Wanted to become an architect, then a basketball player: Obama

Sitting in front of a mural of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, U.S. President Barack Obama visits Anacostia Library to participate in a live "virtual field trip" with middle school students in......

Want to splurge on gadgets? Check this out!

It's hard not to notice the colourful Ed Hardy phone covers that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton use to decorate their mobile phones. Someone back in India, too, must have noticed the......

Comic strip Peanuts has new owner

The iconic comic strip Peanuts and its characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown now have a new owner, with the E W Scripps Company selling the brand to Iconix Brand Group for $175 million. Media......

Wadhawan forays into lifestyle retail

Wadhawan Holdings (WHPL), promoters of Spinach retail chain, is entering lifestyle retailing with the launch of global brands such as Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier and Kitson. The company has......

Shopping: It's no longer about offline or online

Companies like Ace Turtle are helping brands enable omni-channel retail, bridging the offline and online gap. Abhishek Jejani reports. IMAGE: Omni-channel experts are helping brands and......

Lessons from Bollywood: How to dress for a date

Cool tips to dress up pretty! If movies are to be believed, picking a perfect outfit for a romantic date is very, VERY important. That is, if you care about leaving a grand impression on the......

Review: No Emotion only Atyachar!

Sukanya Verma reviews The Film Emotional Atyachar At some point in the movie, a character scrapes the insides of another guy in a bid to take out a buried bullet.But like he eventually laments,......

Review: MSG The Messenger is not a movie

MSG The Messenger is a feature-length advertisement you’d be best advised to forego, says Raja Sen.This is not a movie. MSG, formerly known as Messenger Of God and now retitled as......

Review: Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam

Boredom leads to nitpicking. A discovery I made some few hours ago whilst enduring Sanjay Chhel's chew-my-brains brand of farcical comedy, Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam. In those brief eight reels, the......

Gooch on England's Ashes prospects

Hope is a hardy plant -- it thrives on little sustenance, or none.That has been the story of English cricket -- every fresh win is a 'resurgence'; every 'resurgence' is a signal for the 'Bring on......