Jammu, O Oct 6 (IANS) Four civilians were killed and 25 injured in shelling from the Pakistani side of the India-Pakistan border in Jammu district Monday, Police sources said. Monday’s major ceasefire violations by Pakistani rangers came on a day when Muslims in both India and Pakistan are celebrating the holy Eid-ul-Azha festival. The police sources […]
Madrid, Oct 6 (IANS/EFE) Spain’s Maritime Rescue service Sunday pulled out of water 58 immigrants from Sub-Saharan countries, who had set sail from the Moroccan coast in a small boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The migrants were intercepted 10 nautical miles from the Spanish islet of Alboran. A spokesman for the emergency service told EFE that […]
Los Angeles, Oct 6 (IANS) Singer Adele is reportedly “earning 80,000 pounds a day” despite the fact that she hasn’t released an album in four years. Her music career has taken something of a backseat as she dedicates her time to her two-year-old son Angelo Adkins, but her bank balance is still looking pretty healthy. Dailymail.co.uk […]
UNINDIAN, the first feature of the recently established Australia India Film Fund (AIFF) will go into production in October in Sydney, Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Tony Abbott MP announced in India. The first of its kind in the world, the Australia India Film Fund was established in 2013 to invest in Australian films with Indian themes for […]
Dr Surinder Uppal, the winner of LIVERPOOL CITY LOCAL HEALTH BUSINESS AWARD 2013 & 2014 arrived in Australia from New Dehli in 1973, and began working at Canterbury hospital. Three years later he married Sudesh, also an accomplished doctor from Patiala. Together they opened a general practice (GP) surgery in Casula, and have been looking after the health of families for […]
Two SBS journalists were jointly named Journalist of the Year at last night’s Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards, held at Parliament House, Sydney. SBS radio Hindi Executive Producer Kumud Merani was honoured for her radio feature The Story Untold; which examines Australia’s complex migration patterns and the surprising genetic link between Australia and India’s first inhabitants, pointing to […]
TCF Educating Children is the only registered charity that supports advancing education for the children of Pakistan. The organisation is a volunteer based team that is passionate about the cause and serves as a chapter of “The Citizens Foundation”, one of the largest not for profit organisations running in Pakistan, presently supporting 1000 schools in urban slums and rural […]
One of the great pleasures I have as a Member of Parliament is representing such a multicultural electorate and seeing many recently arrived migrant children doing so well at school. I said in my inaugural speech in the Parliament of Victoria that like many other Australian families, my origins lie beyond our prosperous shores. Ignace Eduouard Couacaud migrated to […]
As a kid, October was always the best month for sweets. Preceded by Ganesh Chaturthi, the month kicks off with Dusshera, with Eid arriving in short succession, before building up momentum into Diwali at the end of the month. India’s history with sugar dates back to the ancient times when Indian Physicians were amongst the first to describe Diabetes, […]
Bob Carr joined the Australian Labor Party as a 15-year-old boy in 1963. He went on to become NSW Leader of the Opposition for 7 years until finally becoming the Premier in 1995, and New South Wales’ longest serving one. After retiring, he came back as a Senator in the Federal Parliament and represented Australia on the global stage […]