New Delhi February 3, 2012: Country’s only digital film festival, UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival, is all set to give a unique opportunity to amateur filmmakers to cast a spell on audiences with their out-of the box ideas and treatment in their simple-yet heart wrenching stories.

The UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival will take place from 23rd February 2012 to 1st March 2012 at Siri Fort Auditorium New Delhi.

‘Film in 6 Days’ contest, one-of-its-kind competition will present a challenge to young film makers to direct a short five minute film in a brief span of six days. To facilitate this process and help the participants bring their imagination into life, the organizers will provide all the logistical support to them.

“Film in six days’ competition will select six to ten teams (consist of Director, Dop and Editor) on the basis of their past experience and interviews. The selected candidates will be given a topic by the festival organizers to make a film within six days. These films then will be reviewed by a jury comprising senior people from film fraternity who will select winner will be rewarded with prize money/editing software/equipment.

According to Madhureeta Anand, Festival Director, UFO 0110 IDFF and Film Director & Founder of Ekaa Films, “We are receiving registration from all across the globe in huge number. The six day competition is an integral and important part of the UFO 0110 International digital Film Festival. It is a section that has been specially designed for amateurs. Today, people are well-versed with filmmaking knowledge and come prepared when they enter the industry. This section is specially going to give a big boost to career of the budding talent. We have extended the registration deadline till February 15.”

“It’s our way of seeing that budding filmmakers get a chance to make films that on the one hand can be a showcase of their work and on the other hand can be learning experience. This is why the chosen teams will have access to well known and regarded people from the film industry who can advise and guide them. It’s a unique opportunity. We hope that these filmmakers will, in the future, send in films to the festival and add to the viewing experience and quality of the festival,” she added.

Mr. Sudhir Mishra, Jury member of the last IDFF, a renowned and critically acclaimed Bollywood director, says, “Digital medium is a wonderful medium for independent voices to make a mark and raise awareness about certain subjects. More and more people are open and have the right knowledge about digital film making.”

The participants will be provided the complete support from the festival such as required equipments for the shoot which will include the camera, sound equipments and post production facilities of an editing machine and studio; moreover they will be facilitated with the basic budget for travel and food for the two days. There will also be script consultants and consulting editors to help out the filmmakers during the competition.

About The 0110 International Digital Film Festival

The 0110 International Digital Film Festival is an annual event showcasing cutting edge digital films from around the world. The mission is to take the digital art and film movement forward and provide fresh and innovative content to the viewers and create a space for new styles of form and content that can become the resource pool for filmmakers in South Asia and the rest of the world. It is also the congregating point for all film and video aficionados and lovers. It is the only Film Festival in India that travels to eleven cities in India. For further information please log on to www.0110idff.com.

About Madhureeta Anand

Madhureeta Anand is an independent and award winning filmmaker since 1995. She shifted her field of work from mainstream television production to documentary filmmaking. She has directed and produced many documentary films and series. Most of her work explored the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Her other films looked at the issues of education in India and child abuse. Many of her films have been telecast on international channels like BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic. Her first commercial feature film Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye released in February 2009.

About EKAA FILMS Pvt. Ltd

Ekaa Films was set up by filmmaker Madhureeta Anand. She set up the company so that she could independently produce and direct her films. Under the Ekaa films banner, Madhureeta has made films on subjects ranging from religion, travel, art and culture and a film on child abuse. The genres range from documentary, music videos, fiction short films and art installations. And most recently feature films.

About UFO Moviez India Ltd

UFO Moviez, the world’s largest satellite delivered digital cinema network, has revolutionized the way films are distributed and exhibited throughout India through its pioneering technology and infrastructure. Presently, UFO has a base of more than 2,722 digital screens, spread across more than 1300 cities in 26 states of India. UFO has so far released more than 3,870 films in 29 languages and has conducted more than 8.4 million shows till date.
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Profile of Madhureeta Anand

An independent filmmaker since 1995; she shifted her field of work from mainstream television production to documentary filmmaking to directing feature films. Extremely prolific, she has directed many documentary films and series, spanning an array of genres.

Most of her work has explored the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Some of her other films have looked at issues of education and child abuse in India. Many of her films have been telecast on international channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic.

Madhureeta founded and is the festival director of the only Digital Film Festival in the country; the 0110 Digital Film Festival. The festival, started as collaboration with the British Council, Fame Cinemas and PVR Pictures, has well known filmmakers and actors on its jury. Profile

Madhureeta has written, directed and executive produced with PVR Pictures, her first full-length commercial feature film ‘Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye’, starring Randeep Hooda, Arbaaz Khan and Raima Sen, which released on February 6, 2009.

In 2007, she directed, produced and wrote ‘Laying Janaki to Rest’, a documentary film on Sita the Goddess; ‘The Magic Tent’, which she co-wrote and produced and Talvin Singh’s 2007 album’s music video (Unreleased), which she has directed and produced. She has also directed, produced and written numerous short films for National Geographic and for the Expo in Aichi Japan. In 2006, she was awarded the Silver Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival, for her film ‘Walking on a Moonbeam’.

Her documentary ‘Education – A reality or a myth’ was nominated at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2002. Her film titled ‘Sin’  was nominated in the Short Film section at The Damah Film Festival at Seattle (USA) in October 2002.

Furthermore, she was the only woman camera director on a crew of directors on Channel 4(UK)’s award winning series ‘The Greatest Show on Earth –  The Kumbh Mela’ (2001). She has also won the Royal Television Society Craft Award for it.

In 2001, Madhureeta produced and directed a thirty-minute documentary feature on the Kumbh Mela- ‘In Search of Salvation’ for the German Telecast Footprint (Austria/Switzerland/Germany). The Damah Film Festival at Seattle (USA) invited this film on October 11, 2001, where it fetched her an award for Excellence in Film Making. It was also nominated at the Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester, U.K. June 30, 2002)

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1^st February 2012, Mumbai, Ambuja Cement despatch figures have been released:

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1 FEBRUARY 2012 – Kivar Environ, an environmental services organisation contracted by the Puducherry state government in India to implement an Integrated Solid Waste Management Project at Puducherry city, has chosen specialist document imaging software from Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India (Advanced). The software has already cut the time taken to process attendance from two days to just a few hours.

The document imaging software, which went live in October 2011, is being used to accurately record and report on the working hours of the community workers handling waste collection for Kivar.
Kivar had previously been using a mobile-based, manually-intensive application to record the attendance of over a thousand community workers. At the start of each shift, the community workers who were working the shift, would have their attendance recorded, in pencil, on a tick sheet. The data on this tick sheet would then be entered into the attendance tracking system. This proved very time-consuming.

Mr Lakshmi Prasad, the Head-IT of Kivar says, “We recognised the need for an attendance system that could automate the collection of data from the attendance sheets, improving both efficiency and accuracy. We were introduced to Advanced and its electronic document imaging solution which uses the latest optical mark recognition technology.”

