IMAX Corporation and Yash Raj Films, India’s leading film studio, announced Friday that Dhoom:3, part three of producer Aditya Chopra and filmmaker Vijay Krishna Acharya’s action-thriller series, starring Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, and Uday Chopra, will debut in 13 IMAX territories on 37 IMAX screenings beginning Friday, Dec. 20. According to IMAX, Dhoom:3 [...]

Eros International Plc (Eros), a leading company in the Indian film industry has announced a $14.9 million gross weekend worldwide for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela. The Indian take on the classic Romeo and Juliet story starring Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh in its lead roles, released worldwide on 15th November in over [...]

Cartoon Network, Graphic India and POW! Entertainment have announced today a partnership that will bring to life Stan Lee’s first ever Indian superhero. The legendary writer is the co-creator of the world’s most popular superheroes including Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Hulk, The Avengers, and others. The movie, entitled Chakra: The Invincible, will premiere [...]

India’s Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, met with investors Wednesday, April 17, at a private interaction hosted by the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) as part of the Minister’s week-long North America investor “road show.” It is aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. The off-the-record lunch meeting convened top global industry leaders to discuss [...]

A group of Indian students have become the first musicians from AR Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory to arrive in the UK as part of a new educational partnership with Middlesex University. Middlesex has worked with KM Music Conservatory to build a course which allows Rahman’s students to bring together Western and Hindustani styles, with musicians [...]

The world’s largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people will take place in Albuquerque, N.M. between April 26 and 28, 2012. The 29th Annual Gathering of Nations, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in the world, will host tens of thousands of people and more than 500 tribes from throughout the United States, [...]

Ramdev, a popular yoga instructor in India, who has been holding protests against the government on the issues of corruption and black money, today invited Indian Army Chief, General V. K. Singh, to join his campaign after retirement. Singh is retiring next month after a series of controversial spats with the government – including his [...]

Dassault Falcon will present its Falcon fleet of large cabin, long range business jets at the third India Aviation air show. The event, which opens on March 14, will be held at Hyderabad Begumpet Airport. According to the company, Dassault built its reputation for advanced high-performance fighter jets operated in India for more than 60 [...]

You’d often hear that Indian TV programming has been getting dumber and dumber with tired sitcoms, vulgar reality shows, news that looks like paid-for propaganda, and so on. Majority may have this view. But you know, I’m an optimist to the hilt. I see silver lining around every dark cloud. By Rakesh Raman That’s why [...]

The new tablet claims to have all the bells and whistles that come with a high-end device and it aims to target Indian buyers. Beetel Teletech, India’s leading manufacturer and distributor of telecom and allied products, has introduced Beetel Magiq, an Android 2.2 tablet for the Indian market. It comes with a price tag of [...]

While Indian tech service providers claim to be the leaders in the world, India’s major mobile services company Bharti Airtel has dismissed all such local claims and preferred to hire world leader IBM for its IT operations. Airtel and IBM jointly announced Tuesday (July 12) a 10-year agreement to provide comprehensive IT solutions to its [...]

Indian tech services company Infosys has announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. The company’s revenues were $1,671 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2011; QoQ growth was 4.3%; YoY growth was 23%. It says its net income after tax was $384 million for the quarter with QoQ decline of [...]