MUMBAI: In a bid to strengthen its presence in the National capital Region and reach out to the residents of one of the fastest growing NCR areas, Hindustan Times has announced the launch of a special product for Gurgaon. Under the brand name of ?Gurgaon First?, itwill focus on the news pertaining to Gurgaon and will contain special supplements for its Gurgaon readers. The paper is priced at Rs 3 and has hit the newsstands from 12th July?10.

While the City pages will be separate for Gurgaon, other sections will be common to the Delhi edition. However, Page 1 will carry stories that are important for Gurgaon.

Speaking on the launch , Mr. Shantanu Bhanja, Vice President - Marketing, HT, explained, ?We had undertaken a massive survey (of nearly 3,000 residents of Gurgaon) to find out the key issues that are affecting them. Over the coming weeks, we will have editorial coverage around these and will campaign to solve them. We are also looking at exclusive columns, features and user-generated content that would connect with Gurgaon.?

HT Media Ltd has adopted an aggressive promotion and marketing strategy with a mix of outdoor, press and on-ground activations. A ?Gurgaon First Festival? is being organised from 16th July?10 to 1st August?10 and will be held at Epicenter, Gurgaon. The event will bring together some of the best names in Indian art and culture. Acclaimed artistes like Shubha Mudgal, Mallika Sarabhai, Anupam Kher, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Kamal Sabri, U Rajesh, and Rajit Kapoor will perform at Epicentre over three weekends.

?We are bringing together our editorial series as well as all the initiatives under the ?Gurgaon First? brand name. We will have a CEO Conclave on July 20, which will bring together some top executives who live and work in Gurgaon. They will discuss the present and the future of Gurgaon, trying to arrive at a charter that can then be taken up with the civic authorities by Hindustan Times.? Bhanja further added.

HT Media Ltd is looking at other NCR zones for expansion in the near future.

MUMBAI: In a city known for its towering skyscrapers and jam-packed streets, this month CNNGo explores the other side of Hong Kong, taking viewers past the Peak and beyond Nathan Road. A diverse cast of characters shows us the way.

A talented film director sets her sights on an island outpost that was once used to ward off would be attackers. A dynamic young tattoo artist shows us how to get from the middle of a heaving shopping mecca and onto a pile of rocks in the middle of Victoria Harbour, in a matter of minutes.

Speaking of rocks, rockers-of-the-moment Chochukmo welcome us to their hidden rehearsal space. We hit some staggeringly beautiful beaches - yes, in Hong Kong - with a veteran Gweilo actor, and we sample some legendary cuisines with a noted food critic. We even duck into the wheelhouse of the Star Ferry and knock on the door of a haunted house - smack in the middle of the city.

That and more, this month on CNNGo.

CNNGo AIRTIMES (IST): Thursday, July 15 at 2 pm

Friday, July 16 at 9 am

Saturday, July 17 at 0130 pm & 8 pm

Sunday July 18 at 8 pm

Monday July 19 at 8 am
 

MUMBAI: After weeks of staggering performances from dancers Pan India; four of the finest performers have been selected to battle it out in the grand finale of Bindass Street Dance.

With Shiamak Davar announcing the wild card entry this week, the final three groups put their best foot forward determined to outdo competition and be conferred winners! This war of the danceaholics only turns tougher with groups bringing forth the best of styles and panache never-before-witnessed, baffling Ace Choreographer Shiamak Davar!

Feast your eyes onto a splendid show set to redefine the dance-reality genre with the winners being rewarded an annual membership with Shiamak Davar?s Institute of Performing Arts (SDIPA)offering a special course with an opportunity to be trained by choreographers who have trained the likes of Beyonce, other renowned international artists a and a Grand trophy!

Tune in to Bindass Street Dance to find out which group win the Bindass Street Dance Trophy

this Wednesday, 14th July, at 8pm only on UTV Bindass.

MUMBAI: It is raining ?Maximum Music, Maximum Choice? for listeners on India?s only ?music specialist? station, 94.3 Radio One. Continuing with the trend of pioneering the spirit and passion for music in the Indian radio space, 94.3 Radio One will introduce first of its kind initiative for Marathi Music listeners in Mumbai.

Starting 18th July, every week 94.3 Radio One will play ?Top 13 Marathi Songs? only for its listeners. The top 13 Marathi special will also feature interviews with prominent Marathi artists, singers, lyricists and on their favorite music. This is following the brands initiative of going public with ?Play Your Music Day?.

Commenting on the new initiative, Bavesh Janavlekar, Station Head ? Mumbai said, ?At 94.3 Radio One, we strongly believe that good quality music has no boundaries and this can be seen through our initiatives. We are India?s first music station which promotes different genres of music along with the popular Bollywood music. We have always believed in giving our listeners quality music which exists across genres. With this top 13 Martahi song we are truly living up to the brand promise of giving our listeners ?Maximum music. Maximum choice?.

As part of the constant endeavor to enrich the musical experience of our listener?s through innovative on-air initiatives, 94.3 Radio One, also recently had associated with the national award winning singer composer duo, Ajay-Atul for their concert held in May. MJ Yamini had interviewed them live in addition to covering their concert. The concert was held in support of the city-wide ?Save Water, Save Mumbai? campaign.

