There’s an unfolding education crisis in India, as the pandemic highlights the inequalities faced by students, teachers and families trying to learn online By Dr Amanda Gilbertson, Joyeeta Dey, Dr Andrew Deuchar, and Professor Nathan Grills, University of Melbourne As India continues to struggle with the catastrophic health impacts ofRead More →
Australia has just sent its second load of COVID AID to India today. The Qantas flight took off from Sydney and after halting at Darwin, it will fly to Delhi to deliver the second lot of AID to India. The Qantas plane on its way back will pick up the firstRead More →
Australian Cricket will throw its support behind the India COVID-19 Crisis Appeal, with Cricket Australia, the Australian Cricketers’ Association and UNICEF Australia partnering to raise much needed funds. Australian Cricket has been deeply saddened by the devastation caused by this second coronavirus wave to hit India, a country with whichRead More →
Horrendous visuals of public funerals and parks turned into crematoriums are beaming across the world as India – now the focus of the world and epicenter of COVID second wave – reels under the deluge of almost 3 million active cases in desperate need of health infrastructure which the nationRead More →
Australia offers items of critical help to India in fighting COVID tsunami Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a temporary halt to flights coming in from India while offering help to India as the nation grapples with second wave of COVID. Announcing a list of COVID fighting items that AustraliaRead More →
COVID-19 in India is painting a deceptive picture at the moment. Many might be complacent at the low numbers but a careful gaze can throw anyone off balance. Despite India sending ‘go corona go’ lighting messages rising high to the sky, the growing number of coronavirus cases makes it imperativeRead More →
Mohammed Shami, Harbhajan Singh Virendra Sehwag, Irfan Pathan and Sourav Ganguly lash out at Imran Khan for his UNGA speech India cricketers Mohammed Shami and Harbhajan Singh lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for speaking of hatred in his United Nations General Assembly speech. Shami took toRead More →
New Delhi, March 4: In a joint appeal, led by India’s Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi, 66 Nobel laureates from across the world have urged the PMs of India and Pakistan to defuse the rising tension to avoid any escalation into a full-fledged war between the two nuclear powered states. InRead More →
Swara blasts Pak actor Veena Malik for disgusting tweet on IAF pilot Abhinandan Not much is worthy of trust when it comes to stars and politicians these days. On the social trust scale neither fairs well. Thus when someone does something so ridiculously insensitive as Veena Malik’s tweet on WingRead More →
Chandigarh, February 26: On the eve of Centenary of the ill-fated Jallianwala Bagh massacre which took place on 13 April 1919, the state of Punjab (in India) has unanimously passed a resolution to seek an apology from the British government for the worst ever massacre of innocent Indians on theRead More →