The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) returns this year between 14-27 August with a full program of events exploring and celebrating the theme of “Equality”. Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, joined IFFM director Mitu Bhowmick-Lange, and returning Festival ambassador and renowned Indian star, Vidya Balan, to announce this year’s key components. The theme […]
The Star Australian Badminton Open will officially launch with the announcement of the 2015 player line-ups at a VIP media event at The Star on Tuesday April 21. The Star Australian Badminton Open (ABO) tournament is the first Superseries competition awarding ranking points to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics. With a prize pool of […]
Tickets are on sale today for the STAR Australian Badminton Open to be held at Sydney Olympic Park in May. The world’s best badminton players will once again converge on Sydney for the exclusive event, one of only 12 events in the MetLife BWF World Superseries, when the competition hits off from May 26- 31. […]
Gita Gordon, nominated by Britain’s Liberal Democrats as a candidate in next month’s parliamentary elections, has been a busy woman lately, attending one meeting after another and canvassing door-to-door, but never feels tired to underline her resolve to stand by the voters and prove they can change things. Gordon, an India-born woman fighting from the […]
Amit Kapoor Walking down most streets in any major city in India, one notices pollution in one form or another. The air most times causes a burning sensation, or if that is missing, one can at least see empty cold drinks’ bottles, wrappers and the like thrown across the streets. It appears all-pervasive. The environment […]
With manufacturing at the core of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign and labour costs in China eating into margins, India’s electrical goods manufacturers see little threat today from cheap imports, says Havells India chief Anil Rai Gupta. “The competition will be there. But the threat of unhealthy competition is over. We offer […]
Bollywood and other films showing anything to do with the Sikh religion or portraying characters as Sikhs are running into trouble with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini-parliament of Sikh religion, and other Sikh groups. The latest controversy is over the film “Nanak Shah Fakir”, which portrays the life and times of Sikhism’s […]
From a dark depiction of the “omnipresent stench”, the people dwelling in concrete pipes and damning criticism of the city’s culture of hero worship to a philanthropic reachout to its marginalized people like ragpickers – Gunter Grass’ 40-year-old association with Kolkata had multiple shades. The versatile German Nobel Laureate, who effortlessly moved from one genre […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has invited global companies to invest in India, continued his pitch at the grand industrial fair here on Monday, this time listing what exactly makes the country an attractive destination. Inaugurating the India Pavilion and a business summit at Hannover Messe with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Modi said the 10 […]
A two-and-half-year-old boy, who was rescued from an open bore well he fell into on Sunday morning, later died in a hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district, officials said. Tamilarasan, son of Kutti, a farmer, was taken to a hospital after he was taken out following a nine-hour-long rescue operation. At the hospital, the boy […]