It's fun and game time for Indian toy makers.
NEW DELHI: The Chinese toy recall may have done the trick for India's torpid toy and kids' apparel industry. After years of only being envious of the booty that their peers from across the Great Wall enjoyed, the local industry has found a reason to giggle and titter. ...

Heard on the street.
Fortune Fin zooms on stake sale talk The interest in the broking space continues to be on an upswing and there is talk of yet another domestic broking house planning a stake sale. As per market buzz, Fortune Financial Services is in talks to sell stake to...

Major-ly unique: lost in a sea of English major? Not if you graduate from one of these unusual programs.
Quick quiz: What are the two most popular college majors? Answer: Business and psychology. But what if those subjects don't thrill you? What if your interests are more specialized than that? Not to worry. Both two- and four-year colleges offer an enormous variety of special majors. Students graduate with...

It's fun and game time for Indian toy makers.
NEW DELHI: The Chinese toy recall may have done the trick for India's torpid toy and kids' apparel industry. After years of only being envious of the booty that their peers from across the Great Wall enjoyed, the local industry has found a reason to giggle and titter. ...

Ship your worries.
Byline: Shruti Chauhan & Paramita Chatterjee A bulk of G Amphray Lab's Rs 80-crore sales - Rs 71 crore - comes from exports to Europe and Latin America. So, when the rupee spiralled against the dollar earlier this year, the Mumbai-based company, which produces fine chemicals for...

Fisher-Price to recall almost a million Chinese-made toys because of lead in paint.
Byline: ANNE D'INNOCENZIO & NATASHA T. METZLER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of Chinese-made toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The recall involves 967,000 plastic preschool...

McFarlane Toys to Attend NHL All-Star Weekend in Dallas Jan. 20 &21.
Exclusive Mike Modano Figure on Sale and Meet Todd McFarlane TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- McFarlane Toys is very excited to announce that we will be part of this year's NHL All-Star Trading Card and Memorabilia Show at the NorthPark Mall in Dallas on Jan. 20-21,...

Not Your Average Bears, Only Cutting-Edge Concepts Make the List at Vermont Teddy Bear.
Unconventional Valentine's Day bears to ignite passion SHELBURNE, Vt., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Average teddy bears need not apply to be one of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company's top picks for Valentine's Day. The Company is once again pushing the envelope to help men impress their wives...

A Man's Guide to Surviving Valentine's Day.
Expert tips to keep guys sane on V-day SHELBURNE, Vt., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- To women, it's the Mac-daddy of all holidays, so guys need to know how to survive this make-or-break a relationship holiday. Here are some surefire tips from the folks that have been in...

Hanung rakes up public funds.
DELHI: Playing with toys was never so rewarding. Ashok Kumar Bansal first started a toy factory in NOIDA SEEPZ. It became so famous and successful that he was obliged to begin a line of textiles with the same raw material. That exploded too. The result: he had to take...