cArP tREatmEnT : gaRRa rUfA

This is a new type of treatment scaling up globally. In this treatment your hand as well as toes are nibbled by a type of carp called garra rufa, or doctor fish. These fishes nibble up your dead skin from your toes and hands thus making then soft again. It is a natural therapy being taken by many Hollywood Actresses. As it is scaling up globaaly it is hard to say at which all places it has started but I know that its being done at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, Virginia.

mOst eXpensIve hAiR cuT: 1,925 pounds

 If you want London stylist Lee Stafford to cut your hair, make sure you are extra loaded. He calls it a "couture cut". And the only place where you can get one is his house. Champagne, hors d'oeuvres and a follow-up trim as part of the package
 

mOst eXpeNsiVe shOEs: 1 miLLion poUndS

Would you feel like a princess or what when you wear something worth 1m pounds? The most expensive shoes in the world were on sale at Harrods in London. After a photo-call for the press, the shoes were locked away in a bullet-proof case where they will be guarded round-the-clock. The shoes, inspired by the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, were woven from platinum thread and set with 642 rubies. They were designed by Stuart Weitzman.

 

IIM-A gRaDuAte seLLs vEGetAbLes cHasINg a drEaM

Unlike of an IIM graduate for whom sky is the limit in corporate matters, Kaushalendra of Nalanda district with a management degree from IIM, Ahmedabad under his belt chose to sell vegetables on the streets of Patna and still dreamt to make it big.

How on earth can somebody make it big by selling etables?

Meet 27-year-old Kaushalendra, son of a college demonstrator in the nondescript block town of Ekangarsarai in Nalanda district, who says, "I have a dream to build Bihar into a vegetable hub of the country. I want vegetables grown in Bihar on dining tables everywhere -- from Srinagar to Salem, from Shillong to Surat."

Perhaps the most highly educated green grocer India has ever produced, he has founded a farmers' cooperative 'Samriddhi' which sells vegetables in ice-cooled pushcarts.

The private-public partnership venture, launched about a couple of months ago with assistance from the Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) with just one pushcart, has now placed an order for 50 more, thanks to a collateral-free loan of Rs 50 lakh from the Punjab National Bank.