Melbourne, January 7: The 25-year-old Victoria university student had big dreams of becoming an architect. Hassan Asif, moved to Melbourne from Pakistan in 2014 on a student visa before being diagnosed with advanced skin cancer in April. Being too sick to fly home to Pakistan, where he had once hopedRead More →
Of the many noteworthy events to have occurred in Australian politics since my last column for the Bharat Times some months ago, none was as important as the fall of Tony Abbott as prime minister and the subsequent ascendancy of Malcolm Turnbull. I did not foresee this transition, mainly becauseRead More →
Canberra: Innovators and entrepreneurs will be encouraged to bring their ideas to Australia with visa reforms to attract talented and highly educated people under the Coalition Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. A new Entrepreneur Visa will be introduced to attract innovative talent and changes will be made to retainRead More →
Who says Santa is a Western phenomenon..! Noted sand artist Sudarsan celebrated Christmas eve by creating a 45-feet-high sand Santa Claus with a “World Peace” message at Puri beach in Orissa. Patnaik’s sand statue came to be recognised as the world’s tallest Santa made of sand. Sudarsan used more thanRead More →
Priyanka makes India proud, yet again! Los Angeles, January 7: Bollywood actress and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra made India proud yet again. She won a People’s Choice Award for her international acting debut as FBI agent Alex Parish in American TV thriller series “Quantico”. She is said to beRead More →
Parminder met Nikita’s family as ‘Robin’ Melbourne, December 17: Within two days of coming back from India, Parminder Singh, murdered his wife Nikita in the early hours of 9 January 2015 at their Waxman Parade flat in West Brunswick. Parminder who had come to Australia in 2006 met Nikita inRead More →
What makes Canadian blues man Harry Manx unique? It is in the way he mixes blues and Indian ragas with anything from Americana to rock – playing predominantly solo, armed only with an array of instruments, foot pedals and a laptop. He has been called an “essential link” between theRead More →
A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous Crusade by B. G. Verghese What lies at the root of Pakistan’s persistent animus against its larger, eastern neighbour? Was it rancour over the process of Partition and the territorial division, over Kashmir, the division of river waters, the loss ofRead More →
Is Congress promoting national interest? The Lok Sabha speaker may have withdrawn her remarks about the Congress being indifferent towards “national interest” on the last day of parliament’s winter session on December 23, but to the people at large, the grandmotherly Sumitra Mahajan had a valid point. The virtual washingRead More →
Widows are abused in rural India London, December 17: India’s 48 million widows need a government-appointed commission that will help them and protect them from abuse, says Raj Loomba, an Indian-origin member of Britain’s House of Lords and a campaigner for the rights of widows. “For extending financial and securityRead More →