MUMBAI: YouTube joins world famous filmmakers Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald in asking people around to world to create the first user-generated feature-length documentary film shot on a single day - July 24, 2010. Life in a Day is a historic global film experiment that enlists the global community to capture a moment of their lives on Saturday, July 24 and to upload that footage to www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.

Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) will direct, bringing together the most compelling footage into a feature-length documentary film. The project will be executive produced by Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) and produced by his company Scott Free Productions. Individuals whose footage makes it into the finished film will be credited as co-directors and 20 of these contributors will be flown to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for the film?s world premiere.

Life in a Day is one of several efforts by YouTube to push the boundaries of music, art, and now film. YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the recently announced YouTube Play partnership with the Guggenheim are examples of the convergence of online video with traditional arts and Life in a Day takes this effort into the cinematic realm. LG Electronics is supporting Life in a Day as a key part of its long-standing Life?s Good campaign and to support the creation of quality online content that can be shared and enjoyed by all.

The director, Kevin Macdonald says of the project, ?Life in a Day is a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. It is a unique experiment in social filmmaking, and what better way to gather a limitless array of footage than to engage the world?s online community.?

?Over the past five years, You Tube has changed the way media is created and consumed," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, YouTube?s parent company. "We‘re thrilled to give our community the opportunity to work with Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott and are grateful to our long-term partner, the Sundance Institute, for their support of this global initiative. I can think of no better place to premiere Life in a Day than at next year?s festival.?

?A vital part of our mission is to support individual storytelling around the globe and to provide a platform for expression and experimentation,? says John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. ?This is a great way to engage the You Tube community and to also provide Festival audiences with something new and unexpected.?

?LG believes in enriching people?s lives through technology and saw complementary objectives in the Life in a Day project,? says Dermot J. M. Boden, Chief Marketing Officer at LG Electronics. ?For LG, this project is a fantastic opportunity to engage with You Tube users on a personal and emotional level that?s both rewarding and enjoyable. This initiative is perfectly consistent with our brand promise of ?Life?s Good?!?

Scott Free will work with Rick Smolan, creator of ?A Day in the Life? and CEO of Against All Odds Productions, a California-based organization that specializes in the execution of large-scale global projects that combine story-telling with state-of-the-art technology, to distribute cameras to individuals in remote regions of the world in an effort to ensure that the film is as inclusive and representative as possible. To learn more and upload footage on July 24, 2010 at www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.

MUMBAI: CNN International‘s Going Green series returns this July for an in-depth look at Green Pioneers - individuals standing on the front lines of environmental issues - and the innovative ways they are tackling these challenges. From ground-breaking ideas in urban planning to the latest technologies advancing the green movement, ‘Going Green: Green Pioneers‘ highlights the efforts of the world‘s foremost preservers of the planet.

About the Green Pioneers:
Ma?gorzata G?rska has been battling for Poland‘s Raspuda valley for eight years. A winner of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, an international conservation award, Gorka‘s leadership in the fight to stop a controversial highway project led to a significant legal precedent for the environment that resulted in the protection of one of Europe‘s last true wilderness areas, the Rospuda Valley. As conservation and environmental activism slowly grow in Poland, the female activist reflects on the importance of her mission: "On the one hand I am very happy that we managed to preserve the wetlands, but on the other hand it is quite sad that we even had to put up this fight."

As chief executive of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) for the past six years, Syeda Rizwana Hasan has struggled to improve environmental and labor regulation to Bangladesh‘s 36 ship-breaking yards, where she says, "Nobody is present" to ensure labor laws are followed or international guidelines against toxic waste-dumping are met. CNN reveals Hasan‘s pledge as she wants to make sure her countrymen and women have a job that doesn‘t represent a hazard to their health, despite the much-needed revenue and jobs brought in by the 150+ ships visiting these yards annually.

CNN then travels to Berlin, the home to one of Germany‘s top green entrepreneurs, Alexander Voigt. Voigt, who set up the first solar company to go public in Germany, and his company are developing an insular grid powered solely by renewables. This grid would improve efficiencies by allowing countries to use substantial amounts of green energy rather than relying on fossil fuel power supplies or electricity from undersea cables.

In his first television interview since being released from prison, activist Wu Lihong - once hailed as an "environmental warrior" by the Chinese government - takes CNN‘s Emily Chang to the polluted Lake Tai, the freshwater lake he has spent years trying to protect. He shares stories from prison and looks back at his legacy of environmental protection while plotting the difficult road ahead. Still under heavy government surveillance and pressure to admit wrongdoing, Wu today vows to clear his name and continue his work as a whistle-blower for Lake Tai‘s pollution.

In Brazil, CNN‘s Brian Byrnes meets with Jaime Lerner, the architect behind the transformation of Curitiba‘s public transportation system. The former mayor of Curitiba - and later governor of Paran? - talks to CNN about urban planning and how his vision for Curitiba has spread around the world influencing other countries like South Africa to adopt similar systems.

Going Green: Green Pioneers is a half-hour special hosted by CNN‘s Colleen McEdwards.

CNN International is a 24-hour news channel which reacts to live events and breaking news. Therefore, program schedules are subject to change at short notice.