The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 22, 2005

A call for human touch
CAN doctors insist and wait for money (fees) when death is knocking at the doors of the patient? The obvious answer is recovery of fee can wait - but not death - nor the treatment for trying to save the life. With that depressing Q&A ... More

LIFESTYLE

Twilight
A worker passing by a hurricane lantern shop in Kolkata. The hurricane and hassack lights are slowly fading out from the city due to improved power supply and alternative items such as emergency lights are easily available to support any crisis. ... More

EVENTS

IIGC 2005: A BUSINESS LINE FEATURE

Of festivals & rush for gold
IT is that time of the year when gold purchases in the form of jewellery begin to pick up. India, the world's largest market for gold, has the utmost fascination for gold jewellery, much of it dictated by religious and social compulsions. But ... More

The changing scenario
GOLD and silver (bullion) have a tremendous historical, religious, cultural, social and economic significance in India. Copious references can be found in the country's mythologies, epics and other literature over centuries or even millennia ... More

ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE

A `soapy' mish-mash
THE midpoint of last week happened to fall on a particularly auspicious day for Keralites. August 17 was the first day of the Malayalam-month of Chingam, Kerala's harvest season and, traditionally, the harbinger of good fortune and plenitude for ... More

Sahara to launch new movie channel
SAHARA India Mass Communication Ltd is set to launch a new movie channel called Filmy. In a statement, Mr Shantonu Aditya, CEO, Sahara One, said, "Our new channel Filmy is getting ready and will be launched just before Diwali. Filmy will ... More

ARTS & CRAFTS

When Ganesha went places
BETWEEN the small clay Ganesha idols on the ground floor of Kalpana Kala Mandir and the big fibre-glass one on its second floor, ran a story of overseas travel by the country's much loved elephant God. This town, for long the capital of ... More

TRENDS

ICE in your mobile
Save a contact number in your mobile phone under `ICE' - in case of emergency. More

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