THE HON.BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG MICHELLE ROWLAND MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURALISM MEMBER FOR GREENWAY HOLI It is with great pleasure that we send our best wishes to everyone celebrating this year’s Holi festival. Holi is an exciting occasion for Hindus and the wider […]
Director of ‘India’s Daughter’ Leslee Udwin The controversial Nirbhaya documentary based on the 2012 Delhi gangrape ‘India’s Daughter’ is scheduled to be aired on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday night. The film has drawn controversy and opposition with police securing a court injunction blocking its broadcas in […]
By Amrit Bhatta March 3, 2015 Hi everyone – am enjoying and fascinated by how this cricket can turn out, so see my analysis below”¦ Am assuming PAK beat UAE and Aus account for the superb Afghans on the 4th, further that Bangladesh account for Scotland on the 5th. An upset by Scotland won’t […]
Mr Navdeep Singh Suri, presently Ambassador of India to the Arab Republic of Egypt, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia. Mr. Suri joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1983 and has served in India’s diplomatic missions in Cairo, Damascus, Washington, Dar-E-Salaam […]
Brendon McCallum as the Captain By Kersi Meher-Homji Kersi Meher-Homji donned the hat of a selector and chose the Great World XI Cricket Team in his last write up. Here Kersi chooses his Best World Cup XI made up of current players playing from different teams competing for […]
Daniel Mookhey 5th from left By Harish Velji I was accorded the special privilege to announce Daniel Mookhey from the Labor Party for getting elected into the Parliament of New South Wales. Born in Australia and having Indian ancestry, Daniel Mookhey was introduced to a full packed media function in the month of February. […]
Minister for Citizenship and Communities and Assistant Minister for Education Victor Dominello on 28th of February announced an additional $400,000 in funding to support the state’s community language schools network. Says the minister who himself is of Italian heritage that language learning is quite important and […]
India will introduce gold deposit accounts to utilise the 20,000 tonnes available within the country and launch a sovereign bond as an alternative to buying the metal, moves that are likely to cut imports into the biggest gold consumer. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley however did not make any mention of cutting the 10 percent import […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitely proposed to enact a comprehensive law to bring back black money stashed abroad. “We will curb benami transactions in property deals. The FEMA Act will be amended to incorporate black money provisions,” Jaitley announced. Hoarding of black money will lead to rigorous imprisonment of 10 years, the finance minister […]
By Manju Mittal The Cricket Legends Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara were at Trivet BMW in Parramatta on Wednesday afternoon 25 February to launch the new BMW 2 Series Convertible. I was surprised by the number of people who had gathered to attend the special event perhaps made special by the presence of Sachin […]