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The Aditya Birla Group has initiated a restructuring exercise for its cement business; it plans to demerge the cement business of Grasim and merge it in two phases with the Rs 6,383-crore UltraTech. The merger will create India&rsquo;s biggest cement producer with a capacity of close to 50 million tonnes and a pan-India presence. Cement accounted for 63 per cent of Grasim&rsquo;s revenues of Rs 18,400 crore last year and analysts estimate the combined entity should generate an operating profit of Rs 4,500-5,000 crore in 2009-10. At the end of the two-stage transaction, Grasim is expected to have a stake of 60 per cent in the new entity.

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The Indian market for nutritional supplements is currently growing at 21 per cent a year. The primary reason is the increasingly sedentary lifestyle and intake of fast food coupled with a preference for preventive therapies and increase in pharmacy retail.

KIT: The Indian market for nutraceuticals

The faces that represent Hindustan Unilever&rsquo;s (HUL) biggest premium soap brand are not familiar. For, they represent 11 ordinary women who won Dove&rsquo;s Real Women Face Test &ndash; a campaign that received over 4,500 entries.

Dove flies high on new route

Innovative branding and exclusive tieups power the leading lubricants company.

Castrol in top gear

Damien Hirst talks about how it's all about being lucky.

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So there I was stuck in Thimphu, Bhutan, so delirious with fever that I could have sworn that my friends were out bar-hopping rather than sitting by my bedside. But then these fevers make you think the darndest things; for instance, on the way back from the Bumthang Valley we stopped in a tiny restaurant for lunch, and I&rsquo;ll be buggered if I didn&rsquo;t imagine that columnist Jug Suraiya was sitting at the next table. I put it down to the antibiotics and swallowed another paracetamol.

Thimphian week

When he isn't saving endangered species from extinction, he's caring for people the way nature intended it. No wonder Time recognised Mike Pandey as one of its environmental heroes.

To the wilderness born

In a first, Indian and Asian antiques will be auctioned in New Delhi later this month.

Bidding on antiques

Anjum Hasan&rsquo;s second novel Neti, Neti (Not This, Not This) follows a young girl &mdash; Sophie Das, who we met in her debut book &mdash; into adulthood, from Shillong to Bangalore. Hasan gets under the skin of the big city, the chaos and the changing urban landscape, till the longing for the more familiar, gentle pace of life in Shillong takes over. In the process, the author tells us in an email interview, she has explored different ways of writing about Indian cities, a subject which forms the core of both her novels.

Love and longing in Bangalore

It&rsquo;s ironic, but the people who create fashion are the ones who no longer can afford it. I have said this before and I say this again: there isn&rsquo;t a single fashion designer in this country who has achieved the Rs 100 crore turnover figure as yet. But the number of fashion weeks have grown exponentially in the last 10 years, ever since the FDCI was created. Even after the still-born rebel bodies FFI and FDPC have now ceased to function, just the number of fashion weeks that designers participate in are staggering.

Win or lose: your choice

The scene is New York City in 2025. Henry Poiret, a former FBI scientist, is a specialist in environmental balance sheets who tracks down energy wasters of all kinds for his clients. For the very first time, he allows a journalist to watch him at work &mdash; and to get an inside glimpse of his new lab.

Energy sleuth

When Immacolata Borelli decides to spill the beans on her family, she stirs up a hornets nest more powerful than even the Mafia. For the Borellis are Camorra, a network of criminal clans who control fiefdoms in Naples, levying their commissions, or charges, or taxes with all the legitimacy of warlords. Only they&rsquo;re nastier, scavenging clans who grow in power through exploitation and ugly death.

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I have been using cars since 1960 onwards. In my working daysin India and abroad, I have driven Hondas, Mercedes-Benzes and various other cars. Today, after retirement and at 79 years of age, for the last six years I have been using a Hyundai Santro Xing. On an average, per day, I drive 12 to 15 km and once a month, whenI go out of Pune, I do about 100-150 km. My only problem is accommodating my luggage in the boot, and therefore I&rsquo;m thinking of buying a new car with large luggage space. I had zeroed it down to the Swift Dzire, but the dealer said &lsquo;no bookings&rsquo;. I am in no hurry and can wait. Do you have any suggestions, and can you recommend any other car? My budget is Rs 6-7 lakh.

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Quite an eventful week indeed, with three car launches (BMW Z4, Chevrolet Cruz and the Tata Indigo Manza) thrown in. But the real fun started on Sunday, when I took my 13-year old son to watch David Coulthard scream across the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in a Red Bull Formula One car. Trust me, nothing short of a ten-cylinder F1 engine firing up can get him away from his PlayStation. And I could see that he was suitably impressed (ahem&hellip; I sneaked him into the media enclosure).

In my mind

While quite a few people are starting to imbibe wine in India, not too many really know how wine is made, or what constitutes &ldquo;good&rdquo; wine. Since I&rsquo;ve been carrying on about the stuff for some time now, it&rsquo;s high time I delved into the subject, on the principle that to appreciate anything one needs to understand it a little.

Making wine

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It&rsquo;s not unusual to hear Bollywood actresses talk about their movies, their tastes in fashion and their fitness and beauty mantras. But technology? Priyanka Joshi chats with Deepika Padukone even as the actor logs on to Yahoo, her most-frequented online site, and chats about how she greatly depends on technology.

On the move, in style

A Bangalore-based store overcame budgetary constraints with the use of cardboard in its interiors.

Low-cost cool

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