Historical Drama about Sri Ramanujacharya on March 4
HOUSTON: “Sri Ramanuja”, a historical stage play on the great Vaishnava Acharya commemorating 1000 years of his birth, will be presented by Houston’s Meenakshi Theaters on Saturday March 4th, in support of Global Organization for Divinity/Namadwaar. The play will be staged at Marie Spence Flickinger Fine Arts Center, Building 15, San Jacinto College South, 13735 Beamer […]
Sightseeing in India Off the Beaten Path: Medieval Junagadh and Cultural Vadodara
By Pramod Kulkarni On the Road: This is the third episode describing my wife Jyoti and I’s visit to India during Dec.-January 2016. As outlined in the first episode, we undertook a 9-day trip to Gujarat. Adjacent Gir National Forest is what was the princely state of Junagadh. Located at the foothills of the Girnar […]
Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Khanne de Baytreen Rang (The Colors of Good Eating)
Cooking delicious food requires an interest in improving your skills and the desire to eat well, regardless of the type of cuisine you like. But, if you enjoy Indian cooking, then it helps to understand the traditions that are behind the food you will make and serve. Perhaps no other cuisine is steeped in appreciation […]
Ghazi Movie Review
GHAZI STORY : Set in 1971, Ghazi traces the underwater warfare between the Indian submarine, S-21 and Pakistan’s PNS Ghazi. Based on the mysterious sinking of the Ghazi, the war drama unfolds under the waters of Bay of Bengal. GHAZI MOVIE REVIEW : “The war you did not know about” – is a fitting tagline […]
No cap on visa for Indian students: British envoy
Britain on Tuesday said there is no cap on visa for Indian students and they are free to access world-class education in top notch UK universities. British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith said that the UK had announced 600 scholarships for Indian students aspiring to study in the UK. Click here to read more… […]
PM Modi asks US to have ‘far-sighted’ view on H-1B visas for skilled workers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the United States on Tuesday to keep an open mind on admitting skilled Indian workers, in comments that pushed back against Republican President Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric on jobs. Modi’s comments reflected concern that India’s $150 billion IT services industry would suffer if the United States curbs the visas, […]
Couple quit prime US jobs to teach their daughter Gujarati
RAJKOT: Quitting a high-salary job with the world’s second biggest investment bank is not an easy decision. But Gaurav Pandit and his wife Sheetal had no qualms when they resigned together from Goldman Sachsin New York. But the reason for this bold decision could leave many surprised. This couple from Gujarat put in their papers […]
Petronet LNG’s impressive showing
Shares of Petronet LNG Ltd have increased an impressive three-fifths so far this fiscal year. Shortage of domestically produced gas leading to better demand prospects for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is what has fundamentally propelled the company’s stock upwards. Click here to read more… Credit: livemint.com
Rs 1,000 note to be back in new avatar, but not clear when
The RBI and the government have firmed up plans to launch a new series of Rs 1,000 notes shortly to replace the earlier note of similar denomination that was withdrawn from circulation following the November 8 demonetisation announcement, a senior government official has told The Indian Express. The RBI, the official said, has already started production […]
India has capability to set up space station, says ISRO chief
ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar on Monday said the country has the capability to set up a space station, but it needed a long-term approach and an ambitious planning. His comment follows Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) display of technological prowess last week by launching 104 satellites in a single mission. Click here to read […]
Flipkart, Microsoft announce strategic cloud partnership
Bengaluru: Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a strategic partnership with Flipkart under which, for a start, the online retailer will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud computing platform. One person familiar with the matter said Microsoft may pick up a small stake in Flipkart as part of the partnership, although no deal to […]
Indian economy to reach $ 5 trillion by 2025: Morgan Stanley
India’s millennial population is a massive disruptive force and driven by this supportive demographics alongwith government’s policy action, Indian economy is likely to reach USD 5 trillion by 2025, says a report. India’s USD 2.2 trillion economy makes it the seventh largest in the world in terms of nominal GDP (and the third largest in […]
Army to act against terrorists across border, Dar tells Senate
ISLAMABAD: The finance minister informed the Senate on Monday that the Army had been empowered to act against terrorists across the border after obtaining concrete evidence that Afghan soil had been used to launch recent acts of terrorism in the country. Monday’s session focused on several important issues including the current law and order situation […]
K Chandrasekhar Rao to offer Rs 5 crore worth jewellery at Tirumala
VIJAYAWADA: The AP government is rolling out a red carpet for Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who is coming down to Tirumala on Tuesday on a thanksgiving visit to the temple town. KCR would offer Rs 5 crore worth gold jewellery to Lord Venkateswara on Wednesday morning as part of a vow he made […]
Pakistan cancels licenses of weapons issued to Hafiz Saeed and his aides
Pakistan has cancelled the licenses of 44 weapons issued to JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and other members of his organisations, citing security reasons. An official of the Punjab Home Department said the step has been taken in line with the government’s action against Saeed and his organisations – the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Falaha-e-Insanyat (FIF). […]
UP elections 2017: All parties say they’re winning. Here’s how they reason
Four of seven phases may still be left, but the UP election has crossed the midway mark. Voters in 209 of the 403 seats have got an opportunity to express their preferences – and this is a good time to look at how each party is internally evaluating its performance. Click here to read more… […]
Television content has changed: ‘Dil Se Dil Tak’ cast
Siddharth Shukla, Rashami Desai and Jasmin Bhasin, lead actors of TV series “Dil Se Dil Tak”, a show dealing with the issue of surrogacy, say the content and story of serials on the small screen are changing for the better. They feel more complex and contemporary subjects are being explored these days to appeal to […]
Irada movie review: Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi film is a hazardous watch
There has been very little good news coming out of Punjab, films wise. And Irada is no exception, but rather than drugs, it deals with the cancerous contamination of Punjab’s groundwater and fields. That is a film crying to be made, but instead of the characters, Irada gives us caricatures: a strict disciplinarian Armyman father […]
Running Shaadi movie review: Taapsee Pannu film huffs and puffs to finishing lin
She is open to sex, drinking and buying condoms (an information the film sprinkles, for no reason at all). And yet when it comes to love, she would run away rather than tell her parents. Running Shaadi clearly has some very strange ideas about love and modernity. And stranger still when it comes to modern-day […]
This new film reexamines the politics of Pak-India partition
Gurinder Chadha, the woman behind Bend It Like Beckham, demands British “accountability” for the humanitarian disaster triggered by the Indian subcontinent’s partition, in her new all-star drama Sunday at the Berlin film festival. Viceroy’s House tells the story of Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Boneville) overseeing the 1947 end of three centuries of colonial rule. He […]
