Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Sunday, August 31, 2008 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio |
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VARIETY LIFESTYLE: Fireworks to cost 20-25% more this Diwali Hyderabad, Aug. 30 Diwali might still be two months away, but expect shopping for this year’s festival of lights to burn a bigger hole in your pocket. Not just clothes and sweets, but this year fireworks prices could increase by 20 to 25 ...
HUMAN RESOURCES: Making diversity work There’s a lot to profit from a workplace that is inclusive. A look at some of the people who are making this happen in a special way.. Tell me a job that you can do without using computers, I shall give that to you,” said a recruiter ... INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Wild Turkey Discovering Turkey on its trains, buses and its ‘motorcycle’ taxi. If you can stay out of taxis on a foreign holiday, you may have enough money left to get home again. On a recent trip to Turkey, Krishnan and I rode the Istanbul rail, ... HEALTH: For sound sexual health Fitness expert Bharat Savur answers readers’ queries. What are the best foods that one should include in a regular diet that takes care of body needs? Also, how does one maintain good sexual ... MUSIC & DANCE: Birdsong and… a kutcheri Walk into this open-air Carnatic concert, reverberating with the voices of children raised in joy and confidence, on the first Sunday of every month.. It was the first Sunday of February 2006 and there was high excitement among a group of young ... CINEMA: Boy, oh boy! Hindi cinema regains glory with well-packaged films making it big at the box office.. August has been the saving of Bollywood. Both Singh Is Kinng, and Bachna Ae Haseeno have trumped the box office. With the success of ... READYMADE GARMENTS: In your jeans Check out the styles and pick your pair. Slim Fit: Just when we thought designers couldn’t possibly shrink their super-slender denim by another millimetre, along comes a little relief. For sure, stovepipe, cigarette and legging-like ... EDUCATION: MBA vendors They are studying to be corporate executives of the future, but a part of their training involves selling like the street vendors do. And so, one recent day in Mumbai saw about 250 first-year students of the NITIE Business School selling ... CINEMA: Heart attacks in Hollywood Those of us who love commercial cinema know the starring role played by heart attacks in the general plot… right from providing the turning point to ending it all, heart attacks have long been a scriptwriter’s dream ... EDUCATION: It pays to study Schools in the US are offering money to encourage students to do well. This has expectedly evoked mixed feelings among educators, parents and the general public. An article in WSJ says: “Advocates say incentives are an ... INTERNET: Virtual entrepreneurs Starting every Monday at 9 p.m. from September 8, DiscoverY Channel will feature Download: The true Internet Story, a four-part series which traces the Web’s rise from obscurity to global ... LIFESTYLE: In drier times If merry-making is directly linked to money-making then the chips are truly down for the Irish. A DPA report wonders whether Ireland is losing its taste for alcohol, thanks to recessionary woes. As many as 400 pubs have closed in the past year, ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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