Don’t Have Any Regrets As An Actor: Akshay Kumar
Superstar Akshay Kumar says he has no regrets whatsoever as an actor who has spent over two decades in Bollywood. “I don’t have any regrets (as an actor) and I am happy that I am in this industry. I...
View ArticleRupa Bhattacharyya To Speed Up 9/11 Claims Processing
Rupa Bhattacharyya, the newly-appointed Special Master for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund turned somewhat emotional recounting her experience in Washington D.C on that fateful day during a...
View ArticleIndian American-owned Company Approved For Moon Landing
An Indian-American entrepreneur has begun a countdown for launching a moon lander next year after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it has approved his company’s venture. Naveen...
View ArticleUtah Sikhs Raise $125,000 To Fund National Awareness Campaign
Salt Lake City’s Sikh community raised $125,000 last month to support National Sikh Campaign’s media initiative to educate Americans about Sikhs and Sikhism, and to fund a national awareness campaign...
View ArticleGoogle To Train 2 Million Android Developers In India
With its vision to help make India a global hub of high-quality mobile developers, Google has announced it is working on an Android Skilling program in India that aims to train two million mobile...
View ArticleWashington Poised To Elect First Indian-American Woman In U.S. Congress
Pramila Jayapal, a state senator in Washington state, is poised to become the first Indian American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress in November. Jayapal, a Democrat and a Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleSuspected Militant Killed By Police In Bangladesh Is A U.S. Citizen
A 24-year-old Bangladeshi American student was among nine suspected militants killed in a gun battle with police in Bangladesh, Dhaka police said Aug. 3. On Facebook, police identified seven of the...
View ArticleU.S. And Pakistan: Frayed Relations
The Pentagon has withheld $300 million in military assistance to Pakistan, U.S. officials said Aug. 3, a potential blow to U.S.-Pakistani ties and a sign of ongoing frustration with Islamabad for not...
View ArticlePrime Minister Modi picks Vijay Rupani to stabilize Gujarat
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed a party loyalist on Friday to lead his home state of Gujarat in an effort to broaden his support base ahead of crucial state elections next year. The...
View ArticleGunmen kill 13 in market in India’s northeast Assam state
Attackers wearing military uniforms shot dead at least 13 people and wounded 15 on Friday in a busy market area in a town in India’s restive northeastern state of Assam, in an attack blamed by the...
View ArticleLonely nights for India’s ‘women left behind’, unaware of Gulf migrant crisis
KALPAKKAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Inside her blue-walled house, E. Bhagyam sits with a faded wedding album and talks about how much she misses her husband, who works as a welder in the...
View ArticleSonia Gandhi has shoulder surgery after fall at campaign stop
Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, has undergone shoulder surgery at a New Delhi hospital after suffering a fall on a campaign stop this week, senior Congress party officials...
View ArticleParliament approves the most radical indirect tax reform
India on Monday took a major step towards a unified goods and services tax regime across the country, with parliament passing the relevant constitution amendment bill in what is seen as the most...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills at least 70 at Pakistan hospital
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern...
View ArticleFilm on Indira Gandhi’s assassination cleared by censor board
“31st October”, a movie based on the assasination of the country’s former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and its aftermath, has been cleared by the Revising Committee of Central Board of Film...
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Michael Phelps (R) and Caeleb Dressel of USA celebrate after winning the Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay. The post appeared first on News India Times.
View ArticleHead and Neck Cancer Day Observed In New York
The International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Sciences (IFHNOS) celebrated World Head and Neck Cancer Day July 27 in Commack, New York. The event was observed collectively by 55 head and...
View ArticleMindy Kaling Looking To Transition To The Big Screen
Actress, writer, and director Mindy Kaling, made famous on the small screen by her series about a raunchy Indian-American physician in search of love, is now looking to enter the big screen. Not...
View ArticleCommercial Hindi Cinema Generalizes Issues, Says Irrfan Khan
Actor Irrfan Khan, who fears that the danger of losing young audiences is lurking over the country’s entertainment world, says commercial Hindi films lack focus when it comes to dealing with important...
View ArticleKarmakar Is First Indian In Olympics Gymnastics Final
When Dipa Karmakar slumped into a chair at the Rio Olympic Arena on Sunday after her “vault of death” did not go to plan, the glazed look in her eyes suggested her 2016 Games were over Seven hours...
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