It’s always about more than just turning a page with them. While you might not buy them, but consider it your eternal consumer right to demand them from your nearest store. However, we might rely on mobile phone alarms and digital reminders, calendars are always colourful slices of time that bookmark a month in our memories for the rest of the year. So, as we inch closer towards the year-end, we take a look at some of the calendar themes you might come across.

Movies have always been an inspiration to youngsters, be it for their latest fashion forecasts or for their gadgets. With scientists being inspired by movies and turning revolutionary by creating the invisibility cloak, youngsters are excited. Youth now want the flying car from Harry Potter, the neuralyzer or even a morpher from the Power Ranger series so they can turn saviours.

Daughter of the rock and roll legend Stella McCartney refuses to use any fur or leather in her designs. Maybe it is eco-awareness or just the need to create fashion with a heart that motivates her, but the truth is that style gurus are taking the road less travelled and are willing to experiment with indigenous fabrics, yes even parachute material, recycling it to create a stir on the catwalk.

KFC, the chicken-based, fast food chain recently announced that it would launch reusable food containers across its outlets in the USA by 2011. The mega online shopping mall, eBay has a green box — a fully recyclable box that is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and is made out of 100 per cent recycled content and water-based inks — in which it ships its products. Procter & Gamble too is in line with these moves and will pack its products in renewable, sustainable, sugarcane-derived plastic. The pilot packaging programme, will be for its Pantene Pro-V, Covergirl and Max Factor brands.

You might be still getting used to Mumbai, tethering on Bengaluru, grappling with Puducherry or not even know that Pune is Poona, but here is yet another geographical detail that you will now have to familiarise yourself with. The Parliament has passed the bill on changing Orissa’s name to Odisha and the language from Oriya to Odia.
A change which brings us back to a tremor of a suggestion made in the pre-CWG era of changing Delhi's name to its non-British cousin Dilli or Dehli.

After small screen romances and swayamwars, Sara Khan and Ali Merchant are going to make history by getting married in the Bigg Boss house. After all the bickering and controversies around Sara and Ashmit Patel’s “friendship” on the show, as she finally ties the knot with Ali, many wonder if wedding vows continue to survive after the lights are out and curtains down.

Be it a flamboyant fuchsia maxi ‘date’ dress, an hourglass cocktail gown or the sensuous silk bridal saree, there is one such ‘never-give-away’ piece that forms the tapestry of a moment in life.

After incidents like Delhi University Teachers Association strikes, semester system debates and Commonwealth break, now comes good news for DU students. Come October 26, and several government and private sector units are expected to hire DU pass-outs, as they are set to begin the placement drive. The announcement has filled students with hope.

Debutant actress Pallavi Sharda can’t hide her excitement as her first film Dus Tola is ready to hit the screens on October 22. She was recently in the capital and talked about her first project in Bollywood.

If you saw Freddie Mercury strutting around on stage, don't rub your eyes in disbelief. Entertaining Indian crowds to hits such as We Will Rock You and Bohemian Rhapsody, UK’s premier Queen tribute band, Rhapsody, were on a four-city Indian tour.