NEW YORK: Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) is now available as part of Cablevision’s iO International programming service.

NEW YORK: Penn Masala, the pioneer a cappella group from the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off its promotional tour for the release of their 5th album, Pehchaan, with a packed show at Park West H. S., NYC, recently.

NEW DELHI: British television star Jade Goody, accused of being racist towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on a UK reality show, arrived on a visit and said people have been really nice to her.

Author Kiran Desai has been named among the finalists for the Kiriyama Prize for her Novel The Inheritance of Loss, which recently won her the prestigious Man Booker Prize

Big. Bigger. Biggest. It seems like everything in life is about supersizing these days!

CHICAGO: Natya Dance Theater, a Chicago-based dance company dedicated to the celebration of classical Indian dance and its reinterpretation for contemporary audiences, will present the world premiere of Alakshaya.

NEW YORK: Rounder Records will be releasing the soundtrack of Fox Searchlight Pictures’ ‘The Namesake’ directed by Mira Nair, on March 6.

"Indian Cowboy: a love-love story" is a stylish, new addition to the roster of uniquely North American stories made by South Asian filmmakers. Starring South Asian stars Sheetal Sheth and Deep Katdare, this desi romantic comedy is coming to North American theatres on February 23.

The Bend It Like Beckham direc-tor Gurinder Chadha is expect-ing twins. The 46 year old di-rector is pregnant for the first time and well, both she and her husband Paul Berges are excited about it. Gurinder is currently working on the script of the 1980s series Dallas but due to pregnancy, she has taken a break.

Young and not-so-young lovers across the country celebrated Valentine's Day, undeterred by protests in several places by Sangh Parivar outfits and radical groups that described it as a Western phenomenon which corrupted the youth.