MUMBAI: Spend this Independence Day with NewsX, soon to be re-launched in a new avatar as IMN News, with an exciting line-up of discussions and interviews for it viewers on weekend.

The line-up for the weekend is as under:

India@63 - The New Guard: NewsX brings a focused discussion on the role of youth in shaping the future of India as we approach India?s 63rd Independence Day. Young leaders and achievers of India, Kalikesh Singh Deo -Member of Parliament, Sanjay Gupta ? Bollywood Film Director and Anuja Chauhan, - Author, discuss the importance of young India, their dreams for India, and nation?s shift of gravity towards the youth.

Telecast Details: Saturday, Aug 14 @ 6.00 pm

Sunday, Aug 15 @ 2.00 pm (Repeat)

In Conversation with Praful Patel: Catch Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel in a discussion with Saeed Naqvi. During the conversation, Mr Patel talks about current scenario of the Indian aviation industry and how it is changing for the better as compared to the past. He also talks about the recently opened terminal T3 in Delhi as being his contribution to the commonwealth games.

Telecast Details: Saturday, Aug 14, 10.00 pm

Sunday, Aug 15, 5.00 pm (Repeat)

India@63 - The Path to Progress: Witness leaders of India as they review India?s journey to progress since Independence, identify potentials of today?s India and anticipate challenges for the future in different sectors of National Economy and Growth. NewsX brings Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman-Planning Commission, Jaswant Singh, Hon?ble Member of Parliament, Vir Sanghvi, Advisory Editorial Director- Hindustan Times and Meera Sanyal, Chairperson & Country Executive - ABN Amro/ RBS Bank India - together on one single platform..

Telecast Details: Sunday, Aug 15 @ 6.30 pm, 11.30 pm (Repeat)

IMN News is the new brand identity that the premier English news channel NewsX will soon assume. The new look of the channel will be unveiled soon, and be accompanied with a similarly redesigned website, IPTV service and mobile TV.
 

MUMBAI: Cine?Maa? Awards is the flagship event that MAA TV as a channel does among its many other events yearly. Over the years, MAA TV has carved a special niche in organizing and telecasting events. People and the Film industry look up for good and interesting events .MAA Television as a channel has always met the expectations.

MAA television was the only channel to telecast the most prestigious Vajrotsavam of the Telugu film industry, which created history in the television ratings.

King, Maghadeera, Josh and Leader Audio launches gave the highest ratings in the events category regularly in respective seasons. MAA TV is known for its innovative programs and the programming lay a strong focus on providing pleasant and wholesome entertainment to the Telugu TV audience. MAA TV always enjoys a preferred partner status with the film industry and works very closely with the film personalities.

For the Current year, MAA Television is hosting its 6th Lux Sandal Cinema Awards event which will be telecasted on Television Sets on 28th August 2010 (Saturday).

Among various categories this year, Life time achievement is been awarded to Dr C. Narayana Reddy. The event will be hosted by very popular film comedian Shri Aali and the most popular television Anchor Suma. Bollywood‘s sensational actress Rakhee sawant will be one among of the performers among many other spectacular performances. Singing sensation Kartik will be performing with his band and he will be performing for the first time in AP. All the performances planned for the event are aimed higher with new techniques to give pleasant entertainment for the audiences.

To make it feel of international standard quality event, well known technicians are hired from the Industry of dreams i.e. Bollywood.

The awards are decided purely by Viewers choice based on the voting format for each and every category. The Awards are being audited by Grant Thornton; this lends a huge credibility to the process of selection of the winners. Grant Thornton is one of the world‘s leading accounting and consulting firms with a presence over 100 countries.

Presently MAA Television is getting excellent responses from public with large number of SMS entries voting for their favourite film personalities in every award categories respectively.

The Cine?Maa? awards function will be attended by our very own Mega star Chiranjeevi, Heart throb of millions Nagarjuna and many popular actors apart from many stalwarts and film dignitaries.

Trophy of the Cine?Maa? awards is specially created for Maa TV by famous Neil Foley Designs

Adding to the cutting edge event to rejoice the viewers also can be part of the event by participating in the simple voting procedure. 100 lucky winners will get a chance to see the event live. The venue of the event is HICC Novotel.

MUMBAI: The Galaxy beckons! Expanding on the global foundations established in its first season, all new Star Wars: The Clone Wars ? Rise of the Bounty Hunters premieres on Indian Television on WB on August 14 at 6:00 p.m. The classic Star Wars tradition of testing the very limits of our heroes as they battle for the fate of the Galaxy continues in the new series. All new battles, thrilling storylines and unrivalled animation promise to raise the stakes even higher in this sweeping galactic conflict.

Monica Tata, Vice President and Deputy General Manager, Entertainment Networks, South Asia, Turner International India said, ?Its exciting, thrilling and true cutting-edge product straight from Hollywood for WB viewers in India. We are delighted to be the Indian TV launch pad for quality Hollywood content and are positive viewers and Star War fans alike will enjoy the new season on WB.?

