Amy Billimoria Dolls Up Falguni Pathak
All these years, Falguni Pathak the Dandiya Queen who has a fetish for dressing differently,has managed to charm audiences with her singing and her unique style. Designer Amy Billimoria, who has done her styling differently this year has something very different to offer. Specialising in couture & bridal fashion, and known in the fashion circuit […]
Lesle Lewis Dedicates Song To Mumbai,The City With A Large Heart
Ace singer-composer-guitarist Lesle Lewis set another milestone when he composed and sung the Mumbai Ki Dhadkan anthem for World Heart Day.The winner of MTV Asia Viewer’s Choice Award and the US Billboard Viewer’s Choice Award dedicated the anthem ‘Mumbai Ki Dhadkan’ to the spirit of the Mumbaikar in tackling heart disease, in association with Fortis. […]
A Royal Prison For Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, father of the Indian nation, spent a considerable amount of his time in prisons. One such imprisonment tenure was imposed upon him immediately after he launched the Quit India Movement, when he was forced to spend 20 months in a building in Pune, which was built by His Holiness Sir Sultan Muhammad […]
Building A Den For The Nature Lover
Brys Caves is a jungle resort built with a difference. Encapsulating a typical jungle experience, the resort, situated at Ram Nagar not far from the famous Jim Corbett National Park, promises to be a getaway from the humdrum of our hectic city-life, in its attempt to combine raw nature in the form of caves with […]
Delhi World's Second Most Populous City
The urban agglomerations of Delhi and Mumbai, which in size barely matched up to global cities in 1950, are now counted among the seven most populous megacities (those with a population of over 10 million) in the world, according to the 2013 World Population Data Sheet released by the US’s Population Reference Bureau last fortnight.Mumbai, […]
Blackberry Slashes Z10 Price By 31% To INR 29,990
Struggling handset-maker BlackBerry said it will offer its Z10 handset for INR 29,990, slashing the price by about INR 13,500 or 31%, as a limited period offer ahead of upcoming festive season. The handset was launched in January and was available for INR 43,490. It was retailing for about INR 30,000 on e-commerce sites. ‘In […]
In A First, Chennai Doc Uses Google Glass To Air Surgery Live
When the surgeon’s scalpel drew a red line on the patient’s abdomen, a group of medical students leaned toward their screens two blocks away. The procedure was a simple hernia operation, but the surgical team members were unusually upbeat as they turned to look at the latest gadget in the operation theatre — the ‘Google […]
Bangla Migration To India Largest In Developing World
The exodus of Bangladeshis into India has for the first time been termed by the United Nations as the single largest bilateral stock of international migrants in the eastern hemisphere and the developing world. Data released recently by the UN Department of Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA) shows that in 2013,India was home to 3.2 […]
A Room To Live
This October is special for us in more ways than one. On the one hand it earmarks the end of one full year of intense work that has gone into making this magazine, NRI Achievers, which is now in its Anniversary Edition, a much liked one that has found a place on newstands across the […]
Hindustan Motors Small Car In FY 15
Crisis-ridden Hindustan Motors, a CK Birla group company, is gearing up for the launch of a small car next fiscal, MD and CEO Uttam Bose said. The new sub four-metre car will be manufactured on the Ambassador platform and will be available only in the sedan variant. The new car will be cheaper than the […]
Veena Loves To Do Female Oriented Films
“No more male dominated movies in Bollywood now that we women get our equal share”, says Veena Malik who is concentrating on female oriented films. Veena, who wants to become the super heroine of Bollywood, is ready with another women oriented movie of hers titled SUPERMODEL which hit the theatres on 27th September, in which […]
The Unknown Agra
Much has been written about Agra, but I am still daring to. This Independence Day, I drove to Agra with my wife and decided to do the unusual there. Besides one customary visit to the Taj Mahal, all the rest was nothing that the normal tourist would do. Let me share the details. INDEPENDENCE DAY […]
The tragedy with me is that my physicality precedes my acting
JOHN ABRAHAM TELLS JYOTHI VENKATESH How would you describe your latest film Madras Café ? Madras Café is a very sensible film. I would say that it is a political espionage thriller. Jaffna was the earlier title of the film but we decided to change it to Madras Café, because Madras Café is the actual […]
Need to Restore Investor Confidence
A recent survey by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has dubbed the real estate sector as the second worst industry after telecom in terms of quality of service, causing monetary losses of Rs 32.3 crore (though the figure is probably but the proverbial tip of the ice-berg) due to delayed delivery and poor quality of […]
Beyond “Freedom”
August has come and gone again, and along with it the closing musical notes of the symphony to some, cacophony to some of the freedom struggle and Independence day celebrations are also fading. But lets start where we left off in the last issue, and conclude with a wee bit of analysis of all that […]
Munish Gupta: Media Man For All Seasons
Munish Gupta is a journalist-turned media entrepreneur who has vended his way through the rigours of mainstream Indian journalism, branching off into television and broadcast media, and later also on into ‘narrow-casting’ content to targeted audiences through the Web. Along the way, he has forayed into event management, product launches, providing consultancy for start-ups and […]
Rupee In Freee Fall
BOON FOR SOME, BUT BANE FOR MANY India is facing a major crisis scenario, with its currency, the rupee, in a free fall depreciation curve, sending wave after wave of discomfiture and alarm across the economic landscape. While the falling rupee is a boon for some, it is definitely a bane for many, and unless […]
Zanjeer In Hindi and Thoofan In Telugu Shot Silmultaneously
Apoorva Lakhia’s action fiesta ‘Zanjeer’ also has a Telugu version ‘Thoofan’ which will release along with Zanjeer on the 6th of September 2013 in the South!! It is interesting to note that both the films were shot simultaneously, with Ram Charan and Priyanka Chopra. Sanjay Dutt is playing the role of Pran in Zanjeer while […]