Pakistan probe: no evidence links militant group to Pathankot air base attack
A special investigation team set up in Pakistan to probe a deadly assault on Pathankot air base last month found no evidence implicating the leader of the group India blamed for the attack, Pakistani...
View ArticleHeadley exposes Pakistan’s role in 2008 Mumbai terror strike
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Monday revealed a goldmine of information for Indian authorities on various aspects leading to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, while...
View ArticleNepal’s Madheshi Morcha calls off anti-Constitution protest
Bowing to strong public opinion, the Madhesi Morcha in Nepal on Monday called off its almost six-month-old anti-Constitution protest in the southern Terai region that led to a blockading of a major...
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Members of the Chinese community perform a lion dance as they take part in the celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year in Kolkata, India, February 8. The post appeared first on News India Times.
View Article‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ is an ill-fated love story
“Sanam Teri Kasam” is Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru‘s second Bollywood film as directors and is the cinematic equivalent of pulling off a Band-Aid very, very, very slowly. Excruciating and never-ending....
View ArticleSunny Deol is back in ‘Ghayal Once Again’
Twenty-six years after he first appeared on Indian movie screens as a revenge-seeking crazed man, Sunny Deol is back – more ghayal (injured) than ever. GhayalThicker make-up and a receding hairline...
View ArticleA meteorite may have killed someone for the first time in nearly two centuries
Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are investigating whether the death of a man at a college campus over the weekend was the result of a falling meteorite. A blast at...
View ArticleHempstead Hosts Long Island’s Annual India Republic Day Ceremony
Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony J. Santino and the entire town board hosted Long Island’s largest India Republic Day Commemoration Jan. 28. “The Town of Hempstead is happy to once again join with...
View ArticleFive Gujarati-Americans Killed In Road Accident In Pennsylvania
Five Indian-Americans, including two women, all of them from Gujarat, have been killed in a two-car accident on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania, Jan. 23. While four Indian-Americans died on the sport,...
View ArticleCab Driver Beaten And Robbed In Bronx
Ataur Rahman, a cab driver in the Bronx, was severely beaten and robbed while on the job Feb. 6, news reports said quoting police. Eyewitness News said several of Raman’s teeth were broken, and his...
View ArticleSikh Actor Barred From Boarding Plane Is Now Refusing To Fly Home
Waris Ahluwalia stopped resisting rigorous airport security checks a long time ago. The well-known Sikh American designer and actor says he’s grown accustomed to multiple bag searches, invasive...
View ArticleViolinist L. Subramaniam Captivates Audience At Manhattan Concert
L. Subramaniam, violin virtuoso from India, was the cynosure of not just all eyes but of all ears at a sold-out concert last week at 92nd Street Y., a multifaceted cultural institution in Manhattan’s...
View ArticleBrave Flight Attendant Who Saved Lives In ‘Neerja’
Ram Madhvani took a 13-year break from movies. In the interim, he made award-winning commercials (including the Happy Dent gum ad), but efforts to do more in film didn’t work out. Then photographer...
View ArticleDirector Hopes Oscar- nominated Film Will Help End Pakistan Honor Killings
An Oscar-winning filmmaker hopes her latest Academy Award-nominated documentary will help bring tougher laws against honor killings in Pakistan, which account for the deaths of hundreds of women and...
View ArticleIndian soldier pulled out alive after six days buried in snow
An Indian soldier declared dead has been found alive under 25 feet (8 metres) of snow, six days after he was buried by an avalanche that hit his military post in the disputed Himalayan region of...
View ArticleSushil Koirala: Gritty soldier of democracy, steward of Nepal’s Constitution
Sushil Koirala, 76, who died early on Tuesday in Kathmandu following respiratory failure, will be remembered as the prime minister of Nepal who stewarded a republican federal constitution of the...
View ArticleKarnataka police say bust child trafficking racket to U.S.
Police in Bengaluru have broken up an international child trafficking racket and arrested 16 members of a gang suspected of sending children illegally to the United States, an investigating officer...
View ArticleGetting To The Church On Time: The Nesh Pillay Story
Nesh Pillay, 25, and her partner Aaron Vanderhoff, had been a couple for 5 years when they decided they would get formally married on the quiet with family as witness, and announce it to the wider...
View ArticleIndian scientists express doubt over meteorite death attribution
Indian scientists have expressed doubt that a man in Tamil Nadu was the first person to have been confirmed killed by a meteorite strike, as the state’s top official has declared. The experts said the...
View ArticleU.S. and India consider joint patrols in South China Sea
The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a U.S. defense official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger Beijing,...
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