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Varun Dhawan to mark his TV debut alongside Hrithik Roshan as a dance reality show judge!

Varun Dhawan to mark his TV debut alongside Hrithik Roshan as a dance reality show judge!

Varun Dhawan and Hrithik Roshan will soon be seen as the judges of a dance reality show. Well, going by a report in Filmfare magazine the two are being considered by a network for the Indian version of So You Think You Can Dance. While both Hrithik and Varun are yet to give their nod and sign […]

India men stun China, women blanked by Japan in Badminton Asia Team Championships

India men stun China, women blanked by Japan in Badminton Asia Team Championships

HYDERABAD: The Indian men on Thursday beat China for the first time in a team event before the women lost to Japan in the Badminton Asia Team Championship. The Indian men defeated a depleted China 3-2 in the five-match tie comprising three singles and two doubles. The home team won all three singles but went […]

Bhullar, Gangjee off to a fine start in Malaysia

Bhullar, Gangjee off to a fine start in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar and Rahil Gangjee got off to a good start on the first day of the inaugural USD 3 million Maybank Championship here on Thursday. Bhullar, coming back from an injury which stalled his progress for more than a year, shot four-under 67, while Gangjee carded 68. Bhullar was tied 16th […]

Vijender Singh to fight for the WBO Asia title in India

Vijender Singh to fight for the WBO Asia title in India

Unstoppable so far, Indian ace boxer Vijender Singh will now gun for his maiden title in the professional circuit when he fights for the WBO Asia belt later this year in front of home fans in New Delhi. The middleweight boxer, who earned worldwide fame by becoming India’s first Olympic and World Championships medallist at […]

Apple likely to open development centre in Telangana

Apple likely to open development centre in Telangana

Hyderabad: Global tech giant Apple Inc is expected to make an official announcement of opening their development centre here in June, Telangana IT minister K.T. Rama Rao said on Thursday. “They (Apple) have confirmed it (opening a centre in Hyderabad) already. There will be an official announcement in June. “Till that time, we will have to […]

Sharif, Modi likely to meet in Washington next month

Sharif, Modi likely to meet in Washington next month

WASHINGTON: The United States, Pakistan and India are quietly exploring the possibility of a meeting between Indian and Pakistani prime ministers in the US capital next month, diplomatic sources told Dawn. Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi have both accepted US President Barack Obama’s invitation to attend a nuclear summit he is hosting in […]

SC to hear arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail plea today

SC to hear arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail plea today

The bail plea of JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges for allegedly chanting “anti-national” slogans at an event in the university, will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Friday. Kumar had moved the apex court seeking bail on Thursday, claiming threat to his life in Tihar Jail, where he was sent on […]

Love Mashup 2016 – Kiran Kamath | Bollywood Mashup | Valentines Special

Love Mashup 2016 – Kiran Kamath | Bollywood Mashup | Valentines Special

MTS Raises Million Dollars for the Main Temple Project

MTS Raises Million Dollars for the Main Temple Project

By Chandana Golla PEARLAND: Sri Meenakshi Temple fundraising committee set a monumental goal to be met for the Main Temple Renovation Project (M.T.R.P.). Target – One Million. “Shantham and Subhiksham” (Peace and Prosperity) was the theme for this year’s MTS annual banquet which was held on Sunday, August 17. For the first time in MTS […]

Parker Lauds Houston’s Religious Harmony at Mayor’s Annual Iftar Event

By A Special Correspondent & Irfana Hussain  HOUSTON: The annual Iftar with the Mayor of Houston was held at the Bayou City Events Center on Saturday, July 12. In attendance were close to 2,000 people from the Houston community. The iftar is dinner that Muslims eat at sunset to finish their day long fast. Muslims […]

In those Moments He Still Treasures, a Driven Engineer Became Part of American History at Ellis Island

In those Moments He Still Treasures, a Driven Engineer Became Part of American History at Ellis Island

By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: It was a clear, sunny July 3rd day in 1986 with just a slight sea breeze along the shoreline of the New York City harbor, just the perfect weather for the rededication of Lady Liberty whose statue had graced the Western entrance to the New World for a hundred years […]

Fund Raising Program of Sri Guruvayurappan Temple

Fund Raising Program of Sri Guruvayurappan Temple

HOUSTON: The third annual fund raising dinner reception of Sri Guruvayurappan Temple (SGT), Houston was held on Saturday, July 12, in the presence of several hundreds of Sri Krishna devotees. The temple officials received chief guest Swami Udit Chaitanyaji, special guest Dr. Arun Verma,  president of Shri Sita Ram Foundation and Sankaran Namboothiri, renowned Carnatic […]

Radha Madhav Dham Celebrates Jagannath Puri Style Rath Yatra

AUSTIN: Just a few weeks ago on June 29, more than a million devotees congregated at the holy city of Jagannath Puri in Odisha, India to participate in the annual Rath Yatra (festival of chariots).  The Jagannath Rath Yatra is a huge Hindu festival in which the deities of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balbhadra and Subhadra […]

Open Forum’s Open Heart for World Cup Final

By Jawahar Malhotra  SUGAR LAND: By the time that Germany was whooping Brazil in the World Cup quarter finals, Subodh Bhuchar was burning up the bandwidth on Facebook in agony seeing the team so thoroughly demolished. He got the chatter started to get together for a World Cup Finals rendezvous and pretty soon there was […]

Headache Doctor Receives Third Lifetime Achievement Award

HOUSTON: Houston Neurologist, Dr. Ninan T. Mathew, received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Headache Society on June 27, at its 56th Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles, California. The American Headache Society (AHS) is a professional society of health care providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain.  […]

SongKran Kitchen in Uptown Park: Thai for Those Who Live to Eat

By Pramod Kulkarni HOUSTON: According to SongKran Thai Kitchen owner Jitten Karnani, the world is divided into two types of people: those who eat to live and those who live to eat. I had counted myself among those who eat to live, with daal and chawal as my favorite meal and Thai a little too […]

Consul General Harish Honored by the Osmania University

HOUSTON: Osmania Unversity, Hyderabad, India took honors to recognize the Consul General of India in Houston, Paravathaneni Harish, who is an alumni of the University. Harish graduated with an engineering degree from the College of Engineering of Osmania University. Honoring him for his accomplishments, the Vice Chancellor of Osmania University,  Prof. S. Satyanarayana presented him with a Distinguished Alumnus Commendation Momento. […]

EB-5 Alternatives: E and L Visas

By Melissa N. Salvador HOUSTON: So many have heard about the EB-5 program – invest $1M (or $500K) and you get a Green Card.  At least that’s the short of it.  The E and L visa classifications, on the contrary, are much more affordable options. The E visa is for treaty traders and treaty investors, […]

Mama’s Punjabi Recipes – Soya Bean Te Palak Da Omlet (Soybean & Spinach Omelette)

For those who don’t eat ande (eggs) but need to have extra protein in the diet, this vegetarian dish can be very nourishing and satisfying, as it looks, cooks and fluffs up like an omelette and also it is very easy and fast to make. About 25 years ago, small, one-inch round soybean wadiyan (dumplings) […]