Mr Prasad continues, “Thanks to the Advanced system, we have reduced the time taken to capture attendance information from a couple of days to just a few hours. The capture of attendance data is now almost 100% accurate, and provides a better interface to monitor and track community worker attendance across various zones in Puducherry.”

Advanced’s document imaging solution, which uses UK-based Version One’s technology, automatically captures attendance information from the tick sheets. Special attendance sheets with barcodes containing the details pertaining to the shift, sub-zone, the sub-zone supervisor and community workers’ names and IDs are printed daily. At the end of each shift, these sheets are scanned back at the office where the optical mark recognition (OMR) technology captures the ticks and converts these ticks into attendance data.

The barcode data is automatically read and uploaded to the central server and at the same time, the tick sheets are electronically archived. Daily attendance reports and data for management dashboards are now available in the central repository from where they can be quickly, easily and securely retrieved over the web.

Advanced re-seller, WoodApple UnikSolutionz, which is based out of Bangalore, worked closely with Advanced to deliver the solution. WoodApple is currently undertaking portal development that will enable Kivar’s vendors to securely access attendance information over the internet.

Kivar is currently looking at rolling-out the document imaging solution to other cities.

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Notes to editor

About Kivar http://kivarenviron.com
Kivar Environ is part of the diversified Kivar Group. Kivar Environ is promoted by Kivar Holdings (www.kivarholdings.com). Kivar Holdings is also the promoter company of Subex Limited, a leading global player in the telecom software products space.

Kivar Group has diversified portfolio plans in the Infrastructure sector. Kivar Environ is the environmental business arm of the group. It operates in two critical areas namely, Solid Waste Management and Water & Wastewater Management.

Kivar Environ specializes in end-to-end solutions through a variety of models like Public Private Partnership (PPP), Build, Own, Operate & Transfer/Maintenance (BOOT/M) and Turnkey contracts.

Kivar Environ is committed to making our world a better place to live in by proactive conservation of water, a precious resource and through effective management of waste. Kivar’s focus is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Kivar Environ actively pursues initiatives and practices that improve our environment.

About Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India http://india.advancedcomputersoftware.com/
Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India provides a range of procurement, collaborative and analytic products designed to enable organisations to extend the value and effectiveness of the finance, human resources and payroll departments across the organisation and enable managers in the business to monitor, analyse and continually improve corporate performance.
Alongside this, Advanced offers a range of front and back office health specific applications. Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India is part of the Advanced Computer Software Group plc.
About WoodApple UnikSolutionz www.woodappleunik.com
WoodApple aligns clients’ business strategies and requirements with cost effective solutions to help them achieve higher business growth. A combination of in-depth product knowledge and team skills ensures high quality, responsive and cost effective solutions delivered to businesses across different verticals. The company works with enterprises in the manufacturing, services and technology domains offering domain specific solutions and services.

WoodApple offers services and solutions to clients across three different levels. These levels form the entire methodology and give clients the flexibility to employ WoodApple’s expertise aligned to their business requirements.
Ø Business Consulting & Applications (BCA) Division: Packaged ERP, CRM, DMS, BI & Payroll
Ø Technology Solutions (TS) Division: Customised software development and add-on modules for packaged software
Ø Product Development (PD) Division: Vertical Products & innovative consumer oriented products on mobile and web platforms.

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Highlights – For nine months ended December 31, 2011, on consolidated basis –

~Charter Earnings stood at INR 161.18 Crores, up by 9%

~EBIDT was INR 67.47 Crores, up by 9%

Mumbai, February 1, 2012: Global Offshore Services Limited (Formerly known as Garware Offshore Services Limited) one of the offshore vessel service providers announced their results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2011 with Charter Earnings of INR 4,409.76 lakhs and a Net Profit of INR 1,007.34 lakhs on a standalone basis. This was a substantial “jump” in earnings and Profit as compared to the previous quarter i.e. Q2 FY 12. Compared to the previous quarter, the income rose by 37% and the Net Profit surged by 40%.

On a consolidated basis, compared to Q2 FY 12, Income from Operations increased by 17% and Net Profit also surged by 92%.

For a 9 month period, on a standalone basis, the charter earnings stood at INR 110.21 crores with a Profit After Tax of INR 22.84 crores while EBIDT margins stood at INR 61.92 crores.

Commenting on this development, Mr. Aditya Garware, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Global Offshore Services Limited said, “Global Offshore’s performance has been satisfactory this quarter and this has been a testimony of our efforts. We hope to achieve maximizing utilization of assets in the forthcoming months. As compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the Charter Hire Income has increased by about 4% to INR 4,409.76 lakhs. This is despite the fact that the company has sold two of its older vessels in the last 12 months.

“On a consolidated basis, for the quarter ended 31st December 2011, the charter hire earnings stood at INR 62.09 crores, an increase of 23%. This increase is due to the fact that all the vessels are on term contracts.”

About Global Offshore Services:

Global Offshore Services Limited is engaged in the business of providing offshore logistics support services to the exploration & production / construction industry. The company presently operates a fleet of eleven vessels. The company’s vessels are working in various markets including India, Europe, West Africa and the Far East.

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On the occasion, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, said, “Customer satisfaction is the primary goal for any organization or professional. The unique initiative from Brands Academy to recognize businesses and professionals for achieving excellence in their respective fields is sure to boost their commitment and help them evolve as true challengers to global brands coming to India. Needless to say, your dedication towards customer satisfaction makes you truly deserving for the Business & Service Excellence Awards. I sincerely wish the very best of success to all the winners and hope to see you all achieve even higher standards in the years to come!”

The Business & Service Excellence Awards are given away by Brands Academy to diverse organizations and professionals from various states annually on the basis of their product and service quality, pricing and marketing strategies and initiatives, leadership position in the industry or market segment, dedication to customer satisfaction, entrepreneurial initiatives, exemplary business practices, feedback from the end customers and the industry and business growth. Big Brands Research continually collects inputs from end consumers in different segments regarding their satisfaction levels from products and services being offered by the different brands and professionals in different geographical locations across different states in the country.

The company conducted the research study and opinion surveys in many key cities in North India over a period of 5 months with more than 50 field executives collecting the data from across different states. The primary objectives of this comprehensive study were to identify and recognize product and service excellence, associated innovations and best practices that lead to exemplary performance and to highlight the importance of pursuing customer satisfaction in today’s competitive and ever-evolving business environment.

According to Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Vice President – Marketing, Big Brands Research Pvt. Ltd., “The winners have demonstrated absolute dedication to customer satisfaction while ensuring profitability and viability for their businesses or professions. This, in today’s uncertain economic scenario worldwide, is a tremendous achievement for any organization or professional! The winners have risen above their peers in their respective industries, market segments and geographical regions. We hope that their competitors will try to emulate their success stories and give them tough competition next year.”

