Sports has really grown a big arena for investors. Gone are the days when sports was played only for entertainment, now it has grown in to a big money raising ground for top notch companies.

Brands like to associate with sports as well as its players as it gives a big boost to the product sale. Brands sponsor T shirts, Kits etc so that they capture a big & mature market. They associate with players & make them Brand Ambassadors for a particular product so that people associate their product with a particular person.

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There are many questions which arises in our mind when we think of Brand Name. What's there in a brand name. Does it really carries a lot of importance ? Yes a brand name really carries a lot of importance. Top notch companies hire good professionals for naming their products or brands. There are several products in the market but a “brand” is something which has occupied a good market share and has entered the minds of the consumers.

Its time to celebrate friends. Our Favourite star "bahu" Tulsi i.e 'Smriti Irani' is back in 'Kyun Ki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu thi' (KKSBKBT ). She will play the character of 'Tulsi' again. Gautami Kapoor will be replaced by Smriti in the coming days. According to news paper reports there was some problem between Ekta Kapoor and Smriti Irani and Ekta compalined that Smriti was busy showcasing her Inhouse production "Thodi Si Zammen Thoda Sa Aasman ", "Virudh ", & "Mere Apne " and could not give time for 'Kyun Ki'.

Aamir Khan is a great actor and started his career with the movie "Qayamat se Qayamat Tak". It was a big hit then there were several flops and then again a series of hit movies like Dil, Gulam etc. Till today we mur mur the song for which he became famous i.e "Ye Kya Bolti Tu ". As a person he is cool, calm, self disciplined and very committed to his work. He is never late for his work and always gives his best. His look was very realistic in the movie " Bhagat Singh ". His long hairs and beard were original.

Real estate company Omaxe on Monday said it will set up a township at Raipur in Chhattisgarh with a project value of Rs 1,200 crore.

Omaxe has won the bid from Naya Raipur Development Authority, Chhattisgarh to build the township, which would include residential and commercial buildings, golf villas and a hotel, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The project would be built on over 400 acres at Naya Raipur, capital city of Chhattisgarh, the company informed.

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Chattisgarh state has often been called the heart of India's armed revolutionary Naxalite movement but today Raipur has become the flag bearer of a different kind of revolution — not an armed one, but a much more peaceful and equally enthralling one.

City Mall 36 is Chattisgarh's first mall and it plays host to marquee brands like Big Bazaar and Inox. The locals seem to be loving it for on a week day the mall attracts as many as 7,000 customers, while on weekends there are five times that number.

Among those who have discovered the joys of mall crawling are college students.

MOSQUITOES have made life hell for the citizens of State Capital. With the descending of dusk, the mosquito menace in virtually all parts of the city initiates. In some parts the mosquitoes are active even in the day also.

Days after a major attack in neighbouring Orissa, 13 Maoist extremists and six Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in an encounter on Monday afternoon in Bijapur district of south Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, about 600 km from Raipur.

The police claim to have recovered bodies of 10 Maoist extremists killed in the counter.

Additional Central forces, armoured vehicles and other assistance will be provided to Chhattisgarh for combating Maoist violence in the state, the Centre has said.

The decision was taken at a three-hour high-level meeting on the Naxal issue at Raj Bhawan here.

The Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the Centre would give five more battalions of central forces besides the current 13 battalions of CRPF to the state to combat the situation.

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