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Speech by
Her Excellency The President of India, Smt. Pratibha
Devisingh Patil,
to the nation on the eve of 61st Republic Day
of India
in Hindi
in
English
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official website of Her Excellency The President of India,
Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil |
Flag Hoisting Ceremony on
the
61st Republic Day of India at the Consul General of India's residence,
Sydney
News on India from the Australian & Indian Media
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Time to come clean on racism reality |
The Australian, 13Jan2010: AUSTRALIA is currently receiving
unprecedented publicity in India, but, sadly, for all the wrong
reasons. The tragic murder of young permanent resident Nitin
Garg in Melbourne last week has done incalculable damage to
Australia's reputation as a welcoming nation and as a globally
attractive destination for education and migration. The widely
held conclusion in India is that the murder, like the earlier
spate of attacks on Indian students, was racially motivated.
This should come as no surprise. We should not delude ourselves
into thinking that the White Australia policy has been entirely
forgotten.
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Simon Overland admits Indians are targeted in attacks
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The Australian, 21Jan2010: THE admission by Victoria's top cop
that his officers have long known Indians are disproportionately
targeted by criminals in Melbourne, has been heralded as a
"breakthrough" by some in the Indian community.
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Simon Overland says Indian race attacks problem has been
known for two years |
The Australian, 20Jan2010: VICTORIA'S top cop has admitted
police realised two years ago there was a problem involving
crime against Indians. Indians are over-represented in robbery
statistics and there is a racist element to some attacks, Police
Commissioner Simon Overland says.
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Attacks fallout: Indian students leaving Australia? |
NDTV, 30Jan2010:Avoid Australia - that's
the clear warning to students planning to
study Down Under,
issued by the Indian government. On the ground, the government's
warning apart, the unending attacks and two deaths resulting
from it have clearly rattled admission seekers and students
already studying there.
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10 more Indians attacked in Australia |
NDTV, 30Jan2010: Three cab drivers and a pizza delivery boy have
been attacked in Brisbane in separate incidents, according to
Australia's Sky News. One of the cab drivers was allegedly
punched and dragged out of his taxi, says the channel. The pizza
delivery boy was allegedly beaten with a cricket bat and robbed
at the home of somebody who ordered a pizza.
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Govt advises students to stay away from Australia |
NDTV, 29Jan2010:The Indian government has officially asked
students to avoid
Australia for now. "The advisory put out to the
Indians is to be careful and not to go at the moment for further
studies," says Parneet Kaur, Minister of State, External
Affairs.
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Five charged over Indian student attack |
The Australian, 26Jan2010:FIVE men have been charged over an
attack on two Indian students in central Melbourne last night
that left one requiring microsurgery. Four 19-year-olds from
Carlton, Abbotsford, Warrandyte and Northcote and a 20-year-old
from Donvale have been charged with affray, intentionally
causing injury and summary assault offences.
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Indians bashed, five men charged |
The Australian, 27Jan2010: FIVE men of mixed ethnic backgrounds
have been charged over the assault of two Indian students on the
eve of Australia Day in Melbourne. Four 19-year-olds and a
20-year-old from Melbourne's northern suburbs and outer-east
were among a group of nine men arrested yesterday for punching
and kicking two Indian students in the CBD on Monday night.
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Indian cabbie 'assaulted for $6 fare' |
The Australian, 23Jan2010: AN Indian student and part-time taxi
driver who was bashed in his cab in Brisbane early yesterday
does not know whether he can carry on in Australia. As he nursed
his wounds, including cuts to his face and a swollen right eye,
Sandeep Goyal, 20, said he was considering abandoning his
business management studies to return to his home state of
Punjab in northern India.
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Attacks don't augur well for ties - India |
AAP, 20Jan2010: INDIA has warned that the latest in a series of
attacks on Indians living in Australia does not 'augur well' for
already cool ties between the two countries. Foreign Minister
S.M. Krishna said today he was in touch with India's embassy in
Australia for more details of the attack late on Friday on the
25-year-old taxi driver in the town of Ballarat, Victoria.
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Australia provides attacks dossier to India |
Ind Exp, 27Jan2010: Australia government
has handed over to India a police dossier of high-profile
attacks on Indians over the past year, which reveals that nearly
half of the attackers were juveniles. The dossier, prepared by
Victoria Police, was handed over in recent weeks, after Foreign
minister Stephen Smith telephoned his Indian counterpart S M
Krishna on January 11 to express his condolences over the murder
of Indian student Nitin Garg in Yarraville.
