YouTube announces buffer-free offline-video viewing feature for mobile phone users

YouTube announced an ‘offline’ feature for the Indian market today at an event in Mumbai. This will let mobile phone users take a video offline, using either Wi-fi or data plan and this video will be available for unlimited viewing for the next 48 hours.
The main idea behind this move is to help Indian mobile users curb their mobile data charges while streaming YouTube videos on their data connection. This feature will not be applicable for all videos however. Only videos which enable this feature will be available for offline viewing. You will have to simply tap on the offline button under the video frame to download the video.
According to YouTube’s vice president of engineering, John Harding around 40 per cent of YouTube’s traffic in India comes from mobile devices. Content providers such as T-series, Saregama and Yashraj Films will have their content available in the offline-mode.
YouTube has around 10,000 films and 250,000 Indian songs. According to YouTube, Indian users watch around 5 billion videos on YouTube per month. It expects this number to keep growing and India is expected to be the second largest market for video content by 2015.
Earlier this year, YouTube had tied up with Tata DoCoMo to allow prepaid 3G users to watch videos online for as low as Rs 9 per day. YouTube, Apalya Technologies and Tata Docomo will offer the video data plan ‘YouTube Recharge’, which will offer users about 50 percent discount from regular data charges to watch online videos. Users can watch 100 MB worth of videos for Rs 9 (valid for 24 hours) on YouTube and Apalya’s Live TV streaming service, while they can have access to 150 MB worth of videos (valid for 3 days) for Rs 19.

Saif Ali Khan ka mukka: Kareena unwilling to record statement, says Mumbai cops

Back in 2012, Saif Ali Khan was in the news for all the wrong reasons. The actor got into a brawl with a South African businessman, Iqbal Sharma, and now, CCTV footage of what happened has found its way to a television channel today. The video clearly shows the actor, accompanied by his then-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor and her sister Karisma, entering the hotel and eventually, hitting the businessman.
In the clips aired on Times Now, it's evident that the Kapoor sisters were witnesses of the incident. As far as the media was concerned, Kareena had previously acknowledged she had been with Khan when the incident took place. However, the Mumbai police says the Kapoor sisters are unwilling to record statements.

Previously, an employee of the Taj hotel reportedly told the police that Khan had provoked and then struck the South African businessman first.
For all of who don't really remember, here's a quick recap of the Saif Ali Khan-Iqbal Sharma brawl. ... had reported earlier that Sharma pointed the blame at Khan.
“We crossed near the narrow passage going downstairs and at that point he came up to me, abused me and started calling me names, ” said Sharma, who suffered a broken nose and head injuries.
When the actor pushed Sharma, his father-in-law intervened. Then, the actor and his three friends attacked them as well. The businessman’s father-in-law, a senior citizen, said Khan struck him on the jaw when he tried to intervene.
Khan had a different story to tell.
“There was an ugly incident last night where my friend and the ladies with us were abused and I was assaulted. I was hit and I was only defending myself,” Khan said in a statement, as per  report.
Police had submitted the CCTV footage of the fight to the court earlier this year.

 

Filmmaker Subhash Ghai sets up scholarship in Dilip Kumar's name

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Filmmaker Subhash Ghai on Wednesday announced that he has been setting up a scholarship in the name of legendary actor Dilip Kumar for the students seeking to study at his film school Whistling Woods International in Mumbai.
The 'Ram Lakhan' director, who was speaking on the occasion of Dilip Kumar's 92nd birthday, said the recipient of scholarship would get free training at the institute for two years,
Dilip Kumar was discharged from a city hospital on Thursday. "Dilip sahib taught me to bring dignity to this profession of cinema and to bring a change in cinema culture of India by setting up a creative brainstorming campus... This changed my life and I put all my health and wealth in setting up Whistling Woods.
"My daughter came up with the idea to institute a scholarship in the name of Dilip Kumar who had inaugurated Whistling Woods in 2006," he said. Ghai-directed three big blockbusters -- 'Vidhata', 'Karma' and 'Saudagar' -- starred Dilip Kumar.