‘Baahubali’ actor meets Modi
New Delhi: Actor Prabhas, calls on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on July 26, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday met Telugu...
View ArticleA.P.J. Abdul Kalam: India’s missile man, an indomitable spirit
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) An enthusiast till the last for sharing ideas with students and youth, it was not surprising that former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was delivering a lecture at the...
View Article‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan': Triumph of brotherhood across borders
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Strained diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan are back in focus only days after leaders of both the nations discussed how to defuse tension. But the unanimous success...
View ArticleForced labor India’s largest trafficking problem: US report
Washington, July 27 (IANS) Saying that forced labour constitutes India’s largest trafficking problem, the US State Department on Monday placed it in the second best category of Tier 2 countries for...
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Indian security personnel celebrate on the roof of a police station after a gunfight in Dinanagar town, in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, July 2. The post appeared first on News India Times.
View ArticleIndian-American to represent Washington in US pageant
Washington, July 26 (IANS) Indian-American Priya Gopal-Walker, a survivor of child abuse, will represent Washington in the 2015 Miss Teen USA Pageant to be held in Bahamas. Gopal-Walker, 17, will...
View ArticleLord Venkateswara Temple to be built in Columbus, Ohio
New York, July 24 (IANS) A state-of-the-art Sri Venkateswara Temple with an eight-feet granite statue of Lord Venkateswara will be constructed in the US city of Columbus in Ohio state, a media report...
View ArticlePresident leads nation in paying tributes to Kalam; funeral on Thursday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures after placing a wreath on the body of former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, wrapped with the national flag, during a wreath laying ceremony at the airport in New...
View ArticleSupreme Court puts off last-minute decision on Yakub Memon
A television journalist sets his camera inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee/Files The Supreme Court has put off by a day a decision on...
View ArticleBappi Lahiri To Electrify Schaumburg India Day Parade
An estimated 5,000 people will let their hair down when Bollywood singer Bappi Lahiri regales audience at Boomers Stadium in Schaumburg in Cook County in northeastern Illinois August 16 during...
View ArticleIACS Holds 2d Business and Entrepreneurial Conference In Naperville
Indo American Community Services, a Chicagoland-based nonprofit, held its second business and entrepreneurial conference July 24, bringing together successful and wannabe entrepreneurs as well as...
View ArticleJersey City Celebrates Rath Yatra
Hundreds of Indian Americans gathered in front of Jersey City temples of different denominations July 16, as the annual Rath Yatra festival was celebrated by devout Hindus joined by some people from...
View ArticleAfter Uproar, Salman Apologises For Yakub-Tiger Tweets
– MUMBAI After tweets that triggered a volley of protests, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on Sunday evening apologised for saying that the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon should not hang but...
View Article22-Year-Old EMT On Her Last Day Of Work Killed In Accident
A Rutgers University graduate’s dream to become a medical doctor foundered on a road in New Jersey last week as the 22-year emergency medical technician responding to a call from East Brunswick was...
View ArticleVikram Amar Named Dean of Prestigious Illinois Law School
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Vikram Amar, the senior associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of law at the University of California at Davis School of Law, will take over as dean of the University of...
View ArticleWhat not to ask Tabu
Interviewing movie stars is usually a cut-and-dried affair. When a new film is about to open in cinemas, entertainment reporters get a call from the publicity agency. A couple of days later, you are...
View ArticlePunjab gunmen expose India’s soft border ahead of Pakistan talks
Security personnel stand at the site of a gunfight in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India, July 27, 2015. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta Three men carrying assault rifles, bombs and a rocket...
View ArticleAlarm bells in Bollywood as ‘Bahubali’, Hollywood films reap box-office gold
A dubbed fantasy epic that charmed millions of Hindi-speaking moviegoers this month has startled the Indian film industry, with box-office analysts viewing the movie’s record-breaking run as a wake-up...
View ArticleKalam saw India as a knowledge superpower – Modi
School girls light candles and hold portraits of former Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam during a prayer ceremony in Amritsar, July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Munish Sharma (India’s Prime Minister Narendra...
View ArticleIndians weave visual magic in “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’
New York, July 29 (IANS) A battery of visual effects professionals from India are behind the breathtaking visual effects seen in “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” movie which is set to release in...
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