It's such a misconception that actresses -- any woman for that matter -- are on a downwards slope when they hit 40.
K N Prabhu, the doyen of cricket writers, salutes Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, who appeared for the first time in Test cricket 50 years ago today, March 6, 1971.
Reader Hardy Jadeja sent us this picture from Singapore.
Regardless of how the stalemate ends, the government needs to learn that regardless of its parliamentary strength it cannot take people for granted. A little bit of humility would do it a lot of good, recommends Virendra Kapoor.
Liverpool, Paris St Germain, Besiktas, Dynamo Kiev, Sparta Prague and Villarreal reached the knockout stages of the Europa League on Thursday in contrasting fashions.
The market is now flooded with colourful laptops and netbooks, glossy handsets, and accessories such as headphones that can be customised to suit your attitude.
The company's junior partner in block KG-DWN-2003/1 (or D3) Hardy Oil and Gas said there were 'unresolved mechanical issues' with Transocean's rig 'Deepwater Expedition' which was drilling an exploration well on the block.
Last month's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2011 held in Miami saw taut bodies in tantalising swimwear take to the catwalk. Don't miss it!
India must break out of this strategic triangulation between China and Pakistan. We need to settle our issues with one of the two, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Which are the most popular SUVs on Indian roads? Let's take a dip into the current trend of road.
Likely to drill three additional exploration wells in the block before the end of 2010.
As part of our weekly series on dating, we bring you the dos and don'ts of the love game broken up into different career choices. Today: The Hazards of Dating a Doctor!
A tasting experience with two very affordable but pleasant wines from Hardys, Australia, leaves author longing to take the bottles home
Here are some interesting responses we received.
22 companies won bids for the 31 contracts on offer; 15 were new entrants to the oil and gas business. Three years on, none of them have started production.
'In enacting the citizenship law, the BJP's focus has been so much on consolidating its Hindu vote bank all over the country to divert attention from the economic downturn that the party forgot that there are Hindus and Hindus and that one group of Hindus may not always be warmly embraced by another,' notes Amulya Ganguli.
He's looked after commerce, finance, home ... and holds forth on his predecessors, their bosses, his bosses, and more.
How should employers go about choosing a potential workforce for their organisation? What are the qualities one should look for in prospective candidates? We bring you an excerpt from Finding Keepers -- The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World's Best Employees by Steve Pogorzelski and Jesse Harriott, PhD, with Doug Hardy.
North America is experiencing its harshest cold snap in 24 years, so cold in fact that Niagara Falls has frozen over. Photos of the falls on the American and Canadian sides have become a world attraction in recent days as wind chills there fell to as low as minus 14 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. A quick look at the amazing pictures.
Here's a wishlist for great pairs we'd love to see back on the big screen together.
In addition to undertaking to validate prospects identified by the joint venture, GCA employed a play-based exploration methodology on the D3 block to address both the current prospect inventory and the 'yet to find' resource potential. In D3, GCA estimated 9.5 Tcf of inplace reseves. D-3 and D-9 blocks in the same KG basin may hold 9.5 Tcf and 10.8 Tcf of gas reserves respectively, UK-based Hary Oil and Gas Plc said.
Farmers of Punjab are not celebrating the farm loan waiver yet, viewing the loan waiver as a 'temporary crisis management measure' by political parties ahead of an impending election. Going by National Sample Survey Organisation's (NSSO) figures, every farmer household in India was having an average outstanding loan of Rs 1,258. In Punjab, it was the highest at Rs 41,576 (December 03 figures). The recovery rate of institutional loan in Punjab was 85%, highest in the country.
'All anecdotal evidence confirms that there has been no noticeable rise in deaths across the country for want of coronavirus tests,' notes Virendra Kapoor.
For many years now, the Congress and its allies have not had any noteworthy representation from the area. The loan-waiver package may not improve things in the next general elections in 2009, Business Standard found out in an extensive tour of the area. Most farmers said they did not find it worthwhile to go to a bank for loan because the process was too cumbersome.
Wadhawan Holdings (WHPL), promoters of Spinach retail chain, is entering lifestyle retailing with the launch of global brands such as Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier and Kitson. The company has floated a subsidiary, Wadhawan Lifestyle Retail (WLRPL), which will invest nearly Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) to open around 100 outlets in the next seven years.
Mad Max: Fury Road has a very realistic chance of sweeping the Oscars, predicts Raja Sen.
If you're looking for a dish that warms the body and the soul, try your hand at this lamb stew.
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French university honours Mata Amritanandamayi
'Globalisation had brought the Udupi to the West, but not the sensibility and samskriti to truly appreciate its blessings.'
Reliance Industries has made a 'significant' gas find in a Cauvery basin block-off the east coast, company officials said.
Reliance Industries has made a 'significant' gas find in a Cauvery basin block-off the east coast, company officials said.
India's east coast is emerging as one of the hydrocarbon hotspots in the world with 100 trillion cubic feet of gas and two billion barrels of oil in place.
As chief ministers of Bihar they enjoyed the perks and benefits of being in power. And now, even though they no longer enjoy the power, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi, Nitish Kumar, Jagannath Mishra and Ram Sunder Das, will be entitled to retain a few benefits.
Breathless action is the only script 56-year-old Tom Cruise needs to work on as he jumps off from building to building with an agility and assurance that could put Spider-Man to shame.
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