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Maryland Congressional Candidate Barve Endorsed By Big Labor Union
Maryland state Assembly Delegate Kumar Barve who is running for the Democratic Party nomination for his Congressional race from District 8, received a significant endorsement from a labor union...
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How A Software Consultant Became A Stand-up Comedian
Doing stand-up comedy in India is not the usual career path for computer science graduates, but that is keeping University of California, Irvine, alumnus Sanjay Manaktala busy these days. Against a...
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‘Fitoor’ feels hollow and superficial
For a film supposedly based on Charles Dickens‘ “Great Expectations“, director Abhishek Kapoor seems to have started reading the book before abandoning it halfway. Kapoor’s adaptation begins with the...
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Hindu priests hold traditional incense lamps as they perform a ritual known as”Aarti” on the banks of Sangam during the annual religious festival of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India, February 14. The post...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the inauguration ceremony of the ‘Make In India’ week in Mumbai, India, February 13. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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No prejudice seen against early Africans in India
Africans came to India as early as the 13th century as soldiers and there was no prejudice against them at that time. They intermarried with local women, daughters of rulers and notables, and rose to...
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Non-film music gets a Bollywood spin
The charming looks of Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan can’t be ignored while watching the ups and downs of the Kapoor family in the recently unveiled trailer of “Kapoor & Sons”. But it’s also the...
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After major setback, what’s next for Facebook in India
It was a terrible week for Facebook in India. India’s telecom regulator dealt the first major blow to the social media giant’s effort to provide low-cost Internet to the poor last Monday – effectively...
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Province in Muslim Pakistan passes landmark Hindu marriage bill
Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh on Monday became the country’s first region to give its small Hindu minority the right to register their marriages officially. Non-Muslims make up only about...
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Protests Over JNU Student Leader’s Arrest Echoes In The U.S.
Protests against the violation of civil rights at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, where its student body’s president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last week on charges of alleged sedition,...
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It was meteorite that killed a person in Vellore: Study
It was indeed a meteorite that killed a driver in an engineering college in Vellore and shattered the window panes of buildings and buses, the Tiruchirapalli-based National College categorically said...
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Indian American keen to make ‘neglected’ Gujarati food world-famous
In the US, she is ‘the Indian girl from Masterchef’! Indian American chef Hetal Vasavada, who has been treating her foreign friends on the reality TV show with khichdi and coconut curry soup, says...
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Dancer Pavithra Nagarajan named U.S. Presidential scholar
An Indian American danseuse has been nominated for 2016 US Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honours for high school students. Pavithra Nagarajan from California is one of...
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2nd Installment Of Tere Bin Laden ‘Dead Or Alive’ In Theaters This Month
Tere Bin Laden – ‘Dead or Alive’, the second installment of the critically acclaimed film Tere Bin Laden (2010), is set to release Feb. 26. A whacky comical satire about the post 9/11 world, this...
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I’m Not Dying To Break Any Norm: Kareena Kapoor Khan
Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan is picking unusual films like “Ki and Ka”, and even working with younger actors like Arjun Kapoor. Breaking norms, is it? No, she says. “Ki and Ka” is the story of a...
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Chicago Man Wins $3.1 Million For Discrimination In Police Recruitment
The city of Chicago has proposed a $3.1 million settlement compensation to resolve a lawsuit by the U.S. government alleging that the city discriminated against foreign-born police officer candidates,...
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Chicago Real Estate Professionals Organize Association For South Asians
The Association of South Asian Real Estate Professionals organized its inaugural gala at Cascade Banquet Hall Jan. 29, marking the beginning of a new era in community outreach for real estate...
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Chicago Board of Election Confirms Early Voting To Begin Feb. 17
With Election Day Mar. 15, around the corner, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has confirmed that early voting will begin Feb. 17 at 69 W Washington and continue to 50 Chicago ward sites...
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BJP wins four seats as NDA fares better in by-elections
The BJP on Tuesday won four seats and the Congress two as the ruling NDA bettered the opposition in by-elections for 12 seats held across eight states three days ago. Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi...
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Opposition raises concerns with Modi over student protests
Indian opposition leaders raised concerns on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over widening protests on university campuses, as the heated political atmosphere again threatened to stall...
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