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Sunny Leone to participate in Nach Baliye 6?

Sunny Leone to participate in Nach Baliye 6?

Sunny Leone, who made her Indian television debut with the popular reality show Bigg Boss’s fifth season, has reportedly entered talks to participate in the much loved dance reality show, Nach Baliye. “Sunny Leone has been approached for the show. But it is not confirmed whether she will be a part of it or not”, […]

Mahabharat — Shakuni Promo : A brother seeking revenge

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYmlyY49Elw&list=TLMGbZTxezByo What made a loving brother, seek revenge and destruction? To know more about Shakuni, stay tuned to Mahabharat, starting from 16th September 8:30 PM onwards only on STAR Plus.

‘1,300 killed in chemical attack’ near Syrian capital Damascus

‘1,300 killed in chemical attack’ near Syrian capital Damascus

BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people — by one report as many as 1,300 — on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades.Western and regional countries called for UNchemical weapons investigators — who arrived in Damascus just three days ago […]

Aamir Khan starts his films from scratch: Sushant

Aamir Khan starts his films from scratch: Sushant

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who shares screen space with Aamir Khan in ‘PK’, praises his co-star saying that despite being so experienced, he starts from scratch. “I didn’t have too many scenes with Aamir. I had few conversations with him. He is very inspiring. Whatever projects he starts with, he starts it from scratch. He is still so inquisitive about small […]

A R Rahman talks about the changing music scene in Bollywood

A R Rahman talks about the changing music scene in Bollywood

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WBPyPguJU&feature=player_embedded A R Rahman talks about the changing music scene in Bollywood

BESHARAM Official Trailer

BESHARAM Official Trailer

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzPjjqiG918 Babli (Ranbir Kapoor) is a street smart car mechanic living in a Delhi orphanage. He is charming and lives life to the fullest. He also steals cars to support his orphanage. He has no sense of right or wrong till he unwittingly hurts the love of his life, Tara (Pallavi Sharda) and is chased […]

Tests matches are cricket’s ‘life source’ – Dravid

Tests matches are cricket’s ‘life source’ – Dravid

Rahul Dravid has made a spirited call for nurturing first-class and Test cricket, saying the longer and more traditional formats provide players with the grounding needed to prosper in the newer, shorter versions. The steps Dravid suggested for bolstering Tests included a more serious consideration of day-night Tests, increasing pay for long-form specialists, a streamlined and […]

‘Chhanchhan’, ‘Saraswatichandra’, ‘Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha’ going off air!

‘Chhanchhan’, ‘Saraswatichandra’, ‘Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha’ going off air!

It has always been nerve-wracking for the producers of telly shows to keep the good ratings coming. While some serials come off with flying colours, others fizzle out soon. Blame it on the time band, storyline or characters, sometimes even good publicity can’t assure soaring TRPs. Recently, many big daily soaps have hit their lowest […]

Review: Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara!

Review: Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara!

Halfway into Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai Dobaara!Akshay Kumar playing the all-powerful, Dawood-style, murderous mafia don Shoaib, declares: “Villain hoon main, villain.” He says it with such a menacing relish that I wanted to applaud. More than anything else in Milan Luthria’s sequel, Akshay towers. He chews up the scenery with his dangerous frown, flaring nostrils, dark glasses, […]

Krrish 3 smashes Avengers’ record

Krrish 3 smashes Avengers’ record

The official trailer of Hrithik Roshan’s upcoming film Krrish 3 has broken the record of being the most-viewed video on YouTube for a Bollywood film. Not only this, the trailer has also broken the record of upcoming Hollywood films Avengers 2 and Thor 2. Launched on August 5, Krrish 3 trailer got around 48 lakh views in […]

Indian rupee may crash to 70 per dollar in a month: Deutsche

Indian rupee may crash to 70 per dollar in a month: Deutsche

The Indian rupee could crash to 70 against the U.S. dollar in a month or so, Deutsche Bank said in a report on Wednesday. The ominous forecast comes at a time when the partially convertible rupee has breached 64 to the dollar to a record low. “We continue to believe that fundamentally the rupee is […]

