Announcing the launch of www.myhyderabadjobs.com, Ciaran McCooey, Group CEO, Saongroup.com said, “We have had a great start in India and the success with myJobsinPune.com substantiates our city centric model. Hyderabad presents a huge opportunity as it continues to grow across sectors, especially in IT/ITES, Pharma, Biotech, Retail, Hospitality and Real Estate. Hyderabad has a large and active internet user base and online recruitment is growing rapidly. We are very encouraged to invest in our expansion into Hyderabad.”

Saon Group’s Pune based jobsite www.myjobsinpune.com is the No.1 Job portal in Pune in less than a year of starting operations. The site has over 1 lakh 35 thousand jobseekers registered already; it has seen close to 1 and ½ million page views per month with roughly 4500 unique visitors every day.

A research conducted by SaonGroup.com on the Indian employment scenario, in August 2008, found Hyderabad as number one in terms of employment growth outlook, compared to the other metros and upcoming cities. The government continues to invest in infrastructure enablers for industry. IT/ ITES sector is likely to grow at a CAGR of 20% for the next few years and Pharma & Biotech industry is also set to grow. Other sectors that are growing rapidly are Retail and hospitality, evident from the facts that 12 major malls with 1 million sq feet of premium retail space and six major hotels with an increase of 1200 rooms opening up in the next 2 years.

The online recruitment industry is growing rapidly as job search is now the second most preferred internet activity among Indian Internet users, according to a recent survey by JuxtConsult. Also, the number of Internet users seeking jobs online has increased from 6.5 million in 2005-06 to 9.2 million in 2006-07, according to a survey by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Industry estimates the number to have crossed 15 million in 2007-2008.

Adi Cooper, Director, SaonGroup.com India said, “The job market in India presents a mixed bag of caution and optimism. We are introducing global best practices in online recruitment with our focus on providing localized platforms for recruiters and jobseekers to provide clutter free relevant information on the job market.”

Mihir Modi, CEO SaonGroup.com India, added, “Through the high user relevance offered by our city specific approach, we hope to emerge as the most preferred online recruitment partner in all our focus markets across the country. Also, the success of myJobsinPune.com illustrates that in addition to strong national and global brands like 3G, Zensar, General Motors etc, our city specific portals also present a strong recruitment platform for businesses primarily based within the city such as local retail players, ancillaries, service firms and so on.”

Myhyderabadjobs.com will be targeted and actively used by Hyderabad-centric companies across already leading and now growing sectors.

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Saongroup.com is a privately owned Irish holding company (main shareholders Denis O’Brien and Leslie Buckley) for a range of market leading on-line recruitment sites in Ireland (Irishjobs.ie, Jobs.ie), UK (myjobgroup.co.uk), Caribbean (Caribbeanjobs.com), China (Saongroup.cn), Middle East (Recruitgulf.com), South Africa (pnet.co.za), Mauritius (myjob.mu) and Central America (tecoloco.com). In addition, it owns Candidate Manager Ltd. which provides Applicant Tracking Software to the HR industry in Ireland, the UK and the US. More information is available on www.saongroup.com.

SaonGroup.com websites are No.1 or No.2 in various markets it operates across the globe. Owing to its largely successful city/region specific model, Saongroup.com has expanded rapidly over the past eight years with more than 100 localized job sites across the globe.

The launch of BIGFlix.com marked the genesis of a new era in home entertainment by offering a wide gamut of free streaming and download to own option on its broadband division- Movie Downloads. BIGFlix.com targets to include latest movies and other content and increase its catalogue to 5000 titles by March 09. Therefore, BIGFlix.com within a year of its launch has become a household name for weekly recreation.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Kamal Gianchandani, COO BIGFlix.com said, “BIGFlix.com prescribes an array of choice for every palate and has evolved as an entertainment hub for all age groups providing cutting-edge, world class entertainment, just a click away. The Indian DVD download market is on the threshold of a vast expansion and BIGFlix.com aspires to optimally capture the untapped domain by providing flexible and customer-oriented plans and options from time to time.” He also announced, “BIGFlix.com has a bullish target of Rs. 10 crore for its ad sales by March 09 for its movie downloads division.”

Also, commenting on this occasion, Mr. Murtuza Kagalwala, Business Head, Video on Demand, BIGFlix.com, said, “We currently have access to 1200 movies, 100 Television shows and other popular Indian content in the Movie Downloads division. With Internet and broadband users growing poised to grow at a fast pace we are confident that we will achieve more 100 million page views by March 09. We are constantly adding content catering to the audiences in both the international market and the domestic market to achieve a significant market share in this space to provide entertainment content anytime anywhere.

BIGFlix.com plans to exclusively premier newly released movies on its website by March 09. Apart from showcasing premieres of latest movies BIGFlix.com will also have microsites for movies by leading film production houses across all movie industries in the country etc. The microsites will have trailers, promotions, song stills, special stills of the movie and the star cast.

* Visitors accessing content on the website for more than an hour on an average

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About BIGFlix.com:

www.broadband.bigflix.com, the movie downloads division of BIGFlix.com offers access to around 1300 titles on its video-on-demand division, BIGFlix offers the biggest range of premium quality Indian entertainment spanning across 13 languages in India. The portal offers the biggest, widest library of films; music and Indian entertainment content ranging that will be available through its broadband services at attractive prices by providing premium quality entertainment at par with international standard benchmarks. The website has tie-ups with other premium channels viz, Star TV, Zoom, Special TV series, NDTV, NDTV Imagine, Raj TV and Care World TV TO showcase their programs for free viewing.

With the aim to reach out to Indians of all age groups the world over, as the one entertainment hub to provide cutting-edge, world class digital content from the world of movies, TV serials and music, www.bigflix.com will provide a legitimate access to biggest range of Indian entertainment spanning across languages and genres available for download to own, streaming at affordable price points and subscription offer as well. BIGFlix broadband has garnered over 2 million visitors per month where 90% of the audiences are NRIs and delivers over 50 million views per month.

BIGFlix has innovative, convenient and cost-effective entertainment making Indian cinema, television and music accessible to more than 25 million strong overseas Non Resident Indian (NRI), South Asian population and Indian cinema lovers the world over. The company offers the download to rent and subscription services in its portfolio of operations as well.

www.rental.bigflix.com, Movie Rentals division of BIGflix.com, currently has 105 stores in 10 cities and has access to 16000 titles in 13 languages. The company plans to have 200 stores in minimum 10 cities by March 09. BIGflix.com currently has its presence in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore and Chandigarh.

These students should be given opportunities to converse in Sanskrit on a regular basis, and they should be fun too. So today, we're launching Sanskrit-Expressions - An online community tool that will enable interaction among Sanskrit learners. It has two components to it: Word-Game and Two-Liners.

The Word-game helps the users build their Sanskrit vocabulary steadily, while the Two-liners will encourage them to frame short-sentences and converse in Sanskrit. Further, the users will have complete control over their data (create/update/delete) at all times. One can also keep track and follow other writers via RSS feeds. These tools are proven to be effective tools in the past, and are used in several domains. Now, they are available to the Sanskrit community for the first time.

Seshu Karthick, the founder of SanskritVoice.com conceives this as a proof-of-concept to fix a commonly observed problem which hinders the spread of Sanskrit. If user response for 'Sanskrit-Expressions' is on a high note, new features such as Online-Chat-Rooms shall be soon be launched.

Thanks to the sincere efforts of several NGOs such as Samskrita Bharati which enabled many to embrace Sanskrit in their daily lives. Regular Sanskrit workshops are conducted by Samskrita Bharati in India and abroad. With increasing number of Sanskrit teaching institutes, it is now important to retain the interest of the people and help them stay in touch with the language. Engaging in Satsang and community-meet is a good way to appreciate the language. For the Computer Savvy, online tools like 'Sanskrit-Satsang' can help build an e-Community for Sanskrit speakers.

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Quick Tales - the LiveJournal Flash-Fiction Contest (500 words or less) is open for participation to anyone with a mailing address in India from 11 August – 7 September, 2008 and is themed around the word “Journal.”