Research Methodology
Identification of the key brands and professionals in a particular category and geographical zone and inviting them for participation in the market research. Over 1700 business entities and professionals spread across the different cities in Karnataka were invited to participate in the market research study in different categories and zones depending upon their location and focus of their business. Over 450 of the participants made to the next stage after the initial screenings of the nominations.
Collection of data from the participating brands and professionals about their services, infrastructure, Annual Growth of business, etc.
Gauging the popularity and perception of the participants amongst the end consumers through opinion surveys. Over 8100 completely filled up forms were received with feedback on different participants. This stage was focused on gathering insights into the brand equity, customer feedback, media visibility and feedback from the industry.
Physical survey of the premises of all the participants for collection and verification of data gathered wherever required
Grading the participants on different criteria based on data/feedback/opinion scores

“The growing popularity of the Business & Service Excellence Awards is a testimony to the fact that they have emerged as the most authentic indicators of the ability of the participants to consistently deliver customer satisfaction and delight, which are crucial for success of their business operations,” concluded Mr. Kumar.

About Brands Academy Pvt. Ltd.
Brands Academy is one of the top brand management consultancies in India that offers a plethora of branding services including design and development of brand strategy and brand architecture, brand name development, market research and implementation of brand positioning and brand repositioning campaigns to corporate, start-ups and NGOs. Brands Academy’s extensive experience in corporate branding extends into several industries spanning both consumer and business to business (B2B) domains. Brands Academy has a client list of over 70 companies and a portfolio of over 120 brands. As one of the leading branding companies in India, Brands Academy team has the requisite hands-on experience in development and management of brands that are successful and leaders in their own segments. For more information, please log on to www.brandsacademy.org
About BIG Brands Research Pvt. Ltd.
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Prof. (Dr.) Manish Verma Director , JICM, said the “Live Project is a part of their curriculum and offers the opportunity to acquire work experience and to meet the professional development requirements of their degree”.

He asserts that “Live project is basically a specializations project to give students practical exposure of their learning in their one and half years. A live project gives the students experience of working within the constraints, requirements and deadlines of the industry, before their final placements. It allows the student to assist industry professionals and see in reality how the entire company/agency functions”.

Aarti Kadam, student PGDM-C said: Being a brand management student I got a life time opportunity to work with a big name like Future group. I got retail exposure which was always my area of interest and in this one month’s time the experience that I have gained from here would remain with me always. I am now looking forward for my final placements in retail sector.

Gousiya Khan, student PGDM-C said: Internship at Ogilvy PR worldwide gave me a life changing experience. Initially I thought PR is only about maintaining the image of a Brand or Person, but here in Ogilvy I realized that it is also about ‘Creating’ that image.

I was over whelmed to see brand name like British Petroleum, Dove and CFA in my live projects’. This experience helped me to understand how class room theories can be applied in an agency and also certain things that can be learned only inside that environment.

Rahul Singh, student PGDM-C said: I had a great learning experience working with Madison Rural division and a brand like Reebok. I realised the untapped market while I was doing the training and development of villagers, preparing a real communication strategy and setting up selling and distribution channels.

Shraddha Sonavane, student PGDM-C said: The live project at Percept Talent Management has not only given me a very different experience but has also been great learning of practical knowledge of agencies. Live project strikes the right balance in providing exposure with the interested area of work.

The students joined companies on 2nd Jan across India.

About JICM:

Jagran Institute of Communication and Management (JICM) is approved by AICTE and one of the best media schools in India with emphasis on practice of Communication Management. The institute has excellent infrastructure, faculty and industry tie ups. The specializations available in the course are Brand Management, Media Management and Account Planning and Management. JICM, Bhopal aspires to not just teach, but also to mould and create communication and management aspirants. JICM wishes to see every aspirant as a thinker, a motivator for change. This aspiration meets the demand of our times, that is, to carve out unusual solutions for communication problems.

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Vidya Balan plays the character of Silk in the film who is an actress known for her bold scenes in her movies. Her performance in the film got her rave reviews. Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Tushar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi well complimented Silk with their power pact performance in the film. The Dirty Picture received thunderous response in theatres and was soon announced as one of the highest grossing movie of the year.

Hiren Gada, Director, Shemaroo Entertainment shares his thoughts, “After Vidya Balan’s Ishqiya, we bring to our audience The Dirty Picture – another super hit movie from the brilliant actress. The Dirty Picture has wowed the masses as well as the critics. The movie is a complete entertainment package and with making of the film as a bonus feature offered on DVDs and Blu Ray makes it a must have for your movie collection.”

“For an unconventional set-up and subject, the huge box office and critical acclaim for ‘The Dirty Picture’ makes it a real game-changer. With the launch of the DVD, we look forward to Silk making her way into homes!” says Ekta Kapoor, Joint MD – Balaji Telefilms Ltd.

About Shemaroo

Founded in 1962, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd is among the eminent Filmed Entertainment “Content House” in the country with activities ranging across Content Ownership, Aggregation and Distribution. The Shemaroo brand is today synonymous with quality entertainment in the Indian entertainment eco system.
Shemaroo is engaged in the distribution of content for satellite channels, physical formats and emerging technologies like the Mobile, Internet, Broadband, IPTV and DTH among others. With its partnership with the major telecom operators in India, Shemaroo is one of the forefront players of the digital age. The company has also tied up with many content providers across the country.

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“China currently employs 40,000+ people to block content on the Internet.
Hope India is not going to go the China way”: Ankit Fadia

Hyderabad, January 31, 2012: Worried about the Indian government’s threat to block your favorite websites? Tired of your college, office & government blocking everything cool & fun on the Internet? Deprived of accessing Stock Websites, Facebook and You Tube Videos at work? Slow download speeds, download limits, no access to cricket scores & no chatting with friends, making Jack a dull boy? Cheer up as ANKIT FADIA’s latest book “How to Unblock Everything on the Internet” will show how to unblock just about everything on the Internet.

Published by Vikas Publishing House, the book is launched in Hyderabad today. After the launch Mr. Ankit Fadia gave a live demonstration on how to unblock websites, blogs, applications and content on the Internet. The stylishly packaged book shows people how to unblock everything on the Internet. It is priced at INR 150/- is now available at all bookstores across India and even before its official release has already sold more than 2000 copies online!

Freedom of speech and expression is the mortar that cements the bricks of democracy. Completely blocking websites on the Internet by the government is a step away from democracy. However, freedom of speech does not extend to the extreme scenario where it is okay for a miscreant to go into a crowded theater and shout ‘FIRE’! Such an act can harm or hurt the peace and wellbeing of others in the society. Hence it is important for the government and online platforms to join hands to efficiently work together to block the publishing of inflammatory content on the Internet.

