Nokia has launched Lumia 610 in India extending the Lumia range to new price points. Available in four different bright colors, the device is priced at INR 12,999.

Midweek yayness! The brilliant research and engineering showcase from Microsoft – Photosynth – is now available on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The Photosynth app for iOS has been a hit with over 7 million downloads, however, like several recent apps for Windows Phone, this one too apparently betters the user experience than its counterpart.

If Angry Birds or Kinectimals weren’t enough, Indian superheroes – Chhota Bheem and Shaktimaan – have arrived on the Windows Phone Marketplace. It would be very hard for us Windows Phone users to keep our phones off kids in the family now!

Have you tried out Visual Studio Achievements – the fun gamification of your every day programming? Head over to Channel9, sign up for an account and download the plugin. And if you are raking your coding achievements already, here’s an app for Windows Phone!

The very popular and addictive Windows Phone game – Wordament – has just been reborn as an Xbox LIVE title with refreshed look and few extra features. The game, developed by veteran Microsoft employees – John Thornton and Jason Cahill – is still available for free though.

As cricket fans using Windows Phone ardently wait for an official ESPNcricinfo app, Yahoo! stumped the domain by releasing Yahoo! Cricket, apparently the first official app from a content publisher for cricket.

The leading food and restaurant discovery service, Zomato, has arrived on Windows Phone. Zomato has had an exhaustive mobile presence as yet (critical for a service in this genre) with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android apps as well as a fine mobile web edition.

Few would argue that moneycontrol.com is amongst the best, if not the best, financial and business portals in India. The umbrella group, Network18, also runs two leading financial news channels – CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. All that goodness has now arrived on Windows Phone.

Flipkart, the leading online store from India has released a Windows Phone app last week amongst the burst of local applications from India. The app offers shopping for a wide variety of products across several categories including movies, music, games, mobiles, cameras, computers, and electronics.

Finally! After several teasers of apps from Indian content publishers and services (including The Times of India), Network 18 (the umbrella owner of the popular English news channel, CNN-IBN) has released the first official Windows Phone news app in India.