New Community organization launched with fanfare
On the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti, it is customary to see several celebrations across the Indian diaspora. This is because the same festival is known and celebrated across the…
Dawoodi Bohra community in New Zealand donate food and necessities to the Tongan Relief Fund
The Dawoodi Bohras are a close-knit community with around 1 million members living and practising their faith in over 40 countries. The Dawoodi Bohras throughout the world are guided by…
Bharatiya Mandir women’s group celebrate Christmas
The oldest temple in New Zealand, Bharatiya Mandir in Sandringham, Auckland which opened for public after remaining closed for nearly four months has started getting devotees back to its doors.…
Culinary delight with Shivani
Enjoy the Rainbow summer salad this summer with this cold salad and u can relish with garlic bread a glass of wine too.
Become a joyous human being
You may have great intentions, you may have great ambitions, you may have many desires, but fundamentally, everything that you do in this world spells out who you really are…
Christmas in Indian cities- Big and small
A month or two before the arrival of the festive season, rehearsals of the nativity play and school choir practicing the Christmas carols would begin. While walking down by the…
House prices growing considerably faster than wages
Meanwhile, first home buyers (FHB) have been more than happy to ‘bridge the gap’, with FHBs’ market share assisted along by variables such as KiwiSaver withdrawals and a readiness to…
Telugu Badminton Club of Canterbury ends the year with a bang!
The tournament featured all 5 possible categories, Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Singles. Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
Government confirms COVID-19 vaccinations to protect tamariki
“A key focus of the Government is to keep everyone in New Zealand safe from the COVID-19 pandemic,” Chris Hipkins said.
Omicron: Government’s plan to minimise risk
Cabinet has agreed a suite of precautionary measures to keep Omicron out of the community for as long as possible, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said today.
A year, not to forget!
What a year 2021 has been for all of us, I think for most people it will not be easy to forget what happened during this period, very challenging yet…
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…