However, pre-screening of Internet content or putting the complete liability, responsibility and blame on platforms is not very reasonable. After all, could you sue a mobile phone operator or the neighborhood post office if somebody were to send an obscene or offensive message using their communication medium? You can prosecute the individual who sent the message and not the communication medium that was used.

Speaking on the launch of his new book Ankit Fadia said “Banning or blocking websites on the Internet completely is not the answer and is a step away from democracy and could silence free speech all together. We need to find a middle ground which allows a more efficient mechanism to remove offensive content from the Internet without blocking access to websites completely. China currently employs 40,000+ people to block content on the Internet. Hope India is not going to go the China way”.

Written in an easy-to-understand do-it-yourself manner that just about everybody (both non-technical people and technical people) can understand, this book will teach you simple things you can do to unblock access to blocked stuff on the Internet including social networks (Facebook, Twitter), video streaming websites (YouTube, MetaCafe), Sports/Cricket websites, chat, career sites and just about everything else. If you are studying in a college, working for a company or travelling to a country that has blocked access to everything cool & fun on the Internet (like Facebook, YouTube, Chat and others), making your life miserably boring, this book is sure to come to your rescue. It contains over 50 different chapters and provides step by step processes that absolutely anybody can follow and is ably supported by screen shots as well.

The book “How to unblock everything on the net” will find a widespread audience not only in India but also amongst residents and visitors to countries like China and the Middle East (Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and others) where censorship is rampant and repressive.

Recipient of the prestigious National Telecom Awards 2011, for “Global Ambassador for Cyber Security” from Sachin Pilot (Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) a, Ankit Fadia is a globally respected voice on cyber terrorism. Ankit Fadia was also recently selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper for his achievements at such a young age.

He further added “It is about time that governments start looking at platforms like social media and search as assets and not as enemies. After the Devastating Earthquake in Japan in 2011, Google immediately launched a People Finder website which allowed people to upload pictures & post information about missing people & share it with others and actually managed to help people locate their missing loved ones. The Haiti Earthquake generated more than 17 million tweets alone creating much needed global awareness, aid and help from all corners of the globe in a matter of a few hours. Would you really want to block such lifesaving mediums?”.

Commenting on the launch of the book, Mr. Piyush Chawla, Director, Vikas Publishing Pvt. Ltd. The publisher of the book said “Kudos to Ankit for showing the way to having unrestricted access to legal content on the Internet. A TRUE-VALUE book!”

About Ankit Fadia: At 26 years of age, Ankit Fadia is widely recognized as a Computer Security Expert and Cyber Terrorism guru. He has written 14 bestselling books, delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries, received 45 awards, has trained more than 20,000 people in India & China, offers certification courses on Ethical Hacking, hosts his own MTV show called What the Hack!, runs his own consulting company and also went to Stanford University. His work has touched & influenced the cyber lives of millions of individuals and organizations worldwide. He was recently chosen as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.

In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden’s men. Since then Fadia has been involved in numerous classified projects pertaining to cyber terrorism and crime. In August 2008, Fadia was consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just a few minutes before the Gujarat serial blasts. Fadia was also consulted by the Mumbai Police for decoding VOIP messages in relation to the Mumbai terror attacks.

About Vikas Publishing House: Vikas Publishing House, founded in 1969, is a pioneer and leading publisher of India. With its Head Office in Delhi and branches in Mumbai. Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, Vikas publishes books on Higher Education, School textbooks (Madhubun) and general books. It also specializes in customized courseware. Along with its sister concern, UBS Publishers’ Distributors Ltd., the group is one of the largest and well-respected entities in the Indian book trade.

Vikas Publishing House is proud to have been associated with Ankit Fadia for the past decade and published a dozen books for him, including the best-selling Email Hacking, Windows Hacking and Software Hacking.

How to Unblock Everything on the Internet is the latest offering, and has the added benefit of being published simultaneously in English and in Hindi.

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Bangalore, January 31, 2012: GlobalCom PR Network, a global network of over 45 specialized public relations and communications firms across the globe, today announced that it will be for the first time holding its annual network meeting in India at Bangalore on the 9th & 10th of February 2012. The annual network meeting sees the heads of partner agencies in the network meet to discuss global industry trends, strategy of the network for the year ahead and also take policy decisions regarding the network’s operations. The network meetings till this edition have been only held in Europe in Milan, Brussels, Lappland, Barcelona and Munich. The two day meet features an interactive panel discussion attended by the global head of corporate communication of one of India’s leading biotechnology companies, global heads of marketing of two Tier II IT services players and the Head of marketing of one of India’s largest digital marketing firms. The first day would see attending delegates exposed to a slice of Indian culture when renowned Bangalore-based dancers Sandhya & Kiran with their troupe perform “YATRA” – a showcase of Indian classical and folk dance forms for the audience set to an Indian ambience.

Explaining the reason behind choosing India, Ralf Hartman, Managing Director, Globalcom PR-Network NV, said,” As one of the world’s leading independent communication agency networks, we often look to where the future lies and unmistakably for any business including the business of PR, Asia and its two giants India and China are key. Also, the rise of these two economies and others in the region has also led to a shift in the way one looked at business development with a growing number of companies from India and other countries in the region investing heavily in expanding overseas. This emergence of Indian multinationals is a key driver of the business and we needed to start somewhere in understanding and further engaging these key markets of future. Being here, meeting some of the potential prospects and getting a feel of the city and the country is a good start and we are happy to be in India. That we have a key and capable partner in PRHUB here whose head has played a role in the network since its early days made the decision even easier.”
In his comments, Xavier Prabhu, Founder & CEO, PRHUB, among India’s leading PR firms and the only affiliate of Globalcom PR-Network in India, said,” Except for the ICCO conference held in Delhi few years back India despite being one of the key, growing markets for PR globally, has not had a congregation of this nature where one witnesses heads of so many international PR firms. For us this is a great opportunity to showcase the evolution of Indian PR firms and how they are as good as the best in any other market worldwide. Further, our teams here get an opportunity to listen to, interact with professionals from other markets and learn. We look forward to hosting the meet and ensuring it is a all around success with the delegates getting a true flavor of one of the world’s greatest cultures and fastest growing large economies.”

