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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    Which company's earliest lines of products were branded R, S and T?.

The Strategist Quiz #054

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    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?
    Arun Sarin, when he was with the Pacific Telesis group in 1984.
    When and between which two cities was the first international air mail delivered?
    In 1919, William Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard used Boeing's C-700 to carry 60 letters from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to

Answers to last week&#39;s quiz #053

The two years I spent at IIM-Calcutta were arguably the most important and formative years of my life.

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In an interview to Forbes in 1999, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal was quoted as saying, "World steel production is more than 700 million tonnes and we are only 2 per cent.

Pushing fifty

Decorating your room? Priyanka Joshi speaks to a few interior designers who offer tips on how to adapt hot styles and trends for your home 
Raise your hand if you know what an inspiration room is.

Inspired decor, personal style

Sajitha G may be having her first solo show in the capital, but there is nothing small or obscure about the Kerala artist.

Painting the feminine

Some have plain white ceramic from Bangkok, which is great for your food but makes you look like an upmarket version of a Khurja-wallah in snob company.

What`s on your table?

&nbsp;The Tata Indigo CS gets a Dicor motor. What do we think of it? 
&nbsp;Step into Tata Motors' Engineering Research Centre (ERC) at Pimpri, and you will find yourself trying to look for space to stand.

Change of heart

&nbsp;The European Logan gets a much-needed facelift. So will ours.

People`s choice

We are a young couple from Chennai and are considering purchasing a small car, our second one.

Automatic response

P C Sorcar is India's longest-serving brand of magic, even if the abracadabra is a little tatty round the edges.

By the sleight of my hand

For those who are relatively new to the wine scene: the "Judgement of Paris" refers to a famous blind wine tasting organised in 1976 in (where else) Paris by Steven Spurrier (then a wine merchant and educator based in that city) between the leading Californian and French wines of the day.

Judgement of Paris...

The market demonstrated a rare resilience in the past fortnight but lost much of its fizz by Friday on poor economic data.

Economic data dampens sentiment

&nbsp;Information is power, and everyone wants as much of it as possible. Every self-respecting government in the world maintains an army of spooks, charged with gathering intelligence to better serve the public interest.

Secret service details

&nbsp;You see transgenders on Indian streets begging or plying the sex trade. But there was Laxmi holding forth on Salman Khan's Dus Ka Dum.

Gender bender

For a Business Standard weekend cover on Balaji Telefilms, I remember going to Mumbai and waiting for hours for the assignment to begin.

The epic retold: K... style

&nbsp;The apparel market in India is estimated at Rs 1,17,300 crore*. It is growing at CAGR 13 per cent and is expected to reach Rs 2,17,000 crore by 2012.

KIT: The Indian apparel market

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    Which company first manufactured calculators under the brand name Televista?.

The Strategist Quiz #055

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