MUMBAI: Ushering in the festive season, the all new UTV Action is all set to give viewers a power packed experience.

In line with its new tagline ? Home Of The Warriors, UTV Action presents a special line up of blockbusters featuring iconic action heroes in Christmas Brave Hearts starting December 25 till January 1 at 8.45 pm.

Commenting on the festival, UTV Action Business Head Sameer Ganapathy said, ?The refreshed UTV Action takes pride in giving viewers access to the best of Hollywood action through a high energy line up of films. Christmas Brave Hearts is specially designed to bring the biggest action heroes to the viewers and will showcase several new titles for the first time on the channel which the viewers will surely enjoy.?

The high octane line up of films starts with the 2010 thriller The Tourist and includes gripping films like The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Terminator Salvation, Legion and many more. Christmas Brave Hearts will also feature new titles like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Twilight which will be showcased for the very first time on the channel. Christmas Brave Hearts will be supported by an on air and outdoor campaign comprising of hoardings and ambient branding in multiplexes.

Mumbai: Christmas - the birth day of Jesus Christ - is a beautiful religious festival that brings out the best in everyone - whether you are a Christian or not. In addition to being a sacred religious festival, it is also a universal cultural and commercial phenomenon.

Christmas day‘s well known traditions in the 21st century include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, singing carols, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive, But the roots of Christmas has a different story to retell..
Earlier, Christmas was both a day of prayer and festival of drunken revelry. Rowdy medieval carolers begged for food and drink, threatening to throw rocks through the windows of those who refuse, and more!The History of Christmas is packed with controversies as many of the seemingly innocent customs of Christmas has evolved from strange to surprising to disturbing beginnings.

In line with the upcoming Christmas festival, HISTORY unveils a special one off series - "The real story of Christmas" that aims to extract the actual story behind it and shed some little twinkling lights on the nitty-gritty reality of Christmas‘ past.

Enjoy the holiday season as HISTORY unwraps the real story of Christmas.

Find out more on HISTORY at 9pm on December 24th 2011.

Mumbai: MAX, the Premium Hindi Movies and Special Events channel, invites you to watch the MAX premier of the blockbuster ?Mere Brother Ki Dulhan?, on Sunday, 25th December at 1 pm & 8 pm .

Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is a romantic comedy movie, which is set amongst upper middle class families in northern India. It?s about two brothers Luv (Ali Zafar) and Kush (Imran Khan).

Luv ends his relation with his girlfriend in London and insists his brother Kush to find him a suitable bride. Kush thinks his old college friend Dimple (Katrina Kaif), who is very flamboyant and outgoing would be the perfect bride for Luv. During the wedding preparations however, Kush and Dimple fall in love with each other. They come up with hilarious plans to get married, but each plan fails. The twist in the tale is when Kush and Dimple try to convince Piyali, Luv?s former lover that he still adores her and wants her back in his life. The story unfolds when Kush and Dimple create a mix of rib-tickling situations to succeed in their plan of marrying each other.

New Delhi: In continuation of its endeavour to provide innovative and delightful customer experience, HomeShop18, the online & on-air retail marketing and distribution venture of Network18 Group will bring Santa Claus to your doorstep this Christmas & New Year. In a unique customer engagement initiative, over 300 delivery boys across 12 cities would deliver all your Christmas gifts dressed as Santa, spreading joy and cheer this festive season.

The unique delivery service will be available to customers across, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon on all the purchases made from 16th to 31st Dec, 2011.

To make this season of joy even more exciting, HomeShop18 has announced a special promotion ?December Delights?. This exclusive shopping festival offers HomeShop18?s customers an opportunity to win a Volkswagen Polo Highline, a Kindle Fire and exciting daily prizes like cameras, pen drives, watches, speaker systems and more. The festival will also offer mega discounts and combo deals on products from the categories ? Home & Toys, Fashion and Digital. And, all these are for those lucky customers who will rush in time and buy before the stocks end.

Announcing the launch of this new initiative, Atrash Aman, Director, Marketing and Strategy said,?

We at HomeShop18 are in the continuous look out for ways to increase customer engagement in order to make virtual shopping more fun. Christmas is the season of sharing and joy and what better way than having Santa come give you your gifts on your doorstep. This is an extremely exciting and busy season for us as we already see a huge increase in traffic on the ecommerce website?.

