Marudhar Mahotsav is being organized by Rajasthani people in the heart of India i.e Nagpur.

When you enter the mela you will have a feel of Being in rajasthan. You will be delighted by the culture, tradition and recipes of the Mela.

Special Feature - Miss Kolina ( American Rajasthani Dancer )

Place - Kasturchand Park, nagpur
Date - 10th Jan, 11th Jan, 12th Jan, 13th Jan 2008 (Thursday - Sunday).
Time - 2 PM ( Noon) - 9 PM (Night)

Various Competitions organized by them are -
1) Voice of Marudhar
2) Inter School Group Dance
3) Laughter Champion
4) Aaja Nachle

The Hitavada Twinkle Club is organizing "Inter School Dance Festival" on Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 At KRAZY CASTLE Near Ambazari, Nagpur.

There are Two Categories -
1) Solo ( From 5th Std to 10th Std )
2) Group ( From 5th Std to 10th Std )
(Not more than 8 Participants)

Prizes in Solo Category -
1st Prize : Personal Computer From Datatronics
2nd Prize : Gift Voucher worth Rs 10,000
3rd Prize : Gift Voucher worth Rs 5000
From : Bonsaii

Prizes in Group Category -
1st Prize : Gift Voucher worth Rs 1500 each
2nd Prize : Gift Voucher worth Rs 1000 each

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Radio in Nagpur is about to get sizzling hot as Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM will be formally launched any time now, with crystal clear test signals already spicing up the airwaves and generating quite a buzz.

Entertainment Network (India) Limited (ENIL), broadcasts Radio Mirchi in 24 other Indian cities. Loaded with the latest Bollywood music, with the tadka of several contests, games, cricket, stock and traffic updates, chat shows and a lot more, Nagpur's all-Hindi Radio Mirchi will presented with a Nagpuri touch.

TO MARK THE 150th anniversary of 1857 freedom struggle, South Central cultural centre, Tatya Tope Nagar Nagrik Mandal, Vidarbha Sahitya Sangh and Vaidarbhiya Hari-kirtan Organisation are all set to organise a National Kirtan Festival for the year 2007. The festival, featuring India’s most prominent Nationalist Kirtankars, will be held in Nagpur from October 28 to November 3, 2007. The main subject of the fest would be the biographies of the freedom fighters of India.

NAGPUR: The orange city’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, spread over an area of 1460 acres, is home to wild animals - neelgais, cheetals and wild boars, to name a few. While the bird-hits are a rare phenomenon, animals straying onto the runway are a routine - a menace that airport authorities have got tired of.

An industrial employee in Nagpur seems to have a healthier heart than his counterpart in other cities. The data collected during a research on educational status and cardiovascular risk profile in Indians shows city workers in better health in some aspects. Samples of 2,500 employees in Butibori-based textile major Indo Rama’s plant were taken during the study.Interestingly though the rate of tobacco use in the city was second highest among the samples taken from nine cities, the rate of diabetes, hypertension and metabolic syndrome is among the lowest.

M M Pallam Raju, Minister of State for Defence, on Monday directed the Indian Air Force (IAF) to sign an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) for Gajraj land swap within 15 days.

Shweta went gaga over Nagpur on her maiden visit

'I am in love with Nagpur'
Shweta went gaga over Nagpur on her maiden visit. "I always thought that Nagpur is a town and had reservations about coming here. But now I have fallen in love with this city of oranges. I am just bowled over by the cleanliness, town planning and the roads of Nagpur," gushes Shweta. And the people? "The people here are amazing. They are so warm, fun-loving and hospitable," adds Shweta.

'Tia's image is fading away'

They had plenty of reasons to do so, the main one being that clothes designed by Manish Malhotra and Neeta Lulla were on sale.

With the festive season on in full swing, the fashion-frats and elite shoppers of the city got a chance to enhance their style statements as they assembled to view and purchase the latest stock of designer wear at city outlet.

They had plenty of reasons to do so, the main one being that clothes designed by Manish Malhotra and Neeta Lulla were on sale.

MUMBAI: The bullet train is on track, though it may be coming at a snail’s pace. At least the Maharashtra government is pushing ahead with the proposal to introduce high-speed trains between Mumbai and Nagpur via Nanded, if Jayant Patil, the state finance minister and guardian minister for Mumbai, is to be believed.

