The Willis Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), which kicked off on Wednesday, marks a number of firsts for the fashion industry in India. The promising fact is that the WIFW is the first-ever second Fashion Week; the detraction from this appearance of expansion is that the event is also the first of its kind to [...]

Sania Mirza’s most recent showing, at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, was less than spectacular. However, her 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 defeat to Italy’s Alberta Brianti did not make this plucky teenager fall in the WTA rankings, where she maintains her standing at number 44 worldwide.
Her doubles ranking, meanwhile, actually climbed a spot to [...]

Everyone’s favorite (British) cricketer, Monty Panesar, appears likely to sign a book deal for his memoirs within the week. More than fifteen British publishers are clamoring for the rights to Panesar’s story, in the wake of great success of other cricketer’s autobiographies, such as Andrew “Freddy” Flintoff, whose book sold 250,000 copies in hardback alone, [...]

India Inc.’s record profits for the first quarter of 2006 may have taken censure from the soaring prices of crude oil, but other reports seem to promise good news for employment. Though economic reports look with trepidation at the decrease of growth outlook from ’significantly optimistic’ to ‘moderately optimistic,’ the growth report from Q1 reveals [...]

The ODI series games that are to be played at the Singhalese Sports Center (SSC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, have been continually thwarted by delays. Universal forces seem to be converging on the Sri Lankan capital. If that sounds extreme, recall that the series was originally supposed to commence on August 14th, the same day [...]

Rumors have been flying about a confrontation between Shamita Shetty and Kim Sharma. Apparently, while Kim was out at a nightclub with her boyfriend, cricketer Yuvraj Singh, Shamita and her friends approached the pair and began to chat with Yuvraj. A mole described the ensuing situation as follows: “After a point Kim, who felt [...]

Welcome to the festival season! Today marks the beginning of the festivals with Raksha Bandhan, or, as it is more commonly called, Rakhi. Whether you are a brother, a sister, or even an only child with a “sibling” outside of your family, you no doubt are familiar with the tradition in which the sister ties [...]

With the largest amount of child laborers in the world, it is not uncommon in India to see children working in restaurants, food stands, or within houses. Under the 1986 Child Labor Act, children under the age of fourteen are already prohibited from employment in industries that could be hazardous to their health, such as [...]