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New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- There are a number of days marking some special occasions in February, leading to the Valentines Day.

The Zen series is Creative?s offering in the personal media players market ? consistent and decent performers. We have their latest Touch screen model, the Zen X-Fi2, a sleek looking product that we hope will keep up to the expectations we have secretly summed up for it. Design This PMP is easily in the higher echelons of superlatives.

Love listening to good quality music on the go but can?t find an affordable PMP? Enter is a brand that provides a super budget category of Personal Media players, enabling just about anyone to enjoy movies and music, on the go. Let?s push play on their new MP4 player. Design and features The new E-MP35 is lightweight, with Enter?s typical red and black exoskeleton.

Srinivasan K Swamy, CMD, RK Swamy BBDO, in an exclusive chat with Hindustan Times, said the emergence of new media is causing creative disruption and proving to be a great leveller. Swamy will chair an international brand summit in Bangalore this month. Excerpts:

Discussing global finance with my friend from the US, the conversation turns cold: he is planning to foreclose the mortgage on his beach home. Less than six months ago, when he told me that he had gone in for a house facing the beach, I had warned him, saying it might be a little risky for him to take on a second mortgage in the middle of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Mumbai, Feb. 7 -- When I'm sad, I just stop being sad and be awesome instead." Catchphrases like these from the American sitcom, How I Met Your Mother have helped the show complete 100 episodes and successfully score a 5th season.

Brands have a significant role to play in society as they can both add or destroy economic value. Recently, Interbrand published its 2009 list of the top 100 most valuable brands in the world. What?s amazing is that the list of the top five brands ? Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft, GE, and Nokia ? has not changed since 2000 except perhaps for the order between IBM and Microsoft.

Till some years back, they would only set the mercury rising. Now, however, nude magazine shoots seem to be flaring tempers, too. In January alone, three prominent names ? model Miranda Kerr, Miss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins and singer Rihanna ? came under fire for posing nude.

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- What can be termed as a happy scenario for couples who are married? Answer: Married and still best of friends. Having a good friend in your spouse, reads pleasant but how many of us are lucky enough to remain that for long. HT City spoke with a few Delhiites, some of who, though hesitantly, did confess being in a 'happy scenario'.

Some words, nonetheless, fell on my forced-deaf ears. ?Crisis happened in home. I am agree she needs freedom, but no money nah? But she?s so hard. (sic)?

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- What A party to celebrate the first anniversary of restro-bar Orange Hara was hosted by owner Sandeep Kohli.

New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- Nothing can beat the pleasure of spending an evening dining and chatting with friends in a beautiful verandah.

Green, red and yellow. These are the colours that cross your mind when you think of reggae. Between rock ?n? roll, house and hip-hop, the capital sometimes slips into reggae tunes, songs that have been slowly regaining popularity over the past six months.

Roads are where Dilip Banerjee finds his muse. He?s no Beat writer like Jack Kerouac, but the seasoned lensman likes to call himself a street photographer. On the Road, Kerouac?s path-breaking novel on his trips across mid-century America, could have well fuelled Banerjee?s imagination for the exhibition, Song of the Road, which opens on Monday.

The exhibition of 41 World Heritage sites in Italy as seen through the lens of 14 photographers throws up many striking visuals. Most of the 120 works can be classified, in the words of ?Italy?s Cartier-Bresson? Gianni Berengo Gardin, as ?beautiful photography? and ?good photography?.

In order to avoid being trapped in the web of unwanted and hidden salt, sugars and fat in your diet, it?s important to become ?label smart?. Read the ingredients and nutrition labels on food products that are bought off the supermarket shelves. Here are some points to in mind while picking foods: No fat or fat free: Contains less than 1/2 gram of fat per serving.

New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- With an exhibition of art furniture label Fornasetti on in the Capital today, connoisseurs of luxury decor are in for a treat.Pierro Fornasetti, the man behind the Fornasetti designs, was often called a 'weaver of dreams'. An Italian painter, sculptor, interior decorator and engraver of art books, he created over 11,000 works of art.

Mumbai, Feb. 4 -- The hackneyed and over-used title - 'The Czarina of Indian soaps' - has been thrust upon Ekta Kapoor time and again, but the 34-year-old producer and creative head of Balaji Productions says there's "always a conflict between the image and the real me".

Mumbai, Feb. 4 -- Jaya Binju, who plays Rukmini in Sahara One's Kesariya Balam Aavo Hamare Des, lost her father on Tuesday.