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...over Rana Irfan's frequent trips back home to India took years to resolve. She enjoyed them, but her husband Kareem found them unnecessary. Eventually the issue was resolved in Kareem's favor, as are many between them. Their marriage, says Rana, 37, a spirited and sophisticated native of Bombay, is based on "consultation," but in the end, "someone has to take charge. That is my husband." It says as much in the Koran...
...Omen Air India has suspended four officials for a security lapse that allowed two Afghan Sikhs to fly from Bombay to London without valid passports?or tickets...
...Finally, a delicious irony from India's Telegraph, a paper whose banner giddily proclaims it "unputdownable." The Calcutta paper reports that some 200 Mumbai (nee Bombay) restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes...
With only 30 years until the wells dry up and the refineries are empty, Dubai is pushing Asian tourism hard. There are frequent direct flights from Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Bombay and New Delhi. Luxury hotels are a growth industry (see Hot Deals). And since March, immigration officials have been issuing 30-day visas on arrival to visitors from South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. The drive is working: the number of Asian tourists rose from 230,000 in 1990 to 570,00 in 1999. As Dubai is discovering, there's more than...
...seen James on one of those Saturday nights, catching the 8:30 showing of Message in a Bottle before heading to a romantic Indian dinner at Bombay Club with his female date, it would have been hard to guess that he used to live a life that would have certainly led to his excommunication from the Mormon Church...