Mamta thrashes Modi, Amit Shah TMC wins landslide, Mamta loses nandigram India’s only woman chief minister Mamata Banerjee wins the 2021 West Bengal state elections. She has done what looked unthinkable only weeks agao. Under her leadership, the TMC has swept the West Bengal assembly polls of 2021 for aRead 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 →
Sex worker, Jenny Hayes accused of burning alive the entire Indian family of Inder Pal Singh Sohal, his wife Abbey Forrest and their 3 week old daughter Ivy Sohal while they slept in their Point Cook home earlier this week pleaded “not guilty” to their murders. The Indian family perishedRead 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 →
India is really under attack from an alarming COVID 19 surge. A complete lack of plan to fight the virus coupled with totally inadequate health infrastructure in the country and the playing of belligerent politics by various states including Delhi, Maharashtra and West Bengal is killing the delivery of meaningfulRead More →
To the shock of many in the Victorian Indian community, a Southern Indian origin couple – the Kannans – have been found guilty of keeping a woman, an illegal maid, as a slave in their Mount Waverley home for eight years. Kandasamy Kannan and his wife Kumuthini Kannan kept aRead More →
Victorian Auditor General’s review of major projects managed by the Andrews Labor Government has “identified a tendency to underestimate costs and over-estimate benefits during projects’ when conceptualising and approving major projects. In major state capital projects, this can have consequences for Victorians such as delays in obtaining needed infrastructure orRead More →
In the most high profile case of a black death (of George Floyd) at the hands of a white American (Derek Chauvin), the jury has found the former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd onRead More →
Last year when COVID pandemic began spreading, Bharat Times had flagged a potential disaster in the making in India due to lack of health infrastructure and the neglect it suffered for 7 decades since independence from the British. Now experiencing the surging second wave of COVID-19, India has recorded recordRead More →
Australian Indian Community Centre, Rowville Indian community finally has a place to call home in Victoria, thanks to the collective efforts of the Australian India Community Charitable Trust (AICCT), headed by Vasan Srinivasan. The opening of Australian Indian Community Centre at 16-18 Kingsley Close, Rowville in Melbourne’s South East onRead More →