By Kersi Meher-Homji who is both happy and angry It was a complete turnaround. After nine Tests without a win and seven defeats, Australia proved her critics wrong by triumphing in the Brisbane Test on Sunday. It was not just a win. It was a stupendous, morale-shattering, sensational, 381 run triumph with a day to […]
Waheeda Rehman is India’s most beautiful and a famous actress of Indian cinema. Her ethereal beauty and chiselled features attracted the great director Guru Dutt whose black and white camera fell in love with her. Totally besotted with Waheeda on screen and off screen Guru Dutt made some of the most memorable movies of the […]
Kersi Meher-Homji is both happy and angry It was a complete turnaround. After nine Tests without a win and seven defeats, Australia proved her critics wrong by triumphing in the Brisbane Test on Sunday. It was not just a win. It was a stupendous, morale-shattering, sensational, 381 run triumph with a day to spare. One […]
Australian High Commissioner to India, Patrick Suckling He exudes a certain sense of calm. His humble candour and unassuming smile is infectious. His vision and enthusiasm for Indo-Oz relations is endearing and his love for India is further fuelled by the fact that he holds a post-graduate diploma in Hindi from the University of Sydney. […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee With a change of the government in Canberra, the Indo-Australian bilateral ties are likely to experience another upswing. The new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made the better relations with India as one of his government’s top foreign and trade policy priorities. As expected, China continues to occupy precious space as […]
A case gone horribly wrong, young Arushi with mum Nupur and father Rajesh Talwar A special court in Ghaziabad on Monday November 25, 2013 announced its verdict in the Aarushi-murder case, declaring Rajesh and Nupur Talwar guilty of killing their teenage daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj in May 2008. The duo was taken to Dasna […]
Attorney-General George Brandis In Abbott Government’s first legislative move, the Attorney-General George Brandis is introducing a Bill to amend or water down the Racial Discrimination Act section 18C that protects Australia’s cultural groups, which are in the hundreds. The next clause or the section 18D outlines exemptions anyway to what is there in 18C on […]
One of the colourful Church with blue spires in Moscow that are there all over in the city By Vijay Badhwar Trans-Siberian travel has its unique ”˜wow’ appeal. With embellishments like the world’s longest train journey along the borders of the Gulag country, the Trans-Siberian travel becomes once in a lifetime experience. When the intrepid […]
CNN-IBN, DELHI Interview with the Foreign Minister Ms Julie Bishop as she is on an official visit to India: By Suhasini Haider JOURNALIST Ms. Bishop, Thank you so much for speaking with us. To begin with India and Australia are exchanging many different parts of their relationship with each other, the […]
Ms Bishop with India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid at Hyderabad House, New Delhi. The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, has announced that Australia will support India’s full membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). “I was pleased to inform the Indian External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid, of the decision of the Australian […]