June 2, 2012
A restaurant in Kathmandu, called Dining in the Dark, has opened in hopes of helping people experience what it is like to be blind. Diners will eat in a darkened hall with black curtains and be waited on by five visually impaired individuals.
June 2, 2012
Washington — Three Indian-American children were the only spellers left in the final championship round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee at a convention centre outside Washington Thursday night.
The three were among the nine who nailed words derived from Greek, Latin, French, German, Hawaiian and Afrikaans to make the finals as the field of 278 children was narrowed down after several intense rounds of spelling.
June 2, 2012
A prosecution witness in the Rajat Gupta insider trading case has said that he believed that the Indian American secretly worked as an executive for the Galleon Group - a hedge fund run by the convicted billionaire Raj Rajaratam.
Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Insider Trading Trial Begins
June 2, 2012
The Reserve Bank of India has warned that the unimpressive GDP numbers released on Thursday could be a signal for a further decline in the Indian economy. Commentators said that the results were a wake up call for the current government that has been hit by corruptions scandals and infighting.
June 1, 2012
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad) Thursday.
According to an ISPR statement, Ra’ad Missile has the range of over 350 km that can enable Pakistan to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and at Sea.
June 1, 2012
India has said that there is an attempt to paint it in negative colour on the issue of importing oil from Iran, arguing that it needs enormous energy for its 1.2 billion people.
June 1, 2012
India made it clear that the US pressure to reduce oil imports from Iran will not impact its "legitimate" trade ties with the "key country" for meeting its energy needs.
June 1, 2012
HOUSTON: An Indian parent has reported a recent case of extreme racial bullying of his 11 year old twin boys. Born in the United States, to parents born in India, the boys are American Citizens.
They have borne enormous amounts of bullying and race-based ragging by the school children at the Creekwood Middle School in Kingwood. This case has been covered by the KHOU – http://www.khou.com/home/Kingwood-Bullying-151792805.html
June 1, 2012
HOUSTON: Ganga Avataran is the manifestation of the River Ganga from the heavens to the earth. It is a commonly held belief that a dip in the Ganges cleanses one of all worldly sins.
The priest Virat Mehta explains the significance of Ganga Avataran.
June 1, 2012
Muslim and Sikh employees of New York’s transit system will now be able to wear their religious headgear freely, without attaching a government agency logo to them, in a major legal victory after new uniform rules were imposed following the 9/11 attacks.
