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Amazon beats Google to become India’s Most Attractive Internet Brand Among Internet Retail, Flipkart quick on heals of Amazon, Snapdeal 3rd

Mumbai, Nov 7, 2016: For the first time in three years, Amazon, the US-based online retailer, has been declared the Most Attractive Internet Brand by the India’s Most Attractive Brands Study 2016. Google, the American multinational specialising in internet-related services and products, saw an improvement of 3 ranks to 102nd in 2016. Flipkart grabbed the third position in the Internet category jumping 221 ranks to 125th rank across India. The social networking website Facebook rose 202 ranks in the national rankings to 157th in 2016, and was placed fourth in the category. Another online retailer, Snapdeal, saw an improvement of 63 ranks to 302nd place in the country listing.

LG has taken the national crown of India’s Most Attractive Brand in this 2016 study. The South-Korea-based Consumer Electronics giant has taken the 1st rank, moving up from 2nd place last year. Sony ranks 2nd, followed by the two-time reigning champion from the two previous reports, Samsung Mobiles ranking 3rd. Honda makes an entrance at the 4th position. Samsung, in the Durables category leaped from rank 87 in 2015 to rank 5 this time round. The highest placed wholly-Indian conglomerate in this year’s listings, Bajaj, is India’s 6th Most Attractive brand.

The second Indian brand in the list, Tata, ranked 7th which has slipped three places since last year. Maruti Suzuki comes in at rank 8. Airtel shoots up 9 ranks from ranking 18th last year, followed by Nokia, which stands at the 10th position. Godrej (All India rank 13), Dell (All India rank 15) and Hewlett Packard (All India rank 17) made an exit from the top 10 Most Attractive Brands listings this year.

Commenting on this surprising shuffle in the internet category, N. Chandramouli, CEO, TRA stated, “The Internet category has seen a surprising shift in the top ranks, with Amazon ranking higher than Google implying a serious improvement in the appeal of conducting transactions online. This is apparent from the fact that of the 29 brands listed in the Internet category in 2016, 11 brands were online retailers. Expected brands like Shopclues and Uber were listed in the Internet category along with some surprising entrants like Koovs, Voonik and Oyo rooms.”

These revelations were a result of The Most Attractive Brands 2016 Report, the third in its series, published by TRA Research (formerly Trust Research Advisory), a leading research organization dedicated to brand analytics. This year’s study covered 2338 consumer-influencers across 16 cities in India, generating 5 million datapoints and 10,000 unique brands from which the top 1,000 brands have been listed in this year’s report. The 208 page, hardbound report is available for Rs. 14,000/-.

Bollywood celebs at Actor & director Kapil Kaustubh Sharma Birthday Bash

Actor & director Kapil Kaustubh Sharma, celebrated his birthday along with his family, friends and the team of his directorial debut Love, Life & Screw Ups!!! His father, veteran producer K.C.Sharma specially came to the party to bless him. Dolly Thakore and Mita Vashist were seen having animated talk, while enjoying a lavish spread of delicious exotic chaat. Yuvraaj Parashar had a great time grooving on the Bollywood beats. At the party, Kapil presented the girls he is introducing in his series, Sezal Sharma, Vibhoutee Sharma, Mahi Sharma and Meghaa, who is incidentally daughter of yesteryears actress Moushumi Chatterjee. Dharmesh Darshan, who makes a rare appearance at the parties, was the last guest to arrive. Anil Sharma’s wife Suman was personally taking care of the guests. Others seen enjoying the party were director Sanjay Sharma, producers Pragati Pandey, Anuj Sharma, Vickky Idnani, Nikhil Kamath, Sahila Chadda, models Akshay Sethi, Sachin Sharma, Gaurav Bajaj, Rahul Sharma, Rahul Jain, Bhusan Patil, choreographer Reshma Khan, fashion stylists Rehan Shah, Blossom Lalwani, Minisha Mendonza and VK Kapoor. It was a fun night, which lasted till the wee hours of the morning!

Velvet Sessions is back with a Tribute to Coldplay by Carlton Braganza

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Shiro’s Velvet Sessions is back with Carlton Braganza who will be paying tribute to the legendary Band Coldplay alongside Opus Bangalore talent Abhijit Gupta, Sylvester Pradeep and Sheridan Brass this Saturday, November 12, 2016.

 Its time for the weekend with all time favourites by Coldplay such as Yellow, Fix You,Hymm for the Weekend and The Scientist among others.

Carlton Braganza is a rare talent who has been an ex officer in the merchant navy and now a restauranteur, musician, singer, photographer, writer, artist, designer and dreamer. Carlton and his band members are known for playing to the crowd and moving from a genre to another with extreme ease.

So enjoy this weekend at Shiro this Saturday evening and indulge in some great live music and give your senses the ultimate gratification it deserves.

Farah Khan says Jeet Gian is a really funny author whose new book The Wise Monkeys was released recently !

