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Welch would never allow himself to be upstaged.

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Will Aamir Khan make a difference for Samsung Mobiles? 
The silent ad begins with a shot of the back of Aamir Khan's head.

The sound of silence

The urban home furnishings retail market is estimated to be Rs 9,300 crore and is expected to reach Rs 20,000 crore by 2012.

KIT: The urban home furnishings market in India

    This company was the first to experiment with a female model as a brand ambassador for its campaign in an Islamic nation. &quot;The Jazz Girl&quot; concept which it introduced became something of a trend for other brands to follow. Name the company and the product.

Answers to last week&#39;s quiz #052

    Which Indian was instrumental in acquiring the first cellular licences in the US as well as winning the first cellular licence in Germany for the telecom company he worked in the mid-1980s?.

The Strategist Quiz #053

Think Kashmiri spices and you will automatically be reminded of saffron, that most expensive spice that grows nowhere else in India except in the Valley.

Kashmir: a spice story

&nbsp;On Wednesday, the Sensex produced a 703 point rally. A massive 5.43 per cent rise in a single day.

Bull rallies in bear markets

&nbsp;Our apologies. Before speaking of perfumes (last week) that keep you smelling good through the heat, we should have handed in a lowdown on natural body care products that could put any perfume to shame.

Products to pamper your body

&nbsp;I've seen lots of spectacular rainbows, but have only ever been inside two. The first time was a few weeks ago, when the aircraft I was sitting in flew right through one.

Over the rainbow

&nbsp;Chetan Kumaar Maini begins his day in a Reva, and zips through it. 
&nbsp;Headlines about the rising cost of conventional fuel only bring a smug grin to the face of Chetan Kumaar Maini, a grin that has got wider these days.

Electric lifestyle

Rado has just introduced a new range of seamless, high-tech ceramic watches that could become almost a part of your body! Neha Bhatt finds out more about these.

'Watches that are skin-friendly'

One of the things about being a music fan is that you can't really walk past a music store without walking into it.

Decline of the small stores

Rabbi may have released his second music album recently but he is clearly uneasy about the current music scenario.

'Independent music is dead'

Vikram Goyal is working with several artisan communities and giving modern design a sense of rootedness.

Traditional crafts contemporarised

&nbsp;Anish Kapoor's sculptures are larger than life. 
&nbsp;If Anish Kapoor isn't written of by the Indian media, you can't really blame it because the 54-year-old, for all his celebrity status in the West  where his following is huge  has nothing to show for it back home.

They call him big

&nbsp;Volkswagen India gives us a taste of their baby Passat, the Jetta. 
&nbsp;In the 19th century, Brothers Grimm of Cinderella fame rewrote Sleeping Beauty, the fairy tale classic first written by Charles Perrault.

Jetta`s set

The news pages of this paper and of most others are filled with stories of doom and gloom.

No recession for real luxury

The year ahead will be a tough one, but the high sales volume of Nano will dramatically change the company's market position.

`Despite the challenges, we`ll have an exciting future`

Bollywood content on illegal websites and video-hosting sites is costing movie companies dearly.

Virtual bites: Digital piracy robs Bollywood

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The urban furnishing retail market in India is estimated to be Rs 9,300 crore and is expected to reach Rs 20,000 crore by 2012.

KIT: The institutional furnishing market in India

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