Sydney, August 9: A Pakistani Australian, Adeel Ahmad Khan, former IT consultant, has been sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail. “It is just a very cruel twist of destiny for the Khans”, said a Pakistani Australian who now lives in Melbourne and knows the Khans from theRead More →
Sydney, August 3: With just 32% of Australian adults currently on the national Register, yet 69% of Australians willing to donate; DonateLife is asking ‘What are you waiting for?’ during DonateLife Week. A new campaign page – www.donatelife.gov.au has made it easier for Australians to register and share their donationRead More →
Thornbury, July 22: The second National workshop on Hindi, sponsored by the Victorian School of Languages was held in Melbourne today. The workshop was opened by Ms. Manika Jain, Consul General of India in Melbourne. Coinciding with the completion of 30 years of the opening of the first centre forRead More →
Melbourne, July 30: Only one in five doctors in rural India are qualified to practice medicine, a WHO report has revealed. Pointing to the widespread prevalence of quackery, the report questioned efficacy of India’s healthcare workforce. The report published last month based its study on 2001 Census data. A perilousRead More →
Melbourne, July 24: For the past 45 years, the Show has grown to be the largest Camellia Show in Victoria and is a highlight of the Victorian Winter Horticultural Calendar. The Camellia is hailed as ‘The Queen of the Winter Flowers’. THE ICONIC CAMELLIA & GARDEN SHOW is on againRead More →
Melbourne, July 20: An Indian IIT Kanpur graduate, Ananth SM who was offered a fully-funded PhD position by the University of Melbourne, has been denied a visa by Australia. And with it a came an extremely strange ground for this denial – Ananth could be involved in proliferation of weaponsRead More →
Melbourne, July 18: Killed in a fall from a Bourke Street balcony in Melbourne CBD, it is believed that Supraja, took her own life and that of her son Shrihan in an apparent murder-suicide. 31 year old Supraja hailed from Hyderabad, India and was in Melbourne with her husband GannaramRead More →
Melbourne, July 15: A collection of eight short stories that illuminate the diverse nuances of life as an immigrant in modern day Australia, Pavlova & Pappadums is Nitasha Thomson’s first book – a collection over thirty years that she has lived as a woman of Indian origin in Australia. TheRead More →
Melbourne, July 15: A 20 minute sensation, Kriti, a Bollywood film for the internet, released on June 22 by Sirish Kunder is under fire with allegations that the storyline was copied.. Earlier, Nepali film-maker Aneel Neupane had openly claimed that Shirish Kunder stole his plot and made it into hisRead More →
Melbourne, July 13: Hindus worldwide are urging Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Chief Minister Andrew Barr and ACT Land Development Agency (LDA) CEO David Dawes to expedite sale of suitable land for Canberra Hindu Mandir (CHM) to meet the needs of Canberra Hindus. According to reports, application for land sale forRead More →