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Kingfisher to sponsor India Fashion Week

Mumbai, Mar 25: 'Kingfisher' will be the associate sponsor for the 'Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week' (WIFW), Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Percept D Mark has announced.

The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) will be held at The Grand, New Delhi from April 5-9.

United Breweries group chairman Dr Vijay Mallaya told reporters yesterday, ''Over the next few years, as we contiue our partnership with FDCI for the WIFW, we hope to celebrate and promote India as we make a mark in the global fashion industry.'' At least 80 designers will participate in the event including India's most eminent names in the world of fashion, accesory and textile as well as ten young and upcoming designers called 'new faces going places'.

The collections at the fashion week will be season specific, that is, autumn-winter and spring-summer, in line with international formats.

This year the fashion trade event goes bi-annual, five days of fashion twice a year. There will be two ramps for greater participation. The designers will showcase their pret (ready to wear) and diffusion (between ready-to-wear and couture) lines in Indian, Indo- Western and Western categories on the ramp and at the trade centre.

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Adult cells in mice shown to mimic embryonic stem cells

LONDON, Mar 25 (Reuters) German scientists said they had isolated sperm-producing stem cells that have similar properties to embryonic stem cells from adult mice. If the same type of cells in humans show similar qualities the researchers from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen believe they could be used in stem cell research which would remove the ethical dilemma associated with stem cells derived from human embryos. ''These isolated spermatogonial stem cells respond to culture conditions.....

Link b/w global warming and hurricanes

Geneva, Mar 25: There is growing evidence of a link between global warming and natural disasters such as droughts and flooding, the head of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said. But Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the United Nations weather agency, said more research was needed into the links between global warming and extreme conditions like hurricanes.Jarraud told a news briefing: ''We know for certain that there is an intensification of the hydrological cycle, which translates into greater.....

Iraqis in Tal Afar question Bush's optimism

Tal Afrar (Iraq), Mar 25: US President George W Bush held up the northern town of Tal Afar this week as an example of progress being made in Iraq but many residents find it hard to share his optimism.Bush said this week that Tal Afar has become ''a free city that gives reason for hope for a free Iraq'' after U S-led forces freed it from al Qaeda militants in a 2005 offensive.Although townspeople say there has been.....
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