She ruled Bollywood in the 1990s, but gave up a flourishing career after marrying Delhi-based businessman Sanjay Kapur in 2003. Last seen in the 2006 film “Mere Jeevan Saathi,” the glamorous Karisma Kapoor now hopes to return with a bang with Vikram Bhatt’s supernatural 3-D thriller “Dangerous Ishhq,” where she is cast opposite fairly unknown faces and will be seen in different avatars.

– ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. Glamour, fashion and entertainment were all present in good measure at the Miss India Teen and Miss India Illinois 2012 beauty pageant hosted April 14 by Vogue Celebrations and B4U at the Meadows Club. Seventeen young women took the stage in a bid to win the coveted crowns.

Jalandhar girl Vanya Mishra was Friday crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India (PFMI) World 2012 title at a gala event here. She will represent India at the global pageant later this year. Rochelle Maria Rao from Chennai won the title of Miss India International, while Prachi Mishra from Pune is Miss India Earth.

The upcoming session of the Indian Premier League (IPL), India’s glamour-packed cricket tournament, will see a sartorial anomaly come to life — cheerleaders wrapped in saris. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s IPL team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, has decided to cover their cheerleaders in one of the most traditional Indian outfits — a marked departure from their 2008 wardrobe when a lot of skin, from midriff to thighs, was on display.

– NEW YORK A gold-lacquered and polychrome-painted Ming Dynasty Buddha at I.M.

Jewellery sellers in India lost out on the opportunity to make large sales on Gudi Padwa festival, considered to be an auspicious day to buy gold, due to a strike called to protest duty raises in last week's budget. India, the world's biggest buyer of bullion, celebrates Gudi Padwa, or Ugadi as it is known in some states, on Friday, which marks the end of the harvesting season. "We are missing sales on this festival day...

Bow out baroque, gothic and stylised art deco. Minimal, innovative, mass and the elemental are waiting to take over design in India and across the globe. Being casual, honest and going back to the earth's natural pools is driving the core of universal aesthetics of design, experts from the fields of art and design said in the capital.