WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

This week’s collections of stories that are weird and crazy! Strumming my pain... Patient plays guitar during brain surgery A Chinese musician strummed his guitar during a complex brain......

Nazis planned to invade UK, kill Churchill with choco bomb

Secret wartime papers exchanged between MI5 officials have revealed that the Nazis' plans to conquer Britain included a deadly assault on Sir Winston Churchill with exploding chocolate.Adolf......

Choco lovers have better health: Research

Love for chocolate and indifference to it is related to a particular chemical signature programmed into a person's metabolism. These chemical processes taking place in the body are measured by......

FMCG firms' lifestyle theory proved wrong

A break-up of business shows that 75% of a firm's turnover is led by volume growth, while 25% is price-led.Companies such as Britannia, Nestlé, Dabur, Marico, Kellogg, Parle Products, and......

How the 73-year old Havmor plans to change its Lotte

Havmor will now make its next journey, across India, under the banner of South Korea’s Lotte Group, the confectioner best known for manufacturing and marketing chocolate marshmallow pies......

Havmor Ice Cream sold for Rs 1,020 crore to South Korean Lotte Confectionery

Havmor makes 150 products from its two plants and has around 30,000 dealers South Korea’s Lotte Confectionery has acquired Ahmedabad-headquartered ice cream maker Havmor Ice Cream Ltd (HIL)......

Meet the man behind GST's IT backbone

GSTN CEO Prakash Kumar tells Sudipto Dey how information technology can improve service delivery of government departments. IMAGE: GSTN CEO Prakash Kumar has earlier worked closely with setting up......

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro Review: The Five-Star Classic

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is one of the best and most uncompromised films of Indian cinema, says Sukanya Verma. This story was first published in November 2012. IMAGE: Ravi Baswani, Satish Shah and......

Bigg Boss 11: Sleepy Salman, boring contestants

The new season looks super dreary, warns Sukanya Verma. Every year a group of small-time and self-proclaimed celebrities tussle for prominence under the watchful eye of Bigg Boss. His looming......

Review: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: The Five-Star Classic

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is one of the best and most uncompromised films of Indian cinema, says Sukanya Verma.Recently, during a movies' chat on rediff.com's ZaraBol, a reader asked me if I've ever......

Ranbir Kapoor: I have no problem working with SRK

Ranbir Kapoor is entering politics... on-screen though. The hunk is eagerly waiting the release of Raajneeti, his first film with director Prakash Jha. The happening actor talks to Trans World......

PIX: Barcelona continue winning run; Dortmund join Bayern at top

IMAGE: Robert Lewandowski extended Barcelona's lead right on halftime by slotting home a low shot from just inside the box against Cadiz FC during the LaLiga match at Camp Nou in Barcelona on......

PIX: Smith gets stuck in lift; survives ordeal with chocos

IMAGE: Australia batsman Steve Smith was trapped in an elevator between floors for 55 minutes before he was rescued. Photographs: Steve Smith/Instagram Australia batsman Steve Smith has had plenty......