About GlobalCom: Founded in 2005, Germany-based GlobalCom PR-Network is among the world’s leading independent networks of full service PR and Marketing Communications agencies. The fast growing network currently has 45 partner agencies who between them cover 60 countries worldwide. The network partners are spread across all member states of the European Union besides Asia, Africa, Middle East, North and South America providing a truly global reach. The network company and its directors identify and then carefully choose independent agencies with a proven track record in their respective markets to ensure the clients get similar service levels across multiple markets they work with through the network. The network currently has both large global organizations and mid-size companies as its clients across automotive, consumer electronics, financial services, pharmaceuticals & healthcare, IT, lifestyle, renewable energy and travel and tourism verticals among others. The network partner agencies between themselves have over 1300 experienced PR consultants who ensure delivery of high quality services to clients. More details can be had from www.gcpr.net

About PRHUB : Ranked among India’s top 30 PR firms and among the top 11 in Technology PR, Bangalore-based PRHUB is a consulting-led, independent full services PR firm with branch offices in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. The fast growing PR firm is the flagship brand of businesshubs – a fledgling consulting and communication group with two other brands in its fold: MindSpark – a fast growing creative and marcom boutique and DialogueS – a specialist start-up devoted to social media consulting, coaching and campaigning. The group is looking at more specialized brands being launched over the years to ensure it covers the entire branding and marketing canvas. Formally transformed as a PR firm in late 2002, PRHUB is a privately held company which across its practice areas employs 50 full time and part-time employees. Please visit www.prhub.com for more information.
For editorial queries please contact Jaya Varghese/ Sonia of PRHUB @ /media@prhub.com

Priyanka Minz , Account Executive
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www.prhub.com

Xpert Media’s MensXP.com, is India’s biggest lifestyle website with over a million plus and strongly growing unique monthly readers. MensXP.com has established a loyal readership through its vast and rapidly growing repository of lifestyle content. Equipped with more than 50,000 self-help and how-tos, MensXP.com is the largest source of information related to lifestyle for Indian men. And it is taking things to a new level.

“The company is excited about its partnership with Jivox. Our teams will be working closely for certain game-changing integrations across multiple screens and various connected devices”, said Angad Bhatia, Managing Director, Xpert Media.

“We welcome Xpert Media’s adoption of the Jivox platform. MensXP.com is poised to be the most preferred destination for lifestyle audience and brands who want to target them.” said Rahul Tambewagh, Director, Platform Sales, Jivox. “We have trained and certified their Ad Operations team for campaign optimization, ad creation, tag generation, mobile and in-banner integration.”
About Xpert Media

Xpert Media Technology (XPM) is India’s leading integrated vertical media company designed to provide urban Indian readers with the largest library of lifestyle content. XPM’s MensXP.com, is currently India’s biggest Men’s Lifestyle website with over a million plus and growing unique readers. MensXP.com has established a loyal readership through its vast and rapidly growing repository of lifestyle content.

About Jivox

Jivox is the leading multi-screen interactive video advertising technology company. The Jivox platform enables networks, brand advertisers, digital agencies and publishers to deliver highly engaging video ads powered by interactive and social sharing features. Using Jivox creative tools, interactive video ads can be easily authored and delivered instream, in-banner, on mobile devices and tablets. Jivox technology eliminates typical challenges associated with delivering video ads across multiple screens and connected devices, such as HTML5/Flash, operating systems, browsers, video encoding, form factor and other issues. Jivox also provides sophisticated campaign performance tracking, brand awareness and purchase intent analytics for advertisers via BrandGage — its proprietary real-time analytics platform. The Jivox platform is used by several hundred media companies and agencies including AdBrite, Bloomberg, Komlli, Weather Underground, Sun Times Media, InteractiveOne, Starcom, OMD, FUOR Digital, GroupM and Lee Enterprises. For examples of Jivox ads see: http://www.jivox.com/demoads.

Jivox is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California with a development office in Bangalore and India sales offices in Bangalore and Mumbai. For more information about Jivox, please visit http://www.jivox.co.in.

A number of events and competitions catering to a variety of disciplines such as music, literature, dance, poetry, theatre and fine arts were a part of this zone-2 fest. This year the topics for the events were very topical and related to the recent happenings which have left an impact on the nation. The topic for debate was “Thanks to Social Networking Sites- there is no face to face interaction”, “62 years of Republic India” for painting competition and “Politics, Corruption & Lokpal Bill” for collage competition.

The ‘fashion parade’ and ‘Mr. and Ms. Anugoonj’ marked the conclusion of the colorful gala event at JIMS’s Rohini Sector-5 campus.
“The underlying aim of ‘Anugoonj’, the youth cultural festival is to promote the hidden talent of the students. Such events play a significant role to foster friendship and brotherhood among participating students. Students learn to focus their energy and the importance of team work,” said, Dr. J K Goyal, Director, JIMS.

Anugoonj is an annual youth festival, where students from all the affiliated institutes and University School of Studies of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University showcase their talent. The winners of the zonal prelims are the participants of the event. This year Anugoonj will be held from February 2 – February 4, 2012 at the University campus at Dwarka, New Delhi.

About JIMS

Jagan Institute of Management Studies was set up in 1993. As an institute of excellence in the field of management studies and technical education, JIMS has always strived to rework the curriculum in consonance with the changing needs of the corporate world. Regular interaction with leaders in business and academics has helped the Institute in achieving the goal of moving ahead of time.

The standards it has set for the quality of its courses and programmes and the delivery system adopted, have enabled the Institute to attract students from across the country. Its PGDM Programme, recognized by AICTE has gained immense popularity with the graduates seeking higher educational opportunities and new challenges. It is evidenced by the ever increasing number of applicants for this Programme over the years. JIMS PGDM Programme is recognized as being equivalent to MBA by the Association of Indian Universities.

For more information please visit: http://www.jimsindia.org/

For further details, please contact:
Nikky Gupta/Rishi Sinha/ AbhishekPandey
Teamwork Communication Solutions
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Airconditioning and commercial refrigeration major, Blue Star Limited, has announced the launch of a new range of contemporary and stylish room airconditioners for the residential segment which will be available in a large number of retail channels across the country. These airconditioners, apart from modern features, offer higher energy efficiency resulting in significant power savings.

Blue Star is India’s largest central airconditioning company with an experience of over six decades in providing expert cooling solutions. Blue Star has been selling room airconditioners vide its sales and service dealers mainly catering to the corporate and commercial segment such as offices, restaurants, showrooms, boutiques and ATMs. Over the last few years, the Company has witnessed significant demand from the residential segment. Despite the fact that Blue Star room airconditioners were not available in retail channels, a considerable amount of Blue Star’s sales came from the residential segment, mainly from consumers who believe that a specialist is better than a generalist and a conviction that if Blue Star is a leader in cooling large spaces, its room airconditioners must be good.
Considering this trend, the Company forayed into the residential segment last year, and made significant changes to its marketing mix including a product line-up to appeal to the residential segment, distribution through home appliance retail outlets and enhanced advertising budgets. This foray met with resounding success and Blue Star’s room airconditioners sales grew considerably despite a decline in sales in the overall room airconditioners industry last year.

Encouraged by its success in 2011, the Company plans to continue to aggressively target the residential segment in 2012.

New line-up of energy-efficient products

On the product front, Blue Star has launched an impressive new range of room airconditioners which adhere to the new energy standards prescribed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). With effect from January 2012, BEE has upgraded the energy standards of split airconditioners to a higher level in line with the Energy Conservation programme. All the star-rated split units this year will have a higher Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) as compared to the same star units last year, translating to savings in power bills. Further, within the range of EER specified for each star-rating, Blue Star has opted for a higher EER within each band, in order to maximize energy efficiency.

