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Sha­trughan Sinha is get­ting ready to return home after a month of hos­pi­tal­iza­tion. The ground floor of the newly-renovated Sinha res­i­dence would con­tain all the equip­ment for Sha­trughan Sinha’s exer­cises. Says a source, “Son­akshi will per­son­ally look into her father’s new phys­i­cal reg­i­men while his diet would be com­pletely super­vised and con­trolled by Mrs. Punam …

In Dabangg, their romance started with a dia­logue around ‘thap­pad’. How­ever for the film’s sequel, Son­akshi Sinha and her ‘Chul­bul Pandey’ have def­i­nitely moved on. Since she and Salman are shown as a mar­ried cou­ple in the film, there are numer­ous roman­tic ele­ments that have been incor­po­rated so as to make their rela­tion­ship believ­able. “Salman …

The com­bined dig­i­tal and e-commerce oper­a­tions of Network18 stood at Rs 72.8 crore for the quar­ter end­ing June 30, 2012, up 7.7% from Rs 67.6 crores in the pre­vi­ous quar­ter and up 41% from Rs 51.7 crore in the cor­re­spond­ing quar­ter last year. Operating loss for the seg­ment, which includes Web18, Homeshop18 and NewsWire18, increased to …

Sify Tech­nolo­gies has appointed Ran­jita Seh­gal as the company’s National Head of Ad Sales, reports India Dig­i­tal Review. Today was her first day at Sify. Prior to join­ing Sify Tech­nolo­gies, Ran­jita Seh­gal worked at Yahoo India as Head of Mobile Sales. Apart from that, she has also worked with Red­iff as a Director-Media Sales and at Ben­nett Cole­man …

India Today Group, in asso­ci­a­tion with Jivox, the online video adver­tis­ing net­work and tech­nol­ogy plat­form, has launched Social Media Ban­ner, an inter­ac­tive video ads deliv­ery plat­form. The Social Media Ban­ner can serve mul­ti­ple video ads and will be used across plat­forms such as iPad, iPhone, Android and Black­berry devices, Win­dows phones, as well as desk­tops. …

Update: In response to an emailed query from Medi­aNama, HH Haight, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Argo Cap­i­tal, and Chair­man on Onmobile’s board, has said that “Argo Cap­i­tal is not sell­ing any OnMo­bile shares.” Argo Cap­i­tal is the major­ity share­holder in OnMo­bile. Medi­aNama had heard from reli­able sources that Argo Cap­i­tal was look­ing to sell its …

Make­MyTrip has reported gross book­ing of $271.47 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ing June 30th 2012, up 2.8% year over year. Air Ticket trans­ac­tions declined 9.1% year on year, lead­ing to a 1.9% drop in gross book­ings, while Hotels & Pack­ages trans­ac­tions increased by 44.1%year on year, lead­ing to a 25.4% growth in gross rev­enue from the …

- 20% of offline travel com­pa­nies have shut shop in the past few years. Read more at business-standard — TDSAT dis­misses Vodafone’s plea on spec­trum lib­er­al­i­sa­tion. Read more at the­hin­dubusi­nessline — Unitech moves CLB against Uni­nor plans of sell­ing India biz. Read more at dai­ly­p­i­oneer — TDSAT asks Qual­comm to file reply on Govt response. …

Nokia India is appar­ently in talks with a major­ity of the metro rail projects in the coun­try to intro­duce a Near Field Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NFC) based tick­et­ing sys­tem for its con­sumers, reports mydig­i­talfc. The report states that Nokia has part­nered with the mobile pay­ment com­pany Pay­mate for NFC solu­tions and has tied up with banks for this ser­vice. Speak­ing …

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of the reserve price for spec­trum for the upcom­ing 2G auc­tion, by the Indian gov­ern­ment, tel­cos expressed their dis­may at the high prices and have indi­cated that there will be an upward revi­sion of tar­iffs as they pass on the bur­den of their invest­ments to the end-consumer. Here’s what they’re say­ing: — …