Labh Lakshmi

Bharti group is likely to soft launch its direct-to-home service in the first week of October. The company, according to industry sources, is hoping to get an FIPB approval before that. Market sources said the sales team has sounded out October 8 as the launch date.

A Bharti spokesperson said the company does not comment on market speculation, while adding “we have said we will launch our DTH service by this year”. Government had earlier asked Bharti group to seek a separate FIPB approval within three months for it s upcoming DTH services.

The most awaited film for kids Hari Puttar, a Comedy of Terrors, was released on Hari Puttar; Presented In Bollywood Style 24 September.

This movie is a story of Hari Puttar (Zain Khan), a 10-year-old lad, who has moved from India to the UK. He and his cousin Tuk Tuk (Swini Khara from Cheeni Kum) are left alone at home to confront two intruders. People related with this movie claim that Hari Puttar is a well made film and it has all the necessary ingredients of a box office hit.

Producers of this flick ‘Drona’ have geared up with innovative style of promotional activities. Apart from lots of visual promos and contests, Drona had its tie-up with famous TV show Big Boss of Colors Channel where Abhishek Bachchan and Director Goldie Behl appeared.

And now, Drona’s first comic book will hit the racks of book stores on September 30. The book titled ‘The Crowning’ is a kind of prologue to the feature film hitting screens on October 2. Introduction of Drona’s character and most of these haps in comic book will be included in the film too. The comic book is just 32 pages with glossy papered and is sure to let everyone more entertained. The following series of book will have the character of Sonia (Priyanka Chopra) and Riz Raizada (Kay Kay Menon).

Hewlett-Packard India has introduced its latest series of Compaq notebooks, sporting trendy and stylish designs in the Indian market.

The Compaq range of laptops is comes packed with multimedia features such as backlit keyboard, finger print reader and HDMI 1.3 along with a built in TV tuner card, Blue ray drive and an infra red remote control.

YouTube: The Best of September

From the twisted imagination of Seth Macfarlane, the comic genius behind the Family Guy, this is the first installment of a new series of web shorts he’s creating, this one featuring an imagined conversation between Super Mario and the Princess just after her rescue.

Worldwide subscriptions to Internet-based television platforms are on track to reach 19.6 million subscribers in 2008, a 64 percent increase, according to analysts at Gartner.

Revenue from worldwide Internet protocol television is forecast to reach $4.5 billion, up 93.5 percent from a year earlier, with Western Europe boasting the largest number of IPTV subscribers and North America the largest market for IPTV revenue.

It forecast that 1.1 percent of households worldwide would be using IPTV in 2008, and expects that to rise to 2.8 percent by 2012.

By the end of December, Indian markets will see the arrival of Google Android-Google phone to arrive in December in India power phone designed by HTC, about which almost everyone is eagerly waiting for.

The Taiwan-based cellphone major, presently is in talks with leading service provider in India, informs one the business daily. There is an exclusive partnership of the company with service provider Airtel to sell phones and it further announced that it has no hassles in selling the phone through independent retail channels. However, the business model is still under deliberation.

Country’s largest public sector lender State Bank of India on Saturday introduced 1000-day deposit scheme which will attract an interest rate of 10.5 per cent.

The 1000-day deposit scheme will come into effect from October 1, SBI said in press release here.

Senior citizens would be given a higher 11 per cent interest in the new deposit scheme, it said.

Besides, an additional 0.25 per cent rate would be given on deposits of over Rs 15 lakh, with a maturity period ranging from 181 days to two years, it said.

September 20 was Coastal Clean-up Day. But, is one day enough to clean up our coastlines?

Over 80 per cent of plastic that is found in the seas has been washed out from land. a visit to the coast will give you an idea of the scale of the crisis.

Here are some unbelievable facts of what garbage, mainly plastic waste, is doing to our oceans and the birds and animals that live in them.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme at least one million sea birds and about 100,000 marine mammals such as dolphins, whales and seals are killed by plastic every year.

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