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Mrinmoy Mukherjee has been appointed COO at Shining Emotional Surplus, a management consulting firm. An engineer from Pune University and MBA from IISW&BM, Kolkata, he has 12 years of experience across different verticals. He has been Head of Marketing for Marico Industries’ Kaya Skin Clinic, GM-Marketing at Godrej Tea, and VP-Sales at Radio City, Mumbai. He has also worked for Eveready Industries and Berger Paints.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 9:15 AM

Saumya Bandyopadhyay, currently Joint Editor of Sangbad Pratidin, will be joining Kolkata TV, the Bengali news channel from the Kolkata-based Xenitis Group, as Director - News from July 1, 2006. Bandyopaddhyay began his career with the ABP Group in 1977 and eventually left as Chief of its Delhi Bureau in December 2000. Subsequently, he joined Sangbad Pratidin as Political Editor based in Delhi in 2001 and then shifted to Kolkata as its Joint Editor. As reported earlier, Kolkata TV Editor Suman Chattopadhyay has recently quit.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 9:14 AM

Arun Arora, formerly of Maruti Udyog’s Corporate Communiactions department, has joined DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd), a GMR Group company, as Associate Vice-president, Corporate Communications. Arora joins DIAL after a 15-year stint with India’s largest automobile maker. He has pursued courses in Hotel Management, Engineering, MBA and Journalism, and started his career with the hotel industry. After spending two years there, he moved to Escorts where he was Senior Executive-Marketing (Brand Management) for three years before joining Maruti.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 9:13 AM

Sulekha.com, one of the biggest online community portals, has launched its Yellow Page service on the WAP platform. With this move, users can get access to over 400,000 business listings through mobile phones anywhere in the world. This service is available to users having WAP enabled mobile instruments.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:27 AM

“There are two kinds of people – one who let things go on as they are, and another, who take up the responsibility to change things for the better,” said one character in the mega hit ‘Rang De Basanti’. Over time, Janmat has changed the way citizens engage with their leaders and make them accountable for their actions. The channel is now ready to take on bigger issues.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:26 AM

International Marketing and Sales Group (IMSG) Plc, the emerging markets focused sales and marketing company, has acquired a majority stake in Candid Marketing. IMSG will purchase the entire issued share capital in multiple tranches for an undisclosed amount.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:25 AM

Radio Mirchi on Friday launched a new innovative on-ground activity to capture the minds of its audience. Touted as the first ever radio film, ‘Kuch Kuch Sunta Hai’, brought the FM station’s RJs out of their recording chambers and to the midst of the people who have been listening to them day in, day out, without a glimpse of them.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:24 AM

Hindustan Lever Ltd has decided to use the big budget film `Krrish' to market its largest selling soap brand — Lifebuoy. The FMCG major will engage in a co-branded promotion with the film, which involves printing pictures of Krrish's character on its Lifebuoy packs and also giving away merchandise based on the film.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:23 AM

Animax Asia has signed a new long-term output deal with Gonzo, Japan’s leading animation studio. The output deal will allow Animax to let Asian viewers see the latest animation first and exclusively outside of Japan.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:22 AM

Zee Telefilms is set to launch in September a 24-hour movie channel in Russia that will telecast Indian films dubbed in Russian.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:21 AM

Not to be left out of the football mania, corporate India is paying Rs 40 crore for advertisements during the FIFA World Cup. This is five times the money spent in the last World Cup. As many as 18 companies bought ad spots in the first week of the carnival, compared to 22 last time.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:20 AM

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has concluded that the ‘Hari Sadu’ TVC of Naukri.com, which raised the heckles of an 11-year old child from Chandigarh, is a work of fiction and bears no resemblance to any living person or deity.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:19 AM

Indiagames and Level Up have launched some interesting initiatives to stir up the gaming market. While Level Up, a publisher of multiplayer online games, has launched ‘GunZ - The Duel’, an action oriented online game, Indiagames, a mobile entertainment content provider, has signed on Yana Gupta to develop mobile content around her.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:18 AM

He is one of the brightest cricketers in the Indian team today and now he has been voted the Pepsi and MTV Youth Icon for 2006. With this, Mahendra Singh Dhoni joins the ranks of Anil Ambani, Rahul Dravid and Shahrukh Khan, who have been Youth Icons in the previous years.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jun 24, 2006 7:17 AM

STAR News is seeking to wrap up 24 all important news stories of the day in just 30 minutes in a rapid-fire format. ‘24 Ghante, 24 Reporter’, the new news bulletin on STAR News, premiers on June 26 and will be on air Monday-Friday at 10 pm.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jun 24, 2006 7:16 AM

The Board of Directors of the Asociación Internacional de Radiodifusión (AIR) and International Association of Broadcasting (IAB) have nominated Rajiv Mishra, convener of AROI, the private FM radio body in India, as Secretary General of AIR-IAB for Asia Pacific Region at a meeting held in Montevideo.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 7:15 AM

Several experts have presented what they think is the way forward for the advertising and communication industry at the Cannes International Advertising Festival 2006, and one word that has emerged with increasing frequency is ‘Titanium’. A general presumption is that Titanium Lions is to recognise a creative idea that has been given an integrated approach. The Titanium jury, however, has decided to redefine the Titanium this year.

Noor Fathima Warsia Jun 24, 2006 7:14 AM

<p align=justify>I think The Times of India, Delhi and Mumbai are very local newspapers, in fact just as The Telegraph is a good paper for Kolkata and the east, North-East or Jharkhand. I think we could be successful in Mumbai or Delhi. But again the question arises 'will the same brand work?' The Telegraph itself is a proposition that may or may not succeed in Delhi or Mumbai. When we are talking of national presence, we should not be talking of only Mumbai or Delhi, but of a pan-India presence. The point I want to make here is that being in Delhi or Mumbai doesn't make you national, it actually makes you a local paper that comes out from five locations.

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 12:00 AM

“I don’t think FDI is required. We have the monies. In fact, Indian companies should be encouraged to emerge as multinationals. Instead of looking at the US and Europe for a shop-out, we should look at publications there that we can grab. It is a reality. If I get the right buy at the right price in the right atmosphere, I will definitely venture into it.”

e4m Desk Jun 24, 2006 12:00 AM