Brendon McCallum as the Captain By Kersi Meher-Homji Kersi Meher-Homji donned the hat of a selector and chose the Great World XI Cricket Team in his last write up. Here Kersi chooses his Best World Cup XI made up of current players playing from different teams competing for […]
Daniel Mookhey 5th from left By Harish Velji I was accorded the special privilege to announce Daniel Mookhey from the Labor Party for getting elected into the Parliament of New South Wales. Born in Australia and having Indian ancestry, Daniel Mookhey was introduced to a full packed media function in the month of February. […]
Minister for Citizenship and Communities and Assistant Minister for Education Victor Dominello on 28th of February announced an additional $400,000 in funding to support the state’s community language schools network. Says the minister who himself is of Italian heritage that language learning is quite important and […]
India will introduce gold deposit accounts to utilise the 20,000 tonnes available within the country and launch a sovereign bond as an alternative to buying the metal, moves that are likely to cut imports into the biggest gold consumer. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley however did not make any mention of cutting the 10 percent import […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitely proposed to enact a comprehensive law to bring back black money stashed abroad. “We will curb benami transactions in property deals. The FEMA Act will be amended to incorporate black money provisions,” Jaitley announced. Hoarding of black money will lead to rigorous imprisonment of 10 years, the finance minister […]
By Manju Mittal The Cricket Legends Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara were at Trivet BMW in Parramatta on Wednesday afternoon 25 February to launch the new BMW 2 Series Convertible. I was surprised by the number of people who had gathered to attend the special event perhaps made special by the presence of Sachin […]
NEW DELHI: Number of tourists arriving in India has increased by several times as compared to previous year after the launch of visa on arrival (VoA) enabled Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) scheme for 43 countries. A total of 25,023 tourists arrived in India in January this year using the VoA enabled ETA scheme […]
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Australia (BVB) announces its annual Holi Mahotsav 2015, the Grand Festival of Harmony and Friendship. This year’s added feature is Interfaith Festival and a Concert on Saturday 28 March 2015. Bhavan Australia welcomes everyone to join its 13th anniversary celebration of Holi Mahotsav that will take place in Darling Harbour on […]
Think you can bowl as fast as Brett Lee? Find out what faster feels like on Telstra’s 4GX network at its dhamakedaar event with special guest Brett Lee. Kick back with your friends to SBS PopDesi tunes while enjoying authentic Indian street food and playing with cutting edge technology at our tech bar. Why […]
By Neena Badhwar NSW Premier Mike Baird met select 150 members of the Indian community in Parramatta’s Deloitte on Tuesday the 23rd of February pitching himself and Indian candidates Raman Bhalla for Blacktown and Reena Jethi for Upper House in the coming NSW elections on March 28, 2015. He talked about his recent visit […]