Hong Kong, SAR China – May 31, 2016 – A matte white Diamond Himalaya Niloticus crocodile diamond Birkin 30 with 18k white gold and diamond hardware, was sold by a private Asian collector for $300,168 – making it the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction. Photo: This Hermes signature Birkin is made with white matte Himalayan crocodile leather, and …

Sunil Dutt (Hindi: सुनील दत्त, June 6, 1928 – May 25, 2005), born as Balraj Dutt was an Indian Hindi movie actor, producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004-2005). His son, Sanjay Dutt, is currently also a Bollywood star. In 1984 he joined the Congress party and …

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in …

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 636 Price: Rs.799 Writing a comprehensive history of the world was a lot easier in the times when there was not so much history and just a part of the world was known, and the focus mainly on the role of one’s homeland in civilisation’s advance. In our age, the range of any such effort will be …

Alka Yagnik [Born: March 20, 1966, Kolkata] is one of the most talented singers of Bollywood. She was born to a Gujarati family on the 20th of March in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She comes from a music background. Both her parents were actively involved in classical music. Since the late 1980s, she has been one of the most leading playback …

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, An Hachette UK company Pages: 291 Price: Rs.699 Levinson Wood clambers up steep mountains and treks through narrow passes, taking us on a journey that begins in Afghanistan, moves through Pakistan and India and ends in Bhutan. In his book, he explores and presents an animated vision of the paths he treads — many of them …

Mumbai, India – February 18, 2016 – Indian phone maker Ringing Bells launched a 251 rupee ($4) smartphone, The Freedom 251, which sets the new world record for the World’s Cheapest smartphone. Photo: Ringing Bells, which launched ‘Freedom 251’, priced at Rs 251 – is the world’s cheapest smartphone. The Guinness World Records’ record for the largest smartphone ensemble is 223 …

Hari Chand sits at Café Coffee Day, a stone’s throw away from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Inside the enormous belly of the stadium is a tartan track. Hari Chand has an unrealised dream there. If fulfilled, it would have made him the undisputed long-distance running champion in India. For a lot of people, who have bothered to …

Chinese Lantern Plant — Physalis alkekengi (Bladder-cherry, Chinese Lantern, Japanese-lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns. It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing …

Chinese Parasol Tree — Chinese parasol tree is an ornamental plant or tree of the cacao, or chocolate, of the family Sterculiaceae of the order Malvales, native to Asia. It grows to a height of 12 m (40 feet). It has alternate, deciduous leaves up to 30 cm (12 inches) across and small greenish white flowers that are borne in …