Checking AIDS with info and condoms
It was noon and Baina, the redlight area in downtown Vasco city in Goa, was stirring. Outside the `Disco Bar', a gaggle of girls dressed in gaudy coloured clothes and with cheap baubles for accessories and painted faces, waited for their customers to arrive.

Mediciti offers 10 free bypass surgeries every month
In a bid to offer quality medical assistance to the underprivileged sections of society, Mediciti, a Hyderabad-based hospital, is offering 10 free bypass surgeries every month, starting this month.

Mitsubishi announces car recall in the US and Japan
In a blow to the global fortunes of DaimlerChrysler AG, the German auto maker's 34% owned Japanese affiliate, Mitsubishi Motors Corp, announced a major recall, including some 400,000 vehicles in Japan and almost a million in the US.

Raking in the moolah on the guilt factor
Forgot your wedding anniversary? Well, you aren't the only man in the world to do so, I'm sure, but your guilt won't be any the easier to bear for knowing that. Help is at hand, however. In the form of First Flight Couriers Ltd and Naranja of Mumbai.

A toast to the budget
April 1, 2001 and the lifting of QRs in keeping with WTO agreements may be euphoric for the consumer as he looks forward to be able to purchase a wide variety of wines from all corners of the world.

A new Jatin Das
The recent exhibition of Mr Jatin Das at the Capital's Art Today was refreshing as the artist has freed his female nudes from the oversized breasts that characterise certain periods of the imperial art of India that were chosen by revivalists as the Hindu body.

`Sea salt and mustard oil, delicious!'
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen needs no introduction. Even so, the good professor himself must have been surprised by the welcome he received recently in Mumbai, when he came there to deliver the Sir Dorab Tata Lecture.

Born to live free
She had acted in movies before, but none moved her like Born Free. Portraying the role of Joy Adamson, actress Virginia McKenna came real close to working with animals, especially lions.