Kolkata: This Valentine's Day India has emerged the second largest supplier of fresh cut flowers in the world, a study by e-commerce portal Alibaba.com said. With 18 per cent of the total buyer enquiries going to Indian SMEs (small and medium enterprises), India features as the second largest seller of flowers after Thailand, according to site analytics data from Alibaba.com. Based on the inquiries received by Indian suppliers on the...
03:14 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Technology is bringing us closer, so we thought of a score of sweet and short love messages with a tech flavour to impress your love this Valentine's Day. Take your pick. 1. Will you be my tweet heart? 2. I am more addicted to you than Facebook. 3. The love for you in my heart is far more than the data on my hard disk. 4. I promise that I'll...
10:51 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: It's a music video doodle on the Google home page this Valentine's Day. The Valentine's Day Google doodle is in the form of a short animated love story of a boy trying to woo a girl set to Tony Bennett's rendition of Hank Williams' classic blues ballad Cold, Cold Heart. The default image of the doodle is of the boy holding a Valentine with the Google logo on...
09:11 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: If your own words did not quite hit the mark - take a hint from the masters of this art. We give you 25 best poetry quotes that you can use as SMS on Valentine's Day. Pick your favourites and start texting! Shakespeare - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate..." John Donne - "I conjure thee, and all the oaths...
08:16 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: This Valentine's Day will be special for Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man - he will tie the knot with longtime girlfriend Claudia on the special occasion and it will be shown on television. Here are 10 odd things to do on Valentine's Day. World's heaviest man gets hitched From interviews to pre-wedding preparations, all of it would be telecast on History TV18 channel Feb 14. Manuel hit...
08:09 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: From day-long kissing marathons to elaborate plans of marriage proposals, Valentine's Day or St Valentine's Day, named after one of several early Christian martyrs, is marked by romantic rendezvous and unbridled consumerism.Seven couples have brought their lips together in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, some 100 km southeast of Bangkok, hoping to break the world record for longest continuous kiss - which currently stands at nearly two...
07:29 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: This Valentine's Day, couples can snuggle up on park benches and corners unhassled. Moral brigades who crack down on love-struck couples on Valentine's have no intention to play spoilsport on February14, an activist of a right wing group said. One of the reasons behind this change of heart is the bad reputation they were getting. Om Dutt Sharma, Shiv Sena's Delhi convenor, told IANS: "Since last year we...
06:21 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Pattaya: Lips locked at all times -- including for bathroom breaks and meals -- is the less than romantic challenge facing Thai couples trying for the kiss to blow away all kisses at a Valentine's Day marathon. Seven couples have brought their lips together in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, some 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Bangkok, hoping to break the world record for longest continuous kiss -...
06:05 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Washington: It isn't often you see the words "love", "romance", and "Federal Reserve" in the same sentence. But on Friday, the US central bank and many economists who spend countless hours monitoring its decisions began their Valentine's Day flirtations a bit early. It started with Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, who tweeted this morning: "You're my long-run target; my nominal anchor" - with the attached hashtag,...
10:10 AM, Feb 11, 2012
San Francisco: With Valentine's Day just a week away disappointed daters wondering what went wrong with the romance have a new way to discover why the relationship fizzled. A website called WotWentWrong provides a guided way to request and respond to feedback on why things didn't work out. "It's for the people who are evolved enough to really want to be mature about it and find out so that they...
12:14 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood stars took to twitter to wish their friends and fans a happy Valentine's Day on Monday and spread the message of love. Here's what some of them had to say: Bipasha Basu: Happy V day! 4 me Love needs 2 b celebrated everyday. U dnt hve 2 do PDA 2 shw u r in love bt jst believe in it, work on it and cherish it! Diya...
04:42 PM, Feb 14, 2011
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