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OZ envoy summoned after 10 Indians attacked |
NDTV, 28Jan2010: There have been 10 attacks in Australia in the
last 24 hours. An outraged External Affairs Ministry on Thursday
summoned Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese, ironically
a man of Indian origin, for explanation. This is arguably
India's most aggressive move so far over the attacks against
Indians in Australia. "Australia's dossier is silent on whether
all attacks were racially motivated. Smith had no answer when I
asked why Indians only were being attacked," said Krishna.
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Bihar to sign MoU with Gates Foundation |
Ind Exp:30 January 2010: Patna: A memorandum of
understanding will soon be signed between the Bihar government
and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for executing a slew
of health projects in selected districts of the state.
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A.R. RAHMAN CONCERT IN SYDNEY
Indian music composer extraordinaire A.R. Rahman came to
Parramatta Park with over 40 musicians and dancers for a free
outdoor concert spectacular on Saturday 16 January from 7:30PM to 10PM. This
was a
night filled with colour, dancing and the irrepressible melodies
of contemporary India
The legendry Indian music composer addressing a press conference
in Sydney on 14 Jan 2010, organised by Sydney Festival 2010.
In a question answer session at the Press conference, he said that
his concert is aimed at bringing harmony to the various sections of
the Australian community. He was concerned at the violence targeted
towards the Indian students in Australia. Towards this end, he
suggested to the students to exercise caution when visiting any
trouble / violence prone areas. He also urged media to report such
events in a responsible manner.
Rahman came to the attention of a global audience when he won two
Academy Awards for his score to Slumdog Millionaire. The single,
"Jai Ho" (meaning "victory to you") shot to #8 on the Billboard
charts. Rahman also became the first Indian artist to win a Golden
Globe for 'Best Original Score'. He has also won 13 Filmfare
Awards, four National Film Awards and a BAFTA Award. In 2009, Time
magazine placed Rahman in the Time 100 list of 'World's Most
Influential People' referring to him as the Mozart of Madras
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Mr Neville Roach AO, has been appointed to the
Indian Prime Minister's Global Advisory Council of Overseas
Indians. This is a highly prestigious Council, chaired by
the Prime Minister and comprising 20 Overseas Indians from
around the world as well as the Minister for External
Affairs, the Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs and the
heads of their departments. He is the only appointee from
Australia.
Mr Roach has
been appointed in place of the Hon Shashi Tharoor, former
Under Secretary of State of the United Nations and one of
the final two candidates for the position of Secretary
General.
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News on India from the Australian & Indian Media
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31 Dec 09: In Sydney, hundreds of thousands of revellers descended
on Sydney Harbour, to ring in 2010 as a stunning firework display
exploded overhead at midnight. Whereas revellers across Australia
have welcomed 2010 in style, enjoying spectacular fireworks and
partying into the wee hours of the new year, a lot of people
gathered at religious places to welcome the new year in a serene
atmosphere and extending greetings of love, peace and harmony for
the whole world. |
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Devotees in large numbers at the famous Parklea Gurdwara in Sydney
enjoying a sumptuous free meal (Langar) before listening to the
melodious shabd kirtan (religious hymns) sung by the prominent
singers at Gurdwara. The beginning of the New Year heralded pure
love and blessings for the whole world. |
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Fire at Melbourne Gurdwara: India takes up matter with
Australia |
PTI, 14 January 2010: NEW DELHI: India has taken up with
Australia the incident of some unidentified people setting fire
at an under-construction building on the premises of a gurdwara
in Melbourne..
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Australian police arrest Indian's attacker, out on bail |
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The New South Wales Police Tuesday
arrested a man involved in an alleged assault on an Indian
permanent resident at Sydney's Coogee Beach and charged him with
'assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray', the
Australian High Commission said in a statement.
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Indian Student (Nitin Garg) fatally stabbed in Melbourne on way to work. |
SMH,
Melbourne, 03 Jan 10:
Twenty one-year-old Nitin Garg, an accounting
graduate who was originally from Punjab, died after he was stabbed
on January 3 in West Footscray area of Melbourne.
Police investigating the vicious fatal
stabbing of an Indian man on his way to work in Melbourne, are
appealing for help from the public. The 21-year-old staggered
into a Hungry Jack's restaurant on the corner of Somerville Road
and Geelong Road, West Footscray, about 10pm yesterday and
pleaded for help before collapsing. He was taken to the Royal
Melbourne Hospital but later died.....The victim, a single man
who had permanent residency in Australia, was understood to be
from India's Punjab region. Police are trying to contact
relatives abroad to determine if he had any family in Australia.
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Oz police step-up efforts to identify Garg's killer |
PTI, Melbourne, 01 Jan 10:Australia's police on Thursday stepped up
efforts to identify the killer of 21-year old Indian-youth Nitin
Garg who was brutally murdered recently, even as it asked his
unidentified assailants to surrender.
