Muni Seva Ashram: An Evening of Fun, Fashion, and Elegance
By Tanya Patel HOUSTON: The stage was set. The makeup was done. The mics were tested. The volunteers, performers, and models eagerly waited for the hundreds of attendees to arrive. The second annual Muni Seva Charitable Foundation Gala was held on Sunday, May 1, at the Holiday Inn in Houston. Muni Seva Ashram was founded […]
A Chance Meeting, and Obama Remembers the Power of Affirmation
By Ranjana Martinez SAN ANTONIO: I recently had the pleasure of meeting Governor Bill Richardson at the Hillary Clinton for President Headquarters. He is a highly accomplished politician and should be considered for Vice President. He advised me to write this piece about my brief meeting with the young Barack Obama. My husband was attending […]
Ek Disha Foundation and Indo American Charity Foundation Combine Efforts to Aid Flood Victims
HOUSTON: On Friday, May 5, two Houston based South Asian organizations, the Ek Disha Foundation and the Indo American Charity Foundation, combined fundraising efforts to present the Cypress Assistance Ministries (CAM) with $5000 in HEB gift cards (two hundred $25 gift cards) to assist the flood victims in the 77084 zip code. The 77084, an […]
World Hindu Economic Forum Comes to USA
HOUSTON: Swami Vigyananand, the Founder of World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF), was in Houston on Sunday, May 1, to promote the 2016 convention taking place in Los Angeles in November 2016. During course of his one hour address to close to 50 Community Leaders, Businessmen, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs he dismantled many stereotypes related to wealth […]
Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Sukki Khumban (Sauteed Mushrooms) – Quick Recipe
Most people like the taste of mushrooms, and even though they can be expensive, they are an often sought after ingredient on pizzas or as a side dish in restaurants. But these mushrooms are usually not fresh, coming out of a can or frozen and the taste is very ordinary. A popular variety is the […]
Tips to flatten your bloated tummy
The first step to flattening your jelly belly is to figure out its type. Here’s how you can get a midriff makeover For most women, the biggest body hang-up is often their stomach. But before throwing yourself into a heap of sit-ups and crunches, figure out your belly type as there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to […]
Karan Patel explains the reason behind his angry outburst on the sets of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein!
Actor Karan Patel has been in the news recently for various reasons. Few days back, we heard how he threw tantrums on the sets of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein and went home. Later, it was revealed that he was unwell and hence packed up early. The Box Cricket League again put the spotlight on his personal life when ex-girlfriend Kamya Punjabi stated that […]
IPL 9 Player of the Week: Mustafizur Rahman
NEW DELHI: The past week of matches in IPL 9 has thrown up several superlative efforts, with Andre Russell turning in two Man-of-the-Match performances for Kolkata Knight Riders, Shikhar Dhawan hitting form with a pair of highly effective innings for a resurgent Sunrisers Hyderabad and Virat Kohli hitting his second hundred of the season. But […]
1920 London Movie Review
MOVIE: Shivangi (Meera Chopra) comes from a royal family in Rajasthan and is married to a prince named Veer (Vishal Karwal). They receive a necklace from their hometown which casts a vicious spell on him. He is possessed by a daayan and the only man who can help is Shivangi’s ex-lover Jai (Sharman Joshi). Can he […]
Traffic Movie Review
STORY: A Mumbai television journalist meets with a fatal accident leaving him on a ventilator. In Pune, a young girl can only be saved if she gets a transplant. The mission of transporting the organ is entrusted to a traffic constable, looking to earn his stripes back! A remake of the 2011 Malayalam film of the same name, […]
Five Indian start-ups using bots in different ways
Bengaluru: It is safe to say that bots, software programs that are used to automate tasks, are the flavour of the season. Even, the zeitgeist, if you will. Facebook opened up its Messenger platform with 900 million users for bots. Messaging platform Slack, the darling of the enterprise start-up world, announced an $80 million fund for […]
E-commerce cos see gold, diamonds boosting sales on Akshaya Tritiya
Mumbai: Online retailers including Amazon and Bluestone are betting big on gold and diamond sales and expect a big boost to their business on ‘Akshaya Tritiya’, considered as auspicious day for buying precious metals. “Compared to last year, we see over six times growth in sales in our Akshaya Tritiya offerings. In terms of traffic, […]
Why Donald Trump is spooking Indian outsourcers with his flip-flops on immigration
More than his 20-minute visa interview, Kaladhar Reddy remembers a 90-minute visit to ‘The Visa Temple’, officially called the Chilkur Balaji Temple on the banks of the Osman Sagar in Hyderabad. On a Thursday evening in June 2015, Reddy, a 20-something systems analyst, was part of a throng of thousands jostling through the temple, seeking […]
India Consistently Raising Visa Issue With UK: Nirmala Sitharaman
NEW DELHI: India has been consistently raising its concerns with the UK about the new British immigration law, which will impact domestic professionals earning below 35,000 pounds annually, Parliament was informed today. In 2012, the UK had made certain changes to the immigration rules, which would affect the settlement of non-European economic area workers with tier […]
Debate erupts in California over curriculum on India’s history
LOS ANGELES: Victors are said to write history. But in California, history is being written by a committee that is at the center of a raging debate over how to tell the story of South Asia as it tries to update textbooks and revise curricula for grades six and seven. The dispute centers on whether […]
Indian-American scientist creates T-cells to treat pancreatic cancer
NEW YORK: An Indian-American scientist has engineered T-cells – a type of immune cells – to break the pancreatic cancer’s physical and immunological walls using immunotherapy. Dr Sunil Hingorani, member of the clinical research and public health sciences divisions at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and colleagues created T-cells with a high affinity to a […]
After Sadiq Khan’s win, the internet points out hypocrisy on Pakistan’s part
Khan, a former human rights lawyer and Labour government minister, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant who came to Britain in the 1960s. Though his father worked as a bus driver, he wanted something better for his children. Sadiq Khan’s extraordinary rise to prominence in politics has been hailed as an inspiration to immigrants everywhere. Pakistanis […]
Rights activist Khurram Zaki killed in Karachi gun attack
KARACHI: Unknown assailants gunned down social media campaigner and civil society activist Khurram Zaki on Saturday night in Karachi. Central District SSP, Muqadas Haider told Dawn.com that four suspects riding on two motorcycles opened fire on Zaki while he was eating dinner at a restaurant in Sector-11B of North Karachi. The activist was killed, and […]
Goyal blames “corrupt” DMK, AIADMK for losses in TN power
Union Power Minister Piyush Goyalon Sunday blamed the “corrupt” DMK and AIADMK and their party-led governments for losses in the power sector in Tamil Nadu. “For the past so many years, Tamil Nadu has only seen corruption, corruption and corruption… there is a race to the bottom between the two, as if they are fighting […]
