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Modern day dragon-: Hanoi is one of Vietnam's oldest cities; it will celebrate its thousand-year anniversary in the year 2010. According to legend, King Ly Thai To once witnessed a dragon rising into the air from here, and deemed it auspicious.

Gayatri khanna Gayatri Khanna's collection 'Jewels of the Forest' featured a leaf motifwith a nature-inspired colour palette. Metal sequins lent shimmer, silhouettes were fluid and pleats gave minimal structure. NITIN BAL CHAUHAN The craft of Himachal inspired the collection 'Waiting for Yellow'.Fuchsias, greens and yellows showed off garments with ruffles and pleats.

Miracles are possible. All you need, if this fanciful fable is to be believed, is love, patience and exceptional musical talent to overcome the odds. A bit too schmaltzy and slow-paced, August Rush showcases the winsome Freddie Highmore who hopes his musical gifts will somehow lead him to the parents he's never known.

Fashion Week and parties are inseparable. To complete the show, you gotta wrap it up with a wild party. So Day 1 of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week culminated with a bash hosted by Belvedere Vodka for style gurus Rohit Bal and Suneet Varma at F Bar, The Ashok.

Come summer and the focus shifts to the Yamuna flowing through the city. Year after year, claims are made for improving the situation but the river continues to flow more as a drain even while it passes at the back of the Taj, the symbol of love and beauty.

IN the end, there really is no place like home. Forced to trawl through the world for years for work of the kind she likes, prodigal daughter Ayesha Dharker is headed home. The draw: the 'exciting' changes in Bollywood.

First, let's be nice to foreigners. The Shanmukhananda Sabha, Delhi, will hold a four-day Tyagaraja Aradhana at the Andhra Bhavan hall between February 23 and 26.

It was one cozy winter evening at writer Khushwant Singh's residence in New Delhi. Occasion: Launch of Invisible City: Hidden Monuments of Delhi written by Rakhshanda Jalil and published by Niyogi Books.

A thriller of a polo match was what one witnessed at the Jaipur Polo Grounds as it hosted the finals of The Hindustan Times Polo Tournament recently.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister, Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday that if the agreements on civil nuclear co-operation are not carried out the country could face isolation and sanctions could be affected.

It was at age 19 that Shahid Sheikh (not his real name) first fell in love with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. And soon after finishing college in Anantnag, he found a new address - a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.

Despite the bonhomie at the Jaipur Literature festival, publishers are keen to share their woes. Whether it is at the procurement end or in the distribution chain, the challenge for the publishers is no marginal issue.

First he designs pocket friendly things and then he burns a hole in those pockets. After designing a credit card fashion designer Rohit Bal is now venturing into home furnishings.

The stage was set for the budding designers of Inter National Institute of Fashion Design, Hauz Khas. The fashion show was a part of the 11-day Kingfisher Groove Carnival.

Here comes Mottu again, with my cuppa Ethiopian kawah. Now she's asking me to point out one similarity between Aditya Panscholi and Kelly Dorjee. Huh? I don't really care Mottu, I can't help yelling. She can make ridiculous demands sometimes.

Imagine you are driving down NH 8, your car stereo turned full volume. And the next thing you know is you are charged with 'infringement' of exclusive copyrights.

Howdee doo hoo my sesame toasts! I'm feeling a bit under the weather.. so I'll continue lazing, buried under my blankets. Lekin, I also have to do my daily kartavya... so I'll get straight to the gup.

Winter turned out to be quite a haute season. Reason: Preview of Manish Malhotra's Autumn/Winter collection where the likes of Karisma Kapur and Amisha Patel walked the ramp for him.

The Gelato Vittorio man - Vijay Arora - turned a year older recently. He shied away from mentioning his age, but if the saying 'count your age by friends, not years' is anything to go by, he surely is young.

THE LEFT leaders again made it clear in strong terms that they would not let the UPA government proceed ahead with the India-US civilian nuclear deal.