The top 5 winning entries take home cash prizes of Rs. 19,999, Rs. 16000, Rs 12000, Rs. 8000 and Rs. 4000, respectively. Each of the 100 shortlisted entries will also be highlighted on the India Writing Community (http://community.livejournal.com/india_writing/) on LiveJournal, where the Contest is hosted, ensuring global visibility. Short-listed stories may also be featured in a book that LiveJournal plans to publish at a later date.

This Contest has been conceived to support Web users in India who share a passion for creative writing and want to use LiveJournal to both widen their audience and raise their profile. This writing Contest will be the first opportunity for Indian Web users to engage with a LiveJournal project specifically designed for India. The Contest builds on the initial work which the LiveJournal team in India have been doing for the past three months.

Andrew Paulson, Chairman of the board of SUP, the owners of LiveJournal globally, said “India was our first port of call after we acquired LiveJournal last December. We already have a great reach in many online markets, and have a small but loyal following in India. This project sees us for the first time actually trying to support the growth of new local communities in India. LiveJournal already has over 16 million accounts today and I am hoping that it won’t be long before there are many more of these coming from India.”

“It is this seamless cross pollination of users and content between and from different parts of the world that makes LiveJournal so unique,” he added.

LiveJournal in India currently has 900,000 page impressions a month; 5000 unique monthly users and 13,000 registered accounts, all of which promise to see exponential growth post the roll-out.

Peter Griffin, Co-Founder & Joint-Editor, Caferati said “Flash Fiction, also called micro-fiction, short-shorts, and many other names, demands that the writer tell a story with all the classical elements - a beginning, middle and end, a conflict and resolution, a credible protagonist - but within a very limited number of words, which may mean that these elements are implied rather than made explicit. It is an ancient form, but has grown hugely in popularity in these attention-deficit times, with the growth of the Internet. If standard short fiction is like a one-day international, think of the Quick Tales Flash Fiction Contest as the 20–Twenty of contemporary story-telling!”

The Contest, timed to coincide with the Indian Independence Day, will take India celebrations across continents with LiveJournal Home Page marking events in India, cross-promotion across LiveJournal and outreach using Caferati communication on its forums, social and mainstream media.

In India, LiveJournal has identified three key ingredients required to develop its user base in the country, over the long term:

1. Socialisation – LiveJournal is different, in that it is a platform for words and pictures that can be shared and discussed with ease.

2. Integration –LiveJournal should be accessible through any number of platforms.

3. Localisation – Anyone who is online in India should be able to use LiveJournal. This means proper translation and multilingual interfaces

This Contest forms the first part of the strategy. In the months to come, the LiveJournal team in Delhi, San Francisco and Moscow will be developing plans for localisation and integrations. LiveJournal has also launched a community (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_india/) for users in India to express their views about how they would like their platform to develop.

Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, Director of Corporate Development, SUP, added “India offers strong opportunities for growth as LiveJournal seeks to expand upon its global reach.”

“LiveJournal is a natural platform for creating and sharing meaningful content around literature, activism, education, news and politics. Quick Tales - Flash Fiction Contest is the natural first step for us to seed many such initiatives and communities in India,” he concluded.

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About LiveJournal Inc.

LiveJournal is one of the world's most respected community publishing platforms. Since its launch in the United States in 1999, LiveJournal has become the online home to a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends and express themselves. LiveJournal encourages community and personal expression by offering users both a user-friendly interface and the ability to deeply customize their journal. The site allows users to set up their own virtual diary and communicate with their friends by posting and receiving comments on each other's entries. In many countries the site's most popular functionality is the community aspect which allows users to engage each other on issues of common interest.

LiveJournal has registered more than 16 million accounts since its founding, and currently has a worldwide monthly audience of 20 million of whom 5.7 million are Russian based (Omniture, TNS Gallup). LiveJournal Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.livejournalinc.com

About SUP

SUP is an international online media company with established partnerships with businesses across the globe. SUP was founded in the summer of 2006 by an international management team with Russian seed capital. SUP set itself the goal of building a portfolio of high-traffic-generating projects based in Moscow from which to expand worldwide. SUP has offices in Moscow and San Francisco. SUP's five key businesses are:

SUP Media

• Championat.ru, the most popular online-only sports news site in Russia;
• Gazeta.ru, a Russian online newspaper covering politics and business. Gazeta.ru was acquired by SUP in June 2008 from Kommersant Publishing House;
• LiveJournal.com, the most popular blogging platform and social network in Russia, and one of the most respected community publishing platforms worldwide. It was originally run under license in Russia before it was acquired outright in December 2007. LiveJournal has over 16 million accounts worldwide and continues to add more than 200,000 every month;

SUP Advertising

• +SOL, a media sales house which acts as SUP’s internal commercial department and sells online advertising for a number of high profile Russian and international Web sites (Yahoo!, Last.fm, BBC, and The Times among others). +SOL's partners include Mindshare Interaction, Zenith Optimedia and Optimum Media OMD;
• Victory S.A., a full-service online advertising agency which devises and delivers online marketing campaigns for leading Russian and international brands.

The microsite will host an array of features for the users like ringtones, wallpapers, downloads, information on the cast and crew of the movie, caller tunes, pictures and stills of the movie and the star cast. Also the trailers, promos and the song clippings of the movie will be available for the audiences.

Speaking on the launch of the microsite, Mr. Murtuza Kagalwala, Business Head, Video –on-Demand, BIGFlix.com, said, “We are very excited today to launch the microsite for Mera Pind, with Sidhuji’s debut performance as an actor in the film industry. The microsite will enable Sidhuji to reach his fans worldwide on a different platform altogether. This opportunity will provide us an edge to foray into this category, where a vast population of the Punjabi community will have the privilege to access our website with a host of other features we will provide related to the movie. We look forward to many more initiatives partnering with directors and production houses in the near future bringing various communities across the globe closer to their favourite movies, actors and actresses”.

Excited on the launch of the microsite of the Mera Pind with his debut performance, Navjot Singh Sidhu, said, “I am very excited to launch the microsite for the first Punjabi movie with my first ever performance in a lead role. The microsite by BIGFlix.com will help me reach and connect with my fans not only in the Indian diaspora but also the NRIs audiences which include the vast Punjabi population across the globe. The microsite for Mera Pind (My Home) will definitely create an aspirational value for the forthcoming Punjabi movies also and provide a platform for the Punjabi actors and actresses to reach their fans across the globe in a big way”.

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BIGFlix.com - Digital Entertainment at your Convenience

With the concept of ‘the living room multiplex’ catching on in India, the home video market is all set to see a boom with more players entering this market segment to woo its consumers by making cinema accessible like never before. Besides offering innovative, convenient and cost-effective entertainment solutions to the Indian consumers, the key players are going the whole hog to tap the estimated 25 million strong non-resident Indian population and an equally large non-Indian audience consuming Indian movies, TV shows, music and more on a regular basis. With the home video segment accounting for nearly 50% of the filmed entertainment business in the developed markets like US, Canada and UK who constitute over 70% of total global online movie revenues, the digital entertainment business through its video-on-demand services is witnessing a new horizon in its growth path.

About Reliance ADA Group

Among India's top three private sector business houses, with a market capitalization of over Rs. 160,000 crore (US$ 40 billion), net worth to the tune of Rs 40,000 crore (US$ 10 billion), Turnover of about Rs. 30,000 crore (US 7.5 bn) and Net profit of Rs. 5,200 crore (US 1.3 bn).

The group has a customer base of over 50 million, the largest in India, and a shareholder base of over 8 million, among the largest in the world. Through its products and services, the Reliance - ADA Group touches the life of 1 in 10 Indians every single day. The business presence of the Group extends to over 6,000 towns and 300,000 villages in India, and 5 continents across the world. The interests of the Group range in Communications, Financial services & Insurance, Generation, Transmission and Distribution of power, Natural Resource & Energy, Media & Entertainment & Infrastructure Services.

