Announcements on offshore temporary visa holders soon
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is hopeful that Indian international students will be able to come to Australia at least by next year as state...
International Cricket Council enters into partnership with Nium
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today that it has entered a multi-year strategic partnership with Nium, a leading global financial technology (FinTech) infrastructure company.
Nium...
Morrison calls Modi ‘great friend’, to work on new initiatives
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one where “we were able to agree on some...
Book on Kashmir by anthropologist Saiba Varma stirs a debate
Anthropologist Saiba Varma’s book The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir, published by Duke University in the US and Yoda Press in India...
Are cricketers & celebrities perpetuating casteism and inequality?
Recently, Ravindra Jadeja, an Indian international cricketer, hit two fifties in India’s three-day tour match in England.
Off the field, late that night, he tweeted...
Lisa Singh to lead the Australia India Institute
Lisa Singh has been appointed as the new Director of the Australia India Institute (AII), the University of Melbourne’s centre dedicated to promoting support for...
Melbourne author on India, Anglo-Indians & a wartime romance
A new book on the life stories of two Anglo-Indian women provide an insight into end-of-empire Bombay, dramatic views of the Partition of India...
Renaming the Khel Ratna Award: ‘Significant timing’
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet”
If a recent event was anything to go...
Indian researchers enabling Australian efforts to repurpose COVID-19 drugs
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, one of the first ‘Institutes of Eminence’ in India, has announced a collaboration with Australian...
One man’s travel account to India and back during the pandemic
During May, when India was at the peak of its second wave of the coronavirus recording as many as 26 million cases—second only to...