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IFFM kicks off with a bang, $3 m funding for next 3 years announced

MELBOURNE, 12 April 2022: The 13th edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, kicked off today ushering in a nine-day celebration of Indian and subcontinent movies and culture, featuring some of India’s biggest sporting and screen superstars. The Victorian...

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Mildura man on a flight from Pak charged with offshore child abuse

MELBOURNE, 11 August: A Mildura man has been charged by the Victorian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (Vic-JACET) for allegedly...

India, South Asia

India’s great untapped resource: its jobless young people

Young people have been taking to the streets across India, demanding governments act to provide more jobs. In the northern...

Pakistan, South Asia

“No One Cares About Our Protests”

A sit-in by families of missing persons in Balochistan has entered its third week of protest outside the Governor’s House...

Community

Mildura man on a flight from Pak charged with offshore child abuse

MELBOURNE, 11 August: A Mildura man has been charged by the Victorian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (Vic-JACET) for allegedly encouraging a sexual offence with a child outside Australia. The man, 29, appeared before the Mildura Magistrates Court today (Wednesday,...

Chisholm Fed. Labor MP Carina Garland meets community representatives

Australian-Afghani community welcomed at the Officer Sikh Temple

The Scripted Art Collective brings language on art landscape

South Asia

India’s great untapped resource: its jobless young people

Young people have been taking to the streets across India, demanding governments act to provide more jobs. In the northern state of Bihar, large numbers protested in February at delays in filling public sector vacancies. Some of them had passed...

“No One Cares About Our Protests”

Taliban’s ‘suffocating crackdown’ destroying lives of women and girls – new report

Global organisations condemn crackdown of Sri Lankan protesters

Multimedia

INTERVIEW: Geetanjli Shree – Our life is a political statement

Proud moment for Indian-Australians:First Speech-Zaneta Mascarenhas MP

3 Questions with an Expert — Nabil Nasr (…remanufacturing)

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Trophy goes to the Great Barrier Reef

Riya Bhattacharya’s Marathi song ‘Deh Petude’ creating waves

Teaser- ‘Darlings’: Quirky mom-daughter duo navigate dreams & desires

Why Should I Care About India?;Prof Purushottam Agrawal explains(VIDEO)

World

Successful Experiment Sets Protocol for Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants

A team at NYU Langone Health successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July, marking the latest advance toward addressing the nationwide organ shortage and developing a clinical protocol that would provide an...

Veiled message to China:Quad leaders bat for free & open Indo-Pacific

World Economic Forum warns against global economy fragmentation

CIA names Indian-origin Nand Mulchandni 1st Chief Technology Officer

Australia

Matthew Guy’s Cranbourne gamble

MELBOURNE, 7 August 2022: The sitting Member of Parliament (MP) for Cranbourne is Pauline Richards of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In the 2018 election under the two-party preferred system, she got 60.98 % of votes (31291 preferred votes) and...

Bilo family receives permanent residency

Proud moment for Indian-Australians:First Speech-Zaneta Mascarenhas MP

Crime Stoppers Vic.’22:106,413 contacts,733 arrests,1,485 charges laid

Entertainment

IFFM kicks off with a bang, $3 m funding for next 3 years announced

Aamir Khan: Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha is rooted in India

Netflix Review: Darlings – Dark comedy on dark relationship

Dynamic Duo Raj & DK form creative partnership with Netflix

IFFM-2022: Kapil Dev & Abhishek Bachchan to hoist tricolour

Sport

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Trophy goes to the Great Barrier Reef

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Trophy has reached one of Australia’s most iconic natural wonders, with Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking the prized silverware to the clear waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Secured in a custom-made case,...

Disney Star to broadcast Australian cricket in India & Asia

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022:Most viewed with 1.64 b video views

Hockeyroos depart for FIH Women’s World Cup

Opinion

Time to reframe the Left narratives on ‘Flag Waving Nationalism’, ‘Religion’ and ‘Market’

Flag waving nationalism is growing across the globe along with reactionary market fundamentalism which collaborates with religious politics to access state power. Flag waving nationalism is not a nation building exercise. It neither provokes patriotism nor help to build unity...

VIEWPOINT: The IMF Connection and the Ukraine Crisis

COMMENT : AAP tsunami decimates the big & mighty in Punjab & …

Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit

Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi

Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

Book Review : “The Past As Present” By Romila Thapar

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Business & Finance

India’s newest tech Unicorn to open Oceania HQ in Melbourne

MELBOURNE, 10 August 2022: A new global tech unicorn – a company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion – has chosen Victoria as the base to build its Oceania operations, bringing new jobs as well as opportunities for universities and...

