“Veteran Marathi Actor & Director Subodh Bhave performed live in Australia to help raise funds for Marathi school, ‘Shala’: A project by Sankalp – Ek Nichaya”
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up yet another hugely successful visit to the US with a warm hug for President Barack Obama, a courtship with Silicon valley and a love fest with the Indian diaspora. As Obama said after an hour-long meeting in New York on Monday with “good friend” Modi, building on his […]
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 […]
The lone earning member of his family, Patel (no first name) is among the 59 who have lost a limb or sustained other debilitating injuries while trying to kill themselves by jumping in front of a Metro train in the past five years. Patel was saved because of the quick intervention of Delhi Metro Rail […]
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 […]