Pushpendra & Pravez win in PCI elections

Record Breaker (consecutively fourth time) for Secretary General- Pushpendra Kulshreshtha(Right) and President- Parvez Ahmed after the recent election results of the Press Club of India, New Delhi (India)

183 overseas students died in Oz during 2003 – 2009

By our community reporter Melbourne: The controversy over international students in Australia refuses to die down. Now the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has revealed that 183 overseas students died in the country during 2003 – 2009,...

Indian man assaulted outside Epping station

By our reporter Melbourne: A 22-year-old Yarraville Indian man was assaulted at the bus station outside the Epping station (on Sunday 25th October) by two youths believed to be teenagers. The assaulted man was asleep at the bus stop and was assaulted...

Queen’s Baton Relay start on Oct. 29

By our correspondent NEW DELHI, October 23, 2009: The Queen’s Baton Relay 2010, curtain-raiser to the XIX Commonwealth Games to be held here from October 3 next year, will be launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II when she hands over the baton...

Oz to train Indian hockey players

From Our Correspondent New Delhi: Australia has decided to help revive Indian hockey. Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced that starting next year, two players — a male and female — and a coach will get free training...

Lucky escape for cabbie, passengers

Melbourne: A student taxi driver (Jaswinder Singh, 22, from Faridkot, Punjab) and two passengers are shaken but unhurt after fleeing from their car seconds before a train slammed into it in Melbourne’s north . Police say the taxi got stuck on...

New Oz immigration advisory council announced

By News Bureau Melbourne: Australia is to have a new Council to advice the government on immigration issues. The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced the establishment of the Council for Immigration Services...

Melb. brawal after racist remarks outside ‘Kabbadi’ tournament

By our reporter Melbourne: A skateboarder got hospital treatment after he is alleged to have vandalised a car and racially abused its Indian occupants, who were returning from a ‘Kabbadi’ (Indian field sport) in Epping. Police have confirmed the...

Last minute appeal for Lankan asylum seekers

Melbourne: Refugee advocates are trying to use a last minute Federal Court appeal to stop a group of asylum seekers being sent back to Sri Lanka. The five men would be the first forced to be deported from Christmas Island since Labor came to power, reports...

Jagjit Singh enthrals thousands in Melbourne

Gazal King Jagjit Singh at the Melbourne concert on 28 Sept., 2009 By our reporter Melbourne: Thousands of people from the Indian sub continent yesterday (Sept.28, 2009) enjoyed an evening concert by gazal king Jagjit Singh at the Melbourne Town Hall...