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Indian restaurant back-pays 22 workers

An Indian restaurant on the  Gold Coast  has signed up to a Court Enforceable Undertaking (EU) that will significantly improve its workplace practices, after the Fair Work Ombudsman found it underpaid workers a total of $54,470. The Saffron Indian Gourmet restaurant, located at Broadbeach, and its Director and Manager, Sridhar Penumechchu, entered into the EU […]

Community language grants to build stronger communities

More young Australians will learn another language with a funding boost set to connect people to new languages and cultures. The Morrison Government has committed $10 million through the Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program to support not-for-profit community language schools.  Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Grants Program would deliver a stronger Australia and invest […]

The Battle begins

By Vijay Badhwar The election dates in the world’s largest democracy, for the 16th time since its inception, have been announced to begin on April 11 and end on May 19.Nine hundred million voters are eligible to vote in the mega elections, 15 million among them being first time voters. They will cast their votes […]

MEA India disappointed not being able to get JeM leader declared as global terrorist by the UN Security Council

China has for the fourth time blocked (put a technical hold) a proposal at the United Nations to designate Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. Standing solidly behind Pakistan, China ignored international efforts to clamp down on cross-border terrorism.   This is a major setback to Indian efforts to proscribe the Pulwama mastermind […]

Badla – Lekin Amitabh nahin badla!

By Devaki Parthasarathy If you loved Kahaani”¦ you will love Badla even more! Director Sujoy Ghosh presents yet another whodunit, with style and pizazz. Murder mysteries have been done so very many times since Waqt and from so very many angles, that finding that one piece that doesn’t quite fit till the end is almost […]

Madhuri Dixit in Kalank

Kalank – Release date April 19, 2019 Alia Bhatt is all set to amaze one and all with her brilliant performance once again with her upcoming film, ‘Kalank’. The actress will be sharing the screen space with none other than ‘Madhuri Dixit Nene in the film. Speaking about being in awe of the ‘Dhak Dhak […]

Ustad Rashid Khan in Concert on April 7

By Aradhana Bhatt Alap Inc. of Sydney has proudly announced a landmark concert after the un-precedented success last year of Kaushiki Chakraborty’s performance. Padmashree Ustad Rashid Khan will be performing at Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW on Sunday, on April 7, 2019 at 5.30 pm. Ustadji will be accompanied by some of the […]

Qissebazi by Danish Husain, in Sydney that is…

By Neena Badhwar Danish Husain has been to Sydney twice. Nautanki Theatre Company (NTC) presented him, second time, when he performed to a hall full, a select audience at Macquarie University theatre on March 9. And a day earlier he did a master class on the 8th to a little over thirty people, media students, […]

Sydney remembers Sridevi

By Neena Badhwar Sridevi came into Bollywood with a bang. She was young, very pretty, tall with a perfect figure. Every feature on her face was attractive, especially her eyes. She set the screens alive with her candid acting and became a heartthrob of fans worldwide. Girls emulated her with her ‘Mere hathon mein nau […]

India wins her 500th ODI in the Nagpur thriller

By Kersi Meher-Homji What a thriller, the result in doubt till the final over! Sent in to bat in the second One Day International (ODI) at Nagpur on Tuesday, India totalled 250, thanks to skipper Virat Kohli (116) and Vijay Shankar (46) adding 81 runs for the fourth wicket. Fast bowler Pat Cummins was the […]