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Aarav to turn action hero for Aru in Life OK’s Baazigar

Aarav to turn action hero for Aru in Life OK’s Baazigar

Life OK’s latest offering Baazigar (Guroudev Bhalla & Dhaval Gada) has been keeping its audience hooked to the show with new twist and turns. Now, we hear that Aarav will turn into an action hero to save his beloved wifey dear Aru (Ishita Dutta). Shocked to hear this? Wait and read the entire piece then. A source […]

Tay Hai – Rustom | Ankit Tiwari | Akshay Kumar & Ileana D’cruz | Romantic Songs 2016

Tay Hai – Rustom | Ankit Tiwari | Akshay Kumar & Ileana D’cruz | Romantic Songs 2016

Toota Jo Kabhi Tara | A Flying Jatt | Tiger S, Jacqueline F | Atif Aslam & Sumedha K | Sachin-Jigar

Toota Jo Kabhi Tara | A Flying Jatt | Tiger S, Jacqueline F | Atif Aslam & Sumedha K | Sachin-Jigar

Kala Chashma | Baar Baar Dekho | Sidharth Malhotra Katrina Kaif | Badshah Neha Kakkar Indeep Bakshi

Kala Chashma | Baar Baar Dekho | Sidharth Malhotra Katrina Kaif | Badshah Neha Kakkar Indeep Bakshi

Dishoom Movie Review

Dishoom Movie Review

A star Indian batsman is kidnapped 36 hours ahead of a make-or-break match. The external affairs ministry in Delhi rushes a badass cop to a place “somewhere in the Middle East” to lead the manhunt to find both the missing cricketer and the mysterious captor. Sounds super exciting? On paper, it does. It definitely is […]

Camps in Leh Ladakh—your guide to the very best

Camps in Leh Ladakh—your guide to the very best

A good way to celebrate this beautiful world is to camp, it means to get away far from the madding crowd, to live under the open sky, and taste the adventure of a lifetime. Camping in Ladakh, amidst the high Himalayas, is equivalent to meditation or introspection. The astonishing landscapes of Ladakh make it apt for a romantic camping destination. Spread out in a dramatic form, with […]

Cycling tips for beginners

Cycling tips for beginners

While the monsoon is not really an ideal time to cycle, don’t let the potholes, muck and wet roads get you down. Take advantage of the dry spells that the city often experiences between bouts of heavy rain and cycle away to good health. Invest in a good bicycle, helmet, gloves (optional) and keep aside some […]

In Dipa Karmakar, a fresh Indian Olympic dream

In Dipa Karmakar, a fresh Indian Olympic dream

In the last six months, Dipa Karmakar’s life has swung the entire arc. On October 31, 2015, despite displaying the best vaulting effort of her career, Dipa couldn’t secure an Olympic berth. She had come perilously close, but a podium finish eluded her. Executing the Produnova, Dipa’s poor landing, despite a strong jump and lift, negated […]

What a life: Film world mourns Mahasweta Devi’s demise

What a life: Film world mourns Mahasweta Devi’s demise

Bengali film star Prosenjit Chatterjee and Bollywood filmmakers like Mahesh Bhatt and Madhur Bhandarkar on Thursday mourned the death of eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi. For them, she led a life that will be remembered forever. Mahasweta Devi passed away at a city nursing home on Thursday following prolonged illness, an attending doctor […]

Katrina Kaif’s abs in Kala Chashma song are weapons of mass distraction

Katrina Kaif’s abs in Kala Chashma song are weapons of mass distraction

There is a war on right now and we have decided to play Switzerland. We are talking about the great ab fight — Katrina Kaif’s perfect midriff vs Parineeti Chopra’s newly-acquired six-pack. ‘Jaaneman aah’ from Dishoom was eye-opener of sorts. Parineeti Chopra, when we saw her on screen last, was the performance-oriented, I-don’t-give-a-damn-about-looks actress. Then she […]

