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Grace Entertainment Presents Irshad, A New-Age Style of Marathi Poetry

Grace Entertainment Presents Irshad, A New-Age Style of Marathi Poetry

By Amita Dabir HOUSTON: Houstonians had an exhilarating experience of appreciating a new-age style of Marathi poetry on Sunday, April 16 from two young and widely popular Marathi poets, Sandeep Khare and Vaibhav Joshi. Representing Generation Next of the Marathi poetry world, the two poets are on a US tour with their unique program titled […]

HARI: Instilling Spiritual, Cultural and Moral Values in Young Minds

HARI: Instilling Spiritual, Cultural and Moral Values in Young Minds

SUGAR LAND: A Sugarland based non profit, HARI is currently working on a big project – providing spiritual, cultural and moral value based enrichment program for kids. One of the main issue that parents worry about a lot is raising kids with the same cultural and moral values that were imparted to them. With heavy […]

Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Badam di Burfi (Almond Milk Squares)

Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Badam di Burfi (Almond Milk Squares)

Go to any Indian city and you will be sure to find a confectionary- or a halwai as they used to be called before they built fancy shops – where you will find many of the most popular and common sweets that Indians love. Among them, there will be a variety of   burfi (milk squares), […]

Raabta Title Song | Deepika Padukone, Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon | Pritam

Raabta Title Song | Deepika Padukone, Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon | Pritam

 

Ek Jindari Video Song | Hindi Medium | Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar | Sachin -Jigar

Ek Jindari Video Song | Hindi Medium | Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar | Sachin -Jigar

Exciting twists coming ahead in Kuch Rang…

Exciting twists coming ahead in Kuch Rang…

When things go right, there is always someone who tries to get it wrong!!! Yes, the same thing is being witnessed in the ongoing episodes of Sony Entertainment Television’s popular series Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi (Beyond Dreams). Now things are finally going well between Dev (Shaheer Sheikh) and Sonakshi (Erica Fernandes) and their […]

Lipstick Under My Burkha cleared for limited release in India

Lipstick Under My Burkha cleared for limited release in India

The award winning film had initially been denied classification due to abusive language, sexual scenes and being “[lady-oriented],”1 by the India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Director Alankrita Shrivastava claimed this an “assault on women’s rights” as she believed the main reason to deny clarification was that the film exposed sexism. Click here to […]

I regret cheating on my wife with Sushmita Sen: Vikram Bhatt

I regret cheating on my wife with Sushmita Sen: Vikram Bhatt

The heart is a lonely hunter. This could well apply to Vikram Bhatt’s rocky personal life that has seen him have two very public relationships with Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel in the past. The affair with Sushmita led to the break-up of his marriage with childhood sweetheart Aditi. When that relationship ended, Vikram had […]

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion Movie Review

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion Movie Review

BAAHUBALI 2 STORY : Amarendra Baahubali(Prabhas) and Bhalla Deva(Rana Daggubati) are cousins raised by the same mother, Sivagami(Ramya Krishnan) who is also the reigning Queen of Mahishmati. Amarendra is orphaned in his childhood and despite the fact that Bhalla is her own son, the Queen wants to crown Amarendra the King of Mahishmati because she […]

Baahubali 2 takes foreign markets by storm, smashes every box office record in sight

Baahubali 2 takes foreign markets by storm, smashes every box office record in sight

Baahubali 2’s historic debut at the Indian box office saw a reflection in the key foreign markets as well. Director SS Rajamouli’s big budget film has taken the American markets by storm. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted that Baahubali 2 has already collected more than Rs 50 crore in the US. Click here to read more… […]

US will factor in Indian IT firms’ value when revising H1B visa policy: official

US will factor in Indian IT firms’ value when revising H1B visa policy: official

New Delhi: The government on Saturday exuded confidence that the US administration will take into account the benefits Indian IT firms brought in for American companies when it goes for the H1B visa policy review. “We fully believe when they do the review, they will take into account the benefits that have gone to the […]

Made in India South Asia Satellite to be launched on 5 May

Made in India South Asia Satellite to be launched on 5 May

New Delhi: The South Asia Satellite will be launched on 5 May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday, describing it as India’s “pricelss gift” to its neighbours as part of the sabka saath, sabka vikaas concept. The South Asia Satellite is a geosynchronous communications and meteorology satellite by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for […]

9 lakh firms not filing tax returns being monitored, says revenue secretary

9 lakh firms not filing tax returns being monitored, says revenue secretary

About 900,000 registered companies do not file annual returns and are potential sources of money laundering, a top government official said on Saturday, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pitched for the country’s top anti-financial crime agency to be used “expeditiously” against tax cheats. Revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia said the Prime Minister’s Office had set up […]

Flight risk: 2016 most unsafe year for Indian aviation, 40% spike in near-miss cases

Flight risk: 2016 most unsafe year for Indian aviation, 40% spike in near-miss cases

On August 22 last year, an air traffic controller saw Indigo flight IGO258 and Air India’s AIC995 approaching the same altitude over New Delhi. Flight AIC995 was asked to turn left to avoid a collision, but that put the plane on the path of another Indigo aircraft, IGO528. It was a close shave, and in […]

A success in UK, Indian e-visa irks some over cost, reciprocity

A success in UK, Indian e-visa irks some over cost, reciprocity

India’s electronic visa scheme has been hailed by British travel agents – more tourists use the e-visa now than the regular one – but its success has raised issues about reciprocity as well as concern over fraud websites offering e-visas. The United Kingdom is one of the countries where the e-visa was extended in 2015 at a […]

Indian eatery in UK fined as neighbours complain of ‘curry smell’

Indian eatery in UK fined as neighbours complain of ‘curry smell’

Owners of an Indian restaurant in the UK have been fined by a court after neighbours complained of strong ‘curry smells’ emanating from the eatery. Middlesbrough Council fined ‘Khushi Indian Buffet Restaurant’ owners Shabana and Mohammed Khushi after the establishment sent aromas of ‘biryanis’ and ‘bhajis’ filtering through the area. Click here to read more… […]

India-origin researcher part of team which decoded science behind perfect throw

India-origin researcher part of team which decoded science behind perfect throw

NEW YORK: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have mathematically calculated the best strategy for the perfect throw – be it a dart, a basket ball or even a crumpled piece of paper. Researchers, who looked at the physics behind releasing a projectile with the human arm in a series of calculations, suggest that a […]

Indian American comic Hasan Minhaj roasts Trump: 9 of his best jabs from White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Indian American comic Hasan Minhaj roasts Trump: 9 of his best jabs from White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Comic Hasan Minhaj became the first Indian American on Saturday to headline the entertainment section of the annual White House correspondents dinner. He also became the first in recent memory to roast the leader of “our country”, a tradition, in absentia. Here are his 9 best jabs from the White House Correspondents Dinn: 1. “The […]

26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed to remain under house arrest for 90 days more

26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed to remain under house arrest for 90 days more

LAHORE: Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed will remain under house arrest+ here for 90 days more after the expiry of his three-month detention period tonight. Pakistan’s Punjab government on Sunday decided to extend the duration of the house arrest of Saeed and his four aides under the country’s anti-terrorism act and the […]

Beyond brothels: How real estate and online sites are changing red light areas

Beyond brothels: How real estate and online sites are changing red light areas

Thirty-four-year-old Sangeeta is mildly irritated at having been woken up and summoned to 50 GB Road to talk to a journalist. A client had kept her up late the previous night, she complains. “And it is too hot to sleep during the day. Bauji doesn’t get coolers installed in the rooms. Just those old fans,” […]