Stephen Spielberg's How To Train Your Dragon could face major competition from Clash of the Titans as well as Alice in Wonderland at the US box office.
Thousands of Telugu-speaking Indian Americans gathered at the Rosemont Convention Centre in O'Hare, Chicago on Friday to participate in the 17th annual convention of Telugu Association of North America.
Outsourcing company iGate Corporation on Wednesday said it has bagged a major five-year contract worth over $100 million (about Rs 598 crore) for providing global infrastructure services for insurance major MetLife, Inc.
Apparel company S Kumars Nationwide and its overseas partner Emerisque Brands have emerged as potential bidders to take over Hartmarx Corp, the city-based maker of President Barack Obama's suits.
In anticipation of Jeff Bridges taking the trophy, its box office gross went up by 36 percent over the weekend.
Dr Uma Mysorekar, president of the Hindu Temple Society of North America will offer 'responsive prayers' at the special service which will "symbolise America's traditions of religious tolerance and freedom", the Presidential Inaugural Committee said. "The National Prayer Service, which will embody the themes of tolerance, unity and understanding, is a worship service for all Americans," he said.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover reported 25 per cent increase in its global sales in November this year at 37,403 units.
Paranormal Activity, which stands at number five on the American and Canadian box office charts, may be arguably the biggest success of the decade.
The textile firm is close to acquiring Hartmarx Corporation, along with London-based private equity firm Emerisque Brands for a total amount of $119 million.
The new film is the biggest opening for director Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, The Hoax) and it could become his biggest hit.
In what many movie observers believe is one of the biggest surprises in years, Dev Patel, 18, has just been nominated along with Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), Josh Brolin, (Milk), Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt) for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Best Supporting Actor Award.
Megan Fox loses out to a bunch of cartoon characters, at the box office.
Global wealth fell from $104.7 trillion in 2007 to $92.4 trillion in 2008.
Anand Tucker is among half a dozen film-makers of Indian origin whose mainstream films will be released in the next few months.
North America is experiencing its harshest cold snap in 24 years, so cold in fact that Niagara Falls has frozen over. Photos of the falls on the American and Canadian sides have become a world attraction in recent days as wind chills there fell to as low as minus 14 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. A quick look at the amazing pictures.
Denzel's film The Book of Eli grossed $11.7 million on its opening day in America and Canada against Avatar's $10.4 million.
Al-Qaeda is obsessed with using commercial airliners to carry out terror attacks and it may try again to use aircraft to strike Western targets, a leading British defence think-tank warned on Tuesday. The warning comes a day after three British men of Pakistani origin were convicted of plotting to blow up flights from London to North America using bombs disguised as soft drinks.
Tata Motors already has Nano Europa, a slightly jazzed-up version of the plain vanilla Nano. Nano Europa could make its debut into the European market in 2011 at about $8,000. Reports say that the US version is likely to be similarly priced.
Based on information from 10 pharmaceutical companies based in North America and Europe, a recent Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj report said these were keen to set up their manufacturing units in India or expand their existing units. Taken together, these would need about 15,000 acres over the next seven years to set up research and development centres, new units and to expand the existing units.
Dr Wahid Baloch is President of the Baloch Society of North America spoke on the recent Indo-Pak joint statement in Egypt and what it means for the Baloch fight for freedom.
The Independence Day weekend in America was a memorable one for hundreds of Jain teenagers and young adults from North America. Some of them were inspired to change their diet. Several of them may have met their future spouses. Others learned about the history of their ancestors. Many found a way to relate to their spirituality.
The Telugu flick starring Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan Teja will release in 14 countries.
Auto and farm equipment major Mahindra and Mahindra on Wednesday said its US-based subsidiary will open a new assembly and distribution centre by the end of this month.
The comic book movie, which has seen various efforts to bring it to the screen over the last two decades, grossed over the weekend a decent but unspectacular $83 million, nearly 55 percent of it in North America. Slumdog, which was number one film for just one week in its dream run worldwide, made about $18 million. It lost about 35 percent of its box-office clout after having soared to the top amidst post Oscar celebrations.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Harish Thawani, Nimbus Communications' flamboyant CEO, wants to take the Neo sports channel to such new markets as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia Europe and North America. The aim, he says, is to achieve an over 50 per cent growth in market share next financial year.
The current turbulence in world financial markets notwithstanding, there exists a positive attitude among private business owners in emerging economies, particularly in India and China, toward mergers and acquisitions, says a global survey.
New York's North American and the UK grosses looks small compared to that of Yash Raj's big hit Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. But that of course starred Shah Rukh Khan, and was directed by Aditya Chopra.
Intense global competition and rapid growth are forcing Indian firms to examine corporate enterprise risk management (ERM) elsewhere, especially in Europe, Australia and North America, where the process is more mature, according to a study. ERM is a cohesive, enterprise-wide process allowing companies to identify, assess and respond to the social, political and economic risks of doing business.
The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occured on Friday, July 27, and was visible from much of the world. Prime viewing locations for the four-hour long event included Cairo, Egypt; Santorini, Greece; and Harare, Zimbabwe. Here are some of the best views of the spectacular show in the sky.
The Federation of Indian American Christian Organisations of North America on Friday staged a protest outside the United Nations headquarters and urged Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to look into the 'naked violation' of human rights of Christians in Orissa.Holding placards with slogans that read 'Ban VHP,' 'Stop Burning Christians alive in Orissa,' and 'Deploy Army to Orissa to Christians,' the FIACONA activists staged a three-hour protest outside the UN.
With the mantras 'Explore, Dream, Discover,' the 17th edition of the three-day Network of Indian Professionals in North America (NetIP) conference to be held in Boston offers to the 800 participants opportunities to hear industry leaders and stalwart professors, including Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande of Sycamore Networks; Tarun Khanna, professor at Harvard University Business School; and Vikram Akula of SKS Microfinance.
From a poor farmer's family to IIT-IIM to the tallest peaks in the world, Malli Mastan Babu's story is the stuff movies are made of, discovers Chandrima Pal.
Terminator Salvation is a big winner, after all.
TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Sasken may feel the heat as Nortel files for bankruptcy protection.
The latest one being Ken Toombs, global head of consulting at the Bengaluru-based entity.
Toyota Motor Corporation is recalling 1.43 million vehicles globally for defective air bags
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
Glenmark plans to start selling its anti-diarrhoea drug, Crofelemer, by the first-half of 2010 across the globe, except in North America, Europe, Japan and China, the company said. The confidence to sell the drug ahead of its rivals comes as the Crofelemer's original developer, Napo Pharmaceutical Inc, recently entered into a tie-up with a US-based drug maker, Salyx, for selling the drug in the US market, paving the way for Glenmark to sell it in the rest of the world.
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