Category Arts & Culture

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has become the first Australian Group of Eight university to receive approval from India’s UGC.

Adelaide-based Gaurav Kundi (42), who became unresponsive after he was arrested by South Australia police last month, has died.

 Bharat Sundaresan, the Indian-born cricket writer and commentator, has officially become an Australian citizen. The citizenship ceremony took place in Mount Barker, located in the Adelaide Hills, where he resides with his wife Isha. Sundaresan, grew up in Mumbai and spent a decade in cricket journalism. He moved to Australia in December 2018, following his wife's relocation for work.Sundaresan has embraced the cross-cultural blend of his experiences in both India and Australia. He has also used

Indian-born biotechnologist and scientist Dr Parwinder Kaur has made history by becoming the first Sikh woman elected to the Western Australian Parliament. She was officially sworn in as a Member of the Legislative Council on May 22, 2025, representing the Australian Labor Party.At her swearing-in ceremony, she made history again by taking her oath with her hand placed on the Gutka Sahib, a Sikh holy scripture, becoming the first politician in Australia to do so. The Gutka Sahib is a smaller ver

Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan’s new play 'The Wrong Gods' is set to make its Melbourne debut on June 6, 2025, at the Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, running until July 12. Following the critical success of his epic 'Counting and Cracking', Sydney playwright Shakthidharan returns with a more intimate yet equally powerful work that explores the complex costs of progress and globalisation through a gripping mother-daughter story set in a remote Indian valley.'The Wrong Gods' centres

South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has rejected accusations that the arrest of Gaurav Kundi, that left the Adelaide resident and father of two in a coma, was “racially motivated”.Kundi’s arrest that has left him fighting for life has been dubbed by the Indian media as “Australia’s George Floyd moment”. Commissioner Stevens said that there was nothing ät this stage” to support the allegation that police placed their knee on Kundi’s neck during the arrest on Thursday May 29, 2025. 

A 42-year-old father of two is fighting for life at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after a South Australia police arrest, was caught on video, left him unresponsive and on life support. The police tackled Gaurav Kundi, 42, to the ground and allegedly kneed him in the neck, in an eerie incident that has drawn comparisons to the 2020 George Floyd killing in the US. Part of the arrest was recorded by Kundi’s wife Amritpal Kaur, who told the police that he had not done anything wrong and needed medical

Seven men, including “trusted insider” Gurvinder Singh and two Canadian nationals, have been charged following a sweeping investigation by a multi-agency Australian strike team into a sophisticated drug and illicit tobacco importation syndicate allegedly operating through Sydney’s freight networks.The operation, led by the Multi Agency Strike Team (MAST)—which draws on the expertise of NSW Police, Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, and several other agencies—targeted so-called “