About bigflix.com

To garner the opportunity galore in the digital entertainment space, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, (ADA Group) has launched yet another ambitious venture – bigflix.com – offering the biggest, widest library of films, music and Indian entertainment content ranging from Hindi, English to Vernacular that will be available through its broadband services at attractive prices by providing premium quality entertainment at par with international standard benchmarks.

With the aim to reach out to Indians of all age groups the world over, as the one entertainment hub to provide cutting-edge, world class digital content from the world of movies, TV serials and music, bigflix.com will provide a legitimate access to biggest range of Indian entertainment spanning across languages and genres available for download to own and streaming at affordable price points.

BIGFlix is India’s largest online and offline movie rental service, offering access to over 15000 titles in its rental division (www.rentals.bigflicks.com) and more than 1000 titles in its broadband division (www.broadband.bigflix.com). The company is adding content aggressively and plans to have an addition of another 1000 titles in its broadband division soon. BIGFlix offers the biggest range of premium quality Indian entertainment spanning across 15 languages in India. BIGFlix currently has 50 state-of-art stores in 10 cities namely, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Indore, Kolkata and Chennai. The company expects the store tally to touch 200 by end of this fiscal with RWorld stores bringing in the support with 75- 100 BIGFlix stores in shop-in-shop format and franchise route in minimum 10 cities across the country.

Highlights of BIGFlix

· One membership works all over India, so one can use the membership online at www.bigflix.com and across all BIGFlix stores in India

· Watch unlimited movies

· Access to vast Indian and international content

· Order movies from our BIGFlix store, at our website and via phone

· Free delivery and pick up of movies at your doorstep

· No due dates

· No late fees

· Get unlimited movies throughout the month of your subscription plan

· Upgrade or downgrade the plan as per your needs

· Pause and resume membership anytime

Genres @ bigflix.com

- Besides Hindi and English, the website will be one-of-its kind to offer a variety of regional content in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi across multiple movie genres of all eras – from old to the latest

- Downloads of TV content and music

International technological alliances @ bigflix.com

- To maximize the users’ experience and save on their time and bandwidth, bigflix.com has partnered with Entriq, a company which provides content protection service through Digital Rights Management (DRM), issues end licenses on downloadable content and provides access control to prevent misuse of content. The content serving platform of Entriq is a download manager platform which allows the user to download movies from the bigflix.com. The innovative progressive downloading feature of this application allows users to download and watch movies at the same time. 10 minutes into the downloading process, a user can start watching movies while the download progresses.

- Appointed Limelight Networks, the world’s leading content delivery network for digital media, as the exclusive provider of streaming content delivery services for bigflix.com that will enable the site to deliver its vast library of full length Indian movies, music videos, TV shows, documentaries, and other premium video content via the Internet to a global audience

Distribution @ bigflix.com

Three modes of distribution:

o The online movie download service for the NRI and PIO market enabling users to download or stream Indian entertainment content via the internet

o The online mail order service for the Indian market, providing users with the ability to enjoy the conveniences of premium quality movie entertainment from the comfort of their homes

o Physical presence of the brand in the form of its retail stores to enable users to experience and access movie entertainment of their choice.

- Two models of online movie downloads:

o In the streaming model, the content (including films/songs) is available for free viewing. A user with a fast broadband connection can view them instantly

o The other is download to own model where downloads are available for a fee of anywhere between $2and $10

Differentiating Features @ bigflix.com

- The quality of titles downloaded from or streamed on bigflix.com is of a much superior quality and higher definition to ensure complete customer satisfaction of the product delivered

o Download at bit rates of 1500 kbps, which is higher than even most of the international benchmark sites as well and

o Offers free streaming content at a speed of 800 kbps as compared to its closest Indian competitors who offer streaming at just 512 kbps

- Buy and rent video legally allowed on three PCs

o Users can watch a movie on one PC and make copies on three other PCs , Burn movies to DVD and one can also with the right equipment may connect your PC to your TV.

- Despite the high cost of offering downloads at 1.5 mbps, Bigflix.com still prices its titles for as low as $2 up to $10

- Very soon the downloaded content could be transferred into mobile or an iPod besides offering premium quality DVD content without the retailer and wholesaler margins at a competitive price

- Bigflix.com downloadable content can be viewed in as soon as 10 minutes. The file to be downloaded can be chosen and watched at one’s convenience, on a device best suited to his/her purpose

Bigflix.com seeks to expand its business beyond the Indian diaspora by offering its subscribers, especially in North America, UK, Canada, Middle East, South East Asia, Europe, and Australia, with a vast, ever-expanding library of quality video entertainment content with the aim to become the ultimate destination for every entertainment-yearning Indian across the world.

According to the industry magazine Modern Jeweler, 4% of all online jewellery sales occur online. This portion is poised to increase by a factor of 5 over the next 10 years. The reason for this dramatic increase is that people are more comfortable purchasing items online, enamoured with the convenience. Perhaps most compelling is the ability for consumers to quickly and easily make comparisons among online retailers, choosing the best selection, the best customer service and the most competitive prices.

This has prompted small businesses to post their catalogues online in hopes of reaching new markets. One such business is Mumbai, India based Sapna Jewels (www.sapnajewels.com) that perfectly reflects each of the features found most attractive for online consumers.

Sapna Jewels (www.sapnajewels.com), which specializes in custom made fine diamond jewellery, offers the customer a pleasant and convenient shopping experience having brought customer service to a whole new level. All jewellery is backed by a lifetime guarantee, any repairs, resize or polishing, is completed by their fine staff of skilled artisans at no cost to the customer. Finally, and most persuasively, all orders are offered with completely free shipping.

Further, the selection is always expanding as the company seeks out the most interesting designs in a wide array of materials suitable for any price range.

With companies offering services in excess of regular brick and mortar stores it is no wonder why consumer confidence in online purchasing is growing so rapidly. Online jewellery sales certainly have a bright future with such fully customer service focused enterprises creating a presence on the internet.

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Based out of Mumbai (Bombay), India, Sapna Jewels offers you an enviable personal and customized jewellery service, unrivaled craftsmanship and the same technical perfection you would expect from much bigger brands. However, without an expensive boutique to maintain it means our overheads (and therefore our prices) are upto 40% lower than our big brand competitors.

Our personalized approach and extensive portfolio of unique and exclusive handmade diamond jewellery has attracted the attention of fashionable socialites and discerning clients from around India, the Middle-East, the UK, Europe and the US.

You may choose from our extensive catalogues or provide us with your own design or concept.

Our business philosophy is a simple one: Honesty.

‘Sapna Jewels’ is a Mumbai, India based firm that specializes in “made to order” fine diamond jewellery at affordable prices. When Sapna was looking to expand her business she initially thought about using all the traditional methods of marketing such as sending out mailers, taking part in jewellery exhibitions and hoping for positive word of mouth references.

Being computer savvy and a part of the social networking phenomenon sweeping the world, Facebook, this 29 year old entrepreneur decided to leverage this platform to her advantage. She set up a Facebook ‘group’ for her company and then using Facebook’s built in advertising mechanism, released a series of ads aimed at women in her key markets of India, Pakistan and the Middle East.

The ads were an instant hit and in the first 2 months the membership on her group had swollen to nearly 700 women. Working women, bollywood starlets, corporate high fliers, and social butterflies were all signing up. From the first month itself she had orders coming in from across the subcontinent, neighbouring Pakistan and the Middle East.

Of course her fabulous jewellery helped. But this young lady had left nothing to chance. She had already set up a crisp website alongside, www.sapnajewels.com, providing information about her services and had all her catalogues online, ready to be downloaded.

Says Sapna, "The women who are joining my group love the fact that they can access my catalogues right from the comfort of their PC. They can then discuss design changes via email or phone calls and make payments via credit cards and online bank transfers".

Indeed, her savvy marketing is slowly but surely helping change the way women are choosing to select and buy their diamond jewellery. Earlier, they would have to set aside time to browse through local shops and jewellers in crowded by lanes, haggle over pricing and yet not walk away confident of having bagged a good deal.

