Indian Premier League 2016: Why Delhi Daredevils Dumped Yuvraj Singh and Retained Zaheer Khan
New Delhi: Indian Premier League 2016’s first trading window saw two veterans of the game – Yuvraj Singh and Zaheer Khan – go through contrasting fortunes as the former was released by Delhi Daredevils while the latter was retained by the same franchise. Yuvraj, who is part of the India’s Twenty20I squad for next month’s Australia […]
Indian Americans Pack More Heft in Modi’s Shadow
WASHINGTON — The influential Indian American community packed more heft in 2015 as America wooed “India’s reformer-in-chief” Narendra Modi, as President Barack Obama called his “good friend” amid another love fest with the Indian diaspora. Beyond power meetings with Obama and other world leaders at the UN, as the Indian prime minister on his second odyssey […]
Security Raised at New Year Celebrations Amid World Terror Fears
LONDON – New Year celebrations around the world were going ahead despite heightened terror fears Thursday — as New York deployed 6,000 police officers to Times Square and Belgium charged a 10th suspect over the Paris massacre. High-profile attacks claimed by ISIS and other groups in 2015 cast a shadow over traditional public gatherings in […]
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani: Badi Rani Maa to make a re-entry on the show!
Actors Rashami Desai and Karan Wahi will also add up the entertainment quotient on the romantic period drama It looks like the New Year will bring in a lot of twists and turns in all shows. As of now, we are seeing how Sartaj (Vineet Sharma) and Avdesh Singh (Abhiram Nain) have joined hands to blackmail […]
Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: Ishita to file a case of domestic abuse against the Bhallas
She will send the entire family to jail to save them from Ashok There is a lot of turmoil in Ishita’s life in the coming episodes. Last night, we saw how Sarika Dhillon (Sarika Dhillon) gave Raman (Karan Patel) poison. However Ishita (Divyanka Tripathi) and Romi (Aly Goni) managed to rescue him in the nick of […]
Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor will NOT feature on Ki and Ka first look – find out why!
This unique look will be launched on January 1, 2016! Kareena Kapoor Khan and Arjun Kapoor’s Ki and Ka has been in the news for quite a sometime for its unique casting, hatke storyline and a promise of unique narration by none other than director R Balki. Now, we just got the news that the ace filmmaker […]
Akshay Kumar’s Brothers, Anushka Sharma’s NH10 – 9 Bollywood films of 2015 whose plots had foreign connections!!
Bollywood is almost done with another year, where the biggest hit was another Khan blockbuster, and our entry for Oscars is a film no one had bothered to see! There have been a lot of ups and downs this year. While we are happy that films like Piku, Badlapur and Dum Laga Ke Haisha have […]
Top 10 Showbiz Newsmakers of 2015
Many of 2015’s top entertainment headlines were generated by the trifecta of Khans – but by no means did they hog the attention. From Charlie Sheen’s HIV revelation to a disaster of staggering proportions in the form of Bombay Velvet, 2015 was packed to the brim with action. 1. Salman Khan: The year’s most newsworthy star […]
Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Akshay Kumar’s Fearless January
For the first time in many years, Bollywood will witness some big ticket releases with huge star-power all in the month of January, generally considered a ‘jinx’ for the industry. From megastar Amitabh Bachchan, action hero Sunny Deol, superstar Akshay Kumar to filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, all are set to release their films in the first […]
Shah Rukh is Waiting For National Award, Says ‘Will Retire After That’
Shah Rukh Khan said that playing a superstar and his young lookalike fan in Maneesh Sharma’s Fan was physically draining but a “very interesting and schizophrenic” experience. Shah Rukh, who finished shooting the Yash Raj film that is currently on its extensive post-production, said that it was tough to transform himself into a 24-year-old person every day […]
Voice of Sanatan Hinduism
HOUSTON: “Voice of Sanatan Hinduism” will be On Air from January 3, 2016 and broadcast every Sunday on Radio Dial 1110 AM KTEK from 12 Noon to 2pm. The first of its kind Hinduism radio program will now be presented with New Energy and New Voices. This will bring to the Greater Houston Community a […]
TCC Taped Ball Tournament Fall 2015
HOUSTON: Cougars Cricket Club won the TCC Taped Ball Fall 2015 tournament defeating Rockers Cricket Club (RCC) by 38 runs. It was a well-deserved win for Cougars who are now winners of three of the last seven tournaments. They came back strongly with 8 wins in the last 9 matches after a quiet start in […]
ICC and India House Houston Partnership: A Vision and a Hope
By Lachhman Das ICC Trustee and India House Board Member HOUSTON: India Culture Center (ICC) and India House (IH) are two of the most unique Indo-American community organizations in the Metropolitan Houston Area that represent all of India. As most Houstonians know, establishing an Indo-American Community Center had been one of the major goals of […]
The Principles of Leadership
By Viswajith Kumar HOUSTON: Leadership is a quality that is an essential part of our society. From all corners of the globe, leadership is the main driver behind the next innovative ideas and solutions to today’s problems. While leadership is important, in order to cultivate better leaders for the coming generations, we must ask ourselves: […]
Interfaith Ministers Visit JVB Preksha Meditation Center
By Seema Jain HOUSTON: Under the auspicious presence of Samani Parimal Pragyaji and Samani Maryada Pragyaji, Interfaith Ministers visited JVB Preksha Meditation Center on Sunday, December 13. This was the first such visit of Director Rev. Gregory Han along with his executive committee members Matt Kahn, Carey Reagan and Alison Smith to JVB Center. Their […]
Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Mathura Pede (Sweetened Milk Patties)
Across many parts of North India, many worshippers ask for blessings at mandirs (temples) to give thanks for the old and rejoice for the new and it is customary to offer some sweets to the Gods for their blessings. Outside each mandir, there is at least one shop that sells Indian sweets of the type […]
Salman Khan is 50, But Isn’t ‘Scared of Ageing’
Superstar Salman Khan, who turned 50 on December 27, said that he is not scared of ageing. “I am turning 27. I think 27 is the right age. I have always liked that age. I am not scared of ageing. It is always going to be 27. So what is there to be scared of? […]
Physical Therapist Sonal Bhuchar Named to OneStar National Service Commission
Indian American physical therapist Sonal Bhuchar was appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to the OneStar National Service Commission. Abbott made the announcement of the appointment Dec. 7. Bhuchar’s term will run through March 15, 2018. Along with Bhuchar, Abbott appointed Ronnie Hagerty as the chairman; Lisa Lucero as vice chairman; with Laura Dixon, Roger […]
