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10-yr-old Kshamaya's 'OMG' Obama moment

Kshamaya Daniel had her 'OMG! I just saw the US President and his wife' moment when she saw Barack Obama's cavalcade pass by. Hear it from the 10-year-old: November 6. My friends Gino D'Cruz,......

'Rahul and Priyanka are as Indian as Mahajan'

Indira Gandhi would have winced.When she was prime minister of India, well into her third term, Pramod Mahajan had noteven won his first election.Now,few would dispute that Indira Gandhi was a......

Microsoft to award $350,000 grant to NGOs

Microsoftsaid on Wednesday it will award cash grants worth $350,000 in 2012-13 to non-government organisations in the country which work for the empowerment of youth.Launching the first centre in......

India is ranked No. 1 for developer satisfaction: Sanket Akerkar

Global software giant Microsoft intends to tap the growing cloud computing market here. Sanket Akerkar, managing director of Microsoft India, says he's seeing an uptick in its adoption by......

Microsoft sees cloud computing as the new wave

In March last year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said while addressing the University of Washington: "For the cloud, we're all in. Literally, I will tell you we are betting our company on it."......

MS India chairman Ravi Venkatesan quits

Software major Microsoftsaid on Thursday that Ravi Venkatesan, chairman and corporate vice president of its India operations has resigned. Venkatesan has decided to pursue opportunities outside......

Europe in a Mumbai lane

Mumbai's Pallate design studio is stepping into the major league with exciting modern European design. It's rare to have a design store, standalone at that, use outdoor advertising to announce a......

Mithya Review

Mithya fumbles to make headway towards truth or dare, observes Sukanya Verma. There's a *lot* of talk about truth in Mithya. But you never see anyone being honest till the very end. Rohan Sippy's......

Brangelina have a party

If Mumbai's uber cool Indigo Deli needed just one more reason to get with it, it was this. Playing host to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, currently in the city to shoot A Mighty Heart. Speaking to......

Vagina is not a dirty word

Jane Fonda and Marisa Tomei had never met Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal. But tonight they will perform with her in Eve Ensler's widely acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues in Mumbai.Fonda and Tomei arrived......

'Bollywood doesn't excite me'

For a man who 'literally stumbled' into Bollywood, he is pretty wry about the industry. "It's disordered," Arjun Khanna declares. "It doesn't exactly excite me. It [working in Bollywood] was purely......

80... and running

When thousands of people turn up for the Mumbai marathon on Sunday, there will be one man who, at 80, will be older than all the participants in the race. His name is Anand Akerkar.When I arrive at......

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