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There has been a fair amount of excitement about public sector stocks in recent weeks, with a reasonably high-profile IPO in NHPC, and more like Oil India in the pipeline. There are also at least two PSU-focussed mutual funds in the pipeline ? from Religare and SBI. Naturally, there has been analyses of these companies? business, financials and their future prospects.

When students of retail marketing from the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow visited the weekly Nakkhas market in the old city on Sunday, they were amazed to see some roadside vendors selling wristwatches dipped in a tub of water.

For IT professional Smriti Bhalla, work involves long hours in front of the computer. So at the end of the day, Bhalla is more than just ordinarily tired. ?I have a burning sensation in my eyes and my neck hurts so much, I have to take medicine or use a hot water bottle to kill the pain,? says Bhalla.

India, Sept. 12 -- Muffin top. Tummy roll. Wobbly bit. Call it what you will, but a little roll of fat has had the fashion world convulsed over the past fortnight or so. It has launched a thousand blog posts, featured in discussion programmes on television, and been dissected to death (only metaphorically, I hasten to add) in magazines and newspapers.

What's the thing with teaching children about money? How does one do it? There are so many issues involved, isn't it? What the importance of money is in the scheme of things; why one should value it, but not think the world of it; how much of it one has; whether it is avaricious/ambitious to covet more of it; why one does not have as much of it as the fellow who lives down the road; why th

Legend of Katha is a game that you would neither scornfully brush aside nor be wonderstruck by. The creators of this game ? ACK Media ? have developed this specifically for casual gamers, who are new to real-time online gaming, and kept it easy and simple.

The popular traditional publishing houses like Chandamama and Amar Chitra Katha have jumped onto the new media bandwagon and started their own websites.

If conserving energy matters to you, then go ahead and read this. Otherwise overlook this piece. Recycling, renewing and rainwater harvesting, three words that seem to have become the only way to go green. And if you?re the kind who wonders what happens to the water in the pool of a hotel or the food that goes waste after dinner every day, then maybe here?s a spot that you must visit.

The red mirror-work awning shimmered as light from the earthen lamps flickered off it. The twang of the ektara marked the twilight. Then the strings moved and the ?actors? twitched to life. Amar Singh Rathore fought valiantly and chopped off the heads of the invaders who had made life miserable for the people of Merta. Then the ?actors? fell in a heap on the ground.

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has approved 50 per cent reservation for the weaker sections in private institutions. The move could prove to be helpful if the benefit was shared universally by all the members in whose name such provisions are granted.

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- The consultancy, in an independent study, advises India to walk the green path by grabbing opportunities in environmentally friendly business opportunities while cutting back on harmful fossil fuels.

Karan was 17 when he first played the popular online game Counterstrike. Soon, an entire evening was not enough and he started skipping classes, eventually bunking school entirely.

The Svarpana meeting place in Lajpat Nagar could give you an impression of a regular music school. But it?s a rather serious (in a good way) gathering of some creative souls.

My father makes a long-distance call to my eight-year-old every evening. On one such occasion last week, I heard her firming up plans to go with him, when she next visits Kolkata, and see the house in which he grew up.

Shivnarayan Pandey, the taxi driver whose testimony got the death penalty for three of the prime accused in the 2003 Gateway blast case, has ceased to exist.

Neha Khandelwal, a business analyst at a financial services company, has always wanted to do her bit for a social cause but never found the time.

The list sounds like a Page 3 party - Fleur Xavier, Ujjwala Raut, Farrokh Chothia, Tarun Khiwal, Milind Soman - but there is more than that. It's almost as if you're spending quality time with them while looking at their photographs. With designer Suneet Varma completing two decades in the fashion industry, he's decided that it's time to revisit the past.

The idea is this: we reproduce quotes from movies we loved about teachers (thank you, IMDB) and you get inspired to rent the DVDs of, like they taught us to say in school, the following.

Walk when you talk, it's like a chant running through my head. Especially since Abhishek Bachchan says the same in a recent mobile phone commercial. It sets me thinking - perhaps it's the best way to shake me out of my fat, sedentary lifestyle.

There are times when you want to thank the satellites above that there are 24-hour news channels. That's where one first heard the news of YSR Reddy's missing helicopter and that's where one got the latest updates, all through the day and night.