According to an interesting study, new and cheaper gossip magazines disappear faster than the costly ones like The Economist or Time.
The more recent the publication, the more likely it is to be casually taken away, may be by the patients.
"This study is possibly the first to explain the lack of up to date magazines in doctors' waiting rooms and to quantify their loss," said professor Bruce Arroll from University of Auckland.
The scary numbers of the October Index of Industrial Production (IIP), where the overall index was a negative 4.2 percent and consumer durables nosedived 35.2 percent, may have a different underlying story to tell. We need a better explanation simply because almost all the outward signs are one of optimism.
Why are consumers not buying and businesses not investing? What could be the reason for the sharp divergence between what we see all around (hope and expectations of political and economic change for the better) and what we get in the official numbers?
The buzz around the fat packages forgets that they include one-time bonuses and are meant for positions in the US, where the cost of living is much higher.
The salaries proffered during campus recruitment in some Indian institutes are increasingly sounding like Indian census figures. Crores dominate the charts. Lakhs make up the rest.
At the Indian Institutes of Technology this year, at least 40 offers of crore-plus pay packets were put on the table by the second day of campus recruitment for jobs that would take students to the US.
The Russian president was in India. In a book depicting the regime’s crushing of independent institutions and silencing of critics, a senior journalist looks at Putin’s achievements in his early days in power in this excerpt.
So by 2000 Mr Putin had the media and business under his thumb. But other strands of power remained outside the Kremlin's grip. The elected chiefs of Russia's regions and republics could still cite their own electoral mandate in disputes with the “centre”. Their clout dated from the 1990s, when Yeltsin had once promised Russia's provinces “as much sovereignty as you can swallow”.
Strange as it may sound, security agencies in Punjab and Haryana have provided the highest security cover to three cult leaders - one who has been dead for almost a year and two other controversial sect leaders with criminal cases of rape, murder and religious blasphemy slapped on them.
Punjab Police and central security agencies continue to guard the place 24x7 where the body of Ashutosh Maharaj, the controversial leader of the Divya Jyoti Jagran Sansthan (DJJS), is lying at his sect headquarters at Nurmahal near Punjab's Jalandhar city.
Inspite of the grim situation in the real estate sector in the city, second-hand homes in central Hyderabad are very much in demand and people are selling their homes, apartments for little or no depreciation, according to realtors.
Several builders and developers were of the opinion that people were not willing to part with their homes, apartments in areas such as Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Somajiguda, Himayathnagar, Begumpet, among others, until their price is met.
'The Pandavas enable Abhimanyu to enter the Chakravyuh but no one has the knowledge as to how he would emerge alive and victorious from the complicated battle formation.'
The chief of RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, made a very significant observation last fortnight while addressing a gathering of Sadhus in the holy town of Haridwar. In a reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bhagwat told the gathering that "our Abhimanyu has entered the Chakravyuh ...
With the 1000 week celebration of the film, we wonder if any filmmaker would take a fancy to remaking the legendary love story. That Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is a cult classic is a widely accepted fact.
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s iconic love story went on to inspire a lot of Bollywood romances, but none could match Raj and Simran’s chemistry. Though we strongly veto a remake of DDLJ ever happening, we know that B-town has a dearth of ideas and someone would want to revisit this classic some day. Well if that happens, the safest choice to fill in SRK and Kajol’s shoes would be a real life couple; at least they’ll already have some chemistry going, right?
