Beating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga’s book “The White Tiger” was on Wednesday declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008.
Adiga beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the 50,000 pound (USD 47,000) prize.
The other authors in the shortlist were Amitav Ghosh, Steve Toltz, Linda [...]
RMIT University’s Professor Suresh Bhargava, Head of the School of Applied Sciences, has received the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s prestigious RK Murphy Medal
Considered the most coveted award in the field of industrial chemistry, the medal was presented in Newcastle last week as part of Chemeca 2008, an annual national conference for academics and business professionals [...]
New Delhi: The government on Friday approved the setting up of the ‘India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians’ to direct funds from abroad for philanthropic purposes.
A proposal for setting up the foundation, a non-profit trust, was forwarded by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) after receiving recommendations from several noted overseas Indians.
“The Foundation [...]
American business magazine Forbes on Monday said India-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is being conferred the third Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award, which honours heroes of entrepreneurial capitalism and free enterprise.
Mittal will get the award on Monday night at Forbes Global CEO Conference, being held in Singapore and expected to be attended by more than 450 [...]
MELBOURNE: An Australian School has decided to tender a public apology to a Sikh student, whom it refused admission for wearing turban and having long hair under its strict uniform codes.
“In an out of court settlement, Brisbane’s Ormiston College, a private school, had offered a public apology to the family of 12-year-old child,” Sikh family’s [...]
Around 300 overseas students, including Indians, were put into detention centres in Sydney and Melbourne in the past three years after found breaching Australian immigration laws.
According to a report in ‘The Australian’, it was revealed that in the last three years 299 overseas students were put into the detention centre in Sydney or Melbourne of [...]
Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been honoured by the New Jersey general assembly and by the city of Edison for his organisation’s initiatives in the US and its service to the world at large. The state assembly passed a resolution acknowledging that the guru, currently visiting the US, has been “furthering the [...]
Prince Charles has appealed to Asian billionaires including steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Tata chief Ratan Tata to help him protect the environment, preserve historic buildings and support the young unemployed throughout the Indian subcontinent.
Prince Charles has invited some of India’s richest tycoons to see his Prince’s Trust in action in the East end of [...]
Indian-origin boy Sameer Mishra has won Scripps National Spelling Bee contest, beating 288 children in the 8 to 15 age group.
“Guerdon” said the judges. Thirteen-year-old eight grader asked for the definition, and then confidently spelled it out correctly to the thunderous applause from the audience.
It was a proud moment for Mishra who