As part of its 10th anniversary, Canon is looking at 'Indianising' its brand. The company has roped in Sachin Tendulkar as its brand ambassador and will be spending over Rs 30 crore to build its image

Canon earmarks Rs 30 crore to spruce up brand

Business Standard

I am going to buy a new car for my son. Kindly suggest which one should I go for between the Suzuki Swift, Suzuki Zen Estilo and the Chevrolet Aveo U-VA. He is in Chennai and the car will be driven

Father figures

THIS WEEK: THE INDIAN BEER MARKET

Strategic tools for the practising manager

Footwear major Khadims India Limited is entering the premium market in footwear, after 13 years of affordable brand image. 


Khadims rolls out premium shoe range

Highlights of NAIAS 2007. Or all the stars of the Detroit Motor Show. 


Talk of the Motown

I plan to buy my next car shortly. I have a budget of around Rs 8 lakh. I have shortlisted the Honda City and the Ford Fiesta TDCi. However, I am unable to decide between the two. My main

City`s slicker

I am an entrepreneur and my work takes me outside Mumbai several times a month, especially Pune. My quest took me down to SUVs and my budget is up to Rs 30 lakh. I narrowed down my options to the

CLASS CONSCIOUS

So far, digital education is imparted largely at workshops and industry events.

Ensuring quality is the biggest challenge in digital education: Ian Dodson

At least a dozen automobile companies are thinking big &ndash; literally &ndash; in the new year. The demand shift from compact cars to spacious multi-seaters (MUV) and stylish sports utility vehicles (SUV) has forced every car maker to fast track their blueprints for compact and mid-sized SUVs and MUVs.

SUV is the buzzword in Motown

As 2013 begins, you may have just finished developing your to-do list. If you are like a lot of small-business owners, one of the items near the top of that list is something about finally taking the time to figure out social media marketing.

A to Z of social media marketing

Praveen Pai, chief information officer (CIO), Symphony Teleca, is among the first few to have chosen Windows 8-based smartphones for their senior management team.

Windows 8: In search of a buzz

Here is a checklist to help small business owners get as much as possible out of their investment in social media marketing.

One of the charges most often levelled at detailed film criticism is that of &ldquo;over-analysis&rdquo;. You&rsquo;re reading too much into this scene, the critic is often told. Or more gently: yes, I get your point, but did the director really intend that? The easy answer to the latter remark is to quote D H Lawrence&rsquo;s famous line &ldquo;Never trust the teller &mdash; trust the tale&rdquo;, which basically means a critic is under no obligation to consider what an artist consciously intended (or claims he intended). But this line of defence can sometimes be misleading: it can be a way of ignoring how much deliberate thought often does go into the making of a film &mdash; even into the use of &ldquo;technique&rdquo; in scenes that on the face of it have nothing flashy about them.

Chance and intention

The AICF-AAI cup ended with Anton Korobov claiming first, gaining 12 rating points and $7,500 prize-money. The Ukrainian GM was very lucky when he was gifted a blunder from Wojtaszek in the last round. Korobov scored 6.5 from ten games and a TPR of 2788. If Wojtaszek had lost the last game, there would have been a three-way tie for first place. Evgeny Alekseev of Russia was second with 5.5 and Sasikiran placed third with 5. Wojtaszek shared 4-5 with Abhijeet Gupta (both 4.5 points). Parimarjan Negi was sixth with 4 points. It was a hard fought event as the small spread between places indicates. Everybody logged at least one win and one loss.

Chess (#1026)

I currently own a Mercedes-Benz C220 and am now looking for a car for my sister to drive. I have a budget of Rs 5 to Rs 15 lakh. The car must be stress free over a monthly commute of 600 km, while also providing good mileage and being comfortable to drive as well. I am contemplating either the Ford Figo or the Volkswagen Polo &mdash; please let me know which one to buy.

Comfortable commuter

There are plenty of individual Car of the Year awards out there, given out by pretty much every automotive magazine in the country, but what makes the Indian Car of the Year and Indian Motorcycle of the Year awards special is that a significant chunk of the motoring fraternity comes together, backed by JK Tyre, to decide the winners. The jury for ICOTY and IMOTY awards consists of senior journalists from India&rsquo;s leading auto magazines &mdash; Bob Rupani and Gautam Sen of Auto India, Vikrant Singh and Rahul Ghosh of Auto Bild, Aspi Bhathena of Car India and Bike India, Bertrand D&rsquo;souza and Shubhabrata Marmar of Overdrive, Girish Karkera and Sriram Narayanan of Top Gear India and BSM&rsquo;s very own Srinivas Krishnan, Pablo Chaterji and Rohin Nagrani. There were also a couple of additions to the jury this year &mdash; Dhruv Behl of Auto X and Muralidhar Swaminathan of The Hindu Business Line.

Clean sweep

Three times a week, Robbie Norris, a lean, 50-year-old yoga teacher, hops into his blue 1992 Volvo station wagon with his yoga mat and heads to his class in a drab brick building. He barely glances at the barbed wire as he strides through the metal detector. He exchanges his driver&rsquo;s licence for a visitor&rsquo;s pass, navigates a labyrinth of hallways, security guards and the buzzing and clanking of gates, and makes his way to a windowless room.

Yoga for the soul

It was in the 19th century that explorers and adventurers in this part of the world made a name for themselves. If you look at the list that starts with William Moorcroft and ends with Francis Younghusband, you will find very few Indian names. Of course, there were the pundits, Nain Singh and Kishan Singh, whose travels into Tibet drew the world&rsquo;s attention, (Nain Singh was an avid writer of diaries; many of those have survived) but there seems nobody else before or after them. That&rsquo;s because the exploits of Mohan Lal Kashmiri never received publicity.

That forgotten adventurer

There are bad films and there are silly films. And then there is Rajdhani Express, a combination of both. The film, which is the Bollywoood debut of tennis star Leander Paes is derailed from the opening scene where a news channel anchor, a writer and an item girl are seriously &mdash; yet comically &mdash; discussing how to expose a police cover-up operation. What follows over the next two hours is nothing but torture. Bad dialogues, seriously terrible acting and an almost non-existent script are the not-so-vital cogs in the wheels of Rajdhani Express.

Double fault

Ever heard of a car shaped like a handbag, a burger or a wedding gown? Itishree Samal visits a museum in Hyderabad which houses many such quirky designs.

Yes, these are cars

A play school is a child&rsquo;s first step out of home and into the world. Which is why it&rsquo;s important to ensure that the child is safe and protected against abuse.

Beyond child's play

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