Ajay Kumar: Building a successful mortgage & insurance advisory empire across New Zealand
With financial susceptibility upsurging as a key factor in bringing down the corporate mammoths to the ground in no time, the global mortgage & insurance advisory industry is witnessing some…
International Migrants Day – Migrant Lives Matter
Thousands of NZ migrants remain stranded offshore because the border remains closed to non citizens and non residents. Nearly two years on, many migrants’ visas have expired and many more…
A yes for Veer “Surya” Sooryavanshi
Sooryavanshi is the fourth instalment of the Indian cop movies franchise incorporated by Rohit Shetty. Singham being the starting point in 2011, followed with Singham Returns (2014), Simba (2018) and…
Culinary delight with Shivani
By Shivani Arora, (Shivani is a well known Auckland based entrepreneur and a restaurateur)
Anxiety is not a reality
What you call “anxiety” is just that you are concerned about what is going to be the outcome of something. The outcome of something is not going to be determined…
Property prices continuing to rise despite rising interest rates
First Home Buyers have witnessed Loan-to-value ratios (LVRs, which affect borrowing), Brightline tests (a tax on gains), high-density plans for Auckland, a building boom, a nationwide foreign buyer ban, an…
The Farm Bill politics
The political agitation against the 3 new Farm Bills that ran for the longest period of time in the history of independent India, should ideally have come to an end…
NZ secures new Pfizer COVID-19 medicine
New Zealand has secured supplies of another medicine to treat COVID-19, Health Minister Andrew Little announced on Monday 6th December.
A new way of managing COVID-19
With the shift to the COVID-19 Protection Framework last week, I know many of us are delighted to be able to catch up with friends for coffee at local cafes…
Picking up the pieces of our broken immigration system
Behind the hardened bureaucrats and colossal red tape at Immigration New Zealand is a Minister who appears to have suddenly realised that after 18-months of doing very little, he might…
One step closer to a safe summer and a happy Christmas
This has been a hard column to write this month as for all of us it’s been a tough few months, but together, we’ve pulled out all the stops to…
Open up now, for God’s sake!
Auckland continues to be in lockdown level-3, step 2 as we reach nearly 3 months of being in lockdown in the super city. Government is opening up slowly, relaxing lockdown…
Reserve bank’s monetary policies throwing spanner in the increasing property prices
CoreLogic's House Price Index (HPI), the most comprehensive and detailed indicator of property value change in the market, just revealed that countrywide prices experienced the anticipated mini boom in October,…
Are Leaders Born or Made
Leaders are always made. Whether you made yourself before your birth or after, it does not matter how, but leaders are always made. It is just that a certain person…
Walking down the memory lanes and by-lanes of Kolkata
A slice of West BengalKolkata for me is not a city, it is an emotion
How much you understand level 3, step 2?
Can the government have a relook at the restrictions eased under step-2 to make it more pragmatic and meaningful. People world over are now sick and tired of these restrictions…
Shri Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands
Shri Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands
Reopen hospitality now!
"We don't think the government or the Prime Minister understands how bad things are for retail and hospitality under Alert Level 3.
OMG online music galatta is an online world Tamil Radio and the first of its kind!
OMG- Online Music Galatta has 9 grids with a grid each for New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, India, Dubai, UK, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and USA. OMG- Online Music Galatta carries news,…
Need to come out of the dilemma soon
A country of New Zealand’s size should have been fully vaccinated by now and secured lives of its people without putting any additional burden on country’s exchequer. Whatever little action…
Youth Parliament 2022 – Are You Keen?
2022 will see the House of Representatives host the 10th New Zealand Youth Parliament and it’s going to be amazing. I am looking for an incredible young leader who can…
Looking ahead to Super Saturday
The next step is to continue getting as many people as possible vaccinated. More than 58% of people in New Zealand are fully vaccinated and 82% of people have now…
Statement by Sunny Kaushal regarding INZ CAM article goof-up
With a proactive approach and continuing engagement, we have been trying to create an enhanced understanding with INZ team over the last 2 years since we started regular meetings with…