Ivanchuk and Leko played a rapid match, which featured just one decisive game.

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She isn&rsquo;t apologetic about being a privileged technology punter. Devita Saraf may have inherited a Rs 300-crore business empire from her father, Raj Saraf, but she now treads confidently.

Minimum toting

Serious about learning the guitar? Aabhas Sharma, who has recently started plucking the strings, does a comprehensive recce to find out what to buy and for how much.

Your guitar guide

Death and the toddler

Henry Reece, head of Oxford University Press, relishes his work at an ancient institution with modern-day challenges, he tells Rrishi Raote.

Ambiguity is interesting

This is another first for Aamir Khan. He got an international brand like Van Heusen to design clothes for his film Ghajini, something that the brand had not done till now.

Styling Aamir Khan&#39;s look

    Name the vehicle that was designed/made in 75 days flat during the World War II.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#080)

    Recently, Tesco introduced a new food item in its UK supermarkets which is strictly not sold to children.

The Strategist Quiz (#081)

THE GLOBAL TEXTILE and apparel trade stood at $550 billion in 2007 and is expected to grow to $805 billion by 2015.
THE TEXTILE AND and apparel industry in India was $52.5 billion in 2007.
OF THIS,

KIT: India&#39;s textile and apparel industry

The top 10 business bestsellers

Even in the depths of a downturn, Indian consumers and companies are surprisingly confident, putting the country on top.

Consumers and companies are confident

So how optimistic do you feel? While many of us may feel that the future does not look all that bright, as a culture, we Indians by default tend to be optimistic &mdash; every bad experience is still believed to have some good in it for us! In a very different way, that optimism seems to reflect even in today&rsquo;s recessionary context where the world today remains firmly ensconced in a credit-crunch mode and consumer confidence across the world has taken a dip.

Indians are optimistic by default

Organisations need to go beyond individual leadership capabilities to look at the portfolio of leadership abilities.

The wisdom of the collective

The Corus tournament that starts today (Jan 17) in Wijk An Zee, Holland, could, at a stretch, be claimed as the strongest and most prestigious Indian tournament, since Corus is owned by the Tata Group. However, if one doesn&rsquo;t indulge in sophistry, the most prestigious Indian tournament is the Parsvnath Open.

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I finally made it to China this week, on a family holiday to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Shanghai with my brother, his wife and kids, and my mother. Here&rsquo;s how six days typically pass in one of the world&rsquo;s most exciting places when there are young children about.

My Chinese holiday

Aabhas Sharma catches up with Anirban Das Blah, CEO, Globosport, and fellow football fanatic, to talk about non-cricketing matters.

Football, sports and Blah, blah!

Notwithstanding a dislike for generalisations about people, I&rsquo;ve recently concluded &mdash; after months of lurking on Pete Bodo&rsquo;s TennisWorld blog (http://tennisworld.typepad.com/ ) &mdash; that intense followers of tennis tend to be cerebral with an interest in the arts.

Sex and the thinking man

Infusions - almost like flavoured tea, but with a big difference - are catching on worldwide.

Dip, dip, sip...but it&#39;s not tea

When the going is not good financially, the world gets fatter &mdash; has been a finding in the US. The reason is not hard to find: With less money to spend, jobs on the line, and fears of loss, people cut back on healthier but more expensive options; fresh fish, fruits and veggies. Instead, they snack on easily-available carbs and sugars with empty calories, nutritionally deficient but much cheaper.

Aspirational eating

Most luxury and premium brands are holding sales - whether they admit to recession or not. Anoothi Vishal scouts for some smart grabs.

Brands @ discount

As boarders, one of our favourite pastimes in school was crossing out dates in our notebooks and counting the days to our vacations. Sensing the ardent need for calendars, some of us even began making these as gifts for our friends.

Mark those dates

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