Multiplying casualties
The walls still carry murderous messages, like `Hang Warren Anderson', written in dark letters outside the tomblike Union Carbide factory 15 years after the world's worst industrial accident in this central Indian city. The factory's solar evaporation ponds still contain waste, poisoning cattle that die after drinking water from the ponds.

Indian students join US peers to fight AIDS
Worried by reports of AIDS in the subcontinent, a motley group of Indian-born American students has embarked on a serious mission--to create awareness about the killer disease in the third world.

Wowing women
In the West, whenever jewellery designers have tried to join hands with haute couture, they have fallen flat on their face. But Leena Singh claims that Kaaya, ``a store of women, by women and for women'', is different.

Abstract search
A proud family woman is holding an exhibition of her paintings at Mumbai's Art Walk. Vipta Kapadia's show titled Journey Towards Truth will be on display at Oberoi Hotel's art gallery until September 19. The artist took a diploma in fine arts, drawing and painting from the Sir J J School of Arts, Mumbai, in 1978. She has held four exhibitions already.

Interest rates on car loans not to drop soon, say experts
``From the customer's point of view, he's interested in the car and not really in the loan. For the loan is just the means to the end.'' So, it doesn't bother the customer if he has to pay a little bit extra in terms of interest rates, provided he's getting the delivery of the car

An offer that was too good to be true
the iToaster, a $199 Internet device that uses a pared down version of the operating system. The company began taking ``reservations'' for iToasters in mid-July, but did not start charging credit cards until the week before the p

No more for the road
India has made it, or is about to make it to the 100-crore mark on the population graph, depending on which bunch of doomsayers you choose to believe. (Personally, I have not got around to doing a head count yet myself, and, let me confess, I don't have a clue as to how these people are so sure, but then I was always weak in maths.)

Fashion for the elderly
It was a show of the youth for the old. The recent J J Valaya fall-winter couture show in the Capital was a fund raiser to aid HelpAge India.