Life in pictures -Daughter of the east BENAZIR BHUTTO

Benazir Bhutto was part of a political dynasty. Here she is with India's foreign minister in 1972 in Simla, where her father, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, met India's Indira Gandhi.

Ms Bhutto in 1977, shortly after completing her education at Oxford University. Born in 1953 in the province of Sindh, she also attended Harvard.  read more

TCP/IP, A milestone invention leading to the modern Internet

Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. It has also been referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite, which is named after two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were also the first two networking protocols defined.  read more

Bollywood Debutantes 2007

Sagarika Ghatge: Also known as Preeti Subberwal of 'Chak De India', she got a good break with Shah Rukh Khan in her debut movie. Promising and confident. Sayali Bhagat: Winner of the Femina Miss India 2004 contest. Entered Bollywood with her movie 'The Train', opposite Emraan Hashmi. Sonam Kapoor: Anil Kapoor's daughter who made her debut with Bhansali's 'Saawariya' and took Bollywood by storm!  read more

A New Year's Prayer

May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastro-enterologist, your urologist, your proctologist, your podiatrist, your psychiatrist, your plumber and the I.R.S.

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May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs and your stocks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest not rise.  read more