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Akshay Kumar’s Singing Voice in It’s Entertainment is Female

Akshay Kumar’s Singing Voice in It’s Entertainment is Female

If men dressing in women’s outfits wasn’t a trend enough already in Bollywood, here’s Akshay Kumar trying out something new – he lip-syncs to a female voice for the song Johnny Johnny for It’s Entertainment. The song is the first to be released from the album of the forthcoming film It’s Entertainment, which marks the directorial debut of writers […]

Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan Repeat Famous Hug at Iftaar Party

Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan Repeat Famous Hug at Iftaar Party

Shah Rukh and Salman Khan have set an iftaar tradition of sorts. The feuding superstars, whose six-year-long animosity has now reached fabled proportions, hugged each other warmly at an iftaar party hosted by Congress MLA Baba Siddique in Mumbai yesterday. Salman, dressed in a blue shirt, and SRK, wearing black and stubble, embraced each other with some encouragement from […]

Being Part of Team More Important Than Being Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Being Part of Team More Important Than Being Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Nottingham: Being instinctive is seen as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s best attributes but the man who has captained India to unprecedented highs in the last seven years reveals that his often talked about gut feeling is backed by cold logic. In a rare interview on his 33rd birthday, Dhoni recollected the time he was made captain before […]

Ganguly predicts Germany-Holland final in World Cup

Ganguly predicts Germany-Holland final in World Cup

KOLKATA: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, who is set to fly off to England for commentary assignments, will miss celebrating his birthday with family at home when he turns 42 tomorrow but Bengal’s favourite son promises to be updated with all the football action. “That’s the way it is, can’t help,” Ganguly said before leaving […]

Jamai Raja promo: Ravi Dubey returns with a fiction show

Jamai Raja promo: Ravi Dubey returns with a fiction show

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_97boNJxARk[/youtube] The first trailer of Zee TV’s upcoming show is out Ravi Dubey was last in news for his big fat wedding with Sargun Mehta. Well Ravi did host a few shows prior to that, but it’s not the same as doing a daily, right. The actor, who last played the lead on Sony TV’s Saas Bina Sasural, […]

Alia Bhatt: I love to sing, It gives me a certain sense of peace

Alia Bhatt: I love to sing, It gives me a certain sense of peace

Ms Bhatt has sung a beautiful song for her upcoming filmHumpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Read on to know what she has to say about singing and her future plans After proving herself as an actor in Highway, Alia Bhatt wants her future film choices to be equally brave and varied. Alia, who is the daughter of Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt, […]

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: Ishita to discover the truth about Raman and Shagun!

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: Ishita to discover the truth about Raman and Shagun!

Ishita’s (Divyanka Tripathi) faith in Raman (Karan Patel) will soon be shattered when she finds the truth about Shagun (Anita Hassanandani) and her husband. Despite Shagun’s lover Ashok alleging that something was cooking between Raman and Shagun, Ishita didn’t trut him. She didn’t even believe her sister Mihika, when she pointed fingers at Raman in […]

Backlash Stirs in US Against Foreign Worker Visas

Backlash Stirs in US Against Foreign Worker Visas

Kelly Parker was thrilled when she landed her dream job in 2012 providing tech support for Harley-Davidson’s Tomahawk, Wisconsin, plants. The divorced mother of three hoped it was the beginning of a new career with the motorcycle company. The dream didn’t last long. Parker claims she was laid off one year later after she trained […]

Shah Rukh Khan to make 200 cr profit before Happy New Year releases

Shah Rukh Khan to make 200 cr profit before Happy New Year releases

A film’s promotional drive is usually a big component of its budget. But what if the campaign can be tapped to fetch massive returns? That’s exactly what Shah Rukh Khan has in mind for his next home production, Happy New Year, which is gearing up for a big Diwali release. So, while other producers are […]

Sonam Kapoor: ‘Dolly Ki Doli’ due for release Feb 6, 2015

Sonam Kapoor: ‘Dolly Ki Doli’ due for release Feb 6, 2015

Sonam Kapoor-starrer “Dolly Ki Doli” has been locked for Feb 6, 2015, release. “‘Dolly Ki Doli’ releases 6th Feb 2015!!!” Arbaaz Khan, the film’s producer, posted on his Twitter page. The comedy-drama, directed by Abhishek Dogra, is about a girl who loots men after marrying them and runs away. It also features Rajkummar Rao and […]

