Rediff.com, the general interest website, has succumbed to the 13-year itch. In place of the earlier cluttered and busy website is now minimalistic material which acts like a gateway to access the site&rsquo;s content. There is a search bar and eight icons which represent news, movies, cricket, money, shopping and online services. Additionally, there are links to articles on the right side.

Rediff.com: Minimalist appeal

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    Commander, Compass, Liberty and Wrangler are sub-brands of which vehicle brand?
    Jeep, a Chrysler group brand&nbsp;
    
    Which company founded in the 1830s is associated with its trademarked Blue Box and Blue Book?
    Tiffany &amp; Co&nbsp;
    Which retailing company ran the following ad line in the 1980s: &ldquo;The biggest name in little computers&rdquo;?&nbsp;
    RadioShack, the US-based electronics retailer&nbsp;
    
    What was the first clamshell cell

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#108)

The Indian export market for gems and jewellery grew by 1.45 per cent in fiscal year 2009 over the previous year.

KIT: The Indian jewellery export market

    In the mid-1990s, this company spent $1 billion on a four-year test of its electric car model. It leased 800 of these cars to consumers for three years and at the end of it, all vehicles were returned to the company and destroyed. Name the company and the model.

The Strategist Quiz (#109)

Ice cream majors have aggressive plans to gain bigger market shares. Here&rsquo;s how Hindustan Unilever hopes to stay ahead with Kwality Walls.

Can Kwality Walls beat the heat?

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Author: Burton G Malkiel
Publisher: WW Norton &amp; Co
Price: Rs 1,657
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ZIGLAR ON SELLING
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SNOWBALL
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Publisher: Penguin
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INDIA&rsquo;S GLOBAL POWERHOUSES
Author: Nirmalya

The top 10 business bestsellers

Amartya Sen on the &ldquo;confusion of ink clouds&rdquo;.

Deconstructing democracy

This is a Porsche story, so let&rsquo;s cut to the sex, as it were. Take one number Porsche Panamera Turbo, equipped with the optional Sports Chrono pack. Add a dash of deserted road, with perhaps an admiring onlooker or two standing well clear, and attractive company in the front passenger seat. Select &lsquo;Sport Plus&rsquo; mode on the selector console.

Pan shot

Flying home to Delhi this week from the north-east, the window next my seat revealed a tremendous drama being staged against the backdrop of the Himalayas. The mountains, from Bagdogra to Guwahati, were invisible behind the cluster of actors &mdash; that is, the clouds, from low, cottony stratus to high, wispy cirrus, all overshadowed by the towering few cumulonimbi. They put up an awe-inspiring show, these monsoon clouds piled up and up against the slopes, and scattered about on the floor of the atmosphere far below.

High drama

Scrappage schemes across the globe have been a resounding success. The equivalent of 2,000 pounds in the UK and $4,500 in the US (Car Allowance Rebate System &mdash; CARS) against a running car that you are ready to scrap to buy a cleaner, newer, more economical vehicle seems to have found many takers. The idea is to help the environment and stimulate the industry &mdash; while the second objective is a winner, I have my doubts about the first.

Save the Clunkers

Six fighter aircraft are facing off in the world's toughest testing ground.

The great Indian duel

Which SUV would be the best in the used car market for a price range of Rs 10-15 lakh? The vehicle should be not more than two years old and should not have done more than 20,000 km. My second query is which SUV is good but as a new vehicle in the price range of Rs 15-20 lakh. Diesel is preferable for economy though I don&rsquo;t drive much (about 100 kilometres in a week). Kindly suggest.

Best deal

One of the biggest changes in dining in India, since independence, has been in the idea of the chef. No longer the &ldquo;khansama&rdquo; or &ldquo;maharaj&rdquo; of the past, today&rsquo;s chef is an infinitely more savvy creature. With owning a restaurant topping young India&rsquo;s aspirations, being a chef has become glamorous too. You can see it reflected in our films and even in books by our younger authors.

Youngistan chefs

Take a ride on an ATV, or invest in one, if you&rsquo;ve got a thing for toys bigger and meaner than a bike, recommends Aabhas Sharma.

Off the beaten track

The Fifth Grand Prix event is underway at Jermuk, Armenia. Jermuk is a mountain resort which the training HQ of the Armenian chess squad. It apparently has extremely good facilities. Certainly the Net coverage and press releases have been decent so far.

CHESS #601

If there is one thing that Samir Modi, managing director Colorbar Cosmetics and industrialist K K Modi&rsquo;s son, is possessive about, it is his Harley Davidson FatBoy. He picked up the mean machine &mdash; the envy of many &mdash; two years ago, having shelled out Rs 17 lakh for his bike. But since then he has spent a lot more modifying it. &ldquo;My bike is something that I am extremely fond and proud of,&rdquo; he says.

Trippin' along

No, anxiety is just no fun. For no apparent reason at all your heart suddenly starts to beat at breakneck speed, bits of your stomach twist and fill with dread, your limbs begin to shake, there&rsquo;s pain in your arm and you&rsquo;re faint, the world starts to roar in your ears, a cold sweat breaks out on your brow. You might have these, or a thousand other petrifying sensations that you recognise quite clearly as the Four Horsemen of the Apocollapse. This is it.

Panic room

As Jay Singh walks through Hard Rock Cafe in Delhi, the staff treats him like one more customer. They are polite, but Singh gets no special treatment. That, to Singh, is the hallmark of how professionally run the place is. He says, when I remark on his lack of airs and refusal to be treated as a proprietor, &ldquo;The business has to be bigger than the proprietors. I don&rsquo;t want to be the face of the brands. When you are looking to scale up, you can&rsquo;t be the face of the brand. When that does happen, then the brand fails.

We built this city on rock and roll

They said the day a black man became president of the United States, pigs would fly. Well, lo and behold, Obama was sworn in and one hundred days later...

Pearls before swine

Nolte Home Studio, maker of fitted kitchens and bedrooms, is expanding in India.

A kitchen in 48 hours..

In the 1990s, a rather tacky serial made its appearance on Indian television, prime time Sunday. It was called Chandrakanta. And though it claimed to be an adaptation of Devkinandan Khatri&rsquo;s path-breaking novel in Hindi &mdash; the first work of prose in the language &mdash; by the same name, it didn&rsquo;t quite follow the riveting text of the original. The serial was stopped midway because it ran into financial trouble and the only reason why, in fact, you may remember it is because it introduced its young viewers &mdash; till then brought up on a steady diet of Star Trek or Tolkien &mdash; to a couple of new words: Ayyar (a spy adept at disguise) and Tilism (a magical land, castle or other feature) are just two of those that I remember.

Indo-Islamic fantasy

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