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IFFM – Indian Film Festival of Melbourne announces dates with opening night film ‘Womb’

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Physical Festival  ·  August 12-21  · Venues across Melbourne Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Opening Night  · Thursday August 12  · HOYTS Melbourne Central Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Virtual Festival  · August 15-30  · Online The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is delighted to announce its return to […]

We welcome Indian women cricketers touring Australia this summer

By Kersi Meher-Homji Although the highlight of this Australian summer is the Ashes series between the touring England’s cricket team and Australia, India women will visit Australia before the Ashes. They will play three One Day Internationals (ODIs), one Test and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) against Australian women in September and October. “The 2021-22 summer […]

CSIRO to fast track Covid-19 treatments with new funding

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, will spearhead a $1.7 million project to identify new treatments for COVID-19, including ‘long-COVID’.   Scientists will develop a faster, smarter way of rapidly screening existing drugs and advancing those that can be used to treat COVID-19 and aim to have identified thee suitable TGA- or FDA-approved drug candidates to progress […]

ZEE5 Global cordially invites you to celebrate 14 Phere with Kriti Kharbanda and Vikrant Massey

Drama combined with double the chaos equals dhamakedaar entertainment! 14 Phere coming this July, only on ZEE5 ~ Directed by National award winner Devanshu Singh and written by Manoj Kalwani, the social comedy film will take you on a roller coaster ride Mumbai, 30th June 2021: Keeping the entertainment quotient high, ZEE5 Global, the world’s […]

Make sure to enter Hindi as the language spoken at home in this Census on August 10

By Neena Badhwar Census 2021 and Hindi language as the spoken language in Indian homes – ऑस्ट्रेलिया में बसे भारतियों से और आप सबसे एक आग्रह ऑस्ट्रेलिया की जनगणना १० अगस्त को होगी । जनगणना मात्र एक ही माध्यम है जिससे हिंदी भाषी लोगों का पता चलता है।भारत से बसे हुए लोग अधिकतर बहुभाषी है।English […]

Calm dawns at J&K horizon

By Vijay Badhwar Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, took his detractors by surprise by successfully holding a meeting on June 24, without agenda, to break ice with 14 Jammu & Kashmir leaders, many among them who had been held in virtual house arrest for significant times since Article 370 was abrogated on August 5, 2019. […]

Tomar urges farmer unions to end protests against the three farm laws

23.6.21. On Saturday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urged the farmer unions to end their protests against the three farm laws as the Central government is open to discussions. In September 2020, the three farm laws, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price […]

Deepening crisis of Congress party under Rahul Gandhi

By Rajdeep Sardesai Dumping on Rahul Gandhi has become a fashion: while his BJP opponents have ‘Pappu-fied’ him as an incompetent leader, many of his Congress colleagues in private hold him responsible for the deepening crisis of the grand old party. It’s almost as if every time any Congress person quits the party or indeed, […]

Venues of concern across Sydney to do with Covid-19

27.6.2021. NSW Health has been notified of a number of new venues of concern across Sydney visited by confirmed cases of COVID”‘19. Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed is a close contact and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result, and call 1800 943 553 unless […]

High Commission of India, Canberra launches ‘Global Pravasi Rishta Portal’

The Government of lndia has launched the “Global Pravasi Rishta Portal ” as a dynamic portal to establish an effective communication channel to connect with the Indian diaspora worldwide. The portal would enable communication with diaspora on a real-rime basis. The portal has been created to enable the registration of Indian diaspora members i.e. NRIs, […]