Mumbai: BIG CBS LOVE, India?s number one English GEC amongst urban Indian audiences, is gearing up to launch Cycle 7 of Australia?s Next Top Model. Bringing together supermodel Sarah Murdoch as host along with fashion designer Alex Perry, photographer Jez Smith and TV personality Charlotte Dawson as judges, Australia?s Next Top Model is the highest rating non-sporting related program in Australia. The show is all set to premiere on 13th May, 2013 and will air every Monday to Thursday at 9PM exclusively in India on BIG CBS LOVE.

Featuring the best of the best from the world of fashion while giving an unparalleled platform to aspiring models, Australia?s Next Top Model Cycle 7 will bring together the best in International Fashion to the audiences? television sets. With state-of-the art photo shoots and top-notch drama which delves deeper into the world of high fashion and couture, Australia?s Next Top Model is responsible for transforming amateurs into the Next BIG Thing on the runway. Through associations with global brands and artists, Australia?s Next Top Model is the perfect learning ground for all aspiring models.

Mr. Anand Chakravarthy, Business Head - BIG CBS Networks said, ?It is our continual effort to offer our young audiences with the finest in International programming. Australia?s Next Top Model is part of the award-winning Next Top Model franchise, one of the World?s most premium and exciting reality formats. An inspiring platform that young women across the world look upto, we are confident that the show?s content will resonate well with our young viewers and also present marketers with the perfect opportunity to connect with their target audiences.?

MUMBAI: iCouch, the android mobile application by iDubba launched with Zee Caf? program Grey‘s Anatomy created an amazing engagement experience for the audience watching the program. Over 5000 Grey‘s Anatomy fans joined iCouch in just two days of the launch of the application. While 1500+ people actually participated in the chat room, over 6000 quality chats and conversations were generated in just 1.5 hours.

Whereas the selected chats went live on TV during the show on Zee Caf?, the people watching the program were also incentivized by playing the engaging contests. iCouch, the chat forum with no bar enables you to engage and chat with thousands of other fans watching the show. Give direct feedback to the TV channel and create your own chat rooms for the live TV shows.

Says Rabi Gupta, Co Founder - iDubba, "Second screen is the future. If the initial response on iCouch is anything to go by, it will redefine how interactive television entertainment can be. We are optimist of iCouch becoming the latent tool to success of television entertainment industry."

Mumbai: Kids in Mumbai can look forward to nine days of fun filled, exciting activities in May. ZeeQ, India?s first edutainment channel will be rolling out lots of activities as part of its ?Festival of Learning? initiative.

ZeeQ will conduct workshops on etiquettes and manners, story writing, painting, best from waste, mad t-shirt painting, etc. There will be lots of fun activities like snake and ladder, the Wordmatch quiz, M I Four Quiz, dodge the stripe, Gyaan bhi Muskaan bhi, dance fun fitness etc.

All these activities have been fine tuned and customized to cater to 4 to 14 year old kids. These activities will replace kids? boredom with fun and activity-cum-adventure driven learning.

Subhadarshi Tripathy, Business Head of ZeeQ said, ?ZeeQ is founded on the principle, ?what is right for the child?. The ?Festival of learning? gels well with our philosophy.?

?This summer activity will help us to engage with children and communicate the principle that we stand for. Through this initiative, we wish to channelize kids? potential in the right direction and bring out their creativity?, he added.

The ?Festival of learning? will be a unique learning experience that will develop cognitive skills, will encourage interest amongst children and will help them transform their self-esteem. Besides, the experience of this festival will urge them to explore their ability to overcome new levels in social skills, indoor games, academics and will unleash their creativity.

From 18th May onwards, the workshop will be held at R-City Mall in Ghatkopar.

MUMBAI: Superstar Ajay Devgn and Kajol recently went to Lonavala to support the veteran actress Tanuja?s initiative to keep Lonavala and Khandala clean and green!!

The initiative is taken up by an NGO ?Lonavala Khandala Citizens forum? ( LKCF) of which Tanuja is the president. This forum works for the Civic Development and Environmental Rights for Citizens of Lonavla and Khandala!!And especially for preservation and enhancement of quality of life and amenities in the twin towns of Lonavala & Khandala a fun charity fair was organized.

