Content-driven Films Good For Health: Kay Kay Menon
Mumbai: Actor Kay Kay Menon during the book launch of When Life Turns Turtle by author Raj Supe, in Mumbai on July 27, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Actor Kay Kay Menon says contentdriven cinema is good for...
View ArticleIndian-American Senator appointed to important Judiciary Committee
Kamala Harris, sworn in as Democratic Senator from California Jan. 3, 2017. (Photo: Facebook) Almost exactly a year after being elected to the U.S. Congress, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, the first...
View ArticleEx-cricket players ask powerful Indian board to back Olympics push
Cricket – India v New Zealand – Third Test cricket match – Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore, India – 11/10/2016. India’s Virat Kohli takes the catch of New Zealand’s James Neesham. REUTERS/Danish...
View ArticleJoyalukkas grows presence in Singapore with new showroom on Serangoon Road
Mr.S M Abdul Jaleel, Founder CEO, MES Group inaugurates Joyalukkas 2nd Showroom in Singapore in the presence of local dignitaries, customers & Joyalukkas management staffs. SINGAPORE Little India...
View ArticleImmigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blitzed dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to interview employees and deliver audit notifications, carrying out what the agency said was the...
View ArticleTwo dead in protests over Pakistan girl’s rape and murder
LAHORE, Pakistan – Two civilians were killed when officers fired live rounds to disburse crowds that attacked a police station in Pakistan on Wednesday in a protest over the rape and murder of a...
View ArticleInfosys Science Foundation awards presented to six winners
Employees walk along a corridor in the Infosys campus in the southern Indian city of Bangalore September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Abhishek Chinnappa BENGALURU – Global software major’s Infosys Science...
View ArticleConsulate General of India, Chicago celebrates Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas
On January 09, the Consulate General of India in Chicago, celebrated Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in downtown Chicago. About 100 members of the community as well as friends of India attended the event,...
View ArticleBill introduced to increase allotment of Green Cards by 45 percent annually
Photograph of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security logo. NEW YORK – A bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives will seek to increase the allotment of green cards by 45 percent, rising...
View ArticleHuma Abedin decides to withdraw divorce with Anthony Weiner
Huma Abedin, aide to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, arrives to meet with the House Select Committee on Benghazi in the U.S. Capitol in Washington October 16, 2015....
View ArticleBerkeley student Vetri Velan builds online calculator to decode Republican...
Vetri Velan (Courtesy: news.berkeley.edu) NEW YORK – Indian American Vetri Velan, along with fellow University of California Berkeley student Kathy Shield, have built an online calculator that will let...
View ArticleRaghunandan Yandamuri to be executed on Feb. 23
NEW YORK – Indian American Raghunandan Yandamuri, who was sentenced to death in 2014 for killing a baby and her grandmother back in 2012, will be executed in Pennsylvania on Friday, Feb. 23. According...
View ArticleIndian-American state lawmaker to become Majority Whip in New Jersey
New Jersey State Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, representing District 33, is slated to become the House Majority Leader, only the second Indian-American ever in the nation’s history to be holding that post....
View ArticleTrump profanely derides immigrants’ nations of origin
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump...
View ArticleShareholders press Twitter, Facebook to act on fake news, hate speech, sexual...
Logo of the Twitter and Facebook are seen through magnifier on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic A group of shareholders on...
View ArticleTrump cancels trip to Britain, ‘not a big fan’ of embassy
U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,...
View ArticleIsrael’s Netanyahu eyes trade, defence ties on India trip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an official welcoming ceremony upon his arrival in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel...
View ArticleFour judges criticise India’s Supreme Court in rare public spat
(L-R) Justices Kurian Joseph, Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan Lokur address the media at a news conference in New Delhi, India January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer NEW DELHI – Four justices of...
View Article‘Mukkabaaz’ An Honest Biopic: Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap – reuters In his latest film, director Anurag Kashyap focuses on sports and politics in small-town India, with the story of a young boxer’s struggle to make it big. Kashyap, 45, spoke to...
View ArticleShiva Ayyadurai says Tamil Chair at Harvard ‘exploiting Tamilians’
Shiva Ayyadurai (Courtesy: Twitter) NEW YORK – The Tamil Chair Inc. board, who is trying to institute a chair at Harvard University, said that it will be taking legal action against Indian American and...
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