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Marvelous Mauritius
From the beachfront we moved to the sylvan solitude of the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden near Port Luis. Famous for its pond of giant water lilies, the garden, spread on an area of 37 hectares, has a variety of palms and ...
Snow in Jeddah in July
Snow in Jeddah, that too in the month of July? Sounds unimaginable? But this has been made possible at Al Shallal Theme Park thanks to EverSnow, a French company that specializes in producing artificial snow.
Yoga now popular among Saudis: Nouf
You are a great yoga teacher to popularize yoga in Saudi Arabia and work to get it legalized as a sport, great!” This is how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Saudi Arabia’s first certified yoga instructor who was at ...
Saudi Arabia approves teaching of yoga as sports activity
The Ministry of Commerce and Investment (MCI) has approved the teaching of yoga as a sports activity, Nouf Al-Marwaai, founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation, told Saudi Gazette on Wednesday.
Vision 2030 focus on diversification to help SMEs: ITC executive director
By Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette Jeddah — The focus of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 on diversification will help the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector, according to Executive Director of the International Trade Center (ITC) Arancha Gonzalez. “SMEs in Saudi Arabia represent 90 ...
Modi’s tsunami drowns political opponents in India
By Shams Ahsan Jeddah — “It’s a victory for positive politics.” This is how the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, described his party’s massive victory in India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh (UP) and its neighboring hill ...
Mega sale draws huge crowds to hypermarket in Jeddah
By Shams Ahsan JEDDAH — It appeared as if the store had been robbed. Everything was in disarray and the shelves were completely empty. This was the scene Tuesday evening at many of the outlets of a famous hypermarket chain in ...
‘SR2,000 visa fee won’t affect most Indian pilgrims’
By Shams Ahsan Jeddah — The new Haj and Umrah visa fees will not affect most Indian pilgrims, according to the chairman of the Haj Committee of India. “Visa fee is not in our control. But we are not too badly ...
Vibrant Gujarat Summit attracts Saudi investors
By Shams Ahsan Jeddah — Saudi investors have shown keen interest in the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Summit (VGS 2017) scheduled to take place in the western Indian state from Jan. 10 to 13, a senior state government official visiting the Kingdom ...
15-year-old Saudi girl proposes headscarf emoji
By Shams Ahsan JEDDAH — If the efforts of a 15-year-old Saudi girl studying in Germany bear fruit, Muslim women will have a headscarf emoji. Rayouf Alhumedhi on Tuesday submitted an initial proposal to design a headscarf emoji to the Unicode Consortium, ...
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