Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s reincarnation-based film Om Shanti Om handily beat Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya featuring debutantes Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor at the U.S. box office for the November 9-11 opening weekend. According to U.S. box office numbers, Om Shanti Om came in at a respectable No-11 with a weekend gross collection of $1.76 million. […]
Some 58 million Indians will languish without access to electricity in the year 2030, according to the World Energy Outlook 2007 figures released today. According to the World Energy Outlook figures put out by the International Energy Agency, the share of India’s population without access to electricity will fall from 38% to 4%. Since the […]
Stung by persistent criticism of Hindu activists that Christian missionaries in India are pressuring and inducing poor Hindus to convert to Christianity, the Vatican threw the gauntlet at Hindus on the eve of the Diwali festival. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue said on Monday: Belief and freedom always go […]
Penthouse Pet of the Year (2003) and desi sex bomb Sunny Leone is set to wed her boyfriend Matt Erickson in March next year. Sunny’s Mr.Right is said be an executive with the adult movie business. Born in Sarnia, Ontario (Canada) to immigrant parents from India, the 26-year-old sizzler moved to sunny California in 1996. […]
India has fallen a few notches in the latest Global Competitiveness Index released by the World Economic Forum. India’s rank fell to 48 in the 2007-2008 GCI Index behind former Communist nations like Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Latvia. Last year India fared better with a rank of 42. The United States maintained its status […]
The trial of Mahender Muralidhar Sabhnani and his wife Varsha Mahender Sabhnani charged with enslaving and abusing two Indonesian women servants opened in a Federal Court in Long Island on Monday. Mahender Sabhnani, 51, and Varsha Sabhnani, 45, residents of the wealthy enclave of Muttontown in Long Island have pleaded not guilty to a 12-count federal […]