India achieved in two years what China didn’t in decade

India achieved in two years what China didn’t in decade

TAIPEI: Forgive the Chinese if they start feeling a certain amount of OS envy. For more than 15 years, China has unsuccessfully attempted to come up with a homegrown operating system that would be loved by the masses and allow the country to be freed from the shackles of Western technological imperialism. India has achieved that […]

Rupee closes at 67.04 per US dollar

Rupee closes at 67.04 per US dollar

MUMBAI: The Indian rupee on Thursday strengthened for the third session in a row to hit a two-week high against the US dollar, tracking gains in the local equity markets over optimism that the government may pass the goods and services tax bill in the current parliament session. The home currency closed at 67.04—a level last […]

No need to panic on Trump, Brexit impact long-term

No need to panic on Trump, Brexit impact long-term

IT body NASSCOM on Thursday said that the industry needs to wait and watch, rather than panic, on the outcome of the US Presidential elections, though it warned of lasting impact of ‘Brexit’ on India. Republican candidate Donald Trump is a frontrunner for the US President’s post and is widely feared in India for his stance on the outsourcing […]

Short route to Green Card

Short route to Green Card

For the rich who want to be American citizens, here is the quickest way to have a Green Card. What one needs to do is to invest $500,000 to $1 million, depending on the U.S. government rules, in an employment-generating Regional Centre Program or have a direct investment to get a permanent residence Visa within […]

Navjot Sidhu likely to join AAP on I-Day eve, campaign for Punjab poll

Navjot Sidhu likely to join AAP on I-Day eve, campaign for Punjab poll

Former Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to join the Aam Aadmi Party on August 14 and plunge into the campaign for the Punjab assembly elections from the next day, party sources said on Thursday. The cricketer-turned-politician, who stunned his party on July 19 by suddenly resigning from Rajya Sabha to which […]

GST bill: Cabinet clears key amendments to push reform through Parliament

GST bill: Cabinet clears key amendments to push reform through Parliament

NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved key changes to the constitution amendment bill for goods and services tax (GST), doing away with a 1% additional levy on supply of goods, and proposing full compensation to states for five years for revenue loss arising from transition to GST. The changes pave the way for the […]

Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple Hosts the First Ever 84 Randal Mataji na Lota

Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple Hosts  the First Ever 84 Randal Mataji na Lota

By Vanshika Vipin HOUSTON: For the first time in Houston, a 84 Randal Mataji na Lota and Jagran were hosted on a grand scale, at the Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Greater Houston. Ravi Randal Maa is a Hindu Goddess and Kuldevi, whose main temple is located in Dadva, Gujarat. She is thought to be the […]

Spectacle of Universal Love Conceived by a Master of Kathak Dance

Spectacle of Universal Love Conceived by a Master of Kathak Dance

By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: The opening scene was grand, but simple. A man walks to the posts, lighting street lamps and the plaza in front of the two-story house with the large steps and the balcony with the balustrade starts to come alive with people, first in ones and two and then in groups. Soon […]

Kabali Catches Houston by Storm

Kabali Catches Houston by Storm

By Vanshika Vipin HOUSTON: Houston saw some action from a frenzied crowd, last week. The occasion was the release of Kabali, the latest film starring the SuperStar Rajnikant. Die-hard Thalaiva fans had queued outside theatres to watch their beloved larger-than-life star. To many, Rajnikant is not just an actor or a SuperStar; he is a […]

Jvalanthi Prasad: Arangetram Review, A performance par excellence

Jvalanthi Prasad: Arangetram Review, A performance par excellence

By  Anu Mahesh HOUSTON: On the hot, humid summer evening of  July 16, the audience at the Bayou Theater in Clearlake, got to witness the magnificent Arangetram (solo dance debut) of 14 year old Jvalanti Prasad, daughter of Surekha and Venkat Prasad, who, at the young age of five, began learning the ancient and revered […]

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