That '3', Aishwarya Dhanush's debut venture as director, was selected for screening at the New York Indian Film Festival and the Superstar's elder daughter went to the US to take part in it is no more news. The latest is that Aishwarya was honored with the Pride of Tamil Nadu award by the New York Tamil Sangham at a glittering event at Queens Museum of Art in the Big Apple....
03:15 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New York: Want to super-size that soda? Sorry, but in New York City you could be out of luck. In his latest effort to fight obesity in this era of Big Gulps and triple bacon cheeseburgers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing an unprecedented ban on large servings of soda and other sugary drinks at restaurants, delis, sports arenas and movie theaters. Drinks would be limited to 16 ounces, which is...
09:15 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Washington/New York: First-quarter growth for the US was revised down from an annualised rate of 2.2 per cent to 1.9 per cent on a day of gloomy data for the world's largest economy. The downward revision to gross domestic product came alongside a weak jobs report from ADP, the payrolls processing company, and a rise in new claims for unemployment insurance. Economists await two crucial reports on Friday " official...
01:23 AM, Jun 01, 2012
'Dekh Indian Circus' has gone on to win some key awards at the New York International Film Festival. ...
05:04 PM, May 31, 2012
New York: Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex to be built on an island in the East River. The idea is to create an applied-sciences university where engineers are also trained as entrepreneurs from day one. Proponents...
09:56 AM, May 29, 2012
New York: A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine. The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night. "The story is written in terse dispatches of 140 characters or less, which will be tweeted, through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter...
11:06 AM, May 28, 2012
New York: National award winner Dhanush starrer "3", which became famous for 'Kolaveri Di' song, will be screened for the first time at the New York Indian Film Festival. Aishwarya Rajnikanth Dhanush, 30, who is the director of the film, is attending the festival with Shyam Benegal, Bedobrata Pain, Raju and only Indian Judge of Emmy Awards Prakash M Swamy. The Tamil romantic drama will be screened at Manhattan on...
03:55 PM, May 25, 2012
New York: Using FBI wiretaps, email, phone records and the testimony of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, US prosecutors drew a picture for jurors on Thursday of events that led to the insider-trading trial of onetime corporate star Rajat Gupta. 63-year-old Gupta is accused of providing now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with boardroom secrets between March 2007 and January 2009 while he was a director of Goldman Sachs...
09:17 AM, May 25, 2012
New York: A New York bride who faked having terminal cancer to swindle well-wishers into funding her dream wedding and honeymoon to the Caribbean on Wednesday was ordered to repay more than $ 13,000 to her victims, prosecutors said. Jessica Vega, 25, pleaded guilty last month to fraud and forgery charges for deceiving people in the Hudson Valley area of New York into thinking she had only a few months...
03:20 PM, May 24, 2012
Los Angeles: Jim Parsons has skipped the 'I'M GAY!' magazine cover approach to coming out: Far down in a New York Times profile Wednesday was the subtle mention that the two-time Emmy winner has been in a same-sex relationship for a decade. The blink-and-you'll miss it aside appeared in a story about Parsons' starring stint in the Broadway production of 'Harvey.' Discussing Parsons' small role in the play 'The Normal...
02:44 PM, May 24, 2012
Lille: French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of gangrape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. The former IMF chief is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille, Paris and Washington in...
07:38 AM, May 22, 2012
New York: Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has been conferred with an honorary degree by New York University's Polytechnic Institute, considered among America's most prestigious and oldest private schools specialising in engineering and technology. Pitroda gave the commencement address to the graduating class of about 1000 students at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) on Friday. He received a Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, and joined...
08:41 PM, May 19, 2012
New York: Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F Kennedy Jr, was found dead on Wednesday at her home in a New York City suburb, an officer at the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office said. She was 52. Mary Kennedy had four children with Kennedy, the son of the late Senator Robert F Kennedy and nephew of President John F Kennedy. He is a prominent New York environmentalist. "We...
04:42 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Gold on Wednesday plummeted by Rs 100 per 10 grams to a five week low in the national capital, after global investors shifted away to dollar from the precious metal as a safe haven. After losing Rs 270 in the last two sessions, gold fell further by Rs 100 to Rs 28,440 per 10 grams on stockists selling and retailers expecting further fall. Similarly in the Mumbai bullion...
09:26 PM, May 16, 2012
New York: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million counter-suit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France. New York police arrested Strauss-Kahn a year ago when hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo accused him of forcible oral sex and trying to rape her in his luxury suite at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan....
10:43 PM, May 15, 2012
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