Athletes from across Australia and the world are making their way to Jervis Bay ahead of the XTERRA Asia Pacific Championship this weekend with Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres today welcoming some of the sport’s international competitors to NSW. The XTERRA Asia Pacific Championship, starting at Callala Beach on Saturday […]
One of India’s most important art treasures will travel to Australia in May as part of the growing artistic and cultural engagement between India and Australia. Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop MP and Attorney-General and Minister for the Arts Senator George Brandis QC today announced the National Gallery of Australia would host a […]
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 […]