Former Miss World still captivates
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is one of the 100 most beautiful women in the world according to Harpers & Queen magazine. In fact, the former Miss World is ranked number 9 in the annual list proving that her beauty has not only stood the test of time since she won her crown but that her looks can bridge the East-West divide and still captivate the Read the full story

September 22, 2009 (India): The invitation was to the grandest wedding of the season at the most dazzling venue, with a zardozi encrusted stage at Lakme Fashion Week; when Philips presented a stunning bridal collection by top Bollywood designer, Vikram Phadnis with one of the most beautiful women in the universe, Bollywood’s sensational beauty queen, Sushmita Sen as the show stopper.
The Vikram Phadnis bridal wear presentation by Philips, which ended the fourth day of Lakme Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010, was the most extravagant event ever, filled with glitz, glamour and everything that the audience was looking forward to. With a colourful mélange of shades and hues, Vikram unleashed some of the most dazzling bridal creations Read the full story

Cascades of long drapes descended from the ceiling, a giant visual of the Grey Goose Journeys around the world set the stage for one of the most glamorous and elegant retro haute couture shows of the day.
Black, white and red – the eternal colour story was the only selection by designers, Gauri and Nainika for their
Spring/Summer 2010 collection presented by Grey Goose at Lakme Fashion week. With delicate vintage touches for Read the full story

Mary Quant ran a popular clothes shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London called Bazaar, from which she sold her own designs. In the late 1950s she began experimenting with shorter skirts, which resulted in the miniskirt in 1965-one of the defining fashions of the decade.
Owing to Quant’s position in the heart of fashionable “Swinging London”, the miniskirt was able to spread beyond a simple street fashion into a Read the full story

CHICAGO– Shower heads can deliver a face full of dangerous pathogens, according to a study published Monday which found them to be ideal breeding grounds for bacteria.
US researchers analyzed 50 shower heads from nine different cities and found 30 percent harbored significant levels of a pathogen linked to lung disease called mycobacterium avium.
While the pathogen is common in municipal water systems, the levels found clinging to shower heads in slimy “biofilms” were more than 100 times higher than the “background” levels in the Read the full story

SYDNEY : People mourning the loss of a loved one are six times more likely to suffer cardiac arrest, potential proof that you can indeed die of a broken heart, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
According to a Heart Foundation study of the physical changes suffered immediately after a profound loss, grieving people were at significantly higher risk of heart problems, said lead researcher Read the full story

When it comes to female orgasms, it is the size of the penis, and not the duration of foreplay, that increases the likelihood of fulfilling women’s sexual fantasies, suggests a new study.
Lead researcher Stuart Brody, from the University of the West of Scotland, focused on the number of factors that contributed to the regularity of vaginal orgasms.
The researchers described a vaginal orgasm as an “orgasm produced simply from movements of the penis in [the] vagina without any additional Read the full story

Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.
The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.
Researchers who carried out the study, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, think the reason may be that men use up so much of their brain function or Read the full story

Tête-à-tête with Ankhi Alamgir
There was a time when people heard the name Ankhi Alamgir, and immediately associated her with her famous father, actor Alamgir. Ankhi’s mother, Khoshnoor is also a well-known lyricist. Being born into a renowned family has had its ups and downs, admits the accomplished singer Ankhi. But things have changed since then and today Ankhi has carved a niche for herself in the entertainment world. In an interview with The Daily Star, Ankhi talked about the journey to where she stands now.
“I have always been an introvert and like to do things on my own. When I was a child everyone would want to be friends with me because I was ‘Alamgir’s daughter’. So I never had close friends,” Ankhi said. While some of her teachers adored her, others used to pass taunting comments like “Why study? You are Read the full story