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Q...Where do you see Jeet Gian as an author vis-a- vis other fellow authors who is known for his humour?
 
 Farah... Most of the authors are writing romance or myth genre these days. Writing humour is very hard as it requires not only lot of practice and out of the box thinking but also requires lots of sleep! I am kidding. Coming back to this book. I found humour is so original . Jeet is really a funny author !

Sajid :- Congo Jeet Gian for this book. I think it’s a funniest situation-comedy-fiction book. Its humour and characters  reminded of my previous movie Housefull. I feel that Jeet is a master of comedy in Indian literature .

 Q...Will you be adopting the book for the movie?
Sajid. ..Yes

So, after this Interview it seems that a Sajid-Jeet Gian movie is on cards with this book !

LIC Retains its Most Attractive BFSI Brand Status

State Bank of India ranks 2^nd; HDFC Bank beats ICICI Bank to 3rd

Mumbai, Nov 7, 2016: For the third year in a row, LIC, the public sector insurance giant, has been declared India’s Most Attractive BFSI Brand by the India’s Most Attractive Brands Study 2016. Another public sector entity, the State Bank of India, saw an improvement of 17 ranks to 48^th rank in its overall Attractiveness ranking. HDFC grabbed the third position in the BFSI category, and made it to the top 50 Most Attractive Brands list at 49^th rank. The private sector bank, ICICI bank saw an improvement of 4 ranks from 61^st in 2015 to 57^th in 2016. Other private banks that made it to the top 10 list include Axis Bank (All India rank of 147), Yes Bank (All India rank of 152), and Kotak Mahindra Bank (All India rank of 267).

LG has taken the national crown of India’s Most Attractive Brand in this 2016 study. The South Korea-based Consumer Electronics giant has taken the 1st rank, moving up from 2nd place last year. Sony ranks 2nd, followed by the two-time reigning champion from the two previous reports, Samsung Mobiles ranking 3rd. Honda makes an entrance at the 4th position. Samsung, in the Durables category leaped from rank 87 in 2015 to rank 5 this time round. The highest placed wholly-Indian conglomerate in this year’s listings, Bajaj, is India’s 6th Most Attractive brand. 

These revelations were a result of The Most Attractive Brands 2016 Report, the third in its series, published by TRA Research (formerly Trust Research Advisory), a leading research organization dedicated to brand analytics. This year’s study covered 2338 consumer-influencers across 16 cities in India, generating 5 million datapoints and 10,000 unique brands from which the top 1,000 brands have been listed in this year’s report. The 208 page, hardbound report is available for Rs. 14,000/-. 

Aircel launches the most affordable 3G pack in Karnataka;

2GB of 3G Internet @ Just Rs.178

Bangalore, November 7, 2016: Aircel, one of India’s innovative telecom players, lights up the festive season for its customers with an unmatched offering in 3G data. Aircel introduced the most affordable data pack offering of 2GB 3G Internet for Rs. 178 with a validity of 28 days. The exciting industry’s first offering will enable customers to be online, share videos and consume entertainment more than ever before. The product is also available through e-recharge.

Kanwarbir Singh, Circle Business Head – Karnataka, Aircel, said, “Aircel has spiced up the festivities with RC178, another splendid value proposition offering by Aircel in the Karnataka market, tailor-made for the data users. Aircel understands its customer needs of being online 24X7 and consuming limitless content and entertainment at an affordable cost. Hence we designed the product to offer unmatched proposition and further aiming at fuelling the mobile internet consumption.”

Aircel has witnessed a significant increase in the mobile data consumption in Karnataka. The company has redoubled its efforts in bringing innovative products and services which not only offer value but also lead to internet adoption.

Kunaal Roy Kapur Signs Vishal Mishra’s Next Romantic Comedy HUM DONO HONGE KAAMYAB Opposite Tara Alisha Berry Set In Kanpur

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Kunaal Roy Kapur is an actor we all have loved in movies like Delhi Belly & Nautanki Saala. Kunaal Roy Kapur has recently signed a new quirky love story titled "Hum Dono Honge Kaamyab" to be Directed by Vishal Mishra and Produced by Pramod Gore of Atharva Motion Pictures.The film will be shot entirely in Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh.

On being asked about his second film, critic turned director Vishal Mishra said "It’s a quirky love story with a lot of warmth. The film has combo of amazing talents of Rajesh Sharma and Kunaal Roy Kapur with Indian pristine beauty of Tara Alisha Berry.’ The film kicks off in 2nd week of November." The ravishing beauty, Tara Alisha Berry is extremely excited about the project .She said "Vishal Sir has given me the opportunity of a lifetime to be part of this story and I have the opportunity to work with two brilliant actors, Rajesh Sir and Kunaal ! Honestly I am having sleepless nights just waiting to reach Kanpur and  start shooting ! "

Kunaal Roy Kapur said," It’s a pleasure to work with new people on a film which will be shot in a completely new world for me. Kanpur’s humour and freshness of the story should result in something really entertaining."