The melody queen of Bollywood and the winner of India’s highest civilian honour Bharat Ratan, Lata Mangeshkar turns 80 today. She has spent more than eight decades in the film industry and sung more than 30,000 songs thus far.

Lataji once said that Meri Awaz hi meri pehchan hai… and she wants to continue her singing till her last breath. On her 80th birthday, everyone is queued to wish best wishes to Lataji.

Balki, director of the film ‘Paa’, has just turned to Lucknow to shoot the last bits of the film.

However, the director’s keenly-awaited film ‘Paa’ has been delayed by a month.

On the other hand, the pending shot for the other Bachchan starrer Teen Patti has been avoided, thanks to the actor’s timely involvement.

According to the grapevine, Bollywood superstar Big B has personally requested the producers of Teen Patti to avoid any clash with Paa.

Television actor-presenter, Annu Kapoor has recently turned down the offer to be a part of ‘Big Boss’ season 3. The actor told reporters that the he was invited many times to be a part of Big Boss but felt that the show is against his culture.

Presently, the actor is working in Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital for promoting Season 4 of the TV programme ‘Smart Shrimati’ and said he was happy with this show on Doordarshan.

i.Tech Dynamic has launched a Bluetooth headset with dual microphone, named as ‘i.VoicePRO 901’. However, Dual-mic Bluetooth headset is not new, but company tried to slash the cost of the Dual- mic headset.

The newly launched headset is a noise-canceling model with multipoint capability to connect two cell phones at the same time. 

The company used its own noise-filtering software in the headset. The one mic of the headset identifies and helps to remove ambient noise and the other mic take care of your voice. 

Nissan Motor has announced that it would introduce its new sports car ‘Z370’ in the Indian market by 2010.

Talking to media, Mr. G M Singh, Vice-Chairman of Hover Automotive India, said, “Nissan will launch its sports car Z370 in the Indian market and is expected to be rolled out in January 2010.”

Mr. Singh added, “Though the market for sports car in India is limited now, but we think over a period of time, the market for such cars will increase.”

South-west monsoon has entered in the departure phase, which shows an end of this season’s monsoon. According to the report released by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the country has received 22% less rain this season and half of the country faces shortfall of rain.

Talking to media, an official from IMD said, “'The southwest monsoon has withdrawn from many parts of Rajasthan Friday and is likely to withdraw from some more parts of northwest India, including Delhi, during the next three to four days.”

In a bid to increase broadband interest in rural areas of Himachal Pradesh, BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) has introduced low-cost broadband connections in the state. An official of BSNL told reporters that affordable broadband connections will be provided in rural and remote areas of the state for faster penetration of information technology.

Moreover, the state government will offer subsidy up to Rs 850 for the first 31 connection for both individual and government organizations. They will also be eligible for Rs 4500 computer subsidy.

Bollywood’s chocolate boy Shahid Kapoor will play a lead role in his Dad’s home production ‘Mausam’. Pankaj Kapoor has finally announced to direct his first ever film, starring Shahid Kapoor. 

The film will be produced by Religare Vistaar Entertainment, and will be shot in UK, Italy, Spain and Austria. The shooting for the film is most likely to begin from last week of January next year. 

The versatile actor Pankaj Kapoor has been writing the script of the film for around 10 years.

The war between the two Bollywood Khans looks like loosing the sheen. 

Recently, actor Riteish Deshmukh visited the reality show ‘Dus Ka Dum’ to promote his film ‘Do knot Disturb’, and he acted out a scene from Shahruks’s movie Dil to Pagal Hai.

Actor Salman not only greeted Shahrukh’s acting skills but also said, “When it comes to romantic scenes nobody can do it better than Shah Rukh Khan. He is professionally great.”

Tata DoCoMo is no longer offering unlimited GPRS service to its customers as the company has revised its GPRS plan from ‘unlimited’ to ‘limited’. 

As per the newly revised GPRS plan, with the recharge of Rs 15 pack, customers can use free data upto 20MB for 3 days. 

In the same manner, Rs 95 GPRS Pack will offer free data usage of 100 MB and the pack is valid for 30 days.