is | NRI Pulse - Part 273

NRIs happy they played role in AAP victory

VeenaDecember 9, 2013

by VeenaDecember 9, 201302283

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Madhu Narasiah, 35, left his well paying job as a software engineer in Boston, U.S. and came to India to

NRI News

Huffington Post removes Sonia Gandhi's name from richest leaders' list

VeenaDecember 3, 2013

by VeenaDecember 3, 201302519

Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) Days after naming Congress party president Sonia Gandhi among the world’s richest leaders, an American news site has removed her from

NRI News

Manick Sorcar honored for laser displays of Indian heritage

VeenaDecember 2, 2013

by VeenaDecember 2, 201302010

Chicago, Dec 2 (IANS) Denver-based Manick Sorcar has been honored for introducing the younger generation in India and viewers in the West to Indian heritage

Bollywood

Being a GUESS girl is big deal for me: Priyanka

VeenaDecember 1, 2013

by VeenaDecember 1, 201302816

Mumbai, Nov 30 (IANS) Priyanka Chopra is the first Bollywood actress to become the face of global fashion brand GUESS, and the actress considers it

Obama visits fasting immigration activists

VeenaNovember 30, 2013

by VeenaNovember 30, 201302421

Washington, Nov 30 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama Friday visited activists on a hunger strike in the National Mall demanding that comprehensive immigration reform be

NRI News

Racist graffiti against Sikh model in New York subway

VeenaNovember 28, 2013

by VeenaNovember 28, 201304203

A vandalized Gap ad featuring Sikh actor and model Waris Ahluwalia in a New York City subway station New York, Nov 28 (IANS) The Indian

City News

Atlanta's Alycia Rehmatullah is new Miss Teen India USA 2013, Monica Gill crowned Miss India USA

VeenaNovember 26, 2013

by VeenaNovember 26, 201305107

New Jersey, Nov 26 (IANS) Alycia Rehmatullah, 15, from Atlanta Georgia was declared the new Miss Teen India USA 2013 at an annual pageant where

Books

'Headley betrayed all – his wives, US, ISI, LeT'

VeenaNovember 25, 2013

by VeenaNovember 25, 201303381

New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley, who scouted targets for the 26/11 terror attack, was “never anyone’s client” and his

NRI News

Indian live action short film 'Kush' in Oscar shortlist

VeenaNovember 23, 2013

by VeenaNovember 23, 201302444

Los Angeles, Nov 23 (IANS) Indian film “Kush” by director Shubhashish Bhutiani has made its way to a list of 10 live action short films

NRI News

Seattle elects first socialist in Indian-American Kshama Sawant

VeenaNovember 19, 2013

by VeenaNovember 19, 201303355

Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) Kshama Sawant, a Pune-born young Indian-American activist-academic, has become the first socialist to be elected to a public office in the