The finalists for the 2015 NSW International Student Awards have been announced by Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres. Fundraising for local charities, volunteering at aged care facilities and coordinating homestay accommodation are just some of the notable ventures up for nomination. Organised by StudyNSW within the NSW Department of […]
In today’s era, people don’t look for perfection in a movie but superstars like Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, veteran actor-writer Kader Khan has said, adding a lot of good movies “suffer” due to that on the box office. “Today, people don’t look for elegance and the perfection in any movie, all they care […]
Small tea manufacturers, who do not own plantations but buy green leaves, process them and sell them to blenders, are irked by a recent commerce ministry order directing them to hold auctions for 70 percent of their produce. Technically called bought leaf factories, which position themselves between the garden owners and the packagers and blenders, […]
One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states. With terms like competitive and cooperative federalism floating around and becoming part of the political and economic lexicon, it is important to have an in-depth understanding of the factors that define these terms. The concept of […]
If you are a female student from India and aspires to join a British university, brace yourself for the “lad culture” first. Defined as “a subset of student life that promotes one particular masculinity,” the “lad culture” – a local euphemism like ‘eve teasing’ in India for sexual harassment – has made campus life difficult […]
He is of an age few people reach and when there are no more goals to be achieved, but 95-year-old Raj Kumar Vaishya is still keen to fulfil his dream of acquiring a post-graduation degree and is working for it with the help of his retired son and daughter-in-law. He has enrolled for a master […]
Armed with spray cans and creativity, a group of youngsters is steadily turning Kolkata’s walls – for long splattered with political slogans and quack cures – into graffiti artscapes, painting the city red, blue and a variety of hues. A motley crew of young men and women, with pseudonyms as fanciful as their creations, is […]
The Ramayana and the Gita are not religious texts and should be taught in schools, according to union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma. Sharma said that including the Ramayana and the Gita in school curriculum was an attempt to inculcate spiritual and cultural values in children. “It is an attempt to teach spiritual values to children. […]
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has distributed helmets to officials of the Mumbai Traffic Police at an event here. “… whenever I go abroad, I form an opinion about that country only after I experience the traffic there. And when I see the traffic is working well and in the right way, I feel a certain sense […]
From today, motorists travelling between Ryde Bridge and West Pymble in Sydney’s north will benefit from eight kilometres of new clearway on Church and Devlin streets and Lane Cove Road. Minister for Roads Duncan Gay said the new stretch of clearway is part of the NSW Government’s $121 million clearways program, which aims to […]