Arthur J Pais meets Katherine Russell Rich, a New Yorker enamoured with India's national language.
The new executive woman doesn't wear opaque panty hose and doesn't wait around for a promotion.
The New York branch in midtown Manhattan plans to offer a suite of banking services, including working capital, acquisition finance, trade service and treasury solutions to corporates, and savings products to qualified individuals, subject to guidelines.
Palpreet Singh, winner of the ACG-NBA Jump National Finals, India's first national basketball talent search program, was selected 11th in the fourth Round of the NBA D-League Draft held in New York.
Underemployed freelancers and involuntary part-timers are hidden casualties of the deepening recession.
'Donald Trump' took Times Square by storm on Tuesday along with a group of scantily-dressed women as part of a project by spoof photographer Alison Jackson.
The Madoff case has become a powerful symbol. The odd thing is, no one is exactly sure what it is a symbol of.
The disgraced money manager's victims include a who's who of wealth and celebrity.
Nobel Laureate Joseph E Stiglitz had predicted the global financial crisis and talked about its impact on emerging economies like India and China three years ago. In an interview with Business Standard at his Manhattan residence, Stiglitz says the crisis will last a couple of years.
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Deepika Padukone, who made her Bollywood debut with Om Shanti Om last year, will lead the annual India Day parade in New York on August 17.
Bombay/NY: An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta will include a conversation moderated by the Museum's Chief Curator David Schwartz, a screening of Nair's short film Migration, and a reading by Mehta from his book, Maximum City.
A woman was accidentally shot in the head and four others suffered injuries at a wedding at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Saturday after a man accidentally fired off his gun.
The leader who three years ago was an ultra-Left wing underground leader was today talking with pragmatism and wisdom about dreams and peace. Karl Marx's foot soldier is now talking like a student of Dr Manmohan Singh's class on market economy
The Times group is in talks with W P Carey and Company that specialises in sale-lease deal, the New York Times said, adding under the deal, the group would sell the 19 floors it currently occupies in the building except those six, it leases to other tenants. The company would continue to occupy and manage its floors and would have the right to buy back the space at a predetermined price when a 10-year-lease expires, company's spokeswoman Catherine J Mathis said.
Kanchana Suggu, former US student, describes life in America. She talks about the academic differences, living expenses and finding employment.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh touted Maharashtra as India's best foreign investment destination before a 200-odd people consisting mainly of prospective American investors at the prestigious Metropolitan Club in Manhattan on Monday.
A French fund manager, who lost more than $1.4 billion in the multi-billion-dollar Bernard Madoff scandal, was found dead in his Manhattan office in New York and is believed to have committed suicide.
An intense winter storm has caused electricity outages for tens of thousands of Americans. Some 65,000 homes and businesses along the US east coast are without power. The storm is the product of a rapid and rare drop in barometric pressure known as bombogenesis, or bomb cyclone. Heavy snow has pounded the east coast from Maine as far south as North Carolina, taking out power lines, icing over roads and closing hundreds of schools.
Reader Sreekanth Nandagiri sent us a picture of Mahesh Bhupathi from the USA.
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'It is never easy to run a campaign as a woman, particularly a minority woman, especially when you are bucking the establishment.' 'My entire campaign is an act of resistance.'
Thousands of supporters of the Dalai Lama shouted and "spit" on a group of demonstrators belonging to a Buddhist sect which alleges that the Tibetan spiritual leader is persecuting its members, forcing the police to intervene to prevent clashes between them.
The Young Professional Committee of the Share and Care Foundation, a New Jersey-based social service agency, raised $31,000 at its second annual charity gala at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City.
The Statue of Liberty, one of the most visited monuments in the United States, and the island it sits on were evacuated on Friday because of a suspicious package, police said.
Residents in these 10 spots are experiencing the most economic upheaval.
Hastey Hastey, aptly titled, is another comedy to tickle your funny bone. Unfortunately, it really doesn't.
She was last seen on Jan 20 by her cousin who dropped her off at the St John's University dorm shortly after landing at LaGuardia airport in New York.
Akayed Ullah has been charged on five counts, including providing material support and resources to terrorist organisations, use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a place of public law, destruction of property by means of explosive and use of destructive device.
An American Airways Airbus 320 carrying 148 passengers and six crew on a domestic flight crashed into Hudson River off Westside Manhattan minutes after it took off. All aboard were rescued.
Three Indian-Americans won high honours in Discovery channel's `Young Scientist Challenge 2007', the national contest held in Washington, DC, aimed at unearthing the best and brightest young scientists in America.
The globe's top 10 priciest retail and business corridors.
The defendants charged with paying the bribes and kickbacks are Sarvesh Dharayan, Sanjay Gupta, Venkata Atluri, Rangarajan Kumar, Vadan Kumar Kopalle and Daren Siriani.
Indian-American filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, who had made a documentary on US President Barack Obama, has been indicted on charges of violating federal campaign finance laws.
A skinny African-American man, with goofy ears and Hussein as a middle name is going to become our 44th president. It is a win for all of us-- African-Americans, whites, Latinos, Asians, men, women and children, old and young, straight and gays. We should rejoice at this historic moment.
An Indian-origin former high-ranking officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court here for siphoning off government money to the tune of $9 million, most of which was intended to help identify victims of 9/11 terror attacks, and stashing it away in India.
Scriptwriter Tracey Jackson talks about The Other End of the Line starring Jesse Metcalf and Shriya Saran, and why the Amrican way of looking at India should change.
The New York Giants achieved one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, scoring a 17-14 victory over the previously undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday.
A "shocking" fraud involving 106 people, including former New York city cops and firefighters, who allegedly used the 9/11 terror attack disability benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars to fund their lavish lifestyles, has been cracked by authorities in New York.
Believers are lining up to see a mysterious flower in a New York backyard whose owner says took the shape of Hindu God Ganesh to cure him of his ailments that had plagued him for long.
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