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Kersi hits a Four and a Six in SMH Column 8!

  Kersi Meher-Homji with Premier Mike Baird Kersi Meher-Homji, TIDU’s celebrated Sport writer, cricket specialist and statistician has hit a four in the recent Sydney Morning Herald’s Column 8 on a question he put on Friday March 9, 2015: Friday March 6. The deeply statistical Kersi Meher-Homji, of St Ives, has come up with a […]

Upper House Liberal candidate Reena Jethi holds campaign event

  Reena Jethi, Raman Bhalla,  Liberal MP David Elliott and Rahul Jethi (far right) with members of the Indian Sikh community Baulkham Hills State Liberal MP David Elliott, Seven Hills Liberal Candidate Mark Taylor and Blacktown Liberal candidate Raman Bhalla were joined by members of the Indian community at a recent campaign event held by […]

Celebrating Sydney’s Many Languages

Bengali, Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, French… What languages do you speak? Where do you come from? Diverse languages contribute to a rich Australian cultural landscape but some feel marginalised by their mother tongue. Word Travels is working with City of Sydney to present the annual creative community forum called the Multilingual Poetry Slam for  Harmony Day […]

Police urging any information in relation to Prabha’s death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_2Ohd0nto Police investigating the death of a woman in Westmead at the weekend have released CCTV footage as part of their renewed appeal for information from the public. About 9.30pm on Saturday (7 March 2015), emergency services responded to reports of a seriously injured woman on a public walkway between Argyle Street, Parramatta, and Amos […]

Baird promises high priority investigation in the death of Prabha Arun Kumar

  Community mourns  sad end of a talented IT professional Prabha Arun Kumar NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Communities and Citizenship Victor Dominello today sought to reassure the Indian community that every effort is being made to investigate the fatal attack on an Indian woman at Westmead and bring the perpetrators to justice. […]

India is on top down under

  Dhoni takes India to the  top down under Says an excited Kersi Meher-Homji What a thrill, what a cliff-hanger! The India – West Indies World Cup match at WACA in Perth yesterday (6 March) was in balance till skipper MS Dhoni and Ravichandran Ashwin got together. They still needed 49 runs to win with […]

Swami Baba Ramdev to visit Australia in April

  By Manju Mittal Swami Ramdev Baba needs no introduction.   As we all know the yog guru has popularized yoga in India and abroad through his T.V shows and Yoga camps, Baba Ramdev’s yoga has become quite popular with his numerous followers all over India and the world. People’s lives have totally been transformed […]

India’s economy to grow between 8.1 to 8.5 per cent in 2015/16

New Delhi (AFP) – India’s economy will grow by more than eight percent in the next financial year, the government said in a report published Friday, a day ahead of its first full-year national budget. The India Economic Survey said growth would be between 8.1 and 8.5 percent in the 2015/16 financial year, returning to […]

6 Indian women named by Forbes magazine in top 50 ‘Power Businesswomen’ from Asia

            ICICI  CEO  Chanda Kochchar NEW YORK: Six Indian  women  CEOs and Managing Directors, including  State Bank of India  head  Arundhati Bhattacharya and  ICICI  CEO  Chanda Kochchar, have been named by Forbes magazine in its 50 ‘Power Businesswomen’ from Asia who are “knocking down” walls in the traditional male bastions. […]

Minote Apte is winner of 2015 NSW Women of The Year Award

  Minote Apte with  Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Women Pru Goward 2015 NSW WOMEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Women Pru Goward on March 6, 2015  announced the winners of the 2015 NSW Women of the Year Awards during a special reception at NSW Parliament House. Mr Baird […]