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Gandhi Creations awarded for The Best Community Event NSW

                Sonia Gandhi proud of her company Gandhi Creations – organisers of Premier’s Harmony Day dinner    Victor Dominello, Minister for citizenship and Communities with guests   From starting as a student studying in Australia to running a successful event company Sonia Gandhi has come a long way. […]

Fawad Ahmed wins sportsperson of the year award

Fawad Ahmed has won    the prestigious Australian Muslim Sportsperson of the Year award at the 8th  annual Australian Muslim Achievement Awards   Cricket Australia congratulates cricketer Fawad Ahmed, who last night won the prestigious Australian Muslim Sportsperson of the Year award at the 8th  annual Australian Muslim Achievement Awards. The awards ceremony, held in […]

School funding for NSW welcomed by Barry O’Farrell

  NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Education Minister Adrian Piccoli today welcomed Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s commitment to lock in four years of schools funding for NSW, in line with the agreement signed with the Commonwealth earlier this year. Speaking from India where he had been telephoned by the Prime Minister and told of the […]

Sydney and its Indian Hustle and Bustle

    By Rekha Rajvanshi Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan Birth Anniversary Celebration The Indian Literary and Art Society of Australia (ILASA) Inc. along with Indian Seniors Hornsby celebrated Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s 107th birth anniversary on November 17, 2013 at Epping Leisure and Learning Centre. India’s popular poet, lyricist and Big B’s father Dr Harivansh […]

Top Worldwide trend of the year 2013!

New Zealand singer Lorde’s single ‘royals’ took the year by storm The year 2013 comes to an end and it was only 11 months ago that we were wishing a happy new year to all. Social media has been the connection where we now celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, share our food & travel experiences, share our […]

Victory stupendous, sledging unnecessary

By Kersi Meher-Homji who is both happy and angry It was a complete turnaround. After nine Tests without a win and seven defeats, Australia proved her critics wrong by triumphing in the Brisbane Test on Sunday. It was not just a win. It was a stupendous, morale-shattering, sensational, 381 run triumph with a day to […]

Waheeda Rehman receives inaugural centenary award

Waheeda Rehman is India’s most beautiful and a famous actress of Indian cinema. Her ethereal beauty and chiselled features attracted the great director Guru Dutt whose black and white camera  fell in love with her. Totally besotted with Waheeda on screen and off screen Guru Dutt made some of the most memorable movies of the […]

Victory stupendous, sledging unnecessary

Kersi Meher-Homji is both happy and angry It was a complete turnaround. After nine Tests without a win and seven defeats, Australia proved her critics wrong by triumphing in the Brisbane Test on Sunday. It was not just a win. It was a stupendous, morale-shattering, sensational, 381 run triumph with a day to spare. One […]

Patrick Suckling – An interview

Australian High Commissioner to India,  Patrick Suckling He exudes a certain sense of calm. His humble candour and unassuming smile is infectious. His vision and enthusiasm for Indo-Oz relations is endearing and his love for India is further fuelled by the fact that he  holds a post-graduate diploma in Hindi from the University of Sydney. […]

New Australian government flags better ties with India

By Rekha Bhattacharjee With a change of the government in Canberra, the Indo-Australian bilateral ties are likely to experience another upswing. The new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made the better relations with India as one of his government’s top foreign and trade policy priorities. As expected, China continues to occupy precious space as […]