Monash Univ & Blundstone create hi-tech boot for medical professionals.

AIBC ties up with peak Indian trade bodies

Here comes ‘Rajshree Bridal Studio’ for exclusive outfits

Health

A tale of horror and fraud:Profits in trillions of dollars for vaccine manufacturers?

John Leake is a best-selling and “experienced non-fiction, true crime author”. Having just read what must be described as an extraordinary ‘telling’ of the Covid-19 saga, his book “The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the...

WHO: Global pandemic deaths 14.9 m; India Covid toll 2020 (830,000) & 2021 (4.74 million)

WHO suspends supply of BharatBiotech’s COVAXIN® to UN agencies

India-financed WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, India

Science & Technology

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who announced last month the AI program he was working on had developed consciousness? If like me, you’re instinctively suspicious, it might have been something like:...

IFFM kicks off with a bang, $3 m funding for next 3 years announced

Mildura man on a flight from Pak charged with offshore child abuse

India’s great untapped resource: its jobless young people

“No One Cares About Our Protests”

Community

Mildura man on a flight from Pak charged with offshore child abuse

Chisholm Fed. Labor MP Carina Garland meets community representatives

Australian-Afghani community welcomed at the Officer Sikh Temple

The Scripted Art Collective brings language on art landscape

South Asia

India’s great untapped resource: its jobless young people

“No One Cares About Our Protests”

Taliban’s ‘suffocating crackdown’ destroying lives of women and girls – new report

Global organisations condemn crackdown of Sri Lankan protesters

Multimedia

INTERVIEW: Geetanjli Shree – Our life is a political statement

Proud moment for Indian-Australians:First Speech-Zaneta Mascarenhas MP

3 Questions with an Expert — Nabil Nasr (…remanufacturing)

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Trophy goes to the Great Barrier Reef

Riya Bhattacharya’s Marathi song ‘Deh Petude’ creating waves

Teaser- ‘Darlings’: Quirky mom-daughter duo navigate dreams & desires

Why Should I Care About India?;Prof Purushottam Agrawal explains(VIDEO)

World

Successful Experiment Sets Protocol for Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants

Veiled message to China:Quad leaders bat for free & open Indo-Pacific

World Economic Forum warns against global economy fragmentation

CIA names Indian-origin Nand Mulchandni 1st Chief Technology Officer

Australia

Matthew Guy’s Cranbourne gamble

Bilo family receives permanent residency

Proud moment for Indian-Australians:First Speech-Zaneta Mascarenhas MP

Crime Stoppers Vic.’22:106,413 contacts,733 arrests,1,485 charges laid

Entertainment

IFFM kicks off with a bang, $3 m funding for next 3 years announced

Aamir Khan: Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha is rooted in India

Netflix Review: Darlings – Dark comedy on dark relationship

Dynamic Duo Raj & DK form creative partnership with Netflix

IFFM-2022: Kapil Dev & Abhishek Bachchan to hoist tricolour

Sport

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Trophy goes to the Great Barrier Reef

Disney Star to broadcast Australian cricket in India & Asia

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022:Most viewed with 1.64 b video views

Hockeyroos depart for FIH Women’s World Cup

Opinion

Time to reframe the Left narratives on ‘Flag Waving Nationalism’, ‘Religion’ and ‘Market’

VIEWPOINT: The IMF Connection and the Ukraine Crisis

COMMENT : AAP tsunami decimates the big & mighty in Punjab & …

Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit

Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi

Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

Book Review : “The Past As Present” By Romila Thapar

E-paper August 2022

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Business & Finance

India’s newest tech Unicorn to open Oceania HQ in Melbourne

Monash Univ & Blundstone create hi-tech boot for medical professionals.

AIBC ties up with peak Indian trade bodies

Here comes ‘Rajshree Bridal Studio’ for exclusive outfits

Health

A tale of horror and fraud:Profits in trillions of dollars for vaccine manufacturers?

WHO: Global pandemic deaths 14.9 m; India Covid toll 2020 (830,000) & 2021 (4.74 million)

WHO suspends supply of BharatBiotech’s COVAXIN® to UN agencies

India-financed WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, India

Science & Technology

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

Monash Univ & Blundstone create hi-tech boot for medical professionals.

SunSmart Global UV App provides 5-day UV & weather forecasts

How we captured first image of the supermassive black hole at centre of the Milky Way

How interior design choices can boost your mental and physical health

Largest ever human family tree constructed, eases search for ancestry and migration

India opposed Palestine at the UN after Pegasus deal with Israel: NYT

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