With the acquisition of the Asia, Asia-Pacific and North Africa businesses of Yardley from the UK-based Lornamead Group, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL), Wipro&rsquo;s FMCG arm, is ready to fast-track its business which contributes around 8 per cent to the overall revenue. It forked out $45.5 million (around Rs 210 crore) for the assets, which is a little over twice their annual revenue.

Wipro: Strengthening Yardley

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With rentals skyrocketing in metropolitan cities, Tier II and Tier III cities have been in demand for retail and real estate investments.

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The Tata group&rsquo;s no-frills hotel brand is putting its best foot forward.

Ginger adds more zing

If you are in the age group of 18-25, &lsquo;go snacking&rsquo; in between class lectures or office meetings must be part of your daily routine. Cadbury has just added a dash of glucose energy to it.

All Perk-ed up

On a walking tour through the Pyrenees, Bharati Motwani yearns for what might have been had the French, rather than the British, colonised us.

Good Lourdes!

To make a bunny chow, you need a loaf of bread and a scoopful of vegetable, meat or bean curry,&rdquo; Minal Hajratwala writes in Leaving India: My Family&rsquo;s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents. &ldquo;Cut off the end of the bread and hollow it out, reserving the soft innards. Fill it with curry. Serve.

The many-layered sandwich

What better way to end one year and ring in the next than with the choicest single malts.

Slainte Mhor!

I have a soft spot for Kumaon that I cannot really explain; these are not the highest or even the most breathtaking hills to be had in this large and lovely country, but they are far and away my favourites. It has something to do, I think, with scale &mdash; Kumaon is hardly gentle hillocks, but the Himalaya bares its really serious teeth at a comfortable distance.

Eating crow, part two

Script writer Jaideep Sahni tells Aabhas Sharma that movies weren&rsquo;t his cup of tea - until he joined the business.

A writer&#39;s tale

It may be India&rsquo;s most popular beverage, but not everyone can make a good cup of tea. Or pick the finest leaves, for that matter. The Indian luxury market is flooded with a wide variety of specialty teas &mdash; and we pick a few of the best, ready to brew, from some of India&rsquo;s finest tea makers.

Chai, chai

When reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov lost to Wolfgang Hartmann in Hanover in 1983, it created shock waves. The 27 year old Hartmann was a lowly 2290-rated player and no prodigy. By those standards, Anand&rsquo;s last round defeat to Levon Aronyan at the Tal Memorial was mundane.

CHESS #614

In the beginning was the Word. Then the species became needlessly talkative and new words had to be invented and added to the lexicon. This went on happening for thousands of years until one day it seemed that the process was set to reverse itself, with Internet chat-sites and SMS jargon encouraging the abbreviation of existing words into near-unrecognisable forms (&ldquo;gr8 2 c u!&rdquo;). Surely dictionaries will become pass&eacute; now, we thought.

Get your word's worth

Partition in Bengal, despair in Delhi and power games in Tudor England: three new books to read.

Look at the dark side

Admittedly, Nehru was there at the start of things, the end of an age, the awakening of a nation, that tryst with destiny. So he and others of his generation were better placed than we are to think laterally, to explore all of history for models towards which to incline the path of our future. He also spent years in prison, an enforced separation from the bustle and fire of the freedom movement which enabled him to look beyond the constrained present to the past and future, all in the service of his country. In other words, he used his time in prison to think big for India.

Thinking out of the cage

Two artists explore different mediums in an exhibition that explores their respective skills.

Wood and paint world

We encountered several bugs at Europe&rsquo;s fanciest Rallye Historique and Concours d&rsquo;Elegance.

Bug bare!

I always suspected that the city was a falsification. But it was only on a foggy afternoon in early spring, when the air smells of atarch, that I discovered the nature of the fraud. We are living inside a cupboard, in the lowest depths of oblivion, among broken poles and shut boxes...

Demonic turns of memory

Could there be a better start to a week? Gladly took a very early morning flight to Chennai on Monday and headed straight to the Sriperumbudur track. The occasion? The Lamborghini track day! The Italians from Sant&rsquo;Agata decided to run a &ldquo;driving experience&rdquo; programme in India for prospective buyers and, ahem, select media. Cars? Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4s &mdash; two coupes and a spyder (convertible) all shod with Pirelli P Zero Corsa racing tyres. Sure enough, there were test drivers who controlled the proceedings while the braking markers were meant for drama-free apex-hunting. But none of that took anything off from the magic of driving Lamborghinis flat-out. The sound, that glorious engine note alone, is reason enough to drive one of these monsters. By the end of the day I was pushing the 560 horsepower mid-engined monsters in the sport-auto mode, which allowed me to concentrate on where I was going rather than wrestle with the car.

Bull run

I&rsquo;m considering buying a hatchback for local commutes for my children. My requirement is for a car that is easy to drive, fuel efficient, low on maintenance and has a refined engine. I am considering the Maruti Suzuki Alto, the Hyundai i10, Hyundai Santro, Maruti Suzuki A-star and Chevrolet Spark. The Alto has good manoeuvrability but seems to be outdated. My budget is Rs 3-3.50 lakh.

Hatch match

Scale has always fascinated Paresh Maity, but now he&rsquo;s experimenting with newer genres in paintings and sculpture.

When big is big

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