“When prospective clients view our online catalogues, all they have to do is send in the product codes of the designs of their choice and within 1 business day they receive a detailed breakup clearly indicating the making charges, gold charges, diamond & other assorted charges.”, says Sapna.

Sapna realised that the women of today want better service, more choice, convenience to shop on their own time and above all honesty. Sapna Jewels with its innovative and transparent process is attempting to provide a more pleasurable, and honest buying experience to its clients.

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Based out of Mumbai (Bombay), India, Sapna Jewels offers you an enviable personal and customized jewellery service, unrivaled craftsmanship and the same technical perfection you would expect from much bigger brands. However, without an expensive boutique to maintain it means our overheads (and therefore our prices) are upto 40% lower than our big brand competitors.

Our personalized approach and extensive portfolio of unique and exclusive handmade diamond jewellery has attracted the attention of fashionable socialites and discerning clients from around India, the Middle-East, the UK, Europe and the US. You may choose from our extensive catalogues or provide us with your own design or concept.

Our business philosophy is a simple one: Honesty.

Present at the inauguration of the event was Mr. Subhomoy Roy and Indrajit Ghosh, centre directors of Arena Animation Bardhaman, Mr. Partho Sarathi Banerjee, Area Sales Head, Arena Animation & distinguished guests.

The Digital Art Exhibition saw Arena Animation students display their creativity using Illustrator & Corel draw, Photoshop, Audio Video, Flash and Maya and around 200 exhibits were put on show.

In his congratulatory message, Mr. Anirban Das, Regional Head, Arena Animation (East) said, “The centre has played a great role in creating awareness about the new age careers in Animation & Multimedia in Bardhaman, as well as providing a suitable avenue for students of this region who sought quality training from an internationally acknowledged institute like Arena.’

Mr. Subhomoy Roy, Centre director of Arena Bardhman said “ Today’s event is unique by itself as technical animation experts of Arena, would be giving a live demonstration of 2 D & 3 D animation . They would be focusing on the creativity aspect of multimedia and this event is the first of it’s kind in Bardhaman .“

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About Arena Animation:

Arena Animation is a Pioneer, Trendsetter and Global Leader in Animation education. Arena has an extensive network of centres & has trained over 2,50,000 students globally since it’s inception in 1996.

Arena offers industry relevant courses on Animation & Multimedia to students aspiring for global careers in this New Age industry. It trains students as well as professionals in the latest industry relevant courses backed by alliances with world leaders, a world-class faculty and the latest technical educational tools.

Arena’s students are placed as Graphic Designers, Web Designers, 2D/3D Animators, 2D/3D Designers, AV Editors, Technical Trainers, 3D Modelers, Multimedia Programmers, Compositors, Visualizers, Content Developers and Pre and Post Production executives in blue chip animation studios and entertainment companies like Prime Focus, Rhythm & Hues Studios, Crest Animation Studios, EFX, UTV Toons, Toonz Animation, Nipuna Services, Prasad Studio, Colour Chips, Ramoji Film City, Green Gold Animation, DQ Entertainment, Paprikaas Animation Studios, UshaKiron TV, Sony TV, Google India, NDTV, TOI, DD Sports, Discovery Channel, Divya Bhaskar, Asianet Satellite Communications, ETV, NDTV, Zee Sports and Zee TV to name a few.

Through dishtv’s ‘Shaadi Active’ service, marriage prospects and their parents will be able to search for eligible bride / groom of their choice from amongst millions of profiles listed on Shaadi.com. Subscribers can define the parameters of selection and search by the criteria of age, community, caste, profession etc. Based on these criteria, Shaadi.com profiles will be displayed on the TV screen and the subscriber can then choose the profile of his choice and contact him / her. To ensure novelty, every single day, the profiles will be refreshed on a daily basis.

With innovative services such as this, dishtv now ventures into the Life Services space taking TV viewing to a whole new level of viewer engagement. TV viewing will no longer remain about passive entertainment, but will go far beyond that, entering into arenas that allow information exchange and data access on the hitherto idiot box, now turning smart for dishtv viewers.

Speaking on the occasion, Vinay Agarwal, CEO, dishtv said, “Dishtv already provides 205 channels and services to its discerning subscriber base. Going forward our emphasis would be entering into new arenas where subscribers will enjoy completely new genres beyond the realm of entertainment through the dishtv interaction experience. Yet another first from the leader, dishtv Matrimony service will be first of its kind in the entire world, uniquely poised to connect with the Indian audiences, given our societal context.”

Talking about the new initiative, Vibhas Mehta, Business Head - Shaadi.com said, “Through this tie-up we are delighted to extend our superior matchmaking experience to dishtv subscribers. This partnership is of great value to us, since it makes Shaadi.com’s matrimonial service available to the largest DTH user base in the country. Shaadi.com offers the widest choice in terms of eligible profiles; we have over 10 million members to choose from, and more than a million matches to our credit. Being an online service, we were looking at various mediums to capture a larger audience; with the launch of Shaadi Active, our services will now reach a wider user base through dishtv, without any need to log on to the Internet.”

Some say marriages are made in heaven…with this tie-up between dishtv and Shaadi.com, marriages will now be made through the television screen.

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About dishtv India

Essel Group - the parent company of the Zee Network – has launched this product - dishtv. It aims to be an Entertainment Provider and harbinger of the new age media in India. In a short span it has on its platform 205 channels & services with registered 3.5 million subscribers, which is growing. dishtv offers the flexibility in content and channel packages so that the subscribers can choose and customize their own channel bouquets giving them complete power and independence. dishtv has a vast distribution network of about 575 distributors & 38,000 dealers that spans around 4200 towns across the country.Direct-to-home (DTH) television services deliver television channels directly to consumer’s homes via satellite without any need of a local cable service provider. With channels for the sports enthusiast, from daily dose of soaps to news, from a bevy of cartoons to infotainment, from a plethora of music channels to movie channels - its all happening on dishtv. With the complete Zee bouquet of channels, the One Alliance bouquet, and the Star bouquet, it offers the complete range of channels to its subscribers. Highly aware of prompt service orientation, dishtv has 24* 7 call centre with 700 seats in 11 different languages at 7 different locations to take care of subscriber requirements any point of time and to ensure timely solution to problems and queries. Dishtv uses world-class technology and equipments manufactured by best suppliers in the world. The STB (Set Top Box) are sourced from a Korean manufactures. Nevertheless, dishtv TBS come with a One-Year-Warranty that takes care of any technical fault free of cost for 12 months from the date of purchase

About Shaadi.com

Shaadi.com, one of India’s best known Internet brands and the world’s largest matrimonial service was founded by Anupam Mittal promoted People Group in 1997 with one simple objective – to provide a superior matchmaking experience to Indians all over the world. Since then the company has created a world-renowned service that has touched the lives of millions of people all over the world and is proud to have made almost 8,15,026 matches till date.

Didier Rappaport, Co-founder of Dailymotion is currently in India on a short business visit. He said, "I am extremely happy to partner with MiD DAY and respect the pioneering steps MiD DAY is taking to enable citizen journalism with Dailymotions's new media tools. Both are young and dynamic organizations, and leaders in their respective domains."

“MiD DAY as a group is committed to convergence and multi media. Even as we speak, the cross-over of radio jockey’s into print and journalists doing radio has begun. Journalists doing video was but a natural way forward,” says Shishir Joshi, Group Editorial Director, MiD DAY Multimedia Ltd.

“With video, and our partnership with Dailymotion, the MiD DAY experience now goes beyond the written and audio forms of communication. This is highly enriching, for the journalist as well as the audience," he adds.

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About Dailymotion.com

www.dailymotion.com is a video sharing web portal based on Web 2.0 technology that has a robust tech infrastructure. Dailymotion is based in France with offices in UK, Germany and US. It has over 1 billion pages views in a month with 37.7 million unique users per month. Some of the world's biggest media networks have their alliances with Dailymotion.

