IngredientsNumber of servings: Serves 2 1 boneless skinless chicken breast half (8 to 10 ounces) 1/8 teaspoon salt Pinch freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup shelled unsalted pistachio nuts 2 tablespoons plain panko or 1 tablespoon fine dry bread crumbs 2 teaspoons grated orange peel 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme 1 egg white, slightly beaten Orange [...]
As much as we might all wish for it, there is one basic truth about hair care: the wash-and-go cut, simple-and-easy hairdo is essentially a myth. Nobody rolls out of bed with perfect hair. Hollywood celebrities look the way they do because an entire hair and makeup team spent hours working before the celebrity [...]
People do beautiful things in the water. They become braver and calmer, more fluid and playful. The freedom of buoyancy allows us to act as we truly are. I grew up near the ocean in Australia, but I didn’t appreciate our ancestral ties to it until I’d spent years living abroad. When I returned, [...]
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has warned that the black money to be invested in the share market cannot be withdrawn in two years. “Whitening of black money is allowed for 2011-12 fiscal year, but it must be there in the portfolio of investors until June 2013,” first secretary of the income tax [...]
A move is in the offing to check “irregular” transfer of funds abroad by multinational companies that caused Bangladesh US$ 35 billion in revenue loss in 1990-2008 period, according to a study of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The ‘Direct Tax Act’ will incorporate the measure that is likely to come into effect [...]
Rafael Nadal insists Novak Djokovic cannot keep winning and he will be first in the queue ready to pounce when the Serb finally cracks. Djokovic, who dethroned Nadal as world number one on Monday, also took the Spaniard’s Wimbledon title on Sunday with a 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 win, ending his opponent’s 20-match winning [...]
A two-day strike triggered by demands for the creation of a new state in southern India has closed shops and businesses and paralyzed public transport in the region. Tuesday’s strike comes after more than a dozen federal lawmakers resigned from Parliament to press their demand that a new state of Telangana be carved out [...]
A Russian newspaper said Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was willing to give up power in exchange for security guarantees, citing a high-level Russian official. The report in the respected daily Kommersant, which did not identify its source, came a day after the search for ways to end the war in Libya dominated [...]
Japan’s Minister for Reconstruction Ryu Matsumoto has announced his resignation after just a week in the job. He had been widely criticised for making insensitive remarks to governors of areas badly affected by March’s deadly earthquake and tsunami. He had said the government would not help them financially unless they came up with good [...]
Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, called up Sheikh Hasina on Monday evening apparently to clarify his controversial remarks which threatened to sour relations. During the phone call around 8pm when Hasina was at her official home Ganabhaban, Singh praised her leadership, and said he was sure his Sept 6-7 visit would be a [...]