A free booklet is educating young people about their legal rights and responsibilities when using social media, and how to stay safe online. The Cyber bullying, Sexting and Facebook: Know the law, know your rights booklet is helping young people to better understand the legal consequences of their online behaviour and where to get […]
Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, will travel to India and Singapore from 16 to 19 January 2018, to promote Australia’s world-class defence capabilities for export and strengthen regional defence industry relationships. In India, the Minister will attend represent the Australian Government at the third annual Raisina Dialogue to discuss the region’s […]
By Manju Mittal An extremely talented young Ghazal and Sufi singer Jaswinder Singh has established himself as a versatile performer through a varied range of ghazals and sufi songs. He has been awarded “The young Ghazal Maestro” by Indian Music Academy. The title was presented by Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia in the presence of the former […]
By Anu Jose While Christmas is over for another year, there are still a few weeks left of lazy summer days relaxing. It’s the perfect time to catch up on books you wanted to read in 2017 but never had time for. Summer reading is pure bliss, holidays personified! So here is my short list: […]
By Devaki Parthsarathy Many people ask me why I am so happy all the time. For a bright and chirpy “Good Morning” I receive a rather dejected, “So what’s so good about this morning?” or “Can I have the happy pill you’re on?” or “In a couple of days it will be a good morning […]
Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Warramunga, with support from a UK Royal Navy helicopter, seized more than 3.5 tonnes of illicit narcotics during a night-time operation in the Arabian Sea on 3 January 2018 at around 0830 AEDT. Warramunga intercepted and boarded suspect vessel, under the direction of the Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Australian-led […]
By Shailja Chandra (As Gulzar Saab heads to Sydney, we reproduce Monika geetmala presenter Shailja Chandra’s interview with Gulzar when she met him a couple of years ago) Car rolls onto ‘dhadkati’, pulsating roads of the maximum city, Mumbai. Not blinking”¦on my way to Boskiyana, where he, Gulzar, lives, breaths, reads, writes, creates! Meeting Gulzar […]
Girls out-performed the boys again in NSW HSC 2017 exams, with 83 girls and 38 boys on the merit list as they topped in the state in varied subjects. . Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said it was an incentive for boys to work harder in 2018. “It’s a great outcome for the girls in these […]
A special Vipassana course has been organised for the Indian subcontinent community from April 4 – April 15, 2018 at Blackheath. Course will be conducted in Hindi and other Indian languages as well as in English. Register interest at: https://www.dhamma.org/en/schedules/schbhumi
By Lasantha Pethiagoda Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus’ birth. The earliest gospel – St. Mark’s, written about 65 CE – begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus. This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in […]