Another episode
Yami Gautam of Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam fame is all set to experiment with her career
Even though television celebrities would take a while to admit this - every soap, every character, every dialogue, every costume and every set looks the same. No matter on how 'different' a note the soap starts with, it eventually takes the same old route, following the same high voltage drama without fail. As for television actors, either they become part of the rut - adding layers of pancake with each passing day, bedecking with garish rounds of jewellery and shouting their lungs out - or they take a 'real' different path, which is risky. 

Don’t count on this
Due to rising costs, most white goods companies have decided to do away with festival discount offers this year
This comes as bad news for all those who have been waiting for the festival bonus to avail various offers and discounts this season. Hit hard by rising input costs and low sales, most white goods and electronic companies have decided to do away with the festival discount offers this year. Most of the companies, including Samsung, LG and Philips India, have decided that they will not offer any discounts on their products. They have also decided not to offer freebies to woo customers and jack up their sales. 

It's fun time folks!
Day one of the Panjab University Youth and Heritage Festival at 
Government College for Girls-42 stood for verve, vigour & vivacity
There's music reverberating through the college gates, a little closer there're swings, fountain, tents; a few steps above and there's a cultural and colourful extravaganza spread over one place, three venues, eight colleges, 12 events. Save for negligible hitches and less hype of the event, day one of the Panjab University Youth and Heritage Festival at Government College for Girls-42 was as colourful as it gets…as colourful as any activity stereotypically associated with girls permits…further dotted the quintessential traditional touch. Think phulkari, cross-stitch, pakhi designing, crochet work, knitting, rangoli, mehandi!

College students design fans; and right rangoli competition

CLOUD nine
Google the term 'Cloud Computing' and all the giant Indian software firms will hit back with details of services they provide. Now if someone types the same in Europe or US, for that matter, chances of getting the same number of options are pretty less. "Indian software companies are proactive. They cash upon new technology in the market. 

Peter Lake(R) and Clare Moonan

World of difference
The most heated debate at the UN conference this time was who gets a claim on the Arctic territory. The only other that came close to it was the religious intolerance and 'Islamophobia', and environment challenges ahead. Is sharing of trans-national resources the answer to the world energy problem? While global leaders seem to have 'politically correct' solutions to world problems, a bunch of students have found their way out.
Students at theModel UN Conference at CII-31

FAMILY friend
What would be a bigger irony than this — you have a fat pay cheque in hand but no time to splurge it with the family… point to ponder. Well, many would agree with the fact that our busy schedules leave us with almost no time for the family. People at Centre for Applied Sociology thought the same. A study piloted by them called 'Spending Time with Family' reveals that most people in the city prefer to spend time with their families by doing household chores on weekends.

Jaspal Bhatti