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Actors Should Realize That Films Are Backed By Fans, Not Reviews: Kareena
Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan says that her recently released film “Ki & Ka” might have not received rave reviews from some critics, but her fans and movie-goers have liked the film. She is happy...
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Shri Krishna Vrundavana Temple In Edison Marks 13th Anniversary
The Shri Krishna Vrundavana, Edison, New Jersey, celebrated its 13th anniversary April two, with Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das, Consul General of India in New York, attending the event as the chief...
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AIA Hosts Welcome Dinner In Long Island For New Consul General
The Association of Indians in America hosted a welcome dinner for the new Consul General of India in New York, Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das, at the Swan Club in Long Island March 31. The event was...
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Buffalo Researcher Receives Prestigious Award For Laser Research
Praveen Arany, a University at Buffalo researcher who studies wound healing and tissue regeneration, received the 2016 Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Young Investigator Award from the American...
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U.S. Army Grants Sikh American Officer Right To Wear Turban
An Indian-American Sikh military officer in U.S. .has been granted permission to wear a religious beard and turban while in uniform, the media reported April 1. The U.S. Army’s decision to the make...
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‘Kaifi Aur Main’ Celebrates The Life And Times Of Kaifi Azmi
“Kaifi Aur Main” a unique theatrical collage of music and poetry about the life of one of India’s most famous poets Kaifi Azmi, father of actress Shabana Azmi, was presented by Shebani and Madan...
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Zoroastrian Center Opens Its Doors In Pomona, N.Y.
Six hundred Zarathushtis (Zoroastrians), their friends and families from the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came together to celebrate what organizers called, a...
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Music Business Booking Agent Sentenced For Fraud
Yugeshwar Rajkumar, a music business booking agent, was sentenced to 3¼ -to-6½ years in state prison last week after his guilty plea in March in New York State Supreme Court to grand larceny in the...
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Muslims Welcome Man Who Shot Up Their Mosque
Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque April 2. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. It was...
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U.S. Army Veteran Supriya Venkatesan’s Coming Home
At 19, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq. I spent 15 months there — eight at the U.S. Embassy, where I supported the communications for top generals. I understand that decisions at...
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Bollywood Studios Eye Profits At Last As India Goes Smartphone Mad
India’s all-singing, all-dancing movie hits capture the attention of hundreds of millions of fans – but they generate precious little in box office profits for the world’s largest cinema industry....
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Kangana Lodges Complaint Against Hrithik For Sharing Private Photos
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut April 7 lodged a legal complaint against Hrithik Roshan for “misusing” the confidential emails and photographs used at the time when they were together. Kangana’s...
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Pakistan’s Minorities Seek Protection At U.N. Protest
Pakistani Christians and their supporters demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters here April 5 asking for the protection of minorities in Pakistan and help for hundreds of Christian...
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India In Talks To Buy U.S. Predator Drones
India is in talks with the United States to purchase 40 Predator surveillance drones, officials said, a possible first step towards acquiring the armed version of the aircraft and a development likely...
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Rutgers Girl Shabnam Abedi’s Album Scores In Bangladesh And India
Shabnam Abedi says the melodies of Bengali composer Kazi Nazrul Islam, a poet-philosopher born in the late 19th century, have been hardwired into her soul – music she grew up with as the New...
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Ten Indians Nabbed In Federal Sting Operation Against Visa Fraudsters
Federal agents, including from Homeland Security Investigations, blew the lid off an elaborate scheme by 21 brokers and recruiters, including 10 Indian-Americans, who allegedly conspired to illegally...
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I’m a law abiding citizen: Big B on tax evasion claims
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has responded to the allegations that he has used his star power to evade tax, saying that he is a “law abiding citizen”. On Friday, a news report shared the...
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British royals bat in Mumbai for poor Indian kids
Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge played a charity cricket match with underprivileged children in Mumbai on Sunday, the first day of a week-long tour of India that will include a trip to the...
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Stony Brook Student Among Glamour Magazine’s College Women Of The Year
An Indian-American women from New York is among Glamour Magazine’s Top 10 College Women of the Year. Each of the go-getting women chosen for their leadership qualities and humanitarian work gets...
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India Swoons Over British Royals Will & Kate
The pomp and circumstance of British Raj collided with cricket, doses of the reality of poverty, a dash of environmental conservation, mixed in with innovation in 21st Century India, to make the...
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