Can employment assurance for the youth help curb terrorism? The government is all set to give the idea a shot. They are finalising a special scheme in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry for the skill development and employment of youth with focus on troubled Jammu & Kashmir, North-East states and Naxal-affected areas to counter terrorism and insurgency.

Spending weeks and months on tutorials are slowly becoming passé, as one can now opt for new-age tutorials that will take just few hours and within a day you can learn things instantly. Usually, dealing with specific subjects and topics these short tutorials are now getting popular with college students and professionals, who wish to hone their skills in one go.

While the term emotional insecurity is “just another word” for many, little did we expect that the need to be loved could lead a child to plot her own kidnap. Recently, a 13-year-old student of Class 8 plotted her own kidnap, befriended a boy to seek emotional support and disappeared with him.

There is nobody who can work them like Coco and even though Chanel was known more for the acclaimed little black dress, she was also the first one to experiment with stripes. And spring 2011 catwalks are blushing with the colours of spring which is being ushered in by endearing blue and white stripes.

When humiliation turns into angst, there is no looking back. Recently, a large number of students of IMS Ghaziabad raised slogans against officials of the institute, alleging that they forced 27 students to shave their heads. The protesters alleged that some students of the scheduled castes were insulted and the officials forced the students’ guardians to beat them up and many of them were harassed and insulted.

So now if you behave right in school, there are chances you might just score that extra bit. If all goes as planned, schools will award higher grades in subjects under the scholastic category (that includes English, mathematics, science or social science) to students who get exceptionally good scores in co-scholastic areas where their attitude towards the teacher, discipline, or leadership qualities are tested.

Films that have cities as their characters do much more than a good casting job. They immortalise the streets, corners, markets, which you so consider your own and show them like you have never seen before. A feeling which any Dilliwallah must have when watching films like Chashme Buddoor, Dev D or Rang De Basanti. So, when as a part of their film club, the Habitat Centre recently decided to showcase a series called Delhi in 80s, which played movies from that watershed decade showing the city in a hazy meandering light, we were more than intrigued and decided to find how exactly was it then, with its Appu Ghar and empty roads?

You may be married and settled, but that spark can still be kept alive, as couples share what makes them tick and how

Riddhima and Bharat Sahani

Being the son of stalwarts like Naseeruddin and Ratna Pathak Shah and having the talented Imaad Shah for an older brother is bound to carry a fair extra baggage. But 21-year-old Vivaan Shah carries the added burden of debuting in Vishal Bhardwaj’s highly anticipated Saat Khoon Maaf.

For those in their twenties, the 90s could possibly be the longest decade they have seen for far. As even after having played ‘Waiting for Tonight’ well into the new millennium, fashion, slang and mannerism remain as stuck as that song in our heads. And the reason was our television. Watching the same re-runs of Friends, Sex