Jalebi management for global enterprises The jalebi is a quintessential Indian sweet and has been often used as an analogy. In the early 1990s Birmingham-based Bhangra-rap singer Apache Indian sang about wanting a girl sweet like a jalebi in his song Arranged marriage...
Springboards to fame When parents superimpose their dreams and goals on their children, they tend to forget the needs and joys of the children but focus on and cling on to their own...
Bridge To The Past The first week I lived in Shanghai, I was walking down Nanjing Street, in front of Cartier, and a man tried to sell me tiger paws. I was near one of the main high-end shopping plazas when the man rustic looking, darkly tanned and wild-eyed approached me....
First Muslim woman cabbie Are you a taxi driver? the woman exclaimed above the growl of car engines waiting for the traffic lights.
The blare of horns as the lights changed to green drowned out the short exchange. But this is a daily occurrence from Bahr, who is the only female Muslim taxi driver in Jerusalem. Wearing a white headscarf, she cuts a distinctive figure in the citys taxi-driving community...
Nurturing with love... Sumatran Orangutan Anita feeds her offspring, Atina, one-year-old, on Tuesday at the Singapore Zoo, which houses 25 Orangutans, the largest number of the species in captivity in the world. The zoo has constantly put in efforts to educate the public about Sumatran and Bornean Orangutans, categorised as being critically endangered. AP
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