Maruti sponsors road safety awards for students, policemen
With the vehicle population multiplying fast in the country, better road behaviour and adherence to simple but essential safety measures have become critical.

Leaders pledge to fight AIDS
This year's World AIDS Day may be over, but thankfully the campaign against AIDS continues. On December 7, the Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi Foundation, set up by the Modicare, brought together 250 opinion makers of the country.

Banks can now make use of customer-focussed tool
From goal-directed to vision-directed, rules-focussed to customer-focussed, local to global, vertical to networked, hierarchical to flat, procedure to speed.

Getting a UK pension? Refer to double tax avoidance pact
I've earned the right to a pension payable to me (by the Merchant Navy Officers' Pension Fund of the UK) anywhere in the world in pound sterling.

House of music
Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, touted as Mumbai's first opera house, was inaugurated at the NCPA in Mumbai on November 24. Built at a cost of Rs 40 crore, it is meant to further the cause of Indian and Western classical music.

An evening in Paris!
What do Elizabeth Taylor, Jaques Chirac, Robert Redford, Naomi Campbell, Princess Caroline and Mitterand have in common? They have all wined and dined at Edouard Carlier's famous Paris restaurant Antonie Beauvilliers.

IIML hosts leading lights of Indian business
It was another first in the history of any B-school. In the last week of November, over 50 CEOs, academics and bureaucrats gathered at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, to attend the Business Forum.

You may never know why
I was on a panel to interview candidates for a senior position in a large corporate house. There were two others Mr Prabhu from finance and Mr Suresh from administration, both directors in the company.