Apple is gathering an official listing of web applications for the iPhone, reports claim. An anonymous developer says that Apple representatives are contacting the authors of various apps, and prompting them to supply material such as icons, screenshots, URLs and descriptions. The procedure is said to be close to that for developers submitting to the official Dashboard widget directory, which makes it easier for users to find widgets that are safe to install. Participants in the iPhone program are purportedly being sworn to absolute secrecy, at least for the time being.

Through new forms of technology, such as digital video, blogging and podcasting, infinite numbers of end-users now have the power to create and spread their views as they see fit. Prominent examples such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia reflect this unlimited – and unpredictable – potential for content, images, videos and more.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced that it has received a CMP Channel VARBusiness 2007 Tech Innovator award in the Business Enterprise category for the Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The fifth annual Tech Innovators Awards celebrate the most innovative products, people and personalities in the industry and highlight emerging products and technologies currently sold through the IT Channel.

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The iPhone isn't a true mobile computer yet, but it's on the right track, according to a Mozilla executive.

Will there be two separate Firefox browsers for smartphones and PCs or one to rule them all?
(Credit: Mozilla)

New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. — Yale University, widely recognized for educating leaders in government, business, and civil society worldwide, has launched the India – Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program, in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the India-U.S. Forum of Parliamentarians.

IBM has unveiled a preview version of two mashup tools that, according to IBM would let non-technical users to "mash up" information and data from various sources to build new applications.

Being made available at IBM's AlphaWorks site, the preview includes IBM's Mashup Hub Server that saves RSS and other types of feeds, and an improved version of IBM's QEDWiki interface that allows users to link data sources to create a single view of information.

India could sustain annual economic growth of 10 per cent by 2011 if the Government persists with market reforms, including a removal of the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said yesterday.

The Paris-based agency’s first survey of India called on policymakers to further liberalise the economy to deliver “additional growth dividends” to the world’s second-most populous country.

For more than two decades, from 1980 to 2003, India’s GDP growth averaged around 6% per year. Reforms in 1990 produced no dramatic acceleration. Then, with no new policy impetus at all, GDP growth suddenly shot up after 2003 to average 8.6% in the next four years. How and why?

One has heard four explanations:

The return of Murali Kartik from almost nowhere raised many an eyebrow. The left arm spinner therefore would have certainly been under some pressure to justify his recall to the squad. But he would go to sleep with a big smile of satisfaction after hearing how generous the two captains were in their praise for him.

"He was brilliant. He bowled really well and I am really pleased with his performance. Actually, I wanted him in the team, and had he not performed, I would have been on the receiving end. I am just glad with the way he bowled," said India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

HYDERABAD, Oct. 10: Google today launched its SMS service for mobilephone users in India, its USP being it would bring information to the mobile in a jiffy, even if the set is not Internet-enabled.

“With the Google SMS mobile messaging service, users can avail of business listings, movie show timings, weather reports and currency converters by simply sending a text message to 54664 [5GOOG] from their mobile phones.

VADODARA, Oct. 10: Trailing 0-2 after the first three matches, India bounced back into the series with a well-deserved win against the mighty Australians in Chandigarh on Monday. The fourth One-Day International tomorrow is a must-win affair for the Indians. A loss in the match would end India’s chances of winning the series.
If India manage to turn the tables again, that would be beating Australia in two successive games for the first time in six years.

MUMBAI: Over 20,000 traders, farmers and shopkeepers staged a demonstration here on Wednesday against the entry of private retail giants like Wal-Mart into India.

The protests were the biggest yet against the ambitions of foreign and local companies to introduce Western-style supermarkets into a fragmented $350 billion market expected to double in size by 2015.

Nine months ago, it was a cautious market reacting to a Sensex 14,000 on January 3, 2007. But despite the caution the market expressed then (experts said don’t expect it to rise more than 15 per cent during the year), the Sensex has already risen 30 per cent. The same experts are now touting the 20,000 mark as touchable. I believe they need to be more confident about their forecasts than flitting around with volatility. The market has been mercilessly optimistic, reflecting the underlying companies that are ruthlessly cheerful. Moving towards a climax that’s still many years ahead.

NEW DELHI: India’s Communists are confident of blocking a controversial Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, a party official said Wednesday, suggesting that the dominant Congress Party did not want to face early polls.