About MiD DAY, India’s No. 1 Afternooner:

The distribution system will include a combination of exclusive MiD DAY vending machines and those that are owned by Grabit, which will have a shelf for MiD DAY and also dispense snacks etc.

Machines have already been placed at offices such as 3G, I Flex, Infosys, IL&FS , Network 18, GE Capital Services, Erricsson India Pvt. Ltd, Reuters, Deutsche Bank and in corporate complexes such as Peninsula Corporate Park.

The impetus for the move comes from MiD DAY’s strategy of engaging urban professionals within the space of their working day. In today’s urban scenario where time is a scarce commodity, and there are multiple media vehicles and messages competing for people’s attention, MiD DAY’s focus has been on offering real value to both marketers and readers and being able to assess its efficacy on these parameters.

MiD DAY’s strategic advantage of being the only major English Daily available during the afternoon hours, a space which, barring the internet and mobile, is a virgin area for media reaching executives in their offices, helps the brand in its focus on the YUMPI more fully. By adding a distribution channel that reaches directly into the audience’s offices, MiD DAY hopes to further strengthen reader loyalty and engagement in this segment.

MiD DAY firmly believes that the YUMPI today is the most attractive audience for any advertiser, be it automobiles, FMCG, services, consumer durables, real estate, etc. A look at the YUMPI lifestyle however makes it apparent that this is a group that is very difficult to engage. As a group deprived of time and bombarded with multiple messages and media, advertising messages are more likely to be a ‘ship in the darkness’ versus the desired ‘apple of the eye’.

To encourage audience engagement, and create value for advertisers in the process, MiD DAY has introduced audience-relevant sections in the afternooner such as What’s On, Fun@Work and Life@Work that provide the reader with a glimpse of how YUMPIs can make a day at work enjoyable and are in line with MiD DAY’s mission of Making Work Fun. Sections such as Zing! are his guide to Style@Work while Hot Property guides him plan his house-hunting weekends, while Big Break gives the YUMPI opportunities for great career moves, overall adding value to his reading experience.

Says Abhijit Pradhan, Director Sales and Marketing, MiD DAY Multimedia, “MiD DAY’s effort is to fully engage the YUMPI through content and brand experience, through below-the-line activations, constant innovations and ideas. We are looking to create value for readers and advertisers through content, experience and delivery.”

“The introduction of vending machines helps us to further solidify our reach within offices during the afternoon hours, which are typically the time YUMPI’s would take a break,” he adds

MiD DAY is available in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi. Launching soon in Pune.

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The Premium Jobs section will be a co-branded section along with CareerBuilder-India wherein the users will have the opportunity of registering with CareerBuilder-India through the micro-site.

Speaking on this partnership with CareerBuilder-India, Mr. Satya Prabhakar, CEO of Sulekha.com said, “We are glad to be partnering with CareerBuilder in India which is a leading player in the global online jobs market. In keeping with our motto of providing rich online classifieds content, we believe this co-branded site will give Sulekha.com users an opportunity to access premium jobs across multiple sectors. Thus, if you are looking for a new job, a new career, a new city or a new direction Sulekha.com will prove as a destination site to let you explore the possibilities and find the opportunities that are right for you.”

"We are very excited to build our network in India and have Sulekha.com be part of this growth. This partnership will provide Sulekha.com visitors with highly relevant career advice and a powerful job search engine that will help them be more successful in their employment endeavors,” said Arti Pullins, Managing Director of CareerBuilder-India. “Employers will gain access to a highly engaged, diverse pool of candidates and will benefit from the visibility of this well-respected media channel."

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Sulekha.com is the largest online and mobile Classifieds and Yellow Pages service, connecting over 6 million members in 25 cities in India, US, Canada and more. Sulekha integrates local commerce with the largest social media offering in the Indian space with a vibrant local communities of blogs, forums, videos and photos organized into vertical communities of interest such as Travel, Food, Movies, News and Cricket. Sulekha.com, with operations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Austin, is funded by Indigo Monsoon Group and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

Sulekha’s online directory, allows it users to obtain localized information and also interact and get feedback from other users. These features along with the wealth of information and its comprehensive city coverage went down well with the jury. It was adjudged as the winner based on its design, technology and overall user experience.

Speaking on Sulekha’s achievement Mr. Satya Prabhakar, CEO of Sulekha.com said, “In an era where Information Technology and businesses are inextricably interwoven, it is necessary for businesses, small and large, to become more accessible. This award is a testament of our endeavor to provide a great platform for users to effectively share localized information”.

This year, the winners have been announced in 33 categories out of a list of 500 websites. Content, structure, and technology are the parameters that PC World's 13 member jury used for evaluation of the websites.

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Sulekha.com is the largest online and mobile Classifieds and Yellow Pages service, connecting over 6 million members in 25 cities in India, US, Canada and more. Sulekha integrates local commerce with the largest social media offering in the Indian space with a vibrant local communities of blogs, forums, videos and photos organized into vertical communities of interest such as Travel, Food, Movies, News and Cricket. Sulekha.com, with operations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Austin, is funded by Indigo Monsoon Group and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

This response accentuates the importance of a dedicated city-specific job portal that Punekars have clearly taken a liking for. "Our emphasis now, is on improving the site using the very valuable inputs we have received from Punekars from all walks of life", says Saurabh Shroff, Head Marketing.

Launched in October last year, myJobsinPune.com is a job site which offers jobs only in Pune, to jobseekers across the World Wide Web. "Although most of our registered jobseekers are from Pune we do have significant amount of jobseekers registered from Mumbai, rest of Maharashtra and other metros in India.

Pune is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and is seeing robust growth in various traditional and emerging sectors. This is spurring the interest in Pune as a job destination", he adds.

Mr. Shroff added that Although IT/ITES professionals remain to be the top online job searchers, jobseekers from sectors of manufacturing, Auto Ancillary industry and retail are also emerging in the online recruitment space.

He said that while IT-Software remains to be the highest as regards the no. of registered jobseekers (26.29%), Manufacturing and Industrial profiles stood at 8.60%, followed by Automobile/auto components/auto ancillary with 8.05% of the jobseekers from the sector. The other major sectors from which jobseekers are seen to be from were Engineering/projects 7.06%, IT-Hardware/networking 5.63%, Educational/Training 4.50%, Banking 3.45%, CRM /Call centres/BPO/ITES/Medical transcription 3.27%, Financial services/Stock broking 2.75% and telecom 2.62%.

“We are very delighted to have started our first website in Pune, the response to our initiative is very encouraging, and we plan to invest further resources in growing myJobsinPune.com and are also planning launches in other cities soon”, he added.

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In less than a week, users have already created more than 150 contests! Euro contests have clocked a record 50,000 plays on the site, making it an unprecedented UGC record for the site. A dedicated Adidas Euro 2008 zone has been created on Contests2win and all contests are automatically branded with cool, customised Adidas templates.

Adding a viral element to this inventive property, C2W and Adidas are rewarding users who create contests that generate the maximum number of plays. In order to let friends know about the cool contest you have created, you can simply click on the ‘Share’ feature on each C2W contest and challenge your peers. In keeping with its Web 2.0 avatar, C2W also provides an embed code with every contest. So you can embed the contests you create on to your personal blog or website and even post it on Facebook or MySpace.

Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Brand Manager, Contests2Win says, ‘C2W has always been topical and trend centric. With Euro 2008 kicking off, football is on everyone’s mind and where better to find such a niche football fan but on contests2win.com. C2W provides a great platform for users to interact with the tournament beyond only viewing matches.’ He adds, ‘Users loves to display their knowledge and our contest engines allow them to do this while keeping it fun and unique.’

C2W in its 2.0 avatar has developed interactive engines across popular contesting formats. These engines allow for image and video based content making the conventional online quiz more interactive and fun for the user to play.

