The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 14, 2005

Sweet bite
Sugarcane being sold at a retail market in Chennai on the eve of Pongal. This table variety of sugarcane is in demand only during this festival and traders have to push the stocks over the next one week. A cane fetches around Rs ... More

Sankranti fare
Sugarcane on sale at the `Pulavanibha Mela' at Palluruthy near Kochi on Thursday.

ARTS & CRAFTS

Art auction to raise funds for Asiatic Society
JANUARY 21 will see a novel fund-raising art auction at the Town Hall, listed among Mumbai's finest heritage structures. The auction aims to raise substantial funds for the benefit of the Asiatic Society, which is celebrating its Bicentenary. ... More

PEOPLE

Lifetime achievement award for Waheeda
YESTERYEAR Hindi film actressMs Waheeda Rehman will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement award along with well-known director Mr Shakti Samata at the Third Pune International Film Festival, which will take off here this weekend. Ms Rehman's ... More

TRENDS

State of the World doesn't look good
ENVIRONMENTAL degradation, poverty, infectious diseases and rising competition over oil and other resources are among the underlying sources of global insecurity, says the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute in its annual `State of the World' ... More

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