
HYDERABAD: An unconventional and snazzy decor, a magazine to flip through, wifi to carry on with your work and a cup of coffee to savour while you wait for your turn - this and more are a feature of the Yuva Branch inaugurated by the chief general manager of the State Bank of India, Rakesh Sharma at Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills on Thursday.Targeted at young professionals, especially from the...

10:30 AM, May 11, 2012

New Delhi: The CPM, which had played a crucial role in setting up the Indian Coffee Houses across the country, is now turning a new leaf by coming up with a cool cafe in the capital " the May Day Cafe. Touted as the 'country's first left wing cafe', the cafe would be launched on May Day, thereby adding to its symbolic value. It would be run by CPM's publishing...

09:45 AM, May 01, 2012

Beijing: US cafe giant Starbucks' Chinese subsidiary has admitted that it used a bug-based red dye in a few food products in their cafes in China, days after announcing plans to stop using the insect extract following an online campaign. The world's largest coffee-shop chain had said earlier this week that it plans to stop using an extract made of dried insects to colour some Frappuccinos and pastries and the...

10:20 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Other than a bitter dispute that has killed thousands in the Middle-East, what's common between Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzak Rabin? Or Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Winston Churchill? What united the Rothschilds and the Rockefeller family in the US, despite their enormous wealth? They were all Freemasons - a fraternal and yet mysterious society with its origins in early modern Europe and which now commands a global...

05:32 PM, Mar 19, 2012

Shimla: A familiar figure strolling along Shimla's Mall, greeting friends and chatting animatedly in the coffee house is being missed with the death of actor Anupam Kher's father Pushkar Nath Kher, 84. Nath's friends and local theatre artistes, who once shared stage with Kher, mourned his demise. Nath, a Kashmiri Pandit by origin, died in Mumbai after a brief illness Friday. "Nath will always be remembered for the excitement he...

02:18 PM, Feb 12, 2012

Starbucks Corp said it will open its first outlets in India in August or September and plans to have 50 stores in operation by the end of the year in a joint venture deal with Tata Global Beverages. The formal launch of the company's retail foray into India comes a year after it signed a deal with Tata Global to buy coffee from India and open retail outlets in the...

06:25 PM, Jan 30, 2012

Italian coffee barons Lavazza are out with their 2012 calendar with the theme centered around two great Italian loves - women and coffee. ...

05:48 PM, Jan 04, 2012

1. The New Brew in Town For those who take their cup of caffeine seriously, there's good news. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee brand, is likely to make its Indian debut in the first half of 2012. A formal announcement of their retail JV with Tata Coffee is likely next month and those in the know say a search for the country head is underway and an appointment is imminent....

03:23 PM, Jan 04, 2012

New Delhi: Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) during the traditional 'Grindadrap' (whale hunting in Faroese) near the capital Torshavn, November 22, 2011. Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year. The Faroese are descendents of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1,000 years. They crowd the...

07:19 PM, Nov 24, 2011

Pop sensation Lady Gaga is hitting the headlines once again. She now features in a Coffee table book. ...

11:04 AM, Nov 24, 2011

Often linked up together, Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra talk about their relationship and upcoming films. ...

01:19 PM, Nov 17, 2011
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Thanks Ratan Tata! Starbucks in India is long, long, long overdue, I thought, while sipping my Starbucks and reading the morning paper. We were being ...

03:46 PM, Oct 11, 2011

New Delhi: American coffee retail giant Starbucks is lobbying hard with lawmakers and government officials in the US to facilitate its entry into the highly lucrative Indian market. Starbucks, which runs the world's largest coffee shop chain and enjoys cult status among coffee lovers, has been trying to enter India for many years, but has been unsuccessful in its efforts so far. The company has been very active in lobbying...

01:47 PM, Oct 10, 2011

London: Pistachio nuts could provide a caffeine-free and healthy alternative to the popular hot coffee, say researchers. The search for a caffeine-free coffee has often proven less than fruitful, with versions of the drink which lack not just caffeine's kick, but flavour. Now, a team at University of York claims to have found a possible solution in a type of pistachio nut. The researchers claim that carefully roasted, the fruit...

06:56 PM, Aug 28, 2011