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Following the phenomenal success of the recently concluded blogger meets at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai, the IndiBlogger team is pulling out all the stops for Chennai. Rebelz, a popular theatre group is going to perform at the blogger meet, making it a one of a kind event. The meet could not have come at a better time since Chennai was recently named as the blogging capital of India, reason for all Madrasi bloggers to celebrate. IndiBlogger has also confirmed the same, saying that their directory has the most bloggers from Chennai.

The previous IndiBlogger meetings received rave reviews on several well established blogs. Sathish from sathishsays.com had this to say – “I presumed everyone might be having a dead serious look, with conversations about traffic, SEO and all that abnormal nonsense we would like to keep to our computers. But I was dead wrong. The IndiBlogger team is a bunch of crazy people, hell bent on having fun.” A snippet from Sandil's post on Mutiny.in- "I must say, I've never been to a more enjoyable blogger meet ever, and no, it wasn't because of the pizzas. The crowd was super, totally my-kinda like-minded folk. I guess the caption on the T-shirts pretty much summed it up. We blog, therefore we are."

"Most bloggers don't realize that they collectively form a highly influential media in the world today. With a little bit of collaborative thinking, Indian bloggers have the potential to change things for the better. Our pilot meet was at Bangalore and we achieved our objective of making the meeting both meaningful and fun. This has spurred us on, and I’m looking forward to the Chennai meet as it’s my hometown" said Mr. Renie Ravin, the founder of IndiBlogger.in.

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The website helps you find bloggers by name, city, language or user-generated tags (keywords). Members can organize local blogger meetings by coordinating with other bloggers in the directory. Every member in their directory needs to be approved first, as cleverly outlined on their site - "We've also added new submission guidelines for IndiBlogger, since we had many spammers trying to pass themselves off as blogs. Needless to say, their thinly veiled disguises failed to bypass our high-tech blog validation algorithms (our moderators)."

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IndiBlogger.in

Launched in September 2007, IndiBlogger.in has over 3000 blogs registered in the directory, with the number of submissions from bloggers increasing every day. The website was conceived by Renie Ravin, a web architect with a decade of experience in this field. He ran a successful web design agency for a couple of years and moved onto being an internet consultant for several well known Indian brands. Supporting the IndiBlogger efforts are Anwin, Naveen, Anoop and Balaganesh who play key roles in the continuous growth and success of IndiBlogger.in.

LetZgoparty covers nightlife news, events, club listings, music reviews, DJ interviews, celebrity interviews, quiz section, poll, and a space for people to upload party pictures. The portal has been designed for younger minded, active adults who want to party at special events, dine at the best lounge-bars, jam to music acts at concert venues and experience some of the best that each urban city of India has to offer.

One of the many unique features of the website is its Advanced Search facility to find the perfect nightspot based on an individual’s preference for location, music, seating area, cuisine, pricing, dance floor, ladies night, wine collection, happy hours, cigar collection, sheesha and tourist hangout. The user just needs to make a selection and hit the submit button and the various venues that provide the same will appear on the screen.

The website describes every venue in-depth like the ambience, clientele, recommended food and beverages, timings, cover charge, separate smoking area to the not so usual TV screens, parking, whether stags are allowed entry, complimentary snacks, and other forms of entertainment in the venue like pool table, video games, etc.

The website plans to introduce one new feature every week – like the addition of Goa & Pune cities, a section for members to create their profile with pictures and ‘search and make friends’ online, message boards, Style Club for the latest fashion tips, cocktail club, maps for easy location of party places. The website will be made available on the mobiles too.

‘The aim of this site is to build an online entertainment resource for India keeping in mind the fast growing nightlife and lifestyle interests of the urban population’, says Charu Arya Paul, the co-founder. ‘The portal will shortly be featuring more cities with city-specific information and will also be adding international cities for the jet setters.’

The site has received celebrity endorsements from the likes of HardKaur, Jay Sean and Zahid Mustafa.

LetZgoparty.com's introduction takes place at a breaking point in the evolution of social networking sites. Currently dominated by mass-appeal sites such as Orkut and Facebook, social networks which are budding from broad, diffused communities to emerging niche, focused networks that speak to specific interests and lifestyles. To date, existing nightlife websites have focused on providing information about club events, concerts, and performances; but no site has built a social network exclusively around nightlife.

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About letZgoparty.com

LetZgoparty is India’s first social nightlife networking portal which explores nightlife, music, live acts, performances, fashion and celebrities through exclusive features, interviews and videos. The portal has a comprehensive listing of clubs, bars and lounges currently in 4 cities and will be soon covering 4 more 8 cities in India. In addition to access to information the LetZgoparty members can also participate in message boards, chatting and meeting friends.

Speaking about the launch of this unique initiative, Mr. Satya Prabhakar, CEO, Sulekha.com, said, “After the phenomenal success that we had with our BLOGPRINT initiative, we at Sulekha.com thought of publishing our own series of books, featuring some of our most prolific writers, who have been our support system. The idea is to encourage more creative writers and provide them a platform to showcase their works. Books of this genre are a good pick for casual reading and would encourage more and more people to take up reading as a hobby, which is on the wane, at present”.

The first book in the series is Subbu Chronicles - A Series of Adventures by Mumbai-based B.S. Keshav. The book chronicles the adventures of Rajeev Subramanyam, a journalist in the 'City of Dreams', Mumbai. The story has various characters, who add flavor and life to the adventures of Rajeev Subramanyam. The book is light-hearted and captures the true spirit of Mumbai from the mafia to the wardrobe malfunction, each of which Subbu has a take on. The story seamlessly integrates the aspirations and dreams of the common man with the desire to aspire and achieve more.

According to Mr. B.S. Keshav, author, Subbu Chronicles, “"Sulekha.com's effort to encourage and acknowledge our work is highly commendable.It has always been an ideal platform for bloggers to explore and expand their ideas. This new initiative by Sulekha.com provides yet another exciting dimension to reach out to larger audience."

Chosen form a wide variety of popular blogs, these books would be available for sale on Sulekha.com and India Plaza. In the next few months, Sulekha.com will publish Coffee Books, Books dedicated to Travel, Humor, Food, Poetry and a whole lot more. With this unique initiative, Sulekha.com aims to create a trend, where blogs would be looked upon as best sellers in due course of time.

About Sulekha.com

Sulekha.com is the largest online and mobile Classifieds and Yellow Pages service, connecting over 6 million members in 25 cities in India, US, Canada and more. Sulekha.com integrates local commerce with the largest social media offering in the Indian space with a vibrant local communities of blogs, forums, videos and photos organized into vertical communities of interest such as Travel, Food, Movies, News and Cricket. Sulekha.com, with operations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Austin, is funded by Indigo Monsoon Group and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

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Complete transparency in the bidding process and direct communication with the client ensures the elimination of middlemen. Write Match handles the financial aspect thereby allowing writers to focus on their writing, rather than the logistics.

Clients will be able to outsource content development to freelance writers at lower costs without the high commissions normally charged by agencies and intermediaries. This service allows clients to fix the price for their projects and communicate directly with writers on their projects, thereby offering a higher degree of control on the process and deliverables. Clients can post their project in one step using a simple form on Chillifreeze.

Chillifreeze’s parent company Chillibreeze with a client base and writer network already running into thousands plans to use the Write Match service to tap into a wider audience and service clientele from industries and domains beyond its core areas. Write Match is perfect for writers because it does not charge writers for connections or bids, unlike some other freelance marketplaces.

Priya Kaushikfrom Chillifreeze says, "Before I joined Chillifreeze as a full time employee, I was a freelance writer constantly looking for opportunities. I was sick and tired of websites that required me to bid for projects based on how low I was willing to charge. I wouldalways bid low but someone would still outbid me! Sometimes, I had to pay for each connection or bid, making it all the more frustrating. Write Match is such a refreshing change. I hope every freelance writer in India benefits from it. We know that freelance marketplaces are now a dime a dozen, but as clichéd as it might sound, Write Match is different".