At a recent event in France, Adobe showcased a prototype 3D lens that could essentially capture a scene from 19 slightly different angles simultaneously, giving photographers a lot more to work with when they return home for post-processing. Essentially, the firm boasted that by using this lens along with software designed to understand the 3D nature of the image, individuals could utilize newfangled tools such as a "3D healing brush" and make perspective shifts based on the different viewpoints originally captured.

Following Mozilla's decision to spin-off the Thunderbird email software into a separate company, the only two paid Thunderbird programmers have both quit to do something else, reports ComputerWorld.

Vast sums are poured into Firefox, but very little seems to get to Thunderbird or the calendar project, Sunbird. And now it seems two people working on a small project require too much management time and organisation for the mighty Mozilla Corporation to handle. Yeah, right.

All your Big Brother nightmares are about to come true, thanks to an $800,000 award from the Nation Science Foundation. The money is funding computer and behavioral scientists at the University of Buffalo to work on a tracking system that will allow authorities to score an individuals likeliness to commit a terrorist act.

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Products and Konarka Inc. of Lowell, Mass., have been selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to conduct research and development on transparent, flexible solar modules for windows and other building integrated applications. The $4.7 million award is part of NIST's Advanced Technology Program which looks to foster new technology developments by U.S. companies.

The most innovative uses of technology by small and midsize organizations were recognized last evening by Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) as part of the 8th annual Cisco Growing with Technology Awards. This year's winners included a video-conferencing-based language translation company, a digital publisher of student-authored college guides, and a firm that provides robots to deliver medicine and supplies throughout hospitals.

Manufacturer's Info: Enjoy the convenience of watching digital files on your home theatre or TV without being connected to the computer! The Iomega ScreenPlay 500GB Multimedia drive is a cost-effective high quality multimedia player, plus high capacity storage for your media collections of photos, videos and music files. In a compact, sleek black style to complement your home theatre system, the ScreenPlay Multimedia drive is compatible with media formats such as MP3, AC3 (Dolby Digital Encoding), WAV, MPEG-1; MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB); MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD) and JPEG.

Two Americans and a Briton were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for their work in creating "designer mice" -- experimental animals in which genes have been added or removed to test theories about the links between genes and disease. Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah; Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Martin J.

NEW DELHI: That this is perhaps the first German book with references to Bollywood is not the only novel factor. That it tries to intelligently intersperse the Indian film industry in the anthology of three stories against three different backdrops is what appeals the most.

Vienna-based writer Dorothea Nurnberg’s book Reflections: The Bollywood Connection that has been translated into English has allusions to Bollywood in ways more than one.

Patience pays! A mantra which has always kept this stone faced persona on her toes until Chak De India knocked her doors. “Chak De India changed my life”, says Shilpa Shukla, who is happy to get the attention of those who had once given a blind eye to her performances in Khamosh Pani and Hazaron Khwaishein Aisi. Nevertheless, she definitely, has proved her mettle as an actress.

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's Sony Corp. announced plans Tuesday to slash the price of the PlayStation 3 game console in its home market and launch a new slimmed down version as it tries to catch up with Nintendo's hit Wii.

Sony will cut the price of the standard 20-gigabyte hard disk drive PS3 by 10 percent to 44,980 yen (384 dollars) from October 17, ratcheting up the competition with its rivals ahead of the crucial year-end sales period.

It will also reduce the price of the 60-GB version to to 54,980 yen.

MUMBAI: After shaking the home entertainment market with a revolutionary pricing strategy, Rs 28 for VCD and Rs 38 for DVD, Moser Baer Entertainment is now set to make some drastic moves in the consumer electronics segment, albeit in just one segment of this market.

The company is currently in talks with all electronic majors including Philips, LG, Samsung and Mirc to jointly collaborate and launch a low-end VCD and DVD player, priced around Rs 1,000 and Rs 1500 respectively. The current price for a VCD and DVD player ranges between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000.

The occasion was a get together of the nagpur-based branch of a multi-national IT firm. For the software designers gathered at the venue, the night was definitely an unusual one as they were away from the workstations, laptops and projects. The occasion was a get together of the city-based branch of a multi-national IT firm. The techies displayed different shades at the party, as some were shaking their legs on a hit number, others were humming songs and the rest were enjoying every moment of the evening.