Apart from being energy efficient, the new range of split airconditioners have a new contemporary and stylish look with multi-colour options like pearl white, two-tone silver, champagne gold and wine red to appeal to home consumers. They boast of several features including i-feel for comfort where one sits, six filters for ultra-pure air, turbo operation, long distance piping, auto mode, dry mode, sleep mode, blow/self clean function, elegant remote control, rust-resistant construction, self diagnosis, scroll compressor, acoustic insulation on compressor and R410A eco-friendly refrigerant, amongst others. The range of window airconditioners has also been enhanced with a 4-star range, in addition to the existing 1-star, 2-star and 3-star models. The Company plans to invest about Rs 250 million on new product development and research and design initiatives.
Multi-Inverter Split AC

In the inverter range, Blue Star has launched a new break-through product called the Multi-Inverter wherein an inverter-technology based outdoor unit can be coupled to three indoor units to aircondition upto three rooms simultaneously. This product range will appeal to consumers who want to aircondition their entire house and at the same time would like to dramatically save on power bills. This futuristic range helps in reducing the number of outdoor units from three to just one unit, thereby maintaining the look of the façade of the building. The indoor units also have a state-of-the art sleek design with a diamond sparkle to appeal to interior designers and architects. This product re-emphasizes the Company’s commitment to offer high-technology products to residential customers.

Distribution
A regards to distribution, Blue Star room airconditioners were available in home-appliance retail channels in 7 locations last year and the Company has increased its presence in 67 locations this year. In addition, its strong force of about 1000 exclusive and multi-brand sales and service airconditioning dealers will aggressively promote the range. The Company has also built up a strong installation and service franchise network to support the retailers.

Advertising and Brand Communication

In terms of advertising and brand communication, the Company has plans to invest about Rs 150 million in the forthcoming summer season with a new set of TV commercials supported by print ads, mainline dailies, cinema, radio, hoardings and internet. The differentiated value proposition to the residential audience has been identified as ‘Get office-like cooling at home’ which leverages Blue Star’s expertise in cooling offices and communicates that one can get the very same expertise at home.

Speaking to the Press at a conference held in Mumbai, B Thiagarajan, President, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Products Group, Blue Star Limited said “Despite the fact that the room airconditioners market in India declined by about 15% due to a soft summer during 2011, Blue Star’s room airconditioners business has been on a fast growth track and grew about 29% in 2011, with the main growth coming from the residential segment. Several home consumers have instilled their faith in us and believe that we offer contemporary and modern products due to our airconditioning pedigree. Considering our impressive new energy-efficient product range, our aggressive distribution strategy and our commitment to continue to make investments in enhancing brand equity, I am confident that we will continue to perform well in the residential segment.”

Place : Mumbai

Date : January 27, 2012
For additional information, please contact: B Thiagarajan, President, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Products Group, Blue Star Limited, Bandbox House, 254D, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai – 400 030 email: bthiagarajan@bluestarindia.com Telephone: 9821078098.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Consolidated Quarter Review

Consolidated revenues stood at Rs 29.6 crore; up by 44.6% YoY.
Consolidated Net Profit for the quarter stands at Rs 2.7crore, an increase of 248% YoY.
EBIDTA Margin stood at 6.1% as against 6.0% in Q3FY11 – an increase of 10 bps.
Basic EPS for the quarter stood at Rs2.74, 248% jump YoY.

Consolidated 9m Review

Consolidated revenues stood at Rs 87.7 crore; up by 42.4% YoY.
Consolidated Net Profit for the 9mFY12 stands at Rs 8.5 crore, an increase of 431% YoY.
EBIDTA Margin stood at 9.1% in 9mFY12 as against 4.3% in 9mFY11 – an increase of 480 bps.
Basic EPS YTD stood at Rs8.50, increase of 431% over the same period last year.

Commenting on the company’s performance, Mr. A V Asvini Kumar, Chairman & Managing Director, Thinksoft Global, said, “The quarter under review was in line with our expectation driven by performance from the North America and Asia geographies. The Banking segment demonstrated strong growth during the quarter contributing 48.1% of our consolidated revenues. The deal pipeline remains robust which gives us the confidence of sustaining this performance going ahead.”

About Thinksoft Global

Thinksoft Global is a specialist in financial software testing with over 14-million person hour track records for Global 500 financial and insurance organisations in USA, UK, Europe, India and Asia-Pacific. Through its domain focus, structured testing methodologies, offshore delivery, and test automation expertise, Thinksoft helps clients realise ‘business ready software’, compress timelines, and reduce software product life cycle costs. In the last 14 years, Thinksoft Global has established a successful track record of handling large independent functional testing assignments. Thinksoft has established a global presence/ footprint in New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Bangalore and Chennai. Thinksoft Global is the Winner of the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 India and Tech Fast 500 AsiaPac – 2006, 2007 and 2008. Thinksoft is ISO 9001:2000 certified for ‘Providing offshore testing and documentation services for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance verticals.

For further information, please contact:

Vaidyanathan N
Thinksoft Global Services Limited

Ph: +91 44 4392 3200

Email: vaidyanathan.n@thinksoftglobal.com

Yash Gadodia
Christensen Investor Relations

Ph: +91 22 64522086

Email: ygadodia@christensenir.com

Ficino School in Mt Eden area of Auckland (New Zealand), which calls itself “values-based academic institution” and offers education for girls and boys from year one to eight, says about Sanskrit: “It has a wonderful system of sound and grammar, which gives the child an excellent base for the study of any language. Children love its order and beauty.”

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has applauded Ficino School for fostering universal virtues and encouraging Sanskrit studies and adds that Sanskrit has a close relationship with other classical languages like Latin, Greek, French, German, etc.

According to Peter Crompton, principal of this school founded in 1997 where curriculum includes “food for the mind, food for the spirit, food for the body”, “Sanskrit with its almost perfect grammatical system…provides children with a roadmap for understanding English.” Sanskrit not only gives young learners a clear understanding of the structure of language, it also heightens their awareness of the process of speech, creating a greater understanding of and ability to, enunciate words clearly, Crompton adds.

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, pointed out that Sanskrit should be restored to its rightful place and needed to be brought to the mainstream and hidden scientific truths in ancient Sanskrit literature should be brought to light.

Rajan Zed strongly criticized India Government for not doing enough for Sanskrit promotion. He asked India Government to do much more for the development, propagation, encouragement and promotion of Sanskrit in India and the world, which was essential for the development of India and preservation of its cultural heritage. Sanskrit also provided the theoretical foundation of ancient sciences.

Besides Hindu scriptures, a vast amount of Buddhist and Jain scriptures were also written in Sanskrit, which is known as “the language of the gods”. According to tradition, self-born God created Sanskrit, which is everlasting and divine. Oldest scripture of mankind still in common use, Rig-Veda, was written in Sanskrit, Zed added.