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Chillifreeze.com is a group website of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading content and design providers. The parent company has been growing steadily as it continues to support a large and varied number of clients from around the world. Chillifreeze is positioned as a portal for Indian writers and offers courses, mentorship, job postings, project matching services and freelancing and writing guides as well as blogs and discussion boards for writers to interact with each other.

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Pointing out that the European Union has emerged as one of the strongest economic blocks of the world, Dr. Kidwai asked: Is it not possible for us in South Asia to come together and form a union for our economic progress without disturbing our borders. It is high time that we came together to chart out a common path for peace, progress and prosperity.

Baroness Emma Nicholson, a member of the European Parliament, who was a special guest at the seminar, said we had to create our own way with half a billion citizens of the European Union. While she said India is unique in its diversity, Europe too has just about every variation of what humanity has created all over the globe. In many ways were more a community of values than of anything else. Unity in diversity is the keynote phrase for the European Union.

Prof. Mashirul Hassan, a wellknown historian and Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, said in his keynote address that it is in the fitness of things that the seminar is being held in Delhi which has been the cradle of our composite culture. It is the city of Mir, Ghalib, Hakim Ajmal Khan and Dr. Ansari - all protagonists of a composite way of living. The theme of our composite culture was also central to our liberation struggle exemplified by Gandhi, Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose.

He said composite culture does not mean the merger of religious, ethnic and linguistic identities. Composite living means the recognition of those identities. A composite society allows and nurtures those identities to flourish. You cannot have plural nationhood without composite living being embedded in it. Composite culture does not mean imposition of uniformity or homogenization It implies recognition of diversity which has been a characteristic feature of the India society, Prof. Hassan underlined.

Dr. Syeda Hameed, member, Plannining Commission, said that the poetry of her great grand father, Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali, was a convergence of communal harmony, feminist thought and educational philosophy. His poetry can be better understood if seen in the context of our composite culture. She said culture was an assimilation of ideas, the cultivation of mind towards a symbiotic structure without boundaries. Thousand of years of Hindu-Muslim interaction led to our cultural evolution. The ganga-jamuni styles in art, writing, religious practices, customs, social mores and sanctions form the basis of India’s composite culture.

Yawar Abbas, a broadcaster and filmmaker, said that an ethically cleansed society its a morally unclean society. It is society which is intellectually bankrupt and socially monotonous and boring. A society that is doomed from the start. It is cross-fertilization which gives a society its strength. This is what gave India its strength. Two of India’s ‘crowning glories’ are a product of this cross-fertilization - Indian classical music and Urdu language. Despite the partition of the country, we are the same people. The mass madness of 1947 cannot destroy the heritage of a thousand years. We made a mistake by agreeing to the partition and its would be a bigger mistake if we accepted the partition in our hearts and reacted in kind to a false two-nation theory.

Dr A.A. Fatmi, Allahabad University, dwelt at length with the Sufi tradition. He said Kabir’s writings transcended religious barriers to reach the heights of universal humanity and brotherhood. The Sufis and Bhakti saints like Guru Nanak and others spread this literary-cultural enlightenment across the country and a new composite culture emerged and took deep roots in the society.

Asghar Ali Engineer, a social activist and scholar, said much of the credit for our composite culture goes to the Sufi saints who wrote in regional languages and dialects. Though they were scholars of Arabic and Persian, they did not write in these languages which were read and spoken only by the elite. Baba Farid is an a extraordinary example. He chose to write in Punjabi and is one of the most popular poet-saints of the region on both sides of the border. He was the first poet of Punjabi language.

Dr Engineering said that it is a political lie to say that Islam was spread with the force of the sword. It is necessary to debunk this false idea because it spread misunderstanding and hatred among the people. Islam spread in India because of the Sufis who were considered a role model by the people. The universal humanism of the Sufis attracted the people and that is how Islam spread in India.

Others who spoke at the seminar included broadcaster and lyricist from London, Chaman Lal Chaman, former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof M N Farooqi, Mr Thomas Deegan, writer, and editor of group editor of Sahara India newspapers, Mr Aziz Barni.

Urdutehzeeb.com, it was announced at the seminar, will hold seminars and conference on the theme in other cities of India

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Urdutehzeeb.com is the world’s largest Urdu language web portal. It has become a platform for secular values and modern outlook. The portal has, through a rich fare of textual, audio & visual material, been propagating the composite culture of India. Urdutehzeeb.com features daily news, articles, literary criticism, poetry, stories, books etc. Our video section has videos on cultural and other activities of Urdu-speaking people. Surfers can also listen to music and songs on our songs/music segment. For more information on the same, kindly visit the URL: www.urdutehzeeb.com.

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The portal developed over a period of three years using cutting edge technologies caters to individual stock market investors.

Addressing a press conference in city today Mr. Sharath Kaza CEO of Forceites informed that Vantagetrade.com is an automated system which uses advanced trend tracking declarative algorithms to provide Stock Picks and timely Buy and Sell Signals supporting Indian & Global Stock Exchanges. It generates clear, unambiguous signals for the investor to Invest or exit as the trend changes and make profits by beating the market trend.

Other key features of the portal are that it offers ‘on the fly’ analysis for any Stock and provides Personal Portfolio Management Dashboard. It is built in such a way that it generates alerts through emails, RSS feeds and SMS for the stocks that are in the personal portfolio whereby the investors are always kept informed on the status o there holdings. Vantagetrade also provides a unique platform for investors to participate, share, collaborate, discuss and rate stocks, informed Mr.Kaza

Adding further Mr.Kaza stated that although the portal is designed to provide signals at any point of the day but it is more advisable to log in for suggestions towards the end of the trading day whereby the investor can empower his next day’s trading decisions. The portal offers its subscribers features such as Buy, Sell and Exit signals with uncanny accuracy. This helps limit the possibility of the investor making losses. The system has been indigenously designed as a result of thorough research and analysis done by a dedicated team of analysts. The team has devised a revolutionary Trading System, which is a fusion of technology and technical analysis, he stated. .

The portal uses complex proprietary algorithms to generate exceptionally accurate Buy, Sell and Exit Signals for users to follow and invest with minimum risk. Historical data tested on the portal system has proven the accuracy of its signals through various trading scenarios.

The advantages are manifold. Investors can get BUY SELL signals for any Stock, they can either Invest or Exit as the trend changes. They can even keep a track on the Stocks of their choice. The user friendly interface enables simple analysis with stop loss suggestions. It also enables its members to discuss share & collaborate with other investors as well.

All stock markets are vibrant. Ups and downs are part of the stock trading. There is no certainty of the outcome of any investment. It marks volatility. Trading in stocks needs well informed knowledge. Investing in stocks also requires timing and following the market conditions correctly. Apart from selecting the stock for investment, the value of each stock is to be determined. The investor can get consistent returns only from growth stocks.

With so many stock exchanges, thousands of listed companies, highly fluctuating stocks which get affected even to the most insignificant rumor, millions of individuals trading in stock markets are left in disarray. It's our endeavor to target these investors and plans to reach a user base of 20 lakh users in the very first year of our operation added Mr.Kaza

Given this huge market potential, vantagetrade has lot to offer to the ever growing community of investors’ advantages as it is one of its kind to be developed using advanced trend tracking declarative algorithms to provide Stock Picks and timely Buy Sell signals for BSE NSE along with other global exchanges.

Initially we plan to generate revenues from advertisements, sponsorships and affiliate tie ups followed by incorporating a subscription fee & revenue share derived out of integrated sharing platforms. There are portals globally offering services to there subscribers in this space enabling the traders with different kind of tools for stock trading. These portals are valuated & funded heavily as they have been proved to have a strong revenue model in place informed Mr.Kaza

In the immediate future we plan to enhance our offerings by incorporating contextual news & blogs for the stocks at every price & trigger point, supporting all major exchanges, Integration of Stock Trading Platforms, multi lingual support, Options, Forex markets, Commodity Markets, Mutual Funds added Mr.Kaza

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Chillifreeze course authors and instructors are leading professionals from different areas in the field of writing. The courses offer writers a chance to train with the best and explore the variety of options the writing industry has to offer.

