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‘Tere Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive’ is a singularly unfunny farce
Indian film-makers love Barack Obama. He appears in “My Name is Khan”, played by someone who looks almost nothing like him, and “Phas Gaye Re Obama” (“Obama, We Are Trapped”). But no Hindi film can...
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Students Called It Free Speech. The Government Called It Sedition
For two days police stood at the gates of a distinguished university in India’s capital without being invited in. Inside, five students wanted on sedition charges were holed up, protected by private...
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Margaret Sixel (R) accepts the award for Best Film Editing for “Mad Max: Fury Road” from Priyanka Chopra at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 28. The post appeared first on News...
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Actress Mindy Kaling arrives at the Oscars red carpet wearing Elizabeth Kennedy. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Hansal Mehta’s ‘Aligarh’ has a meditative quality
“Aligarh” is a movie that might require some amount of patience. The two-hour runtime is not long by Bollywood standards, but there is a meditative quality to it that seems to stretch time. Long...
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Chicago FBI Chief Visits Gurdwara To Address Hate Crimes
–Palatine, IL The Sikh Religious Society Palatine Illinois hosted FBI Chicago Region’s Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson for a friendly visit to its Gurdwara in Palatine, IL on February 26,...
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Riva Ganguly Das, New Consul General Of India In New York
Riva Ganguly Das, a 30-year veteran of the Indian Foreign Service, is the new Consul General of India in New York. She takes over from Dnyaneshwar Mulay who held the position since April 2013, at what...
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Gathering At Washington Square Park Shows Solidarity With JNU Students
Students from two U.S. universities gathered here to express their solidarity with the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University who were arrested in a case of alleged sedition and criminal conspiracy....
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Young Indian-American professionals and students Chip In For Clinton
For the young and the employed, it is often difficult to spare time for anything unrelated to work, much less politics, but young Indian-Americans working as professionals seem to be defying that...
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A Touch Of Brown At The Academy Awards
While no Indian from India or the U.S. won an Oscar in their own right, one Indian-American was part of the animation team for the film that bagged an Oscar; a British-Indian won for a feature...
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Chicago Election Commission’s Bid To Engage South Asian Voters
The Chicago Board of Election Commission held a press conference February 25 at the Indo -American Center in Chicago to inform South Asian voters community leaders, and media members about the...
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Free-for-all Celebrations Mark Sanjay Dutt’s Freedom
– MUMBAI A few diehard fans of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who became a free man on Thursday, celebrated his freedom in style here. Mumbai restaurateur Khalid Hakim, owner of Mughlai eatery Noor...
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio waves to supporters with former Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at a campaign rally on the eve of Super Tuesday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
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JNU student held on sedition charge bailed after free-speech protests
The Delhi High Court granted bail on Wednesday to Kanhaiya Kumar, head of the student union at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, arrested for alleged sedition in a case that led to mass protests...
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Afghan forces kill Indian consulate suicide attackers
Afghan security forces on Wednesday killed four suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least two people were killed and 19...
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With wit, sarcasm, Rahul takes on Modi in Lok Sabha
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday at his sarcastic best as he attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a host of issues ranging from his policies on Pakistan and black money to the JNU row...
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U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at her Super Tuesday primary night party in Miami, Florida March 1. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Kamala Harris may become first Indian American senator
Indian American Kamala Devi Harris, the attorney general of California, may become the first Indian American senator in the US Congress, the media reported on Wednesday. The landslide victory of 78.1...
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No direct link of Kanhaiya with anti-India slogans: Magistrate’s report
“No direct link” has been found between Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and “anti-India sloganeering” on the campus on February 9, a magisterial report...
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Woman arrested for skimming funds with fake cancer claims
An Indian American woman has been arrested in San Francisco, California, on charges of fraud — for faking to be a blood cancer patient and raising funds through online fundraising sites like Giving...
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