Sanskrit Newspaper Sees Business Model in New Government

Sanskrit Newspaper Sees Business Model in New Government

The Saturday after Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic victory in the country’s parliamentary elections was announced, some 40,000 subscribers to a weekly Sanskrit newspaper woke up to a resounding headline: “Miracle, Miracle, Miracle,” printed in bold Sanskrit over the top of Sajal Sandesh, which means “Gentle Message.” But for Deven Khatri, who […]

Women Can’t Have It All, says Indra Nooyi in Discussion Gone Viral

Women Can’t Have It All, says Indra Nooyi in Discussion Gone Viral

New York:  In a discussion that has gone viral on the Web, PepsiCo’s India-born CEOIndra Nooyi, counted among the world’s most powerful women, has acknowledged that it is difficult to maintain a work-life balance. “I don’t think women can have it all. I just don’t think so. We pretend we have it all. We pretend we […]

Confession, dejection and drama in Zee TV’s Qubool Hai

Confession, dejection and drama in Zee TV’s Qubool Hai

Viewers can now look forward to a passionate love story blossoming in Zee TV’s Qubool Hai (4 Lions Films) with confession of love coming from Aahil (Karanvir Bohra). Yes, this is exactly what you would see in the coming week! Aahil has already felt love when he saved Sanam (Surbhi Jyoti). And now, the story will reach […]

Tiny Orissa Community Establishes Rath Yatra as a Houston Tradition

  By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: Seven years ago, when the tiny Hindu community from the state of Orissa in India first came up with the idea of celebrating one of the largest festivals made famous in their part of the world, they were simply replicating the customs and traditions which they had been raised with. […]

Devotees Pack the Breezy Discovery Green Grounds During Rath Yatra

  Click here for photo collage   By Sandhya Thakkar HOUSTON: Lord Jagannath (Lord of the Universe) is carried on his Divine Journey, or Yatra, on a massive Chariot, or Rath, every year since ancient times in the city of Puri, is the origin of the English word Juggernaut, or unstoppable force.  Indeed, despite hourly […]

Bowling for Brazil with IITAGH

Bowling for Brazil with IITAGH

By Pratish Kanani STAFFORD: What do you get when you combine the following:  a bowling event, a soccer game, some soccer fanatics, a separate viewing room with TVs, parents and kids wearing jerseys, and plenty of salad and pizza for all. You get the 9th Annual IIT Alumni of Greater Houston Bowling event held at […]

San Antonio Hosts 32nd AAPI Convention

SAN ANTONIO: The 32nd annual convention of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) attended by nearly 2,000 delegates from across the nation concluded at the Grand Hyatt Henry Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, with the outgoing preside of AAPI Dr. Jayesh Shah administering the oath of office to Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar, the […]

Improve Literacy – Open Source Software with Lowest Cost Tablet, Aakash

HOUSTON: Indian institute of Technology Madras Alumni Association and Indian Institutes of Technology Alumni of Greater Houston are hosting a Mentoring event on July 6, at Rice University, Duncan Hall from 4 – 6 p.m.  The Speaker is Dr. Kannan Moudgalya, an IITM and Rice alumni, and IITB Prof. of Chemical Engineering. His Team has created […]

TCC Taped Ball Tournament Spring 2014 – Spartans Winners, HJCC Runners Up

HOUSTON: Spartans won the TCC Taped Ball Spring 2014 tournament defeating Houston Javelinas Cricket Club (HJCC) by 57 runs and maintained their perfect record of winning the final in all of their appearances. It was a highly competitive tournament involving 15 teams. On a day with good weather for playing cricket (06/14/2014), Spartans won the […]

Houston Iftar: Annual Ramadan Dinner with the Mayor

HOUSTON:  The Yearly Tradition returns with the “Houston Iftar” Annual Ramadan Dinner coming up on Saturday, July 12 at 6:00 PM at the picturesque Bayou City Event Center. The Honorable Mayor Annise Parker will be the keynote speaker at this auspicious event. The event is being organized by Abu Dhabi, Baku, Istanbul and Karachi Sister […]