MUMBAI: The lair a nation feared; that brewed one of the longest running armed conflicts in Asia; that carried out several civilian massacres, suicide bombings and high profile attacks, came to an unceremonious end as the Sri Lankan army defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at battleground Puthukudiyiruppu. NewsX became the first channel to gain exclusive access to the venue of the last battleground with LTTE, where the self proclaimed leader Prabhakaran was gunned down. NewsX exclusive Tigers? Lair will bring to its viewers exclusive footage of the battle zone between Sri Lankan army and LTTE, some very startling revelations and an exclusive interview with the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse on August 19, 2009 at 8 PM only on NewsX.

NewsX reached another milestone in showcasing its editorial leadership by successfully becoming the first channel in India to get an exclusive right to admission into the last battle ground of the LTTE by the Sri Lankan government.

Tigers? Lair, a one hour investigative show, is all set to reveal startling facts about the mini-submarines indigenously manufactured by the LTTE and used by Soosai, who used to head the naval wing of the Tamil Tigers- Sea Tigers. These stunning visuals will be backed by an exclusive interview with the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse, in which he has made startling revelations of international NGOs providing technical know-how for LTTE‘s weapons factories and assisting in the import of lethal weapons. Watch out for exclusive visuals of the weapons procured by LTTE from Russia, China and other countries along with visuals of LTTE‘s weapon making factory in Puthukudiyiruppu only on NewsX.

In the one hour riveting programme, the NewsX team of V K Shashikumar ? Editor, News & Programming - and Video Journalist, Chintan Devpuri take you through the battle field to witness some of the astonishing revelations.

MUMBAI: After the tight slap exchanged by Nitin and Himanshu on the last episode of Dadagiri, the contestants are getting prepared to face the Dadas who only seem to getting more cruel as the days pass by. The 7th episode of DADAGIRI this Saturday, 22nd, August, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. only on UTV Bindass is full of action packed stunts, completely whacked out dares and full throttle entertainment.

On day 7 of the boot camp, the fighters are woken up at 5.30 AM and allotted merely 4 minutes to get ready with breakfast and any extra time taken is to be added to their dare, which was to take place next in Vishal?s Macho Zone. Once there the contestants realize the magnitude of fear that would engulf most on this dare. The contestants have to hang upside down like a monkey, cross a bridge and collect ribbons at the end of it, return to the start and tie the ribbons at their respective colored sections.

The already crazy dare just gets worse with the contestants having to bear with water gushing at them with enormous force and they have to use every inch of Physical and mental strength to pull this off. The bottom three are sent away to Sonali? playground to face another of her crazy dares.

At Sonali?s ?Playground?, the bottom 3 contestants have to pass 6 levels of the limbo game without touching the stick. This they have to do after filling their stomachs after each level with extremely disgusting concoctions named juices. One of them would be the contestants having to chew 5 paans, spit it into a glass and drink the mixture while another one would be a combination of chicken sausages + ruhafza + tomato juice + chocolate sauce. The one who comes out of this disgusting combination of juices and the limbo game in one piece has the privilege of not having to face the eliminations!!!

MUMBAI: Action resumes in the world?s most exciting club competition in football on August 19 with the beginning of the playoff stage. In what is being billed as the ?Battle of Britain? Arsenal take on Celtic. The Gunners, who reached the semi-final last year, will be the favourites to go through. They will be banking on Andrei Arshavin whose 6 goals in 12 starts, plus five assists helped his team finish fourth in the Premiership and helped qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

The Scots have the home advantage in the first leg. Despite being the underdogs they?ll hope for another inspired show. Celtic showed their never-say-die attitude in reaching the playoff round with an upset 2-0 win over Dynamo Moscow in Russia after losing the home leg 1-0.

The packed Spyro Louis Stadium in Athens will be the venue of another eagerly awaited clash as Greek club Panathinaikos hope to make use of the home advantage against Atletico Madrid. The Spanish club have received a major boost for the match with the return of their striker Diego Forlan. The Uruguayan secured the Golden Boot for the second time in his career last season, scoring an incredible 32 goals in 33 La Liga appearances.

Both these matches will be Live and exclusive on Ten Sports, the most widely-watched channel in the subcontinent, with coverage beginning at 00:10 IST

In other matches, Lyon, who over the years have consistently made the quarter-finals of the competition play Belgian league runners-up club Anderlecht. Lyon, who finished third in Ligue 1 last season, will play at home in the first leg. The French club had won the league 7 times in a row and the last season was a disppointing one. Lyon have begun the season with a 2-2 draw against Le Mans with a last minute free kick from Lisandro saving the day for them. Claude Puel‘s will be under pressure to prove his transfer spending worth around 70 million euros was worthwhile, and the decision to sell Karim Benzema was a wise move.

In another tie, Sporting Lisbon, who finished runners-up to Porto in the Portuguese league last season, will face Serie A side Fiorentina. Fiorentina had finished 4th in Serie A last season. All eyes will be on the Italian Club?s new signings Cristiano Zanetti and Marco Marchionni who have both been included in the squad.

The first legs of the play-off will be held on August 19 and 20, with the second leg to be played on August 26 and 27.

MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the first and Number One fm station of North Bengal and Sikkim will air special show on Darjeeling Toy Train on 23rd August. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway which is lovingly called the toy train was opened on this day in 1880.The journey to Darjeeling is regarded as the Most Spectacular in the world. Travellers are awed by both the scenery as well as the railway line which is truly an engineering masterpiece and without doubt one of the wonders of the world. The history of toy rain is equally fascinating. Many Bollywood movies are been shot on this toy train.

Senior Railway official and Renowned singer Tarak Nath Bhattacharya, who has a great admirer of this toy train, will narrate the history of this train with songs .The voice for these songs are given by local singers. The unique show on Radio Misty will bring the journey of toy train in different mood.

Says Nishant Mittal, Chief Executive Officer, Radio Misty This way we will celebrate with toy train and its lovers on 23rd August. This day has a big history as this wonderful train was opened. We will also air songs that were shot on this toy train. Beside this we will talk to Toy Train lovers about their journey.