Mahatma Gandhi said, “Without the study of Sanskrit, one cannot become a true learned man.” German philologist Max Muller added, “Sanskrit is the greatest language of the world.”

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Mumbai, January 24, 2011 – Fluke Corporation, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, today announced that it has acquired TTL Technologies Pvt. Ltd., for an undisclosed amount. TTL has represented Fluke in India since 2001 as a master distributor. The new business combines TTL’s many years of experience in the Indian test and measurement market, its national distribution network and its renowned customer care and accredited calibration labs with Fluke technological innovation, manufacturing excellence and world class business processes. TTL businesses and employees will be integrated into the Fluke organization.
Fluke products are used throughout Indian transportation, defense and manufacturing industries, spanning natural gas to power generation, transmission and distribution, railways, basic metals, pharmaceutical, automotive, capital goods and electronics R&D, as well as the major calibration labs.
“We are excited to welcome TTL to the Fluke family,” said Peter Van Den Broek, President Emerging Markets, Fluke Corporation. “TTL has been a great partner and now together we will substantially increase our overall customer offering. This agreement reinforces our commitment to our customers in India and positions us for rapid growth in an important market.”
“TTL’s acquisition by Fluke is a huge step forward. We will utilize this new strength to widen and deepen our reach to customers across India, creating tremendous excitement and growth,” said Joey Joseph, CEO & Managing Director, TTL Technologies. “Customers can look forward to a higher level of access to Fluke technology and support.”

TTL businesses and employees will be integrated into the Fluke organization. There are no plans for changes in staffing or facility locations. “Our top priority is our customers and meeting their needs,” said Van Den Broek. “Our goal is for the transition to be as seamless as possible.”

About Fluke Corporation

Founded in 1948, Fluke Corporation is the world leader in compact, professional electronic test tools. Fluke tools deliver the testing and troubleshooting capabilities that are critical to keep industry running smoothly. Fluke customers are technicians, engineers, electricians and metrologists who install, troubleshoot and manage industrial, electrical and electronic equipment and calibration processes. The Fluke brand is sold in over 100 countries and is known worldwide for quality, accuracy, safety and reliability. Fluke has been active in India since 1971.

Fluke is a registered trademark of Fluke Corporation. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The company’s international headquarters are in Everett, WA, USA, with sales and service offices worldwide. For more information contact Fluke Corporation, P.O. Box 9090, Everett, WA 98206, USA call (800) 44-FLUKE, fax (425) 446-5116, or visit http://www.fluke.com.

About TTL

TTL Technologies has built its reputation over the last 30 years as a leading distributor of the best test and measurement brands. TTL’s variety of product offerings, strong product support, technical expertise, and pan-India reach caters to the critical needs of clients, whether directly or through its sub-distributor /retail network. With service centers and calibration labs in major metropolitan areas across India, TTL is uniquely positioned to serve customers with quality, reliable and comprehensive test and measurement solutions. For more information, visit http://www.ttlindia.com.

For more information kindly contact:

Milind Thakkar

Fluke India

+91 22 4227 0314

Milind.thakkar@fluke.com

Girija Balan

Pressman

+91 22 22188880

pr@pressmanindia.com

Bangalore – January 24, 2012 – SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd, a leader in Corporate IT Trainings, today, announced that, the company is launching Corporate Open House Trainings in India. The programs are designed and developed to fit the learning requirements of IT professionals and the courses are primarily created for Programmers, Senior Programmers, Leads and Architects. With this initiative, Enterprises and IT professionals will now have option of choosing effective, high-quality; industry-oriented courses by the industry veterans & subject matter experts. The initial offerings will include trainings on Android, iPhone/iOS, Cloud Computing, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Tomcat, Apache, Groovy & Grails, Testing, Databases, Operating Systems, Microsoft Technologies, Web Technologies like HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and more.

“Our Open House programs, one of its kinds, will provide industry best practices, advice, abundant hands-on labs, rich discussions on real world scenarios & interactive learning with industry experts. These comprehensive programs will empower individuals through improved skills & knowledge and prepare them to take on global assignments in India and Abroad” said Mr. Ravi Kaklasaria, Director, SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd.

SpringPeople Corporate Open House Training Programmes will help equip IT professionals with technical expertise, that would help them capitalize on the challenges and opportunities in the IT Industry and enhance their existing skills with compelling new solutions and expertise. SpringPeople has been helping companies to reduce their Total Cost of Learning (TCL TM) by delivering Complete Learning Experience (CLE TM). It also helped them accelerate the entire application development lifecycle.

The SpringPeople corporate training programme helps accelerate the entire application lifecycle and caters to a wide variety of verticals that includes: IT, BFSI, CRM, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Education, Travel, Retail etc. SpringPeople clients include: Cisco, UHG, ANZ, GE, Fidelity, Accenture, Monsanto, NetApp, Intuit, McAfee, Travelex, RBS, Wells Fargo, Thomson Reuters, EMC, Essar, VmWare, HP, Cognizant, NDS, Cricinfo, Red Bus, Tata Elxsi, Cadence and CDAC – to name a few.

About SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd

SpringPeople is an exclusive master partner of SpringSource, a division of VMware APAC (one of the seven global partners) in India. The company delivers training on Spring Framework and portfolio projects and also offers tailored training solutions for customer’s corporate training requirements – through highly experienced and motivated trainers/consultants. SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd is a privately held company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Founded in 2009, SpringPeople is headed by accomplished software industry veterans. For more information, pls visit http://www.springpeople.com

SpringPeople is a registered trademark of SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd. All other company names and products mentioned herein may be the property of their respective companies.

For further details, please contact:

Mrinal Bagaria / Manish Sharma

Tel: 080- 9945531611 Tel: 080-25359794, 98450-32618

Email: mrinal.bagaria@springpeople.com Email: manish@voilacomm.net

Prasaad, which in Hindi means a gracious gift, tells the dramatic story of a man who desires two things in life, to win the lottery and to have a son. His wife gives birth to a boy and later the little boy wins the lottery. The film is a magical tale of an 8-year-old deaf boy who fights and overcomes his physical handicap only to be confronted with tragedy.
The film features Arjun Sarja, who has starred in hundreds of films, Madhuri Bhattacharya, who starred in the Indian version of Sex and the City, and marks the film debut of child actor Sankalp Jha.

About AKK Entertainment India
Producer Ashok Khenny, who received the Outstanding Businessman Award from the U.S. President in the 1980s while living in the United States, is at the forefront of plans to set up a media hub in Bangalore-India’s key IT hub. He aims to build a full-fledged film city with studios and sound stages.

About Bombay Berlin
Bombay Berlin is a film production company with a world sales arm based in Mumbai. The company aims to make films that bridge east and west and has produced films and documentaries for theatrical release and for television.

