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Bad weather fails to curb Surat's eclipse spirit

A monotonous, steady drizzle, from the wee hours of the morning, did not stop thousands of Surat residents from hitting the road at 5.30 am on July 22. Traffic was nastily snarled in the pre-dawn......

Bedi offers to return excess travel money to organisers

Under attack over charging her hosts business class for economy class travel, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Monday offered to return the excess money collected but it did not cut much ice with her......

A celebration called Mumbai Festival

Get set to celebrate this unique experience called Mumbai.Come January 14, the Mumbai Festival will burst on thecityscape with a grand mix of dance, drama, music, art, culture, food, and films and......

Nation mourns Mumbai bloodbath

Tens of thousands of people across the country poured into the streets and held candle-light vigils and peace marches this evening in a spontaneous show of solidarity with residents of......

'This is like the fall of the Berlin wall'

This is like the fall of the Berlin wall.' This is what summed it up for many at the Gateway of India on Wednesday evening. The waves of people just kept coming, they poured in from every......

Media & entertainment space gets new PE fund

In what is amongst the first focused fund in the space, India Media Entertainment Fund (IMEF) is raising Rs 500 crore, which will provide both equity as well as instruments like non-convertible......

Kashmir post: From KFC to Toyota, global firms scramble for damage control

Besides Hyundai, distributors and franchisees of Japanese auto brands including Toyota, Suzuki Motor Corp, Isuzu and Chinese truck brand Faw Trucks also faced a backlash for similar messages posted......

Age-defying chemistry of the Khans & the cola fizz

Pepsi and Coca-Cola’s target audience is in the 20s, or younger. Brand experts debate whether the last of cinema’s ‘superheros’ transcend the age gap. Akshara Srivastava......

'Budget has no great initiative'

T N Srinivasan, Samuel C Park, Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University, giving his opinion on the Indian Union Budget 2009 at Asia Society in New York....

Best advertising campaigns of the year

"The average was better than the standard," says Prahlad Kakkar, outspoken ad filmmaker of Mumbai-based Genesis Films and who is best remembered for his work on Pepsi. A keen observer of......

Neil, Vikram, Tabu: Meet The Players of David

Not every film needs to be headlined by a Khan or Kapoor to sound big. Bejoy Nambiar's David has piqued everyone's curiosity with its edgy trailer and a genuine ensemble cast. Made in both Hindi......

'Shah Rukh is being targeted for who he is'

'When you target Shah Rukh's 23-year-old son, everyone can see what you're doing.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shah Rukh Khan/Instagram Has brand SRK taken a drubbing after his son Aryan......

When Jugal Hansraj Was Paid More Than Priyanka Chopra

'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.' Photograph: Kind......

Anil Kapoor watches Blackmail

A screening every day! The makers of Blackmail are making sure that none of their friends from the industry miss the movie which releases this Friday, April 6. Yet another screening of the Irrfan......

Bollywood glams up Percept excellence awards

Here is what your favourite celebrities have been up to. Sushmita Sen and Mandira Bedi looked hot in black at the Percept Excellence Awards function in central Mumbai....

Spotted: Shane Warne in Johannesburg

Reader Aravinda Ram sent us this photograph from Johannesburg. 'Me and my husband Ananth came across a large number of cricketers in Johanesburg during the Indian Premier League. We meet......

Australia crash out of World T20

Ricky Ponting tried to hit spinner Ajantha Mendis against the spin and saw his leg-stump uprooted for 25. The skipper's 15-ball innings included five hits to the fence Sri Lanka defeated Australia......

'Retirement from Test cricket won't affect Brand Dhoni'

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's brand value worth millions of dollars will undergo a change after his retirement from Tests but it is unlikely that the poster boy from Ranchi will go downhill in the world......

Virat Kohli's tweets and the IPL factor

Virat Kohli clarified his stance on unfriending the Australian team, saying he 'meant only a couple of guys' and that his comments were blown out of proportion.What made the Indian captain change......

Doubts in ad industry over IPL success

Some experts in India's thriving advertising industry are sceptical about whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India's multi-million dollar Twenty20 league will be an unqualified financial......

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