october

HE HAS almost been cropped from the photograph, and his name is a blank in the key. An interpreter’s lot, perhaps. But there on the extreme left, legs crossed, with his long, intent nose and his immature moustache (he is 22, young for such work), sits Richard Sonnenfeldt. His fingers are hooked...

REACHING blearily, in the morning, for a pair of socks, few people give a thought to the smooth running of a drawer. But to Alan Peters, who for many years was probably Britain’s best furniture-maker, a properly fitted and functioning drawer was the acme of his craft. A perfect drawer, he would...

BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of feathers and fish-hooks as evidence of the quaint divergences of the “primitive” tribes of mankind. He made...

Over 65,500 people lost their jobs between August and October this year due to global economic recession, Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here on Monday. A sample study conducted for the period August-October 2008 by Department of Commerce for 121 export related companies also revealed...

Global investors pull out $480 mn from India funds in October 3 Nov, 2008 NEW DELHI: Global investors have pulled out a whopping over $480 million from India-focused funds last month, with as much as $120 million flowing out in the last week, amid the meltdown in the equity markets...

Where will you smoke from October 2? Smoking a cigarette may now burn a hole in your pocket. From October 2, smoking would be banned in all public places. Private offices and other establishments can no longer have designated rooms for puffing cigarettes. The ban also includes hotels and...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court On Friday gave a “festival respite” to small traders in Delhi and ruled that there would be no sealing on the 2,000 odd city roads till the end of October. SC said Government's September 7 and 15 notifications - providing relief to traders by allowing commercial...