By Kersi Meher-Homji It was a Final to remember for Gujarat Titan’s captain Hardik Pandya. He took three vital wickets and scored 34 runs in a low scoring match as he led his team to a comfortable win. He was the worthy Person of the Match. The Final at Ahmedabad was a tussle between a […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji This year’s IPL will be remembered for Jos Buttler’s brilliant batting for Rajasthan Royals. In the qualifying match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday at Ahmedabad he hit a six enabling his team to win by seven wickets with 11 balls in hand. Buttler (from England) scored a brilliant unbeaten century with […]
Across India the representation of women in different legislative bodies remains alarmingly low, in fact only 14 percent of elected members to India’s national parliament are women. Some barriers to women running for office, such as forms of illiteracy, work burdens within the household and discriminatory attitudes towards women are well known, but new research […]
Neeru Saluja interviews actors #AyushmannKhurana and newcomer #AndreaKevichusa for their film #Anek. In this interview, Ayushmann tells us about how he resonates with the film, what his fans will expect after reuniting with director #AnubhavSinha and which social messages are close to his heart. Newcomer Andrea tells us about how she prepared herself for this […]
SBS has launched SBS WorldWatch, an all-new free-to-air multilingual news channel on May 23. The dedicated 24-hour channel features news bulletins from leading international broadcasters in more than 35 languages and is home to SBS’s Arabic and Mandarin television news bulletins – SBS عربي News and SBS 中文 News. The launch of the channel builds […]
URI – The Surgical Strike went on to become a sleeper hit in 2019, and created a spark in industry circles both with its commercial success and critical acclaim. It also made Vicky Kaushal, an overnight sensation and finally got him his due as a powerhouse performer and a talent that made everyone sit up and take […]
Many of the world’s most distant languages are threatened with extinction. When a language dies, so does its literature. Our future generation, particularly migrant youngsters, are losing touch with our languages and hence are unable to read literature written in their native tongues. It’s critical to put together programmes that reflect our culture, literature, and […]
By Rekha Rajvanshi India Australia Business; Community Alliances Gala award night 2022 took place at The Star with the help of Investment NSW and Austrade. The event reminded us of the possibilities for Australian public diplomacy to strategically leverage its domestic business diaspora to achieve its foreign policy and commercial goals. Also, Indian public diplomacy […]
by Melvin Durai The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has concluded its formal review of the incident involving actor Will Smith and comedian Chris Rock at the 94th Oscars on March 24, 2022, and issued the following statement: The Academy would like to apologize once again to the millions of viewers from around […]
Guru Nank Dev ji described nature and human moods, moralizing at the same time, in verses he wrote about the seasons. Him as the observer in tune with the nature, he saw the glory of Lord in play all around him. The twelve months of the year, in Barah Mah, beautiful verses in Punjabi language […]