Media Contact
press@3vmediainternational.de

20 January 2012; Vodafone Group (“Vodafone”) has received the judgment of the Indian Supreme Court.  The Court has concluded that Vodafone had no liability to account for withholding tax on its acquisition of interests in Hutchison Essar Limited (now Vodafone India Limited) in 2007.

For further information:

Vodafone Group

About Vodafone

Vodafone is one of the world’s largest mobile communications companies by revenue with approximately 391 million customers in its controlled and jointly controlled markets as at 30 September 2011. Vodafone currently has equity interests in over 30 countries across five continents and more than 40 partner networks worldwide.  For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com

Lulu Bridges, Director

Tavistock Communications

131 Finsbury Pavement

London, EC2A 1NT

Tel: +44 20 7920 3150

Mob: +44 7831 170 364

Web: www.tavistock.co.uk

Online registrations create history at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2012. Registrations open on KyaZoonga.com, the exclusive registration partner 

January 20, 2012 – Delhi: The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF 2012), the largest and most prestigious literary gathering in India, has for the first time in its five year history opened up registrations online and partnered with KyaZoonga.com, the country’s largest online ticketing company, for the registrations process. Over 70,000 participants from as many as 30 countries are expected to register for this literary extravaganza. Participants and delegates are thronging online on KyaZoonga.com to book their spots for the festival that features world-renowned authors and speakers such as Oprah Winfrey, Fatima Bhutto, Shashi Tharoor, Gulzar, Deepak Chopra and Prasoon Joshi.

This year the festival will focus on a variety of issues including burning topics such as the Arab Spring and Anna, Bhakti and Sufi traditions, Gandhi, Ambedkar vegetarianism, censorship, writing from conflict zones,theatre and other issues.

The annual festival is being held at the heritage property Diggi Palace in Jaipur from January 20-24, 2012 and will play host to over 200 speakers from across the globe. Prominent authors who have confirmed their presence at the 5^th DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2012 include Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Amish Tripathi, Ben Okri, C.P. Deval, David Hare, David Remnick, Deepak Chopra, Fatima Bhutto, Gulzar, Hari Kunzru, Helen Fielding, Jamaica Kincaid, James Schapiro, Jason Burke, Javed Akhtar, Lakshmi Sharma, Mahesh Dattani, Michael Ondaatje, Mohamed Hanif, Pavan Varma, Piyush Daiya, Prasoon Joshi, Purushottam Agrawal, Rahul Bhattacharya, Rabi Thapa, Ranjit Hoskote, Shyam Jahangid, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Tahmima Anam, Thant Mynt-U, Tom Stoppard and Zoe Heller.

Festival Producer, Sanjoy Roy said, “In keeping with our tradition of being an avant-garde festival, we are extremely pleased to reach out to our fans and participants online through KyaZoonga.com. We are overwhelmed to see the response we’ve received over the last several weeks and are projecting a sell-out crowd for JLF2012. KyaZoonga.com’s stellar track record as the online destination for tickets and registrations in India, coupled with their on-ground experience with large international events make them the ideal partner for an event like ours that reaches out to people across the globe”.

Speaking about the partnership, Neetu Bhatia, Co-Founder and CEO of KyaZoonga.com said, “It is a privilege to be taking the Jaipur Literature Festival online for the very first time and we are excited by the tremendous response we have seen so far. Our mission of democratizing access to premier events in India and around the world continues with this path-breaking online registration process for a festival of this repute and scale.”

The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival as always is free for the general public to attend. An online registration for all visitors has been introduced to ensure better participant management at the venue. Registrations for DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2012 are now open for delegates and the media. Details on registration and accreditation are available on the website www.kyazoonga.com

A limited number of paid delegate registrations are also available, however, they’re already sold out for a few of the festival days. Special rates at festival hotels are also available for those seeking accommodation.

About Kyazoonga.com

KyaZoonga is India’s first and largest entertainment and sports ticketing company. Launched in early 2007, KyaZoonga has sold several million tickets both in India and around the world. KyaZoonga helps fans “Jump the Q” with easy access to all forms of ticketed entertainment and sports with multiple payment options through its online, retail, social, mobile and box-office distribution channels. Riding on its overwhelming success in ticketing, KyaZoonga has grown to become the leading e-commerce platform in India with several product categories and merchandise options sold through its site. KyaZoonga is committed to enhancing the purchase experience while democratizing access for consumers.

About the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival

The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival is considered to be Asia’s leading literature event celebrating national and international writers and encompasses a range of activities including film, music and theatre. The festival has already hosted some of the best-known national and international writers including Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, John Berendt, Kiran Desai, Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan, Vikram Seth, Nadeem Aslam, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Simon Schama, Thomas Keneally, Hanif Kureishi, Vikram Chandra, Anoushka Shankar, Michael Frayn, Stephen Frears, Alexander McCall Smith, Donna Tartt, Tina Brown, Shashi Tharoor, Mohammed Hanif, Paul Zacharia among many others.

The Directors of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival are William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale and the festival is produced by Sanjoy K. Roy and Sheuli Sethi of Teamwork Productions. DSC Limited is the principal sponsor of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival.

Highlights of the Report:

• 61 candidates out of the 408 candidates analyzed with self declared pending criminal cases against them are contesting the Punjab 2012 Assembly Elections.
• Out of these 61 candidates, 22 candidates have declared serious pending criminal cases such as murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, robbery etc against them.
• All major parties have given tickets to candidates with pending criminal cases. INC has 23 out of 116 (20%), SAD has 18 out of 93 (19%), BSP has 9 out of 61 (15%), PPP has 7 out of 89
• (8%)candidates analyzed with pending criminal cases.
• A total of 266 candidates out of 408 analyzed i.e. 65% are crorepati. In the Assembly Elections of 2007, a total of 184 candidates out of 462 analyzed (40%) were crorepati.
• Out of 408 candidates analyzed for Punjab Assembly Elections 2012, only 29 (7%) candidates are women; the number of women candidates for INC is 10 out of 116 (9%), for SAD it is 10 out of 83 (12%),for PPP it is 4 out of 89 (4%), for BSP it is 2 out of 61(3%) and for BJP it is 2 out of 21 (10%).
• Education and Age Analysis also attached.
• Toll-free Helpline (1-800-110-440) to help voters to choose honest candidates and SMS
• MYNETA <Pincode > to 56070 or MYNETA <Constituency name> to 56070

Contacts:

1. Jaskirat Singh, E: jaskirats@gmail.com, pew@myneta.info, M:+91-9316084953, T:0161-4685801
2. Anil Bairwal, E: anil@adrindia.org/adr@adrindia.org, M: +91-8010394248 ,  +91 9999310100, T: 011 40817601
3. Jagdeep Chhokar, E: jchhokar@gmail.com, M: +91 9999620944