Rajat Sharma to launch another 24×7 news channel

October 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - After playing suave, sophisticated characters, actor-director Rajat Kapoor will now be seen as a balding middle-aged man who falls in love with a girl half his age after talking to her online in the movie "I M 24". Our next is a comedy 'I M 24' and Rajat Kapoor plays a 42-year-old balding writer in the film who falls in love with a 22-year-old girl through online chatting but lies to her that he is just 24, Arindam Chaudhuri, who is producing it under his banner Planman Motion Pictures, told IANS.

October 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - STAR, Asia's leading media and entertainment company, has launched four channels on Rogers Cable, leading cable operator in Canada -- while three are Hindi language services, one is Tamil. This will be followed by three Mandarin-language services later this month.

October 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - It's going to be a mini club of young and aspiring filmmakers. A group of children in Bangalore is going spend a month learning the art of filmmaking.

October 14th, 2009 Fox Reality Channel to make way for new ventureLOS ANGELES — Reality TV junkies are facing a cold truth: The Fox Reality Channel is wrapping up its four-year mix of new and repeat programming next spring. The channel will end operations on March 31, Fox Networks Group said, although its library of programs may continue airing for an unspecified period.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Popular channel MTV has decided to drop the term "Music Television from its logo and is set to explore other genres to keep in sync with the changing tastes of audiences. The logo, which has been around since 1981 when the channel was launched in the US, will be seen in its new avatar Saturday onwards.

September 24th, 2009 Cable's top programs for Sept. 14-20Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable television networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Sept.

August 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Actor Ranvir Shorey rubbishes reports that he plans to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend Konkona Sen Sharma in December, saying he has no plans to settle down in near future. "No plans of me getting married to anyone.

August 14th, 2009 Director Yogaraj Bhat’s Manasaare had its music launch recently. The music of the film is by Mano Murthy.

July 22nd, 2009 Fox not among outlets airing Obama news conferenceNEW YORK — The Fox network says it's skipping live coverage of President Barack Obama's prime-time news conference Wednesday night. But the session, beginning at 8 p.m.

July 22nd, 2009 Discovery Channel to re-air 'Cronkite Remembers'NEW YORK — Discovery Channel says it's re-airing "Cronkite Remembers," an eight-part look at the 20th century through the eyes of veteran newsman Walter Cronkite. The encore presentation honors Cronkite, who died last week at age 92.

July 21st, 2009 Channel One Network to team up with CBS NewsNEW YORK — Channel One Network says it will be teaming up with CBS News to produce its daily newscast for teens. Starting this fall, CBS News Productions will co-produce "Channel One News," which reaches about 6 million middle- and high-school students nationally each school day.

July 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Filmmaker-turned-politician Prakash Jha has launched Maurya TV in Bihar because he felt the state badly needed its own voice. But he denies he started the channel to counter the rosy-picture Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government is trying to create.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Censor Board to solve the controversy over a song from a forthcoming Bollywood movie 'Rann' within a month. This directive was pronounced by the judges hearing a petition filed by the director of the movie, Ram Gopal Varma.

May 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - Multilingual actor R. Madhavan is happy that his much-delayed Tamil film "Avan, Aval, Athu" is releasing Friday even though he didn't dub for the film.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma promoted their forthcoming movie 'Rann' in New Delhi. 'Rann' meaning battle in English is an attempt by Varma to expose Indian media.