Massive in scale, colossal in its ideation, IMT Nagpur is set to rock the thinking world with Milestone 35-an event coming up at its campus from October 19 to 20, 2007 . Rana Kapoor, CEO, Yes Bank, Shiva Kumar, CEO, Toshiba India, Nirmal Dayani, Marketing Head, ESPN Star(India), Sunil Menon, General Manager, Fortis Healthworld, are amongst those set to engage the budding managers. The business carnival is also set to see the campus rocking to the beats of the music of Indian Ocean.

GlobalLogic, the US-based software firm is building a mobile phone web-browser, similar to the one incorporated in Apple's popular product iPhone. The browser is being developed at GlobalLogic's Pune and Noida centres even as the company eyes acquisition of two Indian software firms in the near future.

The serene and soft music, flickering of the lights and exotic costumes of the artists gave a lovely ambience and added to the over all effect of the show.

The glint in the eyes of the theatre aficionados, a packed hall, and the thunderous applause that echoed around the auditorium, said it all. Kismet: A musical Arabian night fantasy, a play produced by Vikash Khurana, with a cast of 30 artists, was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience.

Parents form NGOs to support children with mental disabilities.

B Indira, a chartered accountant by profession, spends most of her non office hours at Sankalp. It is an association in Nagpur started by parents of children with mental retardation and related disabilities seven years ago. Indira’s parents, who are the founding members, started it for her two siblings.

Indira’s father is a consultant with Sankalp. He started the organisation with 10 other parents of children with mental and neurological disabilities. Today, Sankalp has grown into a 170-member association.

A Realtor in the New River Valley, Jeremy Hart, has a radio show on Saturday mornings and then streams the audio over the Internet. The Lynchburg News & Advance, owned by Media General, has branched into television, radio and weeklies. Clear Channel Radio, which owns several radio stations between Lynchburg and Roanoke, has found that a combination of radio and Internet makes a powerful marketing approach. This past February, The Roanoke Times launched three new Web sites specific to geographic markets at Smith Mountain Lake, the New River Valley and the greater Roanoke Valley.

A cracker of a contest is in store this Diwali as Sanjay Leela Bhansali Saawariya and the Shah Rukh Khan starrer OM SHANTI OM gear up for release in the festive season.

Diwali 2007 promises to be a cracker of a contest in Bollywood where SRK’s Red Chillies-produced, Farah Khan directed ‘OM SHANTI OM which is the launch pad of Deepika Padukone , will compete with Bhansali’s SAAWARIYA a love story that brings together two newcomers, Ranbir Kapoor , son of Rishi Kapoor , and Sonam Kapoor , daughter of Anil Kapoor .

Bagging international projects is becoming the vogue in Bollywood these days with Amitabh Bachchan doing The Last Lear and Salman Khan taking on Marigold.

Now it looks like the Bengali sex symbol Bipasha Basu will be landing her first such project with Sir Ben Kingsley as Shah Jahan, with Aishwarya Rai playing his daughter, Jahanara Beghum.

Basu confirmed that she has been approached for a role in the film.

"There is a role in the film that Ben Kingsley wants me to do. We just need to work out the dates," she told IndiaFM.

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - Bollywood is hoping to give thousands of battered women in India the courage to speak out through a new film on domestic violence.

"Mittal vs Mittal" narrates the story of a young woman -- regularly beaten by her in-laws and raped by her husband -- who fights back in a traditionally patriarchal society where it is still uncommon for wives to speak out against their husbands.

"It is the story of a girl who falls in love with a charming gentleman and marries him only to find his other self," said Rituparna Sengupta who plays the abused woman in the film.

Seagate Technology on Monday launched its first combination disk storage and flash memory hard drive, joining rival Samsung Electronics in offering hybrid drives that manufacturers say speed the boot-up time of PCs and significantly boost battery life.

IBM announced last week software and resources for smaller businesses to manage software quality and network infrastructure like their counterparts in large enterprises use.

Small and midsized businesses are defined by IBM as those with fewer than 1,000 employees. Companies in the small- to medium-sized bracket account for 60 percent of IT spending, said David Locke, director of offerings marketing at IBM. But these businesses can lack resources or a formalized IT department despite facing the same enterprise-level challenges, IBM said.

SAP made a major departure from its "tuck-in" strategy with the October 7 announcement of its agreement to acquire Business Object for 4.8 billion (Euro). On the surface, the deal makes sense from the standpoint of marrying business intelligence (BI) technology with ERP applications. The deal is surprising in the sense that SAP has long insisted that its growth strategy is organic and that it would not make major acquisitions to gain market share.