Automobiles
Powered by efficiency
It is amazing what a change of heart can do to... a car. Surprised? Take the Honda City VTEC out for a spin and you'll join me in a chorus. The City VTEC sports all the straightforward, yet, elegant features of the spruced up, new-look avatars of the 1.5
-litre and 1.3-litre Citys that Honda Siel Cars India (the Japanese parent's joint venture with Siel Ltd) introduced in 1999.
Consumer Notes
Learning the hard way...
This is the second in a three-part report on a survey conducted by the Catalyst Trust and the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore. The focus is on conditions prevailing in the country's primary schools.
Corporate
Who's afraid of goals?
Goals can work like a double-edged sword. On one hand they can challenge and stretch you and, on the other, they can threaten and stress you.
Environment
A clean break
Chennai-based Sudhan Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has launched www.pollutionfreeindia.org, a non-profit portal on pollution and environmental-related issues. There are content links on health hazards, harmful plastics, the population explosion, the advan
tages of vegetarianism, data on endangered species and a pictures gallery. The site also provides links to other pollution sites.
Hotels
Meal ticket to a deal
In today's globalised environment, driven by fax machines and cellular phones, the value of business-meetings-over-meals assumes greater importance. If you think this sounds far-fetched... it's not. More and more business is being carried out in non-trad
itional ways and locations.
Miscellaneous
The hand that shapes greatness
The question figures in the poem, `Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur'. A group of pots are talking in a potting shed and one of them asks this seemingly innocuous, but really profound question.
All dressed...
The Indian consumer is more demanding, discerning and enjoys a plethora of choices, according to the Paradigm Nutshell, a report on the fashion-wear industry brought out by Paradigm Management Knowhow Pvt Ltd, a Chennai-based consultancy specialising in
competitive strategic analysis.
Now, is that breaking news?
Ian Macintosh, Senior Vice-President, CNN International, was in Mumbai the other day. He didn't mention it when we met, but CNN at that time was on the verge of rolling out its first fully integrated international campaign, `Be the First to Know'.
Travel & Places
Amidst soothing stillness
Tucked away in the hills of Uttaranchal, the sheer beauty of the lakes of Kumaon makes the arduous uphill journey worth the effort. If you want to omit Nainital from your itinerary, then head straight for the serene and beautiful lakes in and around the
district.
Fortune's seductions
Towering high above the surrounding landscape, the massive fort of Daulatabad is a prominent historical site in the Deccan region. The fort has been built around a 700-ft rocky outcrop in the undulating terrain of north Maharashtra.
