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Indian film talent Swara Bhaskar has won the Best Actress award at a film festival in the capital city of Fujian province for playing a mother to a teenager in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s directorial “Nil Battey Sannata” (The New Classmate). The “Raanjhanaa” actress won the honour at the second Silk Road International Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday, according to state-owned China Radio International. “Swara is an amazing actress. She had to put on eight kg for the role. She went to Agra and studied the local culture. She had to take up two months of training. She’s not a mother and she plays one in the film. She had to calm down. She even went for meditation and yoga,” Tiwari had told IANS earlier.

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You know a wedding’s big when it doesn’t just break the bank — it sways global markets.
There are up to 20 million weddings a year in India, and while no two relationships are the same, all will have one thing in common.

Gold — and lots of it. So much of the precious metal in fact, that it can influence the price of gold around the world.

«No wedding in India is complete without gold,» explains Vithika Agarwal, co-founder of Divya Vithika Wedding Planners, in Bangalore.

«It doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are — you will still own gold according to your status. And because this is a day when you’re showing off your prosperity, wealth, and material goods, the amount of gold you’re wearing really matters.»

Indian brides take jewelery to an extravagant new level, dripping in spectacular hair accessories, nose rings, earrings, necklaces and amulets — «sometimes to the point where you’ll see more gold than their face,» says Somasundaram PR, managing director of the World Gold Council in India.

And this tradition is driving the country’s huge appetite for gold — which now accounts for a quarter of global demand.

India’s love affair with gold

India is the second-biggest consumer of gold in the world (slightly behind China), buying anywhere between 800 and 1,000 tons of the luminous metal every year, according to the World Gold Council.

«India has a huge impact on the global gold price,» says PR.

«The country’s demand is largely in the form of jewelery — of that, between 50% and 60% is bridal.»

Written in the stars?

Whether or not you believe love is written in the stars, they still have a huge impact on the number of weddings in India.

And with the Hindu calendar showing a drop in the number of auspicious dates for weddings this year, there could be consequences for gold markets around the world.

Info: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/20/business/indian-wedding-gold-jewelery-prices/

WHAT IT IS:
White henna is a henna design on one’s hand, except that it’s white in colour and not the usual brown. Depending on the material used, it stays up to a week on one’s body.

HOW IT STARTED:
Though it originated in the Middle East, the fashionista brides not wanting to opt for brown henna have taken fancy to it. It is also a favourite option for dark-skinned girls on whom brown mehendi doesn’t leave that lasting impression.

HOW IT’S DONE:
Classy and elegant, it is not so much a henna, but a sticker, tattoo or body paint or glitter used to make designs on the hand and other parts of the body .

Info: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/beauty/What-is-this-white-henna-trend/articleshow/48667824.cms

India -born Sundar Pichai has been named the new chief executive of Internet-giant Google. This news came on the back of a new holding company Alphabet, which will host Google and its other businesses as subsidiaries. Co-founder and current CEO of Google, Larry Page announced the inception of Alphabet, Google’s new holding company. Larry Page will step down as Google’s chief and Pichai will take over his position. Page will take the helm as the new CEO of Alphabet.

Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai on July 12, 1972 and his original name happens to be Pichai Sundarajan.

He did his schooling from GRT Mahalakshmi Vanavani School, which was in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai campus. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur as a Metallurgical Engineer, and holds a Post Graduation (MS) degree from Stanford University. He also holds an MBA from Whaton School of University of Pennsylvania.

He has keen interest in Cricket and was the captain of his school cricket team.

Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 as the head of product management and innovation efforts, leading the team working on Google’s Chrome browser and operating system.

He most recently served as the company’s senior vice president of products.

He was the one who started Google search tool bar when Internet Explorer was dominating the internet world. Pichai launched Chrome browser in 2008, which became the game changer in the browsing world.

Sundar Pichai took charge of Gmail and Google Docs in 2011. The same year he was promoted to Senior Vice President of the company.

After a year in 2013, Pichai was made the head of Android and in 2014, the Google Product Czar. The same year he was named the company’s product chief where he brought in services like Google Maps and Google+.
Sundar Pichai is referred to as Larry Page’s right-hand man. While announcing Alphabet, Page’s blog post said, «Sundar has been saying things I would have said for quite some time now and I have been tremendously enjoying our work together.»

Pichai said, «For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalisisng force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.»

Later during the day, Sundar Pichai took to twitter to thank people for wishing him luck.

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-all-you-need-to-know-about-sundar-pichai-google-s-first-india-born-ceo-2113286

Winter is coming, with it will come wedding festivities like no other. Celebrating the upcoming bridal season, couturier JJ Valaya presented the second part of his Bolshoi Bazaar on Sunday at the ongoing BMW India Bridal Couture Week being held in the Capital.

After wowing fashionistas last year with his pret version of the range, the designer turned to a more elaborate mood board with his couture collection that derived inspiration from the high life of erstwhile Russia. Models took to the ramp in rich jewel tones like emerald, ruby, turquoise, gold, champagne and black, with paper falling like snow on the ramp. While intricate embroidery adorned the lehengas, blouses, kurtis, sari, anarkalis and jackets for women, and regal-looking bandhgalas, cloaks and achkans for men, the line still managed to present a subdued sense of dressing rather than flashy formalwear.

Standout looks included a silver-grey jacket for men with fern embroidery running along the length of the front, teamed with a flared gold chakdar jama underneath. Others included a jewelled cape and faux-fur lined juttis with pompom balls and golden beads. The ornaments and accessories were the other highlights, serving a strong Russian flavour to the collection. Men wore ushanka hats while women strutted down in beautifully ornamented velvet capes and kokoshnikinspired headgear with filigree work and strings of pearls, designed by jewellery labels Valliyan and Nitya Bajaj Arora.

Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-bridal-couture-week-jj-valaya-from-russia-with-love/1/457746.html