Monday, July 19, 1999
Haute couture stays hot, makes sceptics wilt
The last haute couture shows of the millennium kick off in Paris on Saturday, proving wrong the sceptics in the 1980s who had predicted that this obsolete and arcane branch of fashion would wilt before the century was out.
US was prepared for a tragedy on moon 30 years ago
Had the moon landing 30 years ago turned to tragedy, the United States was well prepared. If astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin `Buzz' Aldrin had been stranded on the moon and unable to return, the US government knew exactly what to do.
Bollywood gives a royal salute to Kargil heroes
It was an evening of poetry and panegyrics, shayaris and qawalis, comedy and camaraderie as the country's leading film stars and musicians gathered together to pay rich tribute to the heroism of the Kargil soldiers. Almost the whole of Bollywood descended on the Capital.
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