With a robust distribution network reaching out to over 3,000 locations and selling over 10 million SKUs and 500 established brands, the e-commerce firm expects its sales to peak as the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing. The company?s revenue stood at Rs 410 crore last fiscal and it aims to double the figure this fiscal through expansion of its operations and distribution chain. HomeShop18 had recently acquired online books retailer CoinJoos.Com and inked an agreement with Korean Trade & Investment Promotion Agency and GS Shop to help small and medium Korean companies to enter the domestic market.

Mumbai :India‘s most talented kids shone in Mumbai on Saturday at the eighth annual POGO Amazing Kids Awards 2011, India‘s first kids‘ television awards ceremony.

Kids‘ favourite superhero -Chhota Bheem made a surprise performance at the event and the winners were felicitated by Monica Tata, General Manager, Entertainment Networks, South Asia, Turner International India.

A POGO original production, POGO Amazing Kids Awards 2011 upheld the channel‘s tradition of discovering, recognizing and celebrating, the amazingly talented kids across India.

It was no easy feat to select one winner from hundreds of candidates across India. Taking up this immense responsibility was a panel of eminent experts within each field. Icon Ayaz Memon judged the sports category, Ashley Lobo judged the dance category, Sukhwinder Singh judged the singing and musician category, Tathagat Tulsi judged the genius category and Vaibhav Kumaresh judged the artist category. The leader category was judged by Monica Tata and the entertainer category was judged by Rick Fernandes, Executive Director, Original Production & Development, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Asia Pacific.

At the event, Monica Tata, General Manager, Entertainment Networks, South Asia, Turner International India Pvt. Ltd., said, "We are extremely excited and proud to announce the winners of the coveted POGO Amazing Kids Awards 2011. At POGO, we take great initiative in discovering and felicitating India‘s most talented kids. These luminous kids are our future and we are delighted to offer them such a platform where kids across India can be inspired by them. I congratulate each one of them and their families for winning this award and hope to see them grow in stature and talent in all their future endeavours".

Catch the success stories of these amazing kids across India from December 31, 2011 to January 31, 2012 only on POGO!

Mumbai: BloombergUTV, India‘s premier business channel, today, presented the technology champions for the year 2011 at the ‘The CXO Awards 2011. The awards are aimed at honouring and applauding the efforts of renowned leaders and the rising stars that have made a maximum impact through their initiatives. The CXO Awards 2011 will revolve around Technology and how it has made a difference to the business and social growth.

Mr. S Ramadorai, Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., was the Chief Guest at the glittering function held to present the awards. A total of 15 awards were given away under six categories viz., Education Project Implementation, SME & Large Enterprises, Government Project Implementation, Individual, Industry Awards and a new category ‘People‘s Choice Award. The list of awardees under eachcategory is annexed along with.

Mr. S Ramadorai, in his key note address said, "From the Indian perspective the future belongs to those that recognize the power of IT to deliver reach, scale, predictability and replicability not just for their own business but to impact the lives of millions of people. Digital inclusion and leveraging of technology would drive its adoption, and increase access and affordability for our citizens enabling information and knowledge equity."

A Jury Panel comprising of Mr. Keki Mistry, Vice Chairman & CEO, HDFC Ltd., Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Vice Chairman & CEO, Zensar Technologies, Mr. S Mahalingam, CFO & ED, TCS, Ms. Kiran Bedi, Social Activist & Former IPS Officer, Mr. Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Mint, Mr. Avinash Vashistha, CMD, Accenture, Mr. Ashank Desai, Co - Founder & Advisor, Mastek and Mr.Harish Mehta, CMD, Onward Technologies Limited selected the winners from the top contenders in each category.

Mr. Deepak Lamba, Business Head - BloombergUTV speaking on the occasion said, "Technology plays a critical role in moving the economy forward, and this is evident in the way technology has transformed many sectors such as BFSI and telecom. We also see technology having a dramatic social impact in areas like education and financial inclusion. The BloombergUTV CXO Awards have been instituted with the basic aim of recognising and applauding the efforts of developers who have deployed technology to make a difference and support the growth of businesses as well as social upliftment. I congratulate all the winners and wish them the best in all their future endeavours." The evening also saw the release of the ‘IT WHITE BOOK‘, a collection of Conversations with CIOs on Emerging Trends by Mr. S. Ramadorai, Mr. Amar Babu (MD - Lenovo India) and Mr. Vivek Law (Editor - BloombergUTV).

The CXO Awards 2011 is presented by Lenovo and Associate Partners - India First Life Insurance with Price Waterhouse Coopers as Knowledge Partners and is supported by TiE - Mumbai. The CIO Association of India, LinkedIn and CXOtoday.com have partnered with BloombergUTV for the CXO Awards 2011.