Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Women Pru Goward announced the winners of the 2015 NSW Women of the Year Awards during a special reception at NSW Parliament House. Mr Baird said each woman has made an immense contribution to their community and is a worthy winner of this year’s award. “From feeding the local […]
The Australia India Business Council hosted a businessbrunch with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the founder of India’s leading biotechnology enterprise Biocon and Chair of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on March 7 at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. This was specially organised to celebrate International Women’s Day. AIBC National Vice Chair, Sheba Nandkeolyar introduced the AIBC Women […]
India is known the world over for its diversity – in dresses, religions, languages, regions, cultures and most importantly, people! Tourists from across the world are intrigued and attracted by this ‘land of mysterious diversity’. But can non-natives love it so much that they actually begin to study India ? Rajesh Sharma from Team Indusage […]
MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer company, celebrated the recent launch of it its new cash-to-account money transfer service to bank accounts in India at an event in the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park. MoneyGram is an official sponsor of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Australia and New Zealand and the ‘Thunder Nation Cup’, […]
Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophies of non-violence and active resistance are essential to overcoming Islamophobia and terrorism according to his granddaughter Dr Ela Gandhi. “Violence and hatred have a cyclical effect, I hate you, you hate me… The cycle continues unless we intervene,” she said. Addressing students at University of Technology, Sydney, the South African anti-apartheid activist […]
A couple in south China’s Guangdong province have been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for selling their own baby, in the latest case of child-trafficking in the country. The No.2 Zhongshan People’s Court in Zhongshan city also fined the couple 10,000 yuan ($1,599) each, Xinhua news agency reported. According to a court statement issued […]
As part of its tribute to India’s living legends, Doordarshan has made a documentary on legendary film maker Mrinal Sen, the DVD of which was handed to the nonagenarian movie maker here on Wednesday. Titled “Celebrating Mrinal Sen”, the four-episode documentary is primarily based on conversations between the maestro and renowned film critic and analyst […]
The enviable record of Wall Street’s Indian-American prosecutor Preet Bhrara, known in India for his dogged prosecution of an Indian diplomat, has put him in the limelight, but some have also questioned his methods. Time magazine put him on the cover and Vanity Fair described him as “Wall Street’s most fearsome foe”. recalled the Washington […]
Nigeria’s newly elected president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari who defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election, is an alumnus of the Indian Defence Services Staff College in Wellington from where he graduated in 1973. Maj. Gen. Buhari became the president-elect after President Jonathan conceded defeat in the election and put in a call […]
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” initiative in the backdrop and a target of raising India’s exports to $900 billion by 2020, a new five-year Foreign Trade Policy was unveiled on Wednesday that recasts all external commerce programmes into two schemes. “The new five-year Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20 provides a framework for increasing […]