Doctors Suspect Rare Disease Might Have Afflicted Indian Child

Doctors Suspect Rare Disease Might Have Afflicted Indian Child

When 23-year-old Rajeshwari Karnan delivered a boy in May in Nedimozhinur village in Villipuram district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she and her husband, both farm laborers, were ecstatic. Their first child, born two years ago, was a girl, and Ms. Karnan was fervently hoping their second one would be a boy. But the […]

Rising Onion Prices Tempt Highway Robbers in India

Rising Onion Prices Tempt Highway Robbers in India

NEW DELHI— On Saturday night, Mintu Chottelal, 30, a mini truck driver and his helper, Rinku Gujjar, 19, were driving along the Delhi-Jaipur Highway on their way from the town of Nagore in Rajasthan to the town of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Suddenly a minivan came to a halt in front of them, three men […]

China provokes India again, its troops enter Arunachal Pradesh and camp for 3-4 days: reports

China provokes India again, its troops enter Arunachal Pradesh and camp for 3-4 days: reports

New Delhi: In a repeat of the April incident in Ladakh, Chinese troops reportedly intruded into Arunachal Pradesh at two places last week. Army and police sources have confirmed that they camped for at least three to four days in one area, about 20 km within Indian territory. The first intrusion in Arunachal Pradesh was discovered […]

Vedic Cultural Center Hosts 4th Annual Ananda Mela

Vedic Cultural Center Hosts 4th Annual Ananda Mela

By Indiawest REDMOND, United States: Over the July 27-28 weekend, over 15,000 people visited the City Hall campus here to attend the fourth Ananda Mela, whose chief attraction was a 20-foot long model of the river Ganga, tracing its course from its Himalayan origin through the plains of northern India into the Bay of Bengal. Organized […]

SF Millionaire Pleads Not Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges

SF Millionaire Pleads Not Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges

By Indiawest Gurbaksh Chahal, an Internet millionaire who founded his first company at age 16, pleaded not guilty Aug. 9 in San Francisco, Calif., Superior Court, to 47 charges of domestic violence in connection with an argument with his girlfriend. Chahal, 31, posted a $1 million bail and relinquished his passport to authorities after his […]

YLDP Graduates Blossom and Impress with a Year’s Worth of Knowledge

YLDP Graduates Blossom and Impress with a  Year’s Worth of Knowledge

By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: It was as if all the hard work of piecing together a leadership incubating program over the past five years had paid off. The organizers – the Board members – looked on with a few jitters to see if this new format for showcasing their young interns coming to enlightenment of […]

Foundation Day Celebrations at Arya Samaj Emphasize Vedic Values

Foundation Day Celebrations at Arya Samaj  Emphasize Vedic Values

By Manu Shah HOUSTON: On weekend of August 10 and 11, the serene premises of the Arya Samaj Society resonated with the chanting of mantras and the offering of rituals in three chatur veda yajnas performed to link the Human and Divine. The occasion was to commemorate the 22nd Foundation Day or Sthapana Divas of […]

HPD Chief Attends as Sikh Center Remembers Wisconsin Massacre

HOUSTON: On Sunday, August 11, Houston’s Sikh community held an education and awareness program at the The Sikh Center in remembrance of the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Oak Creek, Wisconsin on August 5, 2012, when a white supremacist killed six Sikh Americans who were preparing for a Sunday service.  Lt. Brian Murphy […]

UT MBA Students Study Daya for their Class Project

HOUSTON: The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin chose the non-profit sector for the 2013 final project for their graduating MBA students. A team of five students – Smita Kumar, Stephane Dissake, Keri Macaluso, Arpan Shah and Benjamin Plouvier – chose Daya as their organization of choice for their study. […]