New York: The all-star comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench and Dev Patel generated a strong opening in North America as it debuted in limited release with an estimated $750,000 from only 27 theatres for a per-theater average of $27,789 – second best among all films after The Avengers. Set in [...]
New York: A Pakistani bomb-maker, who was involved in a foiled 2009 plot against New York city’s subways, has revealed how he and an Al Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. “We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, [...]
New York: A US court is set to hear arguments in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case on May 1 even as Congress party opposed the entry of a default judgment against it for its alleged role in the riots. Filing the Congress plea before Judge Robert W Sweet of the US federal court, lawyers [...]
New York: A former Air India official, Andy Bhatia, has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of the New York-based Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan-USA. Committed to promoting Indian culture and India’s rich heritage and art forms, Bhatia will bring to the Bhavan 30 years of sales, marketing and management experience for Air-India. After serving Air-India, [...]
New York: A Sikh family in America has received an anonymous letter that threatens to kill its members for being “associates of the Taliban”, prompting authorities to launch a probe into it. The letter, addressed to the ‘Turban Family’, said the family is being closely watched and it should leave the US immediately. [...]
New York: Holding a senior Indian diplomat guilty of subjecting her maid to slavery, a US court has ruled that the victim be awarded a compensation of $1.5 million. The diplomat, Neena Malhotra, was press counsellor with India’s consulate in New York and is currently working as director with MEA’s southern division in [...]
New York: A US court has convicted three members of an Indian family here on charges of sexually abusing their daughter-in-law who came to America after an arranged marriage and was threatened to work as a slave. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Vishal Jagota, 34, his mother Parveen Jagota, 57 and [...]
New York: 108 Production, the people behind When Harry Tried to Marry… announced their latest project Billion Dollar Raja this week – an investigative financial mafia drama inspired by the true story of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, his network of Wall Street honchos, big corporate insiders, employees, and a prosecution team determined to punish [...]
New York: How the mighty is falling! Rajat Gupta, a former Indian-American Goldman Sachs director, was indicted for securities fraud by a US federal court shortly after he surrendered to authorities Wednesday morning. The six count charges accuse Gupta, 62, of engaging in an insider trading scheme with former Sri Lankan billionaire hedge [...]
New York: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed into law a bill initiated by the Sikh Coalition to significantly enhance religion-based protections for employees working in the metropolis. “Today’s law is a major step forward in ensuring Sikhs and other religious minorities are not unfairly excluded from [...]
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