By Manju Mittal The busy Liverpool Catholic Club was transformed into a large Indian Bollywood celebration on Sunday afternoon with Sydney’s models walking down the ramp in extravagant Indian traditional ensembles put up by Desire Creations. Desire Creations celebrated their first anniversary with a spectacular fashion show on Sunday May 28, 2017, at Liverpool Catholic […]
NSW will for the first time offer Year 12 high school students a high level science course that allows students to carry out a scientific research project and study with research institutes and universities. The new HSC Science Extension course can be studied in addition to Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, Physics and […]
By Neena Badhwar The Hindu Council of Australia conducted a forum on Interfaith on Saturday, 27th of May, 2014 at Auburn Town hall. Attended by the community the forum had presentations by selected panelists comprising academics, experts from different faiths invited to speak on topic of the day: ‘Dharmic traditions inspiring peace to the world’. […]
Back To School Back to school are three words that most kids loathe and all parents love. While there’s no hard data to support that, if you random polled a group of kids and asked them if they’d rather be hanging out at the swimming pool with their friends or waiting at the cold bus […]
India’s superstar P V Sindhu won the Women’s singles match as India defeated Indonesia 4-1 in the Total BWF Sudirman Cup 2017. Indonesia now faces Denmark in its Group 1D match on Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 6pm. After an embarrassing 1-4 defeat against European powerhouse Denmark in the opening match on Tuesday India desperately […]
By Bawa Jagdev Gurmeet Kaur, entrepreneurial Assistant Secretary National Sikh Council of Australia, has been actively involved in the teaching of Punjabi in New South Wales Australia (NSW) for the past 18 years. She was instrumenta in the development of the first Kindergarten to Year 10 Punjabi Syllabus in NSW, in the teaching of the […]
By Melvin Durai My 12-year-old daughter, Divya, had been asking me for a cellphone for a couple of years and I finally decided to buy her one, not because I thought she absolutely needed one, but because I was tired of her borrowing mine. “Daddy, can I use your phone for just a minute?” she […]
May 24, 2017. The number of inmates completing literacy and numeracy programs will double under a new education model being introduced to the state’s correctional system. It will help reduce reoffending by targeting core education and training needs and improving employment prospects for when inmates leave prison. Minister for Corrections David Elliott today announced […]
National Museum launches exhibition to mark 50-year anniversary of 1967 referendum White gloves worn by referendum rights activist Faith Bandler, a 1967 referendum voting box and working tools used by trade unionist and Indigenous rights activist Joe McGinness, are among historic items in the exhibition A Change Is Gonna Come, which opens at the National […]
Recommended here some more events with writers of Indian heritage at Sydney Writers Festival (May 22-May 28): Anuk Arudpragasam is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and currently lives in New York, where he is completing a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University. His first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, is a meditation on trauma […]