By Arvind Padmanabhan Kodungallur (Kerala) One will find nothing unusual about this place of worship for Muslims as one drives past this town in central Kerala, just 30 km north of Kochi. But it’s when you go in and chat up with the volunteers and office-bearers that the enormity of its legacy actually hits you. […]
By Debaprio D. Choudhury It was her parents’ love for sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar that introduced Paola Carraro to Indian art and music far away in Brazil. Carraro, who started learning sitar from Ravi Shankar’s disciple Alberto Marsicano, said that India is the ‘biggest inspiration in her life’ and Indian culture continues to fascinate […]
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon is an upcoming 2015 Indian romantic comedy film directed by director duo Abbas- Mustan, in which Indian TV stand-up comedy king Kapil Sharma will make his film debut In Bollywood. He will play the lead role opposite 4 heroines. Other members of the cast are Arbaaz Khan, Manjari Phadnis, Amrita Puri, […]
By Chinmaya Dehuri Puri Prepared by 600-700 cooks and partaken by up to 50,000 pilgrims daily generating a business of Rs 8-12 lakhs, the mouth-watering “Mahaprasad” (food first offered to the deity) of the Jagannath Temple has retained its appeal among tens of millions of devotees for ages. The Mahaprasad cooked on the premises of […]
By-Arul Louis Chennai versus Hyderabad? In the battle of the technology titans, a reorganized Google gets a new general, Chennai’s Sundararajan Pichai, to face off against Hyderabad’s Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO. In the fast-changing technology landscape the two companies compete in several lines of business and continue to reinvent themselves for survival, shifting business plans […]
By: Charu Bahri New Delhi: In January, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum smoking age to 21 from 18, and to ban the sale of single cigarettes, which account for 70 percent of nationwide cigarette sales. People responded enthusiastically; 45,000 emails and 100,000 […]
A Central Coast bottle shop has had its licence suspended for seven days under tough new liquor laws after it was caught selling alcohol to a minor, a first for a take away liquor outlet. Deputy Premier and Minister for Justice and Police Troy Grant said the Liquor Stax bottle shop at Terrigal will […]
Building on the personal relationship of Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Abbott, I am pleased to visit India for the first time as Australia’s Defence Minister. India is the emerging democratic super power of Asia. It is therefore sensible that the relationship between India and Australia be developed and strengthened. India and Australia […]
This is a friendly reminder that the 2015-16 Celebrating Multicultural Queensland grants program is open and will be closing soon. The Celebrating Multicultural Queensland grants program funds diverse multicultural events and needs based projects that celebrate and promote Queensland’s multicultural identity, increase community awareness of the benefits of multiculturalism, foster community cohesion, and support equitable […]
Minister for Trade and Investment – with responsibility for tourism – Andrew Robb, welcomed the latestInternational Visitor Survey today showing international visitor spend grew by 10 per cent to a record $33.4 billion, or $3.2 billion more than the previous year. This is the strongest yearly growth since 2001, the period of the Sydney […]