Chillifreeze forums provide writers a platform to connect with the writing fraternity through job forums, profile areas, editing challenges and feedback sections. The Chillifreeze blogs open up a window to a variety of subjects including writing, freelancing, epublishing, the latest news from the content industry and much more.

'Expert Review' a unique concept offered at this portal offers India’s first free article rating service. An expert panel at Chillibreeze offers personalized feedback on individual pieces submitted by writers; giving them much needed tips on how to improve their writing style.

The recently launched Write Match service helps writers access the best assignments from around the globe without the associated risks. The service helps clients and writers find profiles and projects that meet their needs without the high commissions normally charged by content management agents. The site offers the service free to clients and charges a nominal 15% of the project value to writers as processing charges.

Chillifreeze’s parent company Chillibreeze with a client base and writer network already running into thousands plans to use the Write Match service to tap into a wider audience and service clientele from industries and domains beyond its core areas. In addition to Write Match, Chillifreeze also hosts Write Job, a niche forum where writers can view job postings exclusively for Indian writers.

Dr. Nishi Viswanathan, Chief Content Officer at Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, the parent company of Chillifreeze says, "Chillibreeze has been in the business of content development for more than four years. Over this period, hundreds of writers have filled the writers form on our website. The number of Indian freelance writers looking for freelance jobs and networking opportunities is mind-blowing. However, there is a wide gap between what Indian writers are looking for, and what is available on the web. Chillifreeze hopes to bridge that gap."

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Chillifreeze.com is a group website of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading content and design providers. The parent company has been growing steadily as it continues to support a large and varied number of clients from around the world. Chillifreeze is positioned as a portal for Indian writers and offers courses, mentorship, job postings, project matching services and freelancing and writing guides as well as blogs and discussion boards for writers to interact with each other.

Along with the weather data from TWCI, Sulekha.com will feature links back to http://www.weather.co.uk for more comprehensive forecast information including hourly and 10-day forecasts, interactive maps, weather almanac data, travel forecasts and other content. TWCI provides international forecasts for more than 98,000 locations in over 215 countries.

Commenting on the above, Mr. Satya Prabhakar, CEO of Sulekha.com said, “Sulekha.com, as the leader in providing local commerce and city-driven interactions, is delighted to partner with The Weather Channel Interactive to provide real-time weather information to its members and visitors.“

Mr. Steve Hassett, VP International and Emerging Businesses for TWCI said, “We are pleased to add Sulekha.com to our list of high quality content partners. We are looking forward to working with them as we build TWCI’s presence in India”

The agreement with Sulekha.com is the most recent international expansion for TWCI. The company has several international weather sites including the recently re-launched www.weather.co.uk and www.meteo123.com, www.wetter123.com, www.canaldotempo.com, weather.com/espanol.

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About Sulekha.com

Sulekha.com is the largest online and mobile Classifieds and Yellow Pages service, connecting over 6 million members in 25 cities in India, US, Canada and more. Sulekha.com integrates local commerce with the largest social media offering in the Indian space with a vibrant local communities of blogs, forums, videos and photos organized into vertical communities of interest such as Travel, Food, Movies, News and Cricket. Sulekha.com, with operations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Austin, is funded by Indigo Monsoon Group and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

About The Weather Channel Interactive

The Weather Channel Interactive is the leading provider of broadband and wireless weather products including weather.com, Desktop Weather by The Weather Channel, and The Weather Channel Mobile. weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel, is the ultimate source of weather on the Web helping users plan their lives by delivering timely current conditions, expert forecasts and relevant lifestyle content for 98,000 locations worldwide.

The Weather Channel reaches more than 35 million unique users online each month in the U.S. and is the most popular source of online weather, news and information according to Nielsen//NetRatings. The Weather Channel Interactive also provides consumers with unique and customizable products such as Desktop Weather and a full lineup of mobile services including downloads, messaging, mobile Web, and mobile video. Other TWCi sites include forGetaway.com, a holiday home rental site, Forecast Earth, a site dedicated to the discussion of climate change, and a series of international sites, including www.weather.co.uk, www.meteo123.com, www.wetter123.com, www.canaldotempo.com and www.weather.com/espanol

For more information on The Weather Channel Companies, including press releases, images, executive information and backgrounders please visit www.weather.com/press.

Well Contests2win.com, which is one of the most known dotcoms in India re-invented itself last October. The new Web 2.0 avatar of C2W now thrives on User Generated Content. The site gets nearly 150 contests created by users each day and boasts of nearly 10,000 contests currently! Now they are asking users to spread these contests.

Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Product Manager at C2W says, “Like all Youtube videos, every Contests2win contest is also embeddable. You can embed C2W contests on your websites, blogs, social networking profiles etc. Interactive and engaging content totally free of cost for your site – that’s the new mantra. Quizzes, Polls along with Word games can be added to your site in a matter of seconds.”

To kick-off the entire ‘Add C2W to your Site’ campaign, Contests2win has started a contest where all you have to do is embed a contest on your website or blog and you would be eligible to win cash up to Rs 10,000!

Details available on the C2W blog (http://blog.contests2win.com/2008/05/12/c2w-embed-and-win/).

‘We basically want to showcase our contesting engines and content to website and blog owners and at the same time want them to earn some money,’ adds Ekalavya.

Contests2win has big plans in the future for users creating content and plans to share a substantial amount of revenue with them. They are going to roll out a program next week, which is sure to enthrall Web 2.0 audience in the country.

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IDS Logic has launched business associate program for entrepreneurs and business units.

Starting a normal business is not an easy task as a lot of money and planning goes into it. Even if one has the capital to invest, there is no surety if the business will last and be a success with such tough competition. IDS Logic’s business associate program provides the opportunity to these business units make their business a success by becoming a business associate with them.

IDS Logic is giving entrepreneurs and business units an opportunity to reap benefits by a mutually beneficial business association. As a business associates, the associates would have to promote products and services of IDS Logic viz web solutions, e-commerce products, web hosting, and internet marketing services, etc. on behalf of the company and in return they can earn handsome margins and incentives along with an association with a strong brand.

During the launch of this program, Ratnesh Dubey, Director Business Development said

“IDS Logic has always perceived business as a medium for creating wealth among the society by creating ample opportunities for those who are willing and capable to go a long way with a little support. This is indeed a very great opportunity for business units and entrepreneurs to grow with us and earn profit”.

The business associates will also be provided with top-notch training on products and sales support from IDS Logic and will also get all the back support for all marketing actions with brochures, internet marketing as well as commercials.

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IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd is a leading innovative web based solutions provider to global clients. IDS Logic operates from its state-of-the-art offshore development centre located in Noida, a technology township in NCR (National Capital Region, New Delhi), India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA.

India Today Group Digital, a division of the India Today Group, is responsible for the online presence of The India Today Group’s offline properties, magazines (India Today, Business Today, amongst others), TV channels (Headlines Today, Aaj Tak amongst others) and Radio Station Meow FM.

Speaking on the development, Sanjoy Narayan (COO - ITGD), “This deal is one of many deriving from The India Today Group’s vision to grow in the online media space. We seek to be available to all our viewers regardless of geography and medium of access. blinkx, being a leader in video search, is a natural choice for us in the online space.”

“Current events searches are among the most popular on blinkx,” said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder, blinkx. “Providing our users with content representing all cultures is extremely important to us. We’re thrilled to bring Headlines Today to blinkx, a news channel that will help bridge India with the rest of the world.”

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.

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About India Today Group Digital

India Today Group Digital is part of the India Today Group. Its primary area of operations is the digital delivery of the offline publications/media vehicles of the India Today Group. This includes more than 15 print magazines, 4 TV Channels, a Radio Station.

About blinkx

blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 18 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

Press Contacts for ITGD:
Chirag Patnaik
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chirag.patnaik@intoday.com

Press Contacts for blinkx:

Tim Turpin
Sparkpr
+1 (415) 321 1894
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Clare Gayner
Bite Communications
+44 (0)20 8834 3454
Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com

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