Great food, fine wine; pair well
An easy-to-use guide that helps you choose the right wine to go with your food.Create a stir: make a wasabi martini
If it's summer, it's time to get yourself a juicy martini.Marketing and Commercial Director and General Manager Paulo and Stefano Canali on what makes the cut this summerPowerpuff girls on the walls, innovative dishes on the table. Delhi's Mamagoto seems to have cracked the magic formula of getting diners back again and again.Move over El Bulli and Fat Duck. It's Copenhagen's Noma that's come out tops in S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant awards. Fish oil equals better mental function? Not really, concludes a two-year British study. While French label Grey Goose has turned to Chopard for a special redesign of its bottle, earthy elements have caught the fancy of Finlandia, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with four limited edition Sigg water bottles.A guide for the travelling enthusiast.Titanic memorabilia shows up at an auction 98 years after the ship's voyage, and is immediately snapped up.The search for the last Queen of Egypt takes a small break
Her legendary beauty has made her possibly the most-writtenabout woman of the ancient world. Shoes and jerseys are passe. Football mania goes undercover with Calvin Klein's new range of innerwear, especially designed for FIFA 2010.1894 Hildebrand & Wolfmuller, the world's first-ever motorcycle
By now, almost everyone knows that alongwith fast cars, bikes too fuel's most men's not-so-secret fantasies.Books that shaped my life: The Secret, Straight from the Gut and more
Subhinder Singh, MD, Reebok, talks about the books that have helped him become the man he is today.From itsy-bitsy gadgets to cool cars to mega bikes to exercise equipment, there is a host of really cool things out in the market this summer. Anumeha Chaturvedi checks out their desirability quotient.The ten points to keep in mind while travelling on a private jet.Forget about painful incisions. Advances in plastic surgery are set to revolutionise the art of looking good—needlelessly.Wine trading has emerged from the recent economic recession as strong as ever, with gains of 15.7 per cent posted for top wines from Bordeaux. Charles Curtis, MW, lets you in on the smart investment choices and pitfalls to avoid when starting or expanding your wine collection.The lengthening arm of the Indian taxman
A host of global corporations—Vodafone, Microsoft, Dassault, to name a few—struggle to comprehend the country's tax administration and its ways. How bad is it and what is the way out?Piramal's domestic formulations business becomes the latest—and most expensive—acquisition of an Indian drug business by a global pharma major. As the stakes get higher, who's next?Truck major Ashok Leyland's new factory credo attempts to overcome the unemployment-unemployability paradox.Time to cheer and bring on the beer
Business plans and spreadsheets could well take a back seat at many multinational corporations as thousands of expat executives root for their respective teams in the football World Cup.Shoppers begin hunting in groups
Online group shopping is fast emerging as a new way to get bargains, as a number of portals test the model. Goal: To train 500 million Indians over the next 10 years. Possible now: Less than five million a year. But, as this exclusive McKinsey article argues, the gap is an opportunity for private entrepreneurs to make India a factory for skilled talent.
Monsoons matter less than ever...
... But the rural economy matters more than ever for India. That's not so much of a paradox, explains CRISILCentre of Economic Research in this exclusive column.With Sonia Gandhi at the helm again, the National Advisory Council is expected to push forward the social sector agenda of the Congress—particularly the Food Security Bill. However, there are several loose ends to be tied up.In an irony of sorts, the Tata Nano finally started rolling off the main assembly lines at Sanand in Gujarat on the same day-Wednesday, June 2-that its bte noire Mamata Banerjee won a stunning electoral victory in civic polls across West Bengal.India is not for the risk averse
Norwegian telecom giant Telenor has rolled out its services in five circles and plans a pan-India footprint soon."Europe has learnt from US experience"
Peter T.S. Wong, HSBC's Chief Executive for Asia Pacific, shares his views on the European crisis and how Asia is getting economically stronger. There's a lot of interest around hybrid cars. In India, Toyota has launched its hybrid Prius recently, and GM plans to get the Volt by the year-end.A cover story in LHR News—a BA staff magazine—about a new feature that allows passengers to download tickets to their iPhones has a mock boarding pass for "Bin Laden/Osama", complete with a date of journey, gate for boarding and a seat number (7c).Not even a single pillar of the Rs 6,000-crore Mumbai Trans Harbour Sea Link, which was originally proposed in the early '70s, has been erected. There is not one type of blue cheese; several countries have their own varieties made with different types of milk (buffalo, cow, goat and even sheep) and add the penicillium mold (the same fungus that gives us penicillin) at different stages of the process.
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