International

It is a long drive to Keesara from the bustle of Hitec City — more than an hour and a half to be exact, if you count the mind-numbing traffic. Hyderabad is pretty used to Hitec City and Gachibowli being the nesting ground for budding technologists but leave it to ages-old Bala Vikasa to situate their new innovation centre on the outskirts of Secunderabad, past the Indian Army’s bunkers and training facilities. … [Read more...] about A look at 1,40,000 square-foot Bala Vikasa International Centre, Telangana’s latest startup incubator

Sharing something I’m extremely proud of...post her knee surgery at the age of 75, my mother started doing yoga and now it is part of daily routine, improving one day at a time🧘🏻‍♀️ #NeverTooLate #BreatheInBreatheOut #InternationalYogaDay … [Read more...] about Akshay Kumar shares mother’s pic on International Yoga Day, reveals how yoga helped her after knee surgery

Ito’s challenge was to evoke baroque architecture without mimicry or glitz, to design a contemporary local shrine to a long-ago global phenomenon. And he had to capture Puebla’s glory on a site far from the colonial downtown, in a park enlaced in highways and bordered by office blocks. If he succeeded in doing all that, it’s because he depends on a baroque sense of theater. After dark, the exterior’s curved and folded walls billow like curtains illuminated by footlights. Inside, each chamber offers a new scene, another opportunity to be bowled over by artifice and light. Painted ceilings pried from European palaces hover overhead. Gowns and embroidered waistcoats glimmer behind glass, rather like a wild window display I saw downtown, where giant stuffed bunnies stood shoulder to shoulder with mannequins in elaborate headgear, leathers, and incandescent floral prints. At the center of the architecture gallery is a triumphal arch, an edible-looking confection of … [Read more...] about The Museum of the International Baroque Pays Restrained Homage to Over-the-Top Art

PUNE: The Elpro International School will present its annual carnival, Fiesta Fantasia on January 25 and 26. The festival will be hosted by Elpro City Square mall and offer a range of fun activities spread over 45 game stalls. The carnival aims at bringing students, parents and teachers, a statement issued by the school said. The carnival will also witness flash mob, face painting, tattoo making and several other art and craft activities along with a mega bumper draw. The main attraction of this event will be celebrity chef, Vikas Khanna who will attend Fiesta Fantasia on January 26 to launch his upcoming book. Director principal Amrita Vohra, said in the statement that, "We are elated to present Elpro Fiesta Fantasia, the annual carnival of our school that celebrates the synergy between most important members of the school fraternity- students, teachers and parents. Through these platforms, I look forward to ensuring a fun-filled day for my students as they approach their final … [Read more...] about Elpro International School to organise Pune’s biggest carnival – Fiesta Fantasia

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal case against Mumbai based M/s Frost International, its two directors Uday Jayant Desai and Sujay Uday Desai and 12 others on the complaint of Bank of India (BOI), Kanpur. The accused have been booked on charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery. The bank has alleged that the company’s promoters/directors had worked in the guise of undertaking merchant trade without having any genuine business transactions and defaulted in meeting its payment obligation towards a consortium of 14 lending banks led by Bank of India. The borrowing company and its directors, guarantors and unknown others conspired and committed acts of forgery, including valuable securities, used the forged documents as genuine, diverted and siphoned off the bank’s funds and cheated the lending banks to the tune of Rs 3592.48 crores. As per agency sources, look out circulars have been issued against all the 14 accused, … [Read more...] about CBI books Frost International, its directors in Rs 3,600 crore fraud