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Ronnie Screwvala: Taking Indian films to the world
If Hollywood has the glitz and glamour, Bollywood has the volume: it produces 1,000 movies a year to Hollywood’s 100, and counts on a domestic audience of more than 1 billion, not to mention the far-flung, well-heeled Indian Diaspora in California, London, and beyond.
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Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom
Under harsh fluorescent lights, dozens of heads bend over keyboards, the clattering unison of earnest typing filling the room. Monitors flicker with insurance forms, time sheets and customer service e-mail messages, tasks from far away, sent to this corner of India to be processed on the cheap.
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Narendra Modi tests positive for swine flu
 AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has tested positive for swine flu. The confirmation of the test carried out on Thursday was announced by the state government on Friday morning, sending a wave of panic among a group of top industrialists who accompanied him on a recent visit to Moscow.
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Indians most optimistic lot in the world: Nielsen
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Delhi: Indians have emerged as the most optimistic lot globally, with improving economic conditions, better growth and job prospects making them more confident, a report by global consultancy firm The Nielsen says.
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Spam King ordered to pay Facebook $711 mn
LOS ANGELES: A US judge has ordered a self-crowned "Spam King" to pay Facebook 711 million dollars for slipping uninvited into people's accounts to send bogus marketing messages.
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President Barack Obama to Headline Rally for Corzine/Weinberg '09 and New Jersey Democrats
Sat Truck and Media Pre-set: 5:30 AM to 6:30 AM ET (All Satellite trucks need to run their cables and park trucks at this time; media will not have access to their pre-set equipment inside the center from 6:30 AM to 11:00 AM ET.)
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Health and Senior Services Commissioner Howard Announces Grants to Help Minority Communities Manage Chronic Disease
New Brunswick – Thursday, October 29, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Commissioner Heather Howard will announce that the state is awarding funding to community and faith-based agencies to expand a program that helps individuals in minority communities better manage their chronic diseases.
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FBI probes potential billion dollar Ponzi scheme: Officials
MIAMI: The FBI is investigating a prominent Florida lawyer suspected of organizing a Ponzi scheme that may have defrauded investors of more than a billion dollars, the agency said.
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US looks for alternatives to replace foreign tech workers
Businessweek magazine in a report reported that many within techdom complain about U.S. companies that use cheap, offshore labor or guest foreign workers in place of domestic employees.
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Immigrants now require 'permission' to stay in UK
LONDON: Further tightening its noose on immigrants, the UK has proposed a bill under which five current application categories available to such people will be replaced with a clear-cut concept - 'permission' to be in the country.
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Movie City reborn as Big Cinemas
New York, NY, : Big Cinemas, a division of Adlabs Films Ltd and a member of Reliance ADA Group, is re-opening Movie City in Edison, NJ on October 22 after undergoing major renovations. The makeover did wonders to restore the theater, while also updating it to accommodate a modern audience with its world-class features.
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Comparing VoIP Providers For Calling India Ahead of Diwali Festival
If you won’t be visiting India for this year’s Diwali festival, you can still have lots of opportunities to connect with friends and families using one of the many internet calling services that specialize in international long distance.
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NJ Hinduism Summit awakens Hindus to the reality of Hindu issues
If you won’t be visiting India for this year’s Diwali festival, you can still have lots of opportunities to connect with friends and families using one of the many internet calling services that specialize in international long distance.
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Muslim Indian-American delegates meet with Minister Shashi Tharoor
A panel of Muslim Indian-American delegates and activists, led by Saeed Patel and including Dr. Najma Sultana and New Jersey Councilman Mohammed Hameeduddin met with External Minister, Shree Shashi Tharoor at the Indian Mission in NYC on October 19th to condemn the fake encounter killings in Gujarat. They also pledged their support of the United States' mission against terrorism.
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