The festival opened with stars from The Great Gatsby film. It was proud to see Amitabh Bachchan walk in with rest of the cast. By Manju Mittal If you are an Indian, Bollywood films are part of growing up. It is great to see the Indian Film Industry being celebrated and honoured on the occasion […]
By Manju Mittal After visiting Cannes film festival early this year I quickly planned my next foray and landed in Japan my dream country to be part of the Tokyo film Festival as Japanese films are some of the best films, very different than films from other parts of the world .I was highly impressed […]
Sachin Tendulkar – a brand or a fine cricketer By Gaurav Joshi reporting from India They are the two most anticipated Test Matches in the recent history but with such contrasting values. So far they are distant from each other that it seems only the cricketing conventions bring them together. India vs West Indies Test […]
Chair of the Community Relations Commission of NSW, Stepan Kerkyasharian responds to Brookvale Brewery’s ginger beer with Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi “Putting images of Indian gods on ginger beer and cider bottles is just ridiculous”,according to the Chair of the Community Relations Commission of NSW, Stepan Kerkyasharian. He was commenting on the revelations […]
Team PBD with HE High Commissioner of India Mr Biren Nanda By Neena Badhwar The last key note played on cricket by the former Australian captain Steve Waugh, the stands in Sydney where the regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) was being played, were rather empty but the test was a successful event. There […]
ABS data released on November 12 shows 2924 fewer loans for first home buyers were approved in the September quarter, compared with the equivalent quarter last year. First home buyers were hardly one-in-eight borrowers in spite of the low interest rates. This year to date, the number of loans approved for first home buyers has […]
Saba Abdi, Premier Barry O’Farrell, Fiji’s Ex Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhary and his wife, Gautam Gupta at a reception given by the premier in Government House in Sydney NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has today welcomed an Indian Government delegation to Sydney while officially opening the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas – or Overseas Indian Convention. The […]
Brookvale Union, an Australian brewery from New South Wales has a juxtaposed image of Hindu god Ganesha’s head and Hindu goddess Lakshmi’s body on its ginger beer bottles. This image has upset some Indians in Australia. “Is it just me or does anyone else find this ginger beer bottle offensive?” asks Taneea Thapliyal from Melbourne. […]
Australian Innovation Showcase India 2013 – Launch 11 November Some of Australia’s top researchers, academics and scientists will visit India for Australia’s first ever Innovation Showcase in India. The Australia Innovation Showcase will bring the largest ever group of Australian researchers and academics to visit India. It will also demonstrate Australia’s world class research, innovation […]
In a first for the program, Tony Jones will host Q&A India broadcasting live from Gurgaon – the business and commercial hub just south of the Indian capital New Delhi. As usual, a large studio audience will ask the questions, but this time the audience will be made up of Australian and Indian citizens and […]