Set between Episodes II and III of the live-action saga, the battle for peace rages on but the valiant Jedi Knights teeter upon the brink of exhaustion as they are beset by the seemingly limitless resources of their enemies. With no end in sight, the war is taking its toll, an opportune time to create turmoil. Enter the Galaxy?s most fearsome bounty hunters, hired by the Separatists to tip the scales of the tenuous balance of power. As ruthless as they are deadly, these lawless rogues enter the fray with one objective ? to destabilize and destroy the Jedi Order. Star Wars: The Clone Wars ? Rise of the Bounty Hunters showcases an entirely new look and feel to the Galaxy far, far away, created by the talented artists at Lucasfilm Animation.

Commenting on the new season, George Lucas, Executive Producer said "We‘re trying to push the envelope even further in the second season. In the features, I focused on telling the story of the Skywalker family. With The Clone Wars I‘m exploring far beyond that and we barely scratched the surface in the first season. It‘s exciting to be able to take people to all these new places in the Star Wars galaxy."

Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi Knights. Watch STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS ? Rise of the Bounty Hunters only on WB weekends @ 6PM
 

MUMBAI: With the toll following the cloudburst in Leh district steadily increasing to nearly 200, several Bollywood actors have come forward to express their support to relief efforts on the ground. Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Shabana Azmi and Kunal Kapoor have tweeted their support to child rights organization Save the Children, which is leading NGO efforts to provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the affected in Leh district.
More than a 1000 people visit Save the Children?s website immediately after the tweets wanting to help.

Its not just the film industry but the media too has pitched in a big way. Three major television channels CNN-IBN, NDTV and Times Now promptly supported Save the Children?s efforts by carrying an appeal for donations.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has spent a lot of time in Leh when she was younger, is tweeted ?Save the Children is in leh helping affected c:hildren and their families..pls donate now at www.savethechildren.in to support their efforts?- she tweeted. She also announced via Twitter that she and her family are trying to help the victims there.

It?s not just Priyanka Chopra, other celebrities such as Deepika Padukone and Kunal Kapoor are also expressing their concern for the thousands who have been affected by this natural calamity. - ?Pls support Save the Children‘s relief efforts in Leh. Go to http://bit.ly/c9VPle and do your bit for the affected children and families,? Deepika tweeted.

?Little contributions go a long way :)? writes Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor feeding his recent tweet in support of the Leh victims.

?I request people to make small contributions to help the affected children of Leh region. Children are the most vulnerable and it is now important that they get clean drinking water. We know how unsafe drinking water can lead to diarrhoea and cause even death among young children. Small steps on your part can go a long way to help save children,? Kunal Kapoor said.

?Save the Children has been working in Ladakh for over 40 years but we have not seen a natural calamity of this magnitude,? says Sharif Bhat, Save the Children programme manager, who is also from Ladakh. ?The team in Ladakh is working in extremely difficult circumstances as they also have to cope with missing family members, colleagues and friends. The families of our colleagues are still taking refuge in the mountains or in the local mosque for fear of more flooding,? Bhat said.

MUMBAI: Be there to celebrate the Spirit of Indian Independence Day as BIG Cinemas, a division of Reliance MediaWorks and member of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, celebrates the ?Spirit of my Tiranga? across its cinemas on August 15, 2010.

Visit any BIG Cinemas on Independence Day and get a Tiranga wrist band free on purchase of your ticket and get an exclusive designer mouse pad for free on purchase of any F&B Combo.

To further enhance the audience experience during the ?Spirit of My Tiranga? festival, BIG Cinemas would also be playing the National Anthem in auditoriums before the movie screenings and the lobby would be buzzing with saffron, white and green decorations and patriotic Indian songs and videos.

Offer is available in the following cities - Mumbai, Delhi and NCR, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Indore, Pune, Bhatinda, Zirakhpur, Coimbatore, Kanpur, Meerut, Agra,Mangalore and Hyderabad.

MUMBAI: zoOm is back and has brought with it a blast from the past! Sholay Reloaded takes a young & fresh look at this cult classic ?Kitne Aadmi The? Tumhaara Naam Kya Hai Basanti? Chal Dhanno, yeh teri Basanti ke izzat ka sawaal hai? Iconic dialogues from the Movie of the Millennium ? Sholay will be heard all day long on zoOm along with interesting facts, trivia, music, the movies which were unsuccessful copies and much more at 12 noon.

SHOLAY RELOADED

On ?Zabar10?, we recast the team of Sholay with the Superstars of Today. Also catch ?Kitne Copy the?, which will look at movies that tried to recreate the Sholay magic. ?Yeh Sholay hum nahi bhoolenge? brings alive interesting trivia related to the film and its making.

Omar Qureshi, Editor-in-Chief, zoOm Television says ?We all have grown up with this iconic movie which changed the face of the Indian Film Industry & what better gift can we give to the youngsters of today than introduce them to this silver screen epic. Today?s generation knows of Sholay but many have probably missed out on this beautiful piece of cinema. Keeping this thought in mind, all our programming has been focused to pay a tribute to Sholay?

Tune-in to catch all the Sholay Special shows on Sunday, 15th August all day only on zoOm ? NAHIN TOH GABBAR AA JAAYEGA !!!