“It’s been one year, five months, three weeks and three days today,” Salomy Puthuvamkunnath said, crying as she spoke with the Daily News last month about her son, Jijo. The case against against boozed-up motor boat operator Richard Acquilone has languished in Manhattan Criminal...

While members of an Islamic cultural center gathered for a Sunday evening dinner, a Molotov cocktail hurled by an unknown assailant and made from a Starbucks bottle burst and shattered against the center’s main entrance. Another was thrown at the sign for the center’s school. Share

Indian-American journalist Arun Gupta, one of the early advocates of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and co-founder and first editor of its cleverly named mouthpiece The Occupied Wall Street Journal, believes the nationwide protests have already significantly influenced American politics...

  The appearance by students from Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford and Children of Arya Samaj, a Hindu youth group in Ridgewood, was part of a push to celebrate diversity by the Jewish community in Hackensack — after anti-Semitic vandalism was found on synagogues...

  On one canvas, marmalade-hued sequins the size of small coins cascade across the dim visage of a woman cloaked in midnight blue. On another, streams of tiny red sequins drape downcast eyes like a beaded curtain. Underneath lies a dim, earthen, almost hidden woman’s face, her lips...

Vikram Chatwal is truly at home in the world. The founder and visionary behind Vikram Chatwal Hotels - which include the Dream, Time, Night, and Stay brands – might wake up in New York, where he owns five upscale properties, including the new Dream Downtown. Or he could find himself...

Floyd Cardoz, the chef of Tabla, the Indian fusion restaurant that established him as a culinary star in New York in 1998 and closed last year, did not see just another construction site. Standing before his still-wrapped custom-built kitchen equipment (a wood-burning grill, a live coal grill...

A few weeks ago, we caught wind of Desi Shack, a new Indian-Pakistani fast-food joint opening up just north of the main ”Curry Hill” drag that’s already home to dozens of South Asian restaurants. The restaurant is totally up and running now, pumping out...

A previously unknown manuscript by Bengali poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore is expected to fetch up to $250,000 when it is auctioned next month in New York. Rabindranath’s 1928 notebook contains 12 poems and lyrics for 12 songs in Bengali, some of which were...