Views differ on the subject of celebrity endorsement.
Images from the investiture ceremony of batting ace Sachin Tendulkar as Indian Air Force honorary Group Captain.
Four-time champion and Khel Ratna awardee M C Mary Kom will spearhead the 10-woman strong Indian challenge in the sixth AIBA World Women's Boxing Championship to be held in Barbados next month.
A look at what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.
India's ODI and T20 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named as the face and brand ambassador of the Craig McDermott International Cricket Academy (CMICA), a leading state of the art private cricket and educational sports academy in Australia.
Hair stylists Asha Hariharan and Stephan Zenz show us how to spruce up an old look.
How a small-town theatre actor is navigating his way in the world of endorsements, using his Bollywood playbook as a guide.
The two actors decide to clean up their act this Earth Day.
The actress gets candid while launching a jewellery brand in Mumbai on Thursday.
"Does he (Amitabh) condemn the role of Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom of 2002 or he endorses it?...What does he say about the Gujarat massacre and fake encounters that took place since Modi took over," Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari asked at a briefingin New Delhi.
35-year-old marathon winner Henry Wanyoike shares with us his experiences of taking on the world with no eyesight and the importance of teamwork.
After small cars hogged the limelight, it was the turn of celebrities, including Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgan and cricketer Sourav Ganguly, to add glitz to the ongoing 10th Auto Expo.
He hardly feels the burden of expectations that come with competing on home turf at the Commonwealth Games because India's World No 1 boxer Vijender Singh says he considers himself simply the best.
The actor is ready with the Kannada film which also stars Anjana Sukhani and Yuvika Choudhary.
Former World No 1 and tennis legend Andre Agassi was named ambassador for the True North Brand at an event in Mumbai on Wednesday.
India's top cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who is not new to awards and honours, will be conferred with IAF's honorary rank of Group Captain. Once Tendulkar receives the honour, he would be the first sports person to be conferred a rank by IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to have got this honour.
The product, Vaio X, which is a direct competitor of Apple's Macbook Air, weighs around 600 grams and is half an inch thick.
K Laxman, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader raised a storm after he dubbed tennis ace Sania Mirza "Pakistan's daughter-in-law" after it was announced that Mirza would be the brand ambassador of Telangana.
Kareena Kapoor is the latest celebrity to sell you time! Check out who's been there before her.
Global sportswear and apparel major Adidas on Friday announced its foray into cricket equipment business in the country and said it plans to become a leader in the over Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) organised cricket gears market in the next five years.
Star batsman Cheteshwar Pujara, who has been appointed brand ambassador by the Gujarat State Election Commission to encourage more voters, will exercise his franchise when the voting for the parliamentary polls take place in the state on April 30.
Meet Olympic silver medalist Mathias Boe.
Premier Futsal announced actress Sunny Leone as the co-owner and brand ambassador of the Kochi-based franchise Kerala Cobras.
Premier Futsal announced actress Sunny Leone as the co-owner and brand ambassador of the Kochi-based franchise Kerala Cobras.
Entries for the Standard Chartered event close on August 18.
Neo International Sports Academy aims to provide complete sporting solutions from training to management to event execution and infrastructure consultation.
Handset maker Sony Ericson on Friday launched a new portfolio of high-end mobile phones priced between Rs 25,695 and Rs 35,795 in India.
The Train actress Sayali Bhagat gets candid.
Andhra Pradesh, which has the second largest number of HIV/AIDS-affected people in the country, has the lowest usage of condoms. To bridge the gap, the State Aids Control Society, a state-run organisation, launched a massive campaign on Tuesday to make condoms available everywhere.
The model, who has the same features as the late princess is taking the modelling world by storm.
Injured Rahul Dravid's absence from next month's Test series against South Africa was a "big blow" for the team, but India are a confident lot after starting the year on a winning note against Bangladesh, said opener Gautam Gambhir in Chennai on Sunday.
Katrina Kaif is the latest Bollywood star to join the list of celebrities endorsing the various Indian Premiere League cricket teams. She will support Vijay Mallya's team. "Katrina is the face of Mallya's cricket team, not a brand ambassador to his Royal Challenge products," clarified a source close to the actress.
The Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians have roped in Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan as their brand ambassador to drum up support for the team in the Indian Premier League starting on April 18. "Hrithik symbolises the spirit of the team," said R Balachandran, director of the newly formed Indiawin Sports -- a subsidiary of Reliance Industries which owns the franchise outfit, at a media conference to outline the team's marketing campaign on Monday.
Sources inform Gullu that Pepsi has decided to replace Priyanka with Deepika after seeing her performance in her blockbuster Bollywood debut, Om Shanti Om. And she has been making news since then. Priyanka had struck a deal with Pepsi two years ago, when she was a top actress, and had big projects like Rakesh Roshan's Krrish and Farhan Akhtar's Don in her kitty.
Aamir has refused to give clips of his directorial debut, Taare Zameen Par, to the IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) function this year. Apparently, it's payback time for Amitabh Bachchan, the IIFA brand ambassador.
'I think I can do my work much better without being in politics.'
Kia has entered the Indian market at a time when the domestic automotive industry is facing the worst slowdown in more than two decades.
India's voting pattern in the United Nations with regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict is lately marked by a calibrated distancing from Israel, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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