The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 18, 2005

Ancient creature
The Aldabra giant male tortoise of Alipore Zoological Garden is being named "Addyaita", (means no second pair) by the West Bengal Forest Minister, Mr Jogesh Burman, on Wednesday. The tortoise is believed to be more than 250 years old and was ... More

FASHION

Flying colours
Internationally famed young designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee along with models displayed his new collection targeting the `Rakhi Utsav' at a boutique in Kolkata on Wednesday. The collection includes Sarees, Lahengas and Kurtas made of cotton and ... More

CINEMA

The Longest Yard - It's all about giving it back
YOU don't have to know American football to enjoy The Longest Yard. All you need is a pet grouse and willingness to morph faces from real life onto policemen getting knocked around in a match with the underdogs - convicts. Which ... More

GENDER

Women at the top make a difference
WOMEN have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size, said Virginia Woolf. Rather than reflect on such reflective powers of women, here is a paper from three ... More

ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE

Star News to launch programme on Bollywood
STAR NEWS plans to come up with more entertainment-based news programmes and would be shortly launching a programme on Bollywood news, Khabar Filmi Hai. This programme would be on the lines of Saas Bahu Aur Saajish, which looks ... More

ARTS & CRAFTS

Craft Expo
Customers at an exhibition of Ganesha figures in Mumbai on Wednesday. The exhibition is organised by Nirmitee, an art gallery, which showcases traditional Indian handicrafts. This year it is exhibiting 1,001 Ganeshas in different ... More

SPORTS

Racing + Narain = New Formula
F1 racing and its lone Indian representative are the current darlings of advertisers using sports celebrities for endorsements. More

BCCI bars bidding via consortium
IN an attempt to keep only specialised sports broadcasters in the fray for the four-year cricket telecast rights starting from October 2005, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has now specified that it would not entertain any bid ... More

`Now F1 will give brands good RoI'
Narain Karthikeyan is on a break from the gruelling Formula One circuit. In Chennai for an endorsement event for one of his earliest sponsors, Amara Raja Batteries. Post-event, Narain was all set to fly out on a charter flight to Coimbatore, ... More

Delhi's half marathon in Oct gets corporate backing
COME October and the country will witness a public-corporate partnership of a different sort on the roads of the Capital. It will be a 21-km-long marathon run, literally. The public will run, the corporates will provide the funds and the money ... More

Set to zoom
Kabir Tombat of Goa tests the Finnish made `Zoom 8' boat, which will be launched at Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad on Thursday.