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Reaction of the community in Australia over the
murder of India born Australia student |
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Abbas Raza Alvi, Co-Chairman of
Culture for GOPIO International |
Mr Alvi, Co-Chairman of Culture for GOPIO International (Sydney) has
been greatly saddened over the recent murder of twenty one-year-old Nitin Garg, an accounting
graduate who was originally from Punjab, died after he was stabbed
on January 3 in West Footscray area of Melbourne.
He has written a poem to express his anguish and deep sorrow on this
unfortunate event appealed to the rest of the community to help stop
such devastating killings.
Please click to read his poem in
Hindi
and its translation in
English
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Petition to
the Prime minister of Australia and Premier of Victoria to
strongly condemn the dastardly killing of NITIN GARG.
This petition was initially started by GOPIO and is supported by
several community organisations. |
Please join us in asking the
Prime minister of Australia and Premier of Victoria to take concrete
steps against recent stabbing of an Indian in Victoria and voice our
concerns toward the repeated violence against young Indians in
Melbourne.
If
you agree with the content, then sign the
petition and
send the petition link to your friends and contacts.
Please keep the nomination process civil, respectful, and
constructive. Please remember: YOUR constructive participation is
crucial.
It is time to stand and work
together.
Your support will make a difference. The Federal & State Govt. in
Australia are urged to act to inculcate confidence of the community.
Please click on the link to
sign the petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/0510/petition.html
or
http://www.petitiononline.com/0712/petition.html
AND(For facebook Id's)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/condemn-stabbing-of-indian |
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Deputy
PM Gillard insists Australia is safe |
PTI, Melbourne, 01 Jan 10: As India issued a travel advisory for
Australia following unabated assaults and killing of its
citizens, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted that her
country is safe for all international students and said "acts of
violence" occur in big cities around the world.
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India told to arrest racism fury |
06 Jan 10:THE acting Foreign Minister, Simon Crean, has urged
Indian leaders to avoid fuelling hysteria over the killing of a
student in Melbourne and has criticised his counterpart in New
Delhi, S. M. Krishna, for calling the stabbing a "heinous crime
on humanity".
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Melbourne priest appeals to Indian's killer |
PTI, Melbourne06 Jan 10: Shaken by the murder of a 21-year old
Indian student in Melbourne, a high-profile priest has urged the
victim's killer to surrender to him. Father Bob Maguire along
with prominent suburban youth worker Les Twentyman said they are
of belief that the culprit, or culprits, behind the killing of
Nitin Garg might be too scared to give themselves up to police.
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Nothing like roast chook to bridge the cultural divide |
29 Dec 09:LIKE many Australians, Patrice McCarthy was horrified
by reports this year of assaults on Indian students and
of shonky colleges for foreign students....... After moving to
North Fitzroy a year ago, she would take morning walks to the
Caltex Star Shop on St Georges Road where community welfare
student Praveen Sadhu, 24, works part-time, to buy The Age.....
"I felt ashamed and embarrassed talking to Praveen when in the
papers are all these stories about people attacking Indians,
and general racism..."And I just wanted to find a way to say to
them, look, you're welcome here, we're really glad that you're
here, and that there are a lot of other people like me that
would want to say the same thing, too."..More.... |
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Indian
man (Jaspreet
Singh)
set on fire in Melbourne |
ABC News, 09 Jan 10: An Indian man is in
hospital after being set on fire in the street in Melbourne early
this morning. Jaspreet Singh, 29, was attacked in Essendon in
Melbourne's north-west shortly before 2.00am. He had just come home
from a dinner party with his wife and went to park his car when four
men poured fluid over him and set him alight.
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Burnt body (Ranjodh Singh) identified as Indian |
SMH, 06 Jan 10:Police have identified a partially
burnt body found beside a rural road in southwest NSW as that of
Indian national Ranjodh Singh. Mr Singh, aged 25, had been
living at Wagga Wagga and was visiting Griffith at the time of
his death. A passer-by found his body on December 29 beside
Wilga Road at Willbriggie.
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Killing reveals another kind of race problem
SMH, 08 Jan 10: RANJODH SINGH died badly. His burnt body was
found in a ditch by an orchard-lined road on the outskirts of
Griffith. It appears he was burnt where he lay, for the dry, clipped
grass at the site is still scorched. The 25-year-old leaves behind a
grieving aunt in Griffith, a wife in Melbourne, parents and a
brother in the Punjab region of India. But his murder on December 29
has become part of another, larger, story. More... |
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Request for input from the NRIs / Overseas Community
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How can the
Overseas / Australian Indian community contribute to the social, economic,
scientific and technological transformation of India to leverage the
growing strength of the overseas Indian community.
