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Adani Group gets approval for a whopper of a coal project in QLD

              Adani Chairman Gautam Adani, big dreams big projects Adani is  in news in India during the election fever and we have Adani  making waves here in Australia too as India’s energy needs rise. An approval for a 16.5 billion coal and rail project in Queensland producing 60 million […]

$42 million for tropical health and medicine research in northern Australia

                Minister for Education, the Hon Christopher Pyne   The Federal Coalition Government will invest $42 million in ground breaking tropical health and medicine research to be conducted by James Cook University (JCU), delivering on an election commitment to  communities in northern Australia. Minister for Education, the Hon […]

Sydney Dance Festival – A  reminder that all Indian dance is not just Bollywood

                      By  Vish Viswanathan “We artistes are like flowers. But Maduram Academy of Performing Arts did put us together like a beautiful garland through the Sydney Dance Festival” said Smt. Vidha Lal,   a world famous Kathak   exponent and the Guinness Book of World […]

All the talk of gloom-and-doom is total budget bakwaas

              By Manbir Kohli It looks like the Liberal government will go ahead with the deficit-levy/tax when the budget comes out on Tuesday. All the talk of the economy is in crisis and doom-and-gloom that they have been projecting is totally bakwaas. For instance look at the unemployment figures […]

Telstra goes Bollywood in Melbourne with Malaika

                The annual Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition is one of the highlights of the Indian Film Festival and attracted thousands to the Federation Square in Melbourne on 4 May. Pouring rain did not deter the audience that gathered with umbrellas to witness bollywood dance hungamma put by the […]

A message from the Prime Minister – Our Economic Action Strategy

              Prime Mintser Tony Abbott giving  his reasons for the need to  make big changes in the upcoming budget to be out next Tuesday 13 May 2014 at 7.30pm released by the treasurer Mr Joe Hockey. In recent weeks, as I’ve met people across Australia and read their letters […]

Steve Smith’s rise the real triumph for Australia

    By Gaurav Joshi The Indian Test tour 14 months ago was tumultuous on and off the field. The four nil drubbing signified the drop in Australian cricket standards. The outcry from various corners of the world was Australia cricket had reached bottom of the barrel and needed to scrape that same barrel  to […]

IFFM Award winners announced

    Amitabh taking a selfie with fans While the IFFA Awards reached their 15th year milestone and celebrated the Bollywood phenomenon with a star studded performance at Tampa Bay, United States in April, Australia witnessed its own Bollywood gala extravaganza down under as month of May set in. The former brand ambassador of IFFA, […]

Sandeep sharma – finally getting the recognition he deserves

                  Gaurav Joshi reporting live from IPL 2014 Watching Sandeep Sharma go through his warm up in front of a packed Wankehde Stadium it feels as if Patiala boy  is still playing at a local college ground.   The shirt is hanging lose, no thoughts of tucking […]

3rd Hindu conference celebrates spread of Hinduism down under

                Novotel in Parramatta turned saffron during April 26-27 weekend as hundreds of volunteers and delegates furled saffron scarfs and name tags around their necks at the third Hindu conference organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Australia.                 The conference […]