It was truly heartening to see how the Sikh community had risen to the occasion during the Black Lives Matter peaceful protests and the coronavirus pandemic and selflessly served those looking for nourishment.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
Presenting 8 knockout pics from Boman Irani's Instagram account. Yes! You heard it right.
'This happened five blocks from my home. As I drive back home from work, dreary sirens remind me that this is the state of the world,' Priyanka Chopra tweets.
Thousands of merry-makers, many dressed in elaborate Halloween costumes, paraded through lower Manhattan on Tuesday, undeterred by the attack that unfolded just hours earlier when a driver mowed down dozens of people on a bike path a few blocks away.
His prison term is set to end on March 2016.
Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders are dead after a furious gun battle that filled the streets of Jersey City, New Jersey, with the sound of heavy gunfire for about an hour on Tuesday
"I always used to say the toughest people are Manhattan real estate guys and blah, blah. Now I say they're babies," the former New York-based real estate baron said, adding that the toughest are the political people.
Quoting the company's Chief Financial Officer James M Follo, the report said real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has been retained to act as its agent to secure financing, 'either in the form of a mortgage or a sale-leaseback arrangement'. The report said that the company's portion of the building is not currently mortgaged.
The woman claimed she met Weinstein at an event, and then three days later, went to his apartment in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan for what she believed was a business lunch.
Calling herself a 'proud Indian', Chopra said she is 'extremely saddened' and that hurting sentiments of people was never her intention.
Why are people around the world taking their pants off? Read on! :-)
At ground zero, hundreds of victims' relatives and dignitaries gathered to hear the reading the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed during the attack.
Rescuers on Friday pulled out another body from the rubble of two flattened Manhattan apartment buildings in New York city as the death toll rose to eight.
Biden -- who bagged 253 seats as against Trump's 213 -- appeared to be nearing the magical figure of 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.
Thousands of anti-Trump protesters, including politicians and celebrities, have rallied in New York. Demonstrators also clashed with police outside the National Press Club in Washington, DC ahead of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.
Robert De Niro launched the Tribeca Film Festival as a measure to revive the lower Manhattan area devastated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Seven years later, the festival has become the largest film event in New York City. Manhattan is a perfect place for the festival -- combining the city's high film culture with its ability to party and celebrate.
Thousands and thousands of protesters, many of them students who skipped school, have gathered in cities across the world kicking off a day of worldwide protests calling for action against climate change ahead of a United Nations summit. From the Pacific Islands to Australia and India, protesters took to the streets on Friday, demanding their governments take urgent steps to tackle the climate crisis and prevent an environmental catastrophe. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired the climate strike, tweeted her support. Check out photos from all over the world.
Beach volleyball player Zhang Xi, 27, of China trains for the London 2012 Olympics in Manhattan Beach, California. Xi and her partner Chen Xue (not pictured), 23, won bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Following is a list of quotes from the 17-times Grand Slam champion on tennis, the pandemic, vaccines and more:
An estimated 150,000 people attend the largest celebration of India in the United States. George Joseph reports from the India Day parade in New York, organised by the Indian Associations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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NYPD sources are reported to have said sleeping pills were found at the scene, but no suicide note.
We live in a wonderfully weird world and here's the proof!
A New York Police Department spokesman said the Australian-born actor had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment, which is believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.
Aseem Chhabra remembers Master Chef Floyd Cardoz who died of coronavirus in New York on Wednesday.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video game.
The two Congressmen are Mario Diaz-Balart and Ben McAdams.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd announced on Wednesday a new location for its asset management and capital markets practice at Manhattan, New York.
Organizers of the World Chess Championship sued on Monday to block a trio of website operators from broadcasting chess moves at the November 11-30 match in New York, which is expected to draw millions of online viewers.
Catch up on all the big news of the week gone by, in images.
The 74-year-old real estate mogul-turned politician, who radically changed politics in the corridors of power in Washington, DC over the past four tumultuous years, was impeached for a second time on the charges of 'incitement of insurrection' for the violent storming of the United States Capitol by his supporters just days before the end of his four-year term.
'Eavesdropping over conversations, I can state with some authority that the transition from a winter body to a summer one is proving traumatic for most, the winter wardrobe chastened by the summer one.'
A collection of oddball, amazing moments from the world!
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
The slick clip features shots of yellow taxis and crowds in Times Square and Herald Square in Manhattan, with vibrant French music playing in the background -- a nod to the Paris terror attacks on Friday.
The 20s are key growth years. Not physical but mental, emotional and spiritual. This decade lays the foundation of character.
Federal authorities in the United States have seized two valuable artefacts stolen from India valued at about $450,000 (Rs 3 crore) from the premier auction house Christie's, just days before a scheduled auction of the items as part of planned festivities to celebrate Asia week.
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