Please send your input on the above subject by filling in the
following form:
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2009 Young Volunteer of the year
award to
Jasmeen Kaur Malhotra |
Jasmeen Kaur Malhotra received2009 Young Volunteer of the year award
in the New South Wales Parliament on December 14, 2009.
Congratulations to Jasmeen for her contribution and receiving the
high acknowledgement it has in the New South Wales Parliament. |
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UIA Student Discussion Forum Press Release |
A discussion forum was organized by United
Indian Associations (UIA) on 30 November 2009 focusing on issues of
International Students and Indian Sub Continent Communities. It was
attended among others by Mr Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chair, Community
Relations Commission (CRC) NSW, Mr Adam Blinman and Shaun from
Students Wing of Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC),
Mr Peter Spolc, the International Students Advisor from University
of Western Sydney, Ms Melanie Duncan, Business Development Manager
of ACACIA and Ms Sheetal Challam Executive from CRC. Mr Onkaraswamy,
Mr Kiran Desai and Mr Ashish Ganda represented the ethnic media.
The forum was opened by Dr Rohitas Batta,
Chair of the Students and Community Liasion Committee of UIA.
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Deputy
PM Gillard insists Australia is safe |
PTI, Melbourne, 01 Jan 10: As India issued a travel advisory for
Australia following unabated assaults and killing of its
citizens, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted that her
country is safe for all international students and said "acts of
violence" occur in big cities around the world.
More... |
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India told to arrest racism fury |
06 Jan 10:THE acting Foreign Minister, Simon Crean, has urged
Indian leaders to avoid fuelling hysteria over the killing of a
student in Melbourne and has criticised his counterpart in New
Delhi, S. M. Krishna, for calling the stabbing a "heinous crime
on humanity".
More.... |
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Melbourne priest appeals to Indian's killer |
PTI, Melbourne06 Jan 10: Shaken by the murder of a 21-year old
Indian student in Melbourne, a high-profile priest has urged the
victim's killer to surrender to him. Father Bob Maguire along
with prominent suburban youth worker Les Twentyman said they are
of belief that the culprit, or culprits, behind the killing of
Nitin Garg might be too scared to give themselves up to police.
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Race hate scandal rocks some of nation's most elite schools |
Sunday Herald Sun, 03 Jan 10: MORE than a
dozen elite schools are embroiled in a race hate scandal as many
of their students join a Facebook group calling for immigrants
to get out of Australia.
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Man in court after wife found with throat slit |
AAP, 31 Dec 09:THE husband of a woman found dead with her throat
cut in her western Sydney home has appeared briefly in a
Melbourne court where he was remanded in custody over her death.
Police had launched a massive manhunt earlier that day for Mr
Singh, who was last seen leaving his Westmead home, in Sydney's
west, on Tuesday night. Chaman Jot Singh, 22, was arrested by
Victorian police officers yesterday afternoon as he got off a
bus at Spencer St in Melbourne.
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Good lolly, Miss Bolly: a rich Indian treat returns |
03 Jan 10: SPURRED on by the success of the Oscar-winning film
Slumdog Millionaire and cricketer Brett Lee's pop star
status in India, The Merchants of Bollywood is set to
burst back on to the Australian stage. The spectacle - which
toured Australia, then the world, five years ago - follows the
story of a young girl, her grandfather and their love of dance
while exploring the workings of Indian cinema. Produced by
Australian brothers Mark and Tony Brady, it has been seen by
more than 2 million people worldwide.
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Indian road toll soars to world high |
New Delhi, 28 Dec 09: INDIA has a ballooning road toll to match
its booming car market. Experts predict that more than 150,000
Indians will die in traffic accidents in 2010, the
highest road toll in the world. Another 3 million are expected
to be hospitalised as a result of road mishaps.
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Next Bill Gates from India or China: Survey |
PTI, 09 Jan 10:
A sizeable number of Americans believe that the next Bill Gates
would come from India or China - as the two Asian giants are
fast marching ahead on the global platform, a new US survey has
revealed."When asked where the 'next Bill Gates will come from,'
40 per cent of Americans predicted either India or China," said
a national survey released by the Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA) on the sidelines of the world's largest
consumer technology tradeshow at Las Vegas.
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I hope NRIs will get to vote in next Lok Sabha, polls: PM |
Exp News, 09 Jan 10: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told a
gathering of overseas Indians that he “sincerely hopes” they can
vote in the general elections of 2014. This is the first time
that the government has put a timeframe to the move it initiated
four years ago. Inaugurating the eighth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
meet, Singh said he understands the "legitimate desire" of
Indians living abroad to "exercise their franchise and to have a
say in who governs India.".
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