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The time you are born, the date and the place together determine the health factor in your journey through life, claims Harsh Khiraya, a Mumbai-based practising astrologer, and an expert in medical astrology.

"I am a copoclephologist," proudly claims P. K. K. Nair, a retired senior GM of a bank in Mumbai, India, and goes on to clarify that this means he is a collector of keychains. And proudly displays the 4,000 keychains in his possession.

The king of spades, the queen of diamonds and the jack of hearts in large sizes adorn a room in Kishore Gordhandas' residence in Mumbai. Images of animals, costumes, historical figures, cartoons, arts, treasures, cookery on cards along with other various themes are also present.

Women's legs are usually eye-catching, but her leg on a plate and a hen beside it is head turning and thought-provoking. And that's exactly what PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) want us to do – think! PETA speaks for the animals in order to promote vegetarianism.

In a very recent incident, seven-year-old Sachin Singh was reunited with his parents in Mumbai, two-and-a-half years after he was kidnapped. He was found begging on the railway station alongwith the woman who kidnapped him. She had cut off a piece of his ear and burnt his stomach with hot tea, in order to make him beg. She would daily pull his jaws to change his face and pull his tongue to change his voice.

Blended by creating designs through the medium of art and then giving it shape and expression in the form of clothing, today fashion has created a pedestal on its own. But its root, the creative art form cannot remain far behind, as it is aesthetically a part of the same body.

It was more like raining fashion, than cats and dogs, in the monsoon month of August in Mumbai recently. Every nook and corner that you turned in downtown Mumbai spoke fashion.

The seed was planted more than 50 years ago when Jawaharlal Nehru, the late Indian Prime Minister, said to Sir John Wilson, an advocate for the disabled: "You know sometime you ought to use a train, the Indian railways.

Sixteen-year-old Indian writes book on hacking techniques and computer security

Cheers for the only Asian designer, Hemant Trivedi, for presenting his collection at the Collection Premiere Dusseldorf (CPD) in Germany, the largest and the most prominent ready-to-wear fair in the world, this year. He also happens to be the only Indian designer to be invited to showcase his work at the CPD for the third time. This alone speaks a lot for the man whose creative designs have won him more than just rave reviews and international acclaim.