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Where are Body Shapers available?

Good news for women: a better version of their best-kept secret, control body shapers, is now available to buy.

Fundraising with a difference

Fundraising, says Geeta Gopalakris-hnan, is littered with miracles. “Every day of the last two years of my journey there has been a miracle,” says Ms Gopalakrishnan, director and fundraiser for the Tata Medical Centre in Kolkata.
Former creative director with Indian’s best ad agency, Trikaya Grey, who joined the Tata team to raise funds for their new cancer hospital in Kolkata two years ago, Ms Gopalakrishnan does not work for money. “I have always worked with special children and have not worked for money for years altogether. My salary with the Tatas is `101 every year,” she reveals.

Vintage gems to be auctioned

Ready to acquire some old-style understated opulence on four wheels? A rare Rolls-Royce limousine, produced in 1912, exactly 100 years ago, is being sold at an auction in England for an estimated price of £2 million.

James Bond: Licence to kill, in style, for 50 years now

Ian Fleming, former journalist and creator of super spy James Bond, gave him the licence to kill and the films gave him the sartorial panache and mannerisms not seen before.

Wiki shows how Dow tracked Bhopal groups

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks on Monday started releasing the first group of emails from a bundle of over five million emails from Texas-headquartered security think tank Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc), obtained from its servers.

Illegal Punjab immigrants now homeless in Southall

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London: The dreams of young illegal immigrants from Punjab, who reach Britain after paying agents thousands of pounds to smuggle them in, die a brutal death in the UK that itself is struggling with the economic slowdown.
The illegals from Punjab, who arrive in London’s Little India after mortgaging all assets in their villages, find quickly that golden dreams of earning lots just break down quickly.

Foetus sex tests spark UK alarm

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Britain has started investigation into latest revelations that sex-selective abortions, which are illegal in the country, were openly available to patients. Britain’s health secretary Andrew Lansley,

A World War II love story woven around a shawl

The Kashmir shawl
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Kashmir, given its exotic past and the current violent existence, has not been a popular setting for the English novels written by Britons. The two-decade long violence kept the foreign tourists away and pushed Kashmir from travel pages to the international pages of the Western newspapers.

Drop Dow as sponsor: MP

Labour MP Barry Gardiner on Tuesday urged the UK government to drop controversial American chemical giant, Dow Chemical Company, as the sponsor of the London Olympics over the Bhopal issue.

Bacon’s India-born muse

Henrietta Moraes

Indian-born muse of British contemporary artists, Henrietta Moraes, was in the news again as her portrait by Francis Bacon was auctioned by Sotheby’s for £21.3 million.

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