Washington: Saroj Kumar Jha has been appointed to a key position in the World Bank with President Jim Young Kim assigning him a role to provide strategic leadership to address the challenge of fragility, conflict and violence. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Jha till last […]
Dean Soumitra Dutta New York: Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, will become the dean of the prestigious Cornell University’s new College of Business to be established during the 2016-17 academic year as a world-class centre of teaching and research for business management and entrepreneurship. Mr Dutta is currently the […]
Google’s Sundar Pichai is getting a nice payday to go along with his new role as CEO of the internet search company. Pichai received roughly $183 million in stock, which will vest over a period of four years, according to a regulatory filing. The pay package appears […]
Balbir Singh, Neerav Rastogi, Dr. Satish Rai, Sandeep Nath, Manjit and Harmit Chopra By Neeru Saluja Bollywood films are incomplete without songs. And a good song is incomplete without meaningful lyrics. Lyricist Sandeep Nath is one of those few lyricists who has still kept the poetic touch […]
Letter to the Editor: We thoroughly enjoyed our recent 11-day Sydney-New Zealand cruise from 17-28 January except for an incident on India’s Republic Day that has left a bad taste for me and several other Indians on board the cruise ship. We look at our national days with pride and in that jest looked forward […]
2015 Medal Winner of the Harmony Award Nalika Priyadharshi Padmasena with Premier Mike Baird Tickets are on sale for the not-to-be-missed 2016 Premier’s Harmony Dinner, Minister for Multiculturalism John Ajaka said. The Premier’s Harmony Dinner will be held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on 10 March 2016. “The […]
‘The Lunch Box’ to be screened at PicNic Open Air Cinema Festival at Prince Alfred Park in Parramatta in April Celebrate international cinema and food in picnic style in Parramatta in an open air cinema in the month of April. PicNic Street food and Cinema is a new festival designed to relax and […]
Who can forget the iconic smoky-eyed look of Jack Sparrow, Captain of the Black Pearl, in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’? Or Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw getting ready to meet her ex-boyfriend Aidan in Abu Dhabi in ‘Sex and the City 2’? While pop culture occasionally […]
By Neeru Saluja She is Australia’s latest sensation. Her powerful words have won everyone’s heart across the nation. Since her national television performance last week, her video has gone viral with the count touching 641K views! And increasing by the hour. Meet Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, a 21 […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji A six takes you right into the game, breaking all barriers between players and spectators. It was always a thing of beauty and joy forever but IPL in India and BBL in Australia have made it a household name. How many batsmen have hit six sixes in an over? Not one […]