotify, Rdio and Deezer to offer the music previews.
For some, he is a visionary who grew his one-channel firm into a media giant by the sheer dint of his courage; for others, he is a compulsive risk-taker.
Over one million households in the Middle East region will have a television connected to the Internet by 2011, a provider of networking and storage products has said.
Back in the thick of action, former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi will be in his element now
He was chargesheeted for the offences punishable under section 120-B
After the dramatic end of the Star-Balaji proposed joint venture -- formed to launch regional channels -- Balaji has signed a content deal with leading southern broadcaster Sun Network. Balaji's move will set the battleground between Star and Balaji as the Murdoch company is believed to be partnering with Kerala-based broadcaster Asianet for its regional foray.
The Rs 2,200-crore (Rs 22-billion) STAR India is one of the big employers in broadcasting this year. It has already put in place a new management team and is hiring in large numbers (that it refuses to share), say consultants.
The move will catapult Disney as the country's largest media and entertainment broadcaster, with over $1.3 billion of additional India revenue.
'When you are an artiste, why will you sell yourself?' asks Saroj Khan.
'It could take 12 months or more for hiring to get back on track.' 'New opportunities would come up and there will be demand for skillsets that can help dealing with the current situation.'
With a string of deals with telecom service providers, DTH operators and Bollywood stars, Netflix goes all out to protect its turf in India and fend off competition, says Viveat Pinto.
As the CEO of Colors, the Hindi general entertainment television channel from the Network18 group, the 35-year old Rajesh Kamat, is in an enviable position.
The innovation will be on its South Indian channels on September 23-24.
NDTV Imagine, the entertainment wing of Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Network, is close to forming a 50:50 joint venture with Manmohan Shetty - the former promoter of Adlabs - to enter film production.
Turner International, part of the Time Warner Company, will launch a Hindi entertainment channel and a slew of other language and genre channels in India. The channels will be established in association with Alva Brothers, the holding company of production house Miditech
Leading TV channels will see a blackout of spot advertising from midnight tonight after Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Airtel, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Reliance Communications, among others, directed their media-buying agencies not to book such advertisements on 16 news and entertainment channels, including NDTV, Network 18, Zee News, Star News, starting October 16.
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Salman Khan will be immortalised in wax early next year.
Rakotonirainy said it was vital for car makers, government and road safety experts to turn their attention to this global security threat.
The company has accused Google of showcasing its protected audio and video repertoire through its subsidiary and community site, YouTube.com.
You can soon buy your car or house sitting in front a television set. With Network 18 launching India's first home shopping channel Home Shop 18 in April, and Star TV group soon to join the fray, the home shopping channels are expected to be the next big thing for television broadcasters.
'We are very protective of him.' 'People can't go close to him and take pictures like before.'
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Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and four others were on Friday chargesheeted by the Enforcement Directorate in the Special 2G court.
The NIA questioned him for over two days before handing him over to the state police.
Indians love to talk. And, these days, they can talk to their hearts' content by paying very little: calls are getting ever cheaper, entry-level mobile handsets sell for under Rs 800, and bundled offers (talk-time and handset) mean you can be connected for next to nothing.
