Passengers flying into India will have to fill in a new customs form on their arrival from the new year while the need to fill immigration form for returning Indians is being done away with. All passengers coming to India will be filling up an ‘Indian Customs Declaration Form’ seek details that will be different […]
This years’ New Year Eve celebration in Sydney will be just spectacular withHarbourBridge the centre of attraction with artist Reg Mombassa artwork and with fireworks being fired off from Opera House sails. NYE’s Master pyrotechnician Fortunato Foti is facing his biggest challenge yet this Sydney New Year’s Eve – creating a complex Reg Mombassa […]
A wish for peace and happiness at Christmas and throughout the New Year!
Neena Badhwar Today just before deleting spam emails my eyes just could not but not overlook messages sent by spammers who are out just to con gullible people. How can one get duped by such emails defies logic or perhaps one is hopelessly naïve. Here are some of the examples: Mr Gabriel Addo’s subject matter […]
Blue Mountains residents whose homes were burnt down in bushfires have been struggling to get their homes cleared to see that their Christmas time feels better and that they can look forward to rebuilding lives and their homes next year. Minister for Police and Emergency Services Michael Gallacher has welcomed the efforts of clean-up […]
Vishva Hindu Parishad of Australia is holding its 3rd Australian National Hindu Conference entitled “Serving Community ”“ Serving Australia ” on 26th & 27th April 2014 in Sydney at Novotel , 350 Church Street, Parramatta. There are many Temples, Organisations, Associations, Institutions, groups and individual in Hindu society working actively to serve Hindus and the […]
Kersi Meher-Homji was bedazzled I never had the urge to dance solo in public as when listening to Rajesh Hegde’s mesmerizing rendition of “Maduban mein raadhika” ”“ climaxing with “padha-nee-saa, saa re nee saa padha-nee…”. I could imagine Rajesh wowing a live audience on TV’s top show Australia Has Talent and receiving a standing ovation. […]
It may have happened to most of us, if not in its entirety, then in bits. A family servant back home, an unfortunate relative or a multitude of cooks and chefs pleading to take them with us. They swear by almighty that that they will be for ever obliged. It is tempting. We also want […]
By Vijay Badhwar The first timer Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which gave a jolt to entrenched political parties like Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently held election in Delhi is now vacillating if it should form a government in its own right. Its election success has surprised the party itself […]
Mr Vic Alhadeff appointed as the new chair of Community Relations Commission Everyone in the Indian community fondly knows Dr Stepan Kerkyasharian AO who was the Chairperson of Community Relations Commission (CRC) as he diligently worked hard for multicultural communities and their issues for an exemplary 34 years of service first as […]