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BEST CAMERA: High definition or HD has become a household name now in metro cities as well as with B level cities. With the falling prices of LCD televisions, gaming consoles and BluRay players the hardware required to view HD content is now available in most homes. Thankfully, now even the hardware required to record HD content is easily available in terms of camcorders and digital cameras that do HD recording. Until now, most of the larger DSLR and Prosumer cameras were able to record in HD resolution, but now quite a few manufacturers have dished out smaller point-and-shoot cameras that provide users with the ability to record 720p HD videos. Here are the top cameras that are sleek, sexy and provide great stills with outstanding HD videos. Canon IXUS 100 IS (Rs 11,000) The IXUS 100 IS is one of those few point-and-shoot cameras that truly defies the performance limitations of a small camera. It weighs a mere 115g with a shiny metallic body and is just 19 mm thick. The c...

The long wait finally came to an end on Thursday with the Organising Committee launching the official merchandise for the Commonwealth Games with 29 types of products up for sale across Delhi. The official Games merchandise will be available at the store being set up at the OC headquarters in New Delhi and includes branded sportswear like T-shirts, jackets, casual wear, kids apparels, generic items like umbrellas, key-chains, mugs, accessories like caps, bags, wristbands and cultural and handicraft items.  The product prices will range from Rs 25-300 and no product has been priced more than Rs 300 in the first phase of the merchandise launch. "In the beginning, we will start with the single store in the OC headquarters, as well as four mobile vans that will take the merchandise to the doorsteps," said Suresh Kumar, chairman of Premier Brands Limited (PBL). "From 6th September, the products will also be available for online sales at premierbrands.inc. 15th Septe...

Arjuna Awardee wrestler Rajiv Tomar and Commonwealth Games medal prospect shot putter Saurav Vij were among six athletes caught for doping on Thursday and they were handed provisional suspension by National Anti-doping Agency. Wrestlers Sumit (74kg), Mausam Khatri (96kg) and Rajiv Tomar (120kg), who were named in the Commonwealth Games squad in men's freestyle, and Gursharanpreet Kaur (women's 72kg) tested positive for Methyl Hexaneamine, a non specified substance. "The wrestlers from Commonwealth Games team have tested positive for Methyl Hexa Neamine (non specified substance) as per the report received from NADA," a statement from Wrestling Federation of India President G S Mander said. Rajiv Tomar was recently conferred the Arjuna Award. Saurav and young discus thrower Akash Antil tested positive for the same substance Methyl Hexaneamine in the dope tests conducted during the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at Patiala from 5th-8th August. ...

Pakistan's tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir will face another round of questioning from the Scotland Yard for their alleged involvement in the 'spot-fixing' scandal that has rocked international cricket. Meanwhile, England's Players' body demanded the trio's ouster from the Twenty20 and ODI series. The trio, which has been implicated in the scandal after a sting operation by a British tabloid, is set to be quizzed by the Scotland Yard for the second time but they are not in danger of being arrested, a Pakistan Cricket Board official said. Their meeting with Pakistan High Commission officials here has, however, been postponed to Thursday. ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat will meet PCB chief Ijaz Butt as scheduled in London today to discuss the scandal that has plunged the game into a crisis.

The US has decided to release a postage stamp in the honour of India's Nobel prize winner Mother Teresa on 5th September, the US Postal Service has announced. "The US Postal Service will pay tribute to Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work," the USPS said in a statement. "Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary US citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years," it said. The postage stamp would be unveiled at a function in Washington on 5th September. The stamp features a portrait of Mother Teresa painted by award-winning artist Thomas Blackshear II of Colorado Springs in Colorado. Every year, the US Postal Service releases a series of commemorative stamps, honouring people, places and institutions. These stamps remain on sale for a limited period and are widely collected. The Albanian Ca...

Decks were cleared on Wednesday for launching 3G mobile and broadband services in the country, with the government allocating air waves to private operators after making certain amends to the licence terms.  The operators are authorised to use the spectrum for a period of 20 years from 1st September, according to the amended licence conditions that allows companies to offer 3G services till the validity of the spectrum even if their telecom licences expire prior to that. The government has imposed a roll-out obligation, under which the service providers would have to cover at least 90 percent of the service areas in the metros within the next five years.  Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, RCom, Tatas, Idea Cellular, Aircel and S Tel were the operators who had bagged 3G spectrum in the auction in May that fetched the government over Rs 51,000 crore apart from about Rs 16,000 crore from the two telecom PSUs -- BSNL and MTNL. BSNL and MTNL were awarded spectrum more than a year...

Abid, Bollywood Trade News Network Certainly the upcoming Eid release, DABANGG owes a lot of its huge buzz and hype to one number, "Munni Badnam Hui", composed by Lalit Pandit (of Jatin-Lalit fame). The song, as we had already predicted, is scorching the charts and is rocking India, especially the hinterland.  However, we are not here to tell you what you already know but to give you an insight into the two main voices behind the super-hit number, Aishwarya Nigam and Mamta Sharma. As far as the male singer Aishwarya Nigam is concerned, he is a known name as he is the winner of television music talent hunt, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and has sung a few numbers earlier too, the most prominent amongst them being "O Sikander" for Madhur Bhandarkar's CORPORATE.  Aishwarya Nigam belongs to Muzaffarpur, the birthplace of Lord Mahavira (Vaishali-Muzaffarpur) and land of luscious Leechees. For the other singer Mamta this is her debut song in Hindi. Mamta is from Gwal...