Archive for June, 2008

Reasons To Have Your Jewelry Appraised

The appraisals for your diamond ring and other jewelry items are required by the insurance company in order that they may specifically cover your items of jewelry against all risks and hazards. Insure each item separately with a separate policy for each item that you will forward to your insurance agent. Be advised that having [...]

Blue Diamond Engagement Rings

When you are looking for the right blue diamond engagement ring, you need to look at the cut, the clarity, the weight and the cut of the diamond. Not all diamonds are created equally. When you choose the right jeweler, they can help you with picking the perfect ring for that special day. As we [...]

Fine Jewelry Care and Cleaning Tips

Gems and precious metals are gifts of nature, which need special care. The harder the gem, the less vulnerable it is to potential damage.A diamond is the hardest gem known to man. Hardness is based on a gem-trade standard called the Mohs Scale, developed in the early 19th century. Diamonds are rated the highest, at [...]

Ten Steps To Buying An Engagement Ring

Discovering the right one does not come easy. There are so many options, patterns, sizes, colors and light elegance. Hunting for the ideal ring can be like a discouraging treasure search, but do not worry. Stick with these ten invariable rules and you will be nerveless under the shiny jewelry store lights. 1) Teach Yourself= [...]

India Sleeping, Drinking, Eating Brands….It’s official now!!!

Getting up to a Nokia N Series mobile phone alarm, a bath in Designer bathroom with Dove soap and Garnier shampoo, wear a Marks and Spencer’s ensemble, apply a Christian Dior perfume, put on liberty shoes, take a Hidesign bag, take up the Sony laptop and heading to office in the Chevrolet Optra, and when [...]

Diamond vending machines at malls

THE NEXT time you visit your favourite mall, don’t be surprised if you see avending machine actually vending diamond rings and gold pendants, instead of chocolates and snacks. “When the concept was launched in January this year, traditional jewellery consumers found the concept alittle hard to digest,” Jagdeep Kapoor, chairman and managing director, Samsika Marketing [...]

Online marketing a buzzword today!!!!

–Contributed by Charu Gupta I was just checking my mails and found a forwarded link from my friend. http://india.makemytrip.com/chidyaud/cidiyaudi.html It was an animated video where a girl was playing game of ‘Chidiya ud” with her brother which we all used to play in childhood. It was great fun watching the video but at the end [...]

SMEs to get Rs 55-crore IPR facilitator

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which have taken big strides in developing new products, can look forward to central assistance in securing intellectual property rights. The prospect of getting assistance is looking up with the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) ministry offering a Rs 55-crore IPR-facilitation package for implementation over the next four years. [...]

The Entrepreneurial Flame

—Contributed by Sarath SrinivasanWhen the promoter of a company seeks help in scaling up, it stems from an underlying feeling of unease. Possibly his company has been performing well over the past few years but has just hit a plateau. More often, the entrepreneur feels that something is wrong even before it manifests itself in [...]

Adjustment of Loan Against Retrenchment Compensation & Notice Pay not Permissible

—Contributed by Deepak Miglani Section 25 F of Industrial Dispute Act, ” No workman employed in any industry who has been in continuous service for not less than one year under an employer shall be retrenched by that employer until- (a) The workman has been given one month’s notice in writing indicating the reasons for [...]