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NEW DELHI: A Planned Scheme of “Supporting Community Movement in India” has been conceived to provide grants to Community Radio Stations in the range of Rs 100,000 to Rs 1.5 million depending on the purpose for which the grant is sought. Under this scheme a provision has been made to award grants for infrastructure/ equipment to scale the growth of new community radio stations especially in remote and rural areas that have little access to media as well as stations managed by disadvantaged and marginalized communities.
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MUMBAI: Universal Music India has acquired the rights of ‘Endless Summer’ – the official song of UEFA EURO 2012 soccer tournament. Sung by German pop singer Oceana, the track will be played at the stadiums throughout the tournament to be held from 8 June to 1 July in Poland and Ukraine. The band will perform live in the finals to be held on 1 July at the Olympic Stadium, Kiev. The video of the song is available on YouTube and will air exclusively on Vh1 India tomorrow.
read moreMUMBAI: Pakistan's state-run broadcaster had asked All India Radio (AIR) for the historic speech in which Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah had addressed the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947, three days before the creation of Pakistan.
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MUMBAI: Talented bollywood singer Sunidhi Chauhan has her plate full for the next couple of months with bollywood projects, reality shows and concerts.
read moreMUMBAI: Celebrating 82 years of Tamil music, Big FM has announced ‘Big Tamil Melody Awards 2012’ that will honour and applaud singers and musicians. Renowned singer and actor SP Balasubramanian is the face of the awards this year. Acclaimed music directors Bharathwaj & James Vasanthan along with versatile singer Unnikrishnan will be the jury members. 15 popular categories will be nominated by the jury and thereafter decided by listeners through voting, while one award will be conferred by the jury directly, summing to 16 awards in total.
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MUMBAI: After late singers Tupac Shakur, Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley aka ‘The King’ will be the next artiste to be resurrected virtually by production company Digital Domain Media Group. The production company, founded by renowned director James Cameron, will showcase virtual performance of the Rock’n’Roll singer across various platforms. In partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the singer will be featured virtually on live shows, TV and online.
read moreMUMBAI: Bollywood music channel 9XM has unveiled a new property ‘Goli Mat De’ with popular animated characters ‘Bade-Chote’ of ‘Bakwaas Band Kar’. The show will feature the animated duo discussing the happenings in the world of bollywood, with a sharp sense of humour.
read moreMUMBAI: In a bid to cater to the globally growing number of Bengali mobile internet consumers, Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) Group has launched a Bengali language iOS application 'My Anandabazar' for iPad, iPod and iPhone. The free app offers live Bengali online radio and also avails radio channel 'Radio Ananda', which airs music of yesteryears.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music has recently released music of the film ‘Chand Ke Pare’. The album features songs from genres like romance, club, melody and instrumental. Renowned singers like Shreya Ghoshal, Javed Ali, Roopkumar Rathod, Kavita Seth, Sonu Kakkar, Khushboo Jain and Anee Chatterjee have rendered for the film. It comprises of eight tracks, composed by Anchal Talesara and penned by Hasmukh Gandhi and Ashok Bansal.
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MUMBAI: Setting a social media record, Paparazzi queen Lady Gaga has become the first person on Twitter to amass more than 25 million followers. Ecstatic on the new record, Gaga tweeted, "25milliontweetymonsters wow! I'm officially feeling like the luckiest girl in the world today. Last sold out show in Singapore in 2 hrs!"
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MUMBAI: Grammy award winning rapper Usher is all set to launch his seventh album ‘Looking 4 Myself’ by streaming a live concert from London on 11 June at the Hammersmith Apollo, London. The rapper will perform tracks from his new album and the concert will be shown live on his YouTube Vevo channel across the globe, as part of the popular live stream music series ‘American Express Unstaged’. Fans across the world can ‘take the stage’ with Usher by virtually creating a customized digital dancer featuring some of the singer’s best choreographed dance moves.
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MUMBAI: As India's music industry undergoes a seismic shift away from traditional labels and filread more
MUMBAI: A massive internet outage on Thursday disrupted multiple major platforms—including Googleread more
MUMBAI: Global technology brand OnePlus, today announced the launch date of their upcoming audio read more
MUMBAI: Since 1945, the name Sennheiser has stood for pioneering audio technology and passionateread more
India’s First Stand-Up Comedy Radio Property. Every Day, Every Hour. read more
MUMBAI: Swedish-born producer and DJ Claes Rosen has finally unveiled his track ‘If This World Were Mine’, a viral remake of the 1967 Marvin Gaye...read more
MUMBAI: San Francisco punk rock band Tess & The Details return with their first original single since 2023, announcing the anthemic “Take Me...read more
MUMBAI: There’s a quiet magic in the bond between a father and child — a kind of love that doesn’t always need words yet speaks volumes. It’s in the...read more
MUMBAI: Come witness a rare and enriching musical experience as two leading orchestras of the two nations come together to present two unique...read more
Mumbai, June 13: After cementing his place as one of Indian hip-hop’s most raw and honest voices, Panther returns with a refreshing twist in 'Manwa’...read more
