Have you eaten your curd today?

By- Sweta Uchil-Purohit Nutritionist   We all remember Little Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey in the nursery rhyme, but how many of you eat curd every day? If you don’t, then you may want to start including it in your diet from today. Yoghurt or ‘curd’as it is called in India is something […]

Tribute to Rajinder Singh Bedi on his Birth Centenary by Om Music

Tribute to Rajinder Singh Bedi on his Birth Centenary by Om Music

By: Dolly Kaher (Grand Daughter of Padma Shri Rajinder Singh Bedi)   Since the beginning of 2015, it was my wish to do something to celebrate my grandfather, Padmashree Rajinder Singh Bedi’s birth centenary in Melbourne.  He was an Urdu writer of progressive writers’ movement, playwright, who later became a Hindi film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer.   […]

Wyndham Eid Festival event a grand success for Wyndham residents

Wyndham Eid Festival event a grand success for Wyndham residents

By- Mohammed Fakruddin Jamal   The multicultural Eid festival event organised in short time broke all the records of crowd participation in western suburbs.  Wyndham Eid festival had a huge response from local and non local residents, who enjoyed the first ever Eid festival organised in Werribee. More than 12,000 people attended the biggest ever […]

Rajan has simply done what was a necessity

Rajan has simply done what was a necessity

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has finally delivered a monetary policy announcement which reflects the underlying fundamentals of the Indian economy. The media and the markets are excited about this ‘surprise’ and will continue to rejoice over the coming days. But the fact remains that today’s 50 basis point cut was a necessity […]

BJP plays backward caste card to counter ‘Mandal’ politics

BJP plays backward caste card to counter ‘Mandal’ politics

In a bid to counter the ‘Mandal’ politics of the grand alliance in the Bihar assembly polls, particularly Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s pitch for ‘backward versus upper caste fight’, the BJP is playing the backward castes card. In order to woo the Dalits, Other Backward Castes (OBCs) and Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs), […]

Flip-flop over Ankit Fadia as ‘Digital India’ ambassador

Flip-flop over Ankit Fadia as ‘Digital India’ ambassador

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Digital India” campaign has evoked yet another controversy — this time over the appointment of brand ambassadors for the campaign. Even as news was doing the rounds that self-proclaimed “ethical hacker” Ankit Fadia, 30, has been named brand ambassador for the initiative, a statement by the Department of Electronics and Information […]

Fostering Innovation in India (Column: Active Voice)

Fostering Innovation in India (Column: Active Voice)

Innovation is central to economic development. In a country the size of India, it is imperative to look at innovation from an international as well as a state and level perspective. Two recent reports on innovation offer unique insights on fostering innovation in India from these two viewpoints. The first is the ‘Global Innovation Index […]