Hindu priest gets 2 yrs suspended sentence for indecent assaults on two women, could be deported

By our legal reporter Melbourne: A former Hindu priest of the Sri Shiva Vishnu Temple, Carrum Downs faces deportation to Sri Lanka after being convicted of indecent assault by Magistrate Ross Betts of the Frankston Magistrate Court. The verdict came...

More Suicides In Refugee Detention, No Lessons

By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Apr 19 (IPS) – Supporters of asylum seekers here say that the government’s response to recent suicides in Australian immigration detention centres ignores what is already well-known: that indefinite,...

Military Debris Threaten Oceans

By Malini Shankar BANGALORE, Apr 14 (IPS) – Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn – in light of the recent tragedy in Japan...

New World Development Report Repackages Old Ideas

By Kanya D’Almeida WASHINGTON, Apr 11 (IPS) – With over 1.5 billion people living in countries blighted by incessant or recurring violence, the World Bank’s annual World Development Report (WDR), with this year’s focus on how conflict...

WikiLeaks.: Australian diplomats saw attacks on students as racially driven -The Hindu

Story by A. Srivathsan in The Hindu, 30-03-2011 CHENNAI: Even as Australian Ministers, politicians and officials were taking the position in public that there was no racial motivation behind the spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia, chiefly...

INTERVIEW with Vidya Balan – I have the thirst to do something new in movies: Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan talking to SAT Editor Neeraj Nanda in Melbourne Interview with Bollywood star Vidya Balan, who recently created headlines in ‘No one Killed Jessica’. Within a few years of her feature debut Parineeta, she is now one of the most sought-after...

84 Indians in Australian jails

By Melbourne News Bureau Melbourne: There are 84 Indians in Australian jails. The revelation has come in a report in the ‘Tehelka’ magazine. The report which quotes the Ministry of Overseas Indians and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), does not...

Ancient Bamiyan Buddha’s will not be rebuilt – UNESCO

By Andrea Lunt United Nations, March 11, 2011 (IPS) – Afghanistan’s historic Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago, will not be reconstructed despite claims the 1,500-year-old statues could be repaired, the United Nations...

No room for Hindi & other Indian languages in the National Australian Curriculum

By Dr. Dinesh Srivastava Melbourne: It took me nearly ten years struggle to get Hindi recognised at the VCE level in 1993. This recognition currently enables students to study Hindi after school hours, usually on Saturday mornings and in one case on...

Of integrity and integrated corruption

By Prabhat Shunglu New Delhi: “I come from a poor family. The only asset I possess is integrity.” This was the Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia in his reply to congratulatory letter sent by former well-known judge V R Krishna Iyer on his...