Zulqarnain Haider's recent discloure is the worst scandal to hit Pakistan.

Who do you blame it on?

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Bollywood has embraced TV for its own good.

No more the small screen

Magnus Carlsen has delivered a tectonic shock by withdrawing from the current title cycle. The 20-year-old Norwegian who has just dropped to number two in the world rankings, wrote an open letter to Fide explaining his reasons.

Chess #652

Animation in India still has a long way to go, though the industry is on the move.

That Mickey Mouse stuff...

At a workshop conducted recently in a leading school in Delhi, students aged 5 to 18 were asked how many of them had their own mobile phones. Almost 90 per cent of the hands shot up.

Money is not child's play

In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the response of Myanmar&rsquo;s military government was fiercely criticised.

After the storm

Allow me to recommend to you two fine new books on the Siachen conflict.

High torture

A chateau in southern Belgium houses one of Europe&rsquo;s largest Iskcon temples. Pallavi Aiyar visits the medieval building to find a community struggling for recognition.

A Belgian chateau for Krishna

Every traveller I know has the breakfast fantasy. (No, not that one. Get your mind out of the gutter.) It&rsquo;s the dream of getting away from the standard-issue hotel breakfast with plastic ham, soggy fruit platter, stale cheese and cold croissants to this gorgeous little place, see, run by a dedicated family of gourmets who exist to provide you with the perfect, organically-anointed, hand-cooked start to the day.

The full English, with a twist

Martin Gayford comes away from the British Museum&rsquo;s exhibition of the &lsquo;Book of the Dead&rsquo; with a better idea of the ancient Egyptian cosmos.

Queen forever

A Chinese pot wins a record $83 million at auction.

Asians pay vase prices

The consumer electronics retail business in India is characterised by low margins.

KIT: Consumer durables and electronics retail in India

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Leisure biking seems to be catching on in India with BMW, Hyosung and Ducati all setting up shop in India. While all other manufacturers are currently importing these mean machines into the country, Harley-Davidson, the American cult bike maker, has announced plans to make operational an assembly unit at Bawal, Haryana, early next year to make more accessible its range of products to consumers here. Also on the cards is a low-cost product Harley wants to develop for the Indian market. India features prominently in Harley&rsquo;s plans, Anoop Prakash, managing director, Harley Davidson India, says, and efforts are on to make it the largest in Asia over the coming decade.

Harley-Davidson: On the fast track

Canon is augmenting its retail initiative through the launch of the brand&rsquo;s first stand-alone store, Canon Image Square, in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. The focus at the exclusive store will be the brand&rsquo;s consumer digital imaging range, where one can choose from 80 stock-keeping units, including D-SLRs and lenses, camcorders, photo, ink-jet and laser printers and digital accessories.

Canon India: Exclusive retail foray

Havells has turned around its loss-making global subsidiary, Sylvania, into a profitable business.

Sylvania lights up, again

Magazine publisher Cond&eacute; Nast has clearly marked out its target &mdash; the affluent Indian.

Digests for the Affluent

How can companies enter markets with strong incumbents and still grow substantially? Disruptive innovation is an important tool to achieve such growth. Companies may enter by creating a new market altogether, or by creating a new business model which changes the rules of the game.

Growth through disruptive innovation

Bharat Forge and Alstom, its Paris-based partner, recently edged out local heavyweight Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) and Chinese price warriors to win the Rs9,200-crore contract from state-owned power producer NTPC for five supercritical turbine generators of 660 MW each. Such orders are always placed with the lowest bidder, provided it has the technical expertise. Bharat Forge and Alstom, it is learnt, quoted a price that was significantly lower than others.

Bharat Forge remoulds

Amitabh Bachhan puts &lsquo;safed tika&rsquo; of Himani Boroplus Antiseptic Cream and is followed by people from across the country doing the same. The latest TVC of the Emami Group&rsquo;s premier skin care product ends with the tagline of &lsquo;safed tika, taki sardi ki nazaar na lage&rsquo;.

Skincare brands warm up to winter

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    Whose favourite allegory is a character called Mr Market that was used in his all-time popular book?
    Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham in 1949&nbsp;
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    Which brand holds the record for fabricating the longest tie in the world that was displayed outside on its premises?
    Shoppers Stop, Mumbai (the tie was made by Zodiac)&nbsp;
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    Recently, this brand had to revert to its original logo after users on social media sites rejected its new

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#174)

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