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Delhi 2025 elections – the broom sweeps Arvind Kejriwal off Delhi, for good?

Results of the Delhi 2025 elections is out. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been trounced by the BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections. With the BJP winning 48 seats in the 70 seat, unicameral Delhi assembly, the AAP only managing 22 seats, the picture for the head honcho of the party Arvind Kejriwal is really grim, particularly having lost his own seat defeated by Parvesh Verma of the BJP. Although the other big wigs like – Sourabh Bhardwaj, Manish ...
Air India suspends Melbourne-Mumbai flights to go seasonal

Air India Suspends Mumbai-Melbourne Direct Flights to recommence on 14 September

Air India will suspend all direct Mumbai-Melbourne flights effective late March 2025 which is expected to affect 30,000+ passengers. The decision is said to be based on seasonal demand adjustments. The Melbourne-Mumbai direct flight services will not be available to people travelling to Mumbai for more than five months, from 29 March to 13 September 2025. The move, in air travel circuits transforms the route into a seasonal operation with direct flights between the two cities only returning on 14 September ...
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NIFFA 2025 – National Indian Film Festival of Australia brings rare gems – Feb 13 – March 2

3 WORLD PREMIERES – 36 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERES – 4 SHYAM BENEGAL RETROSPECTIVE The National Indian Film Festival of Australia (NIFFA), in partnership with Dendy, today announced an impressive lineup of films, including three world premieres, and 36 Australian premieres for what is set to be the biggest Indian film event that Australia has ever seen. Much anticipated Indian film Superboys of Malegaon, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Festival, will make its Australian premiere to officially open NIFFA 2025 on ...
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Werribee by-election: 10 out of 10 for Brad Battin, Liberal’s candidate choice

The two by-election results held on Saturday, 8 February, in Prahran and Werribee represent a big tick for the leader of the Opposition Brad Battin, who was only elected leader of the Liberal party in December 2024. While the seat of Prahran has been wrested back from the Greens by the Liberal party (it had been a Liberal strong-hold for decades), it is the seat of Werribee which offers more as homework to the politicians from both major parties as ...
Donald Trump returns Illegal Indians

Donald Trump returns plane-load of illegal Indians

When the US election verdict became known that Donald Trump had been elected, those who were in the US illegally including Indians would have been horrified that their attempts to settle in the US would now be scuttled short and they would be chained (figuratively) and sent home. Sadly, that has now started to happen. Acting on the orders of US President Donald Trump, a US deportation flight carrying more than 200 illegal Indian immigrants in the US has flown ...
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Munish Joshi, Aijaz Moinuddin candidates in Feb 8 Werribee by-election

After the resignation of the Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas, member for Werribee, the by-election was announced for February 8. Initially the name of Indian community local businessman Rajan Chopra had surfaced as the Liberal party candidate. Later the Liberal party pre-selected Steve Murphy. There are now 12 candidates in the fray with 2 Indians – Munish Joshi and Aijaz Moinuddin, contesting as Independents. The candidates of interest are: Munish Joshi – Independent Munish Joshi recently visited Sri Durga Temple Melbourne ...
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2025 Australia Day Honours, women making the community proud

Looking at the 2025 Australia Day Honours list, our ladies have done it again! a clean sweep, yes, clean sweep it is. And making us proud are Veena Sahajwala, Smantha Pillay, Sunila Shrivastava and Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa. Having made the Australian Indian community immensely proud already, Professor Veena Sahajwala has now been honoured with an AO. Prof Sahajwala joins another three Australian Indian women who made the list of this year’s Australia Day honours. And they are – Melbourne based community ...
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Karti Chidambaram embroiled in CBI’s Fresh Corruption FIR

Embroiled in fresh corruption allegations by the CBI, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram has moved the Delhi High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accusing him of allegedly giving relief to an alcoholic beverage company – Diageo Scotland over a ban on duty-free sale of its whisky. He has been charged by the CBI under Sections 120B read with 420 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 8, 9 ...
NBDSA orders against News18

Rubika Liyaquat, News18, pulled up for attributing guilt to Arvind Kejriwal in ED case

It is common knowledge not to attribute blame and guilt to people while the matters in which they are involved and accused, is sub judice. It seems, this is knowledge, although common, is a scarce quantity in India if the broadcast media in India is any guide. This will be visible to anyone who watched the program – “Goonj with Rubika Liyaquat; Arvind Kejriwal arrested” hosted and anchored by Rubika Liyaquat on News18 on March 28 last year in which ...

 

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Delhi 2025 Elections-BT

Delhi 2025 elections – the broom sweeps Arvind Kejriwal off Delhi, for good?

Results of the Delhi 2025 elections is out. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been trounced by the BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections. With the BJP winning 48 seats in the 70 seat, unicameral Delhi assembly, the AAP only ...
Air India suspends Melbourne-Mumbai flights to go seasonal

Air India Suspends Mumbai-Melbourne Direct Flights to recommence on 14 September

Air India will suspend all direct Mumbai-Melbourne flights effective late March 2025 which is expected to affect 30,000+ passengers. The decision is said to be based on seasonal demand adjustments. The Melbourne-Mumbai direct flight services will not be available to people ...
Donald Trump returns Illegal Indians

Donald Trump returns plane-load of illegal Indians

When the US election verdict became known that Donald Trump had been elected, those who were in the US illegally including Indians would have been horrified that their attempts to settle in the US would now be scuttled short and ...
2025 Australia Day Honours story pic

2025 Australia Day Honours, women making the community proud

Looking at the 2025 Australia Day Honours list, our ladies have done it again! a clean sweep, yes, clean sweep it is. And making us proud are Veena Sahajwala, Smantha Pillay, Sunila Shrivastava and Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa. Having made the ...
Karti Chidambaram - CBI FIR 2025

Karti Chidambaram embroiled in CBI’s Fresh Corruption FIR

Embroiled in fresh corruption allegations by the CBI, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram has moved the Delhi High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accusing him of allegedly giving relief to an ...
NBDSA orders against News18

Rubika Liyaquat, News18, pulled up for attributing guilt to Arvind Kejriwal in ED case

It is common knowledge not to attribute blame and guilt to people while the matters in which they are involved and accused, is sub judice. It seems, this is knowledge, although common, is a scarce quantity in India if the ...
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Uttarakhand becomes the first BJP ruled state to implement Uniform Civil Code

The Indian state of Uttarakhand has become the torchbearer for other BJP-ruled states to chart their courses to implement their promise of introducing equality before civil law for their citizens. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has launched the portal which ...
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R J Cornish, a Victorian fruit grower signs EU after unlawful wage deductions of $127,000

A Goulburn Valley fruit growing company, R J Cornish & Co. Pty Ltd has signed an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman to improve its workplace compliance after it made unlawful wage deductions of nearly $127,000 from 112 ...
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Come PBD 2026, let us recognize Dr T.J. Rao – the unsung hero of the Victorian Indian Community

We have had the contribution of the Victorian Sikh community recognized by the Labor party in renaming the Berwick Springs lake to Guru Nanak Lake. We have also just had the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) 2025 celebrations where the Indian ...
18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention inaugurated by Narendra Modi

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in Odisha

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Bhubaneswar, Odisha today. Welcoming all the delegates and diaspora from various parts of the world, Shri Modi expressed confidence that the inauguration song would be played ...