Devgn and Kajol were extremely happy to be a part of this fund raising fare and spoke about their childhood memories in Lonavala and about preserving, and taking care of the green city. And also said that to kickstart this issue and help wherever they can to protect it LKCF is the perfect means to getting that done!

At the fair, there were different stalls which included puppet shows, dart games, there were different kind of handicraft stalls and food stalls. The actors were seen interacting with the people at the stalls and were seen enjoying themselves.

Well, we are quite proud of this initiative taken up by Tanujaji and we must say what a lovely gesture from Ajay Devgn and Kajol this Mothers Day!!

MUMBAI: In the seventh episode of the series, Adam Shaw travels to New York City to meet Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and a Special Advisor on Poverty and Hunger to the United Nations, to explore the issue of global food security.

By 2050 the global population is expected to rise to over nine billion, with food production having to increase by 70 per cent in order to provide everyone on the planet with acceptable levels of nutrition. Adam and Professor Jeffrey Sachs discuss new ways in which technology can be used to ensure a smarter, more productive approach to farming.

Professor Sachs said: ?The global food supply is under stress. We need a dramatic reorientation towards sustainable technologies in food. The planet is very crowded. This is putting tremendous stresses on the planet in many ways. The huge question for the world is how can a globally interconnected society of seven billion people ? that soon will be eight, could be nine or ten during this century ? live together [and] enjoy prosperity that is properly shared.?

In the UK, Adam visits Surrey Satellite Technology, a company that uses advanced technology to build and operate affordable satellites. On-board cameras are being used to give farmers unprecedented levels of information on the health of their crops (detail that would be invisible from the ground) allowing efficient targeting of soil nutrients and irrigation to increase crop yields.

Surrey Satellites is also now working with Nigeria?s National Space Research and Development Agency (NASDRA) to help government agencies reduce the impact of possible natural disasters.

Later, Adam heads to North Wyke Farm in Devon which houses a unique outdoor laboratory designed to discover new ways of farming which are sustainable, productive and minimise environmental impact.

Finally, presenter James Chau travels to China?s largest city, Shanghai, where the Chinese Government has set itself the target of growing 95% of the city?s vegetables in the local area.They?ve got some way to go but have made a start by controlling production in the area, protecting cultivated land and building a ring of farms that account for a third of Shanghai?s urban area.

The Horizons series, sponsored by DuPont, airs weekly on Saturdays at 7.00am & 02:00pm and Sundays at 8:00pm and 1:00am.

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MUMBAI:Global live and online agency, George P Johnson (GPJ) India has once again established new benchmarks in experience marketing, taking home two awards, comprising of Gold & Bronze on behalf of its clients Yahoo and IBM. GPJ was awarded in the category WOW Live Event of the Year & WOW Conference of the year.

The WOW 2013 Awards for excellence in events and experiential marketing were announced on 26th April in Mumbai. This year it witnessed a record total of 720 entries from 416 organizations across India in 27 categories.

GPJ India received Gold for delivering inspirational value to technology and business users the importance of office digitization at IBM Software Universe 2012. The launch AV was executed through a Visual Symphony which consisted of interactive content synchronized perfectly with three dancers. This was achieved through a seamless projection screen of 148x14 feet, the largest so far. The entire performance lasted for about 10 minutes and successfully brought the IBM software universe story alive. The event witnessed over 2000 attendees. Celebrity speaker, Rahul Dravid drew analogy between cricket and IBM‘s theme for the year. Mandira Bedi hosted the event in a news room format. This was the 8th year of IBM Software Universe and George P Johnson India partnered with IBM to take this annual 2-day technology conference to the next level, each year.

An employee engagement event for Yahoo, created by GPJ India, was awarded with a Bronze for the best live experience for over 2500 employees, that witnessed celebration of the brand, its people and their families, a fun experience of interacting, meeting with the feeling of oneness. GPJ conceptualized and executed world class experience design with over 40 engagement activities, 3 entertainment acts and over 10 internal choreographed performances. This was Yahoo‘s best and largest employee engagement event experience.

Rasheed Sait, Vice President and Managing Director, GPJ India stated, "These awards are testimony to the creative tactics we use to engage audiences and immerse them in the brand experience. We are really proud of the big ideas and work we created for Yahoo, IBM and other brands we manage across 5 GPJ India offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Big ideas need client backing and hence part of this success goes to them. We thank all our clients for supporting and encouraging us to think out of the box."