Entertainment

An Indian, wherever he/she is, will always be an Indian by heart and the earning of Bollywood films at box office abroad makes it more evident. Recently, Amitabh Bachchan’s Badla has made more than $1.3 million in the United States within five weeks. Despite Badla being more of content-driven film...

The 13-year-old Akshat Singh from Mumbai, who impressed everyone with his amazing dance performances on 'Dance Bangla Dance', 'Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa', 'India's Got Talent' to even doing goofy antics on 'Comedy Nights With Kapil', the talented kid is now representing India at ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. Akshat not only stood with...

On Sunday, the Indian township south of Johannesburg echoed with Hanuman Chalisa as South African Indian origin singer Vandana Naran launched a CD featuring Hanuman Chalisa in six different variations. Some of the items were performed live at the annual United Hanuman Chalisa held in Lenasia together with bhajan groups from all over the country rotated in...

For the first time in the history, an Indian-American has crowned the Miss Virginia Teen USA. A student of Centerville High School Student, Himanvi Panidepu, who is also a winner of Miss Central Virginia USA, was chosen among other 39 contestants in the pageant, which was held on Sunday night. The...

The Indian-American model, Madhu Valli, who is a student of Criminal Law in the George Mason University in Virginia and a hip hop artist has been crowned as the winner of Miss India Worldwide 2017 on Sunday in a grand ceremony held at New Jersey. Valli’s latest album was released...

The Indian-American Aziz Ansari and his African-American partner Lena Waithe received a best writing award for a comedy series Master of None in the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, which was conducted at the Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles. The duo won the award from the Thanksgiving episode, in which the character...

An annual event to celebrate Colorfest 2017, Indo-western culture, traditions and people will be held at Canton, Michigan, on Aug. 6 at Heritage Park. Hundreds of people attended the event every year. Organizers say that the festival is celebrated in many cities of U.S. and this is the fourth...

One of the biggest Gujarati musical festivals is being brought to the U.S. from July 28 to August 20 by OHMKara. “Gujarati Jalso”, featuring Parthiv Gohil, Sairam Dave, Jahnvi Shrimankar, Gargi Vora, Manasi Gohil, Utkarsh Mazumdar, Minal Patel, Chirag Vora, Hiten Anandpara, Pranav Pandya and a team of 16...

The Hare Krishna documentary film was premiered on Friday, June 16 and showed the effects of the Hare Krishna movement, along with the explanation of it through Parbhupada’s teachings. According to Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement; by chanting the mantra “Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare...

Veteran Indian actor Anupam Kher was honoured with a citation from the Nassau County. He took to Twitter to share a range of photographs holding the citation, which was given to him for working “dilligently on behalf of the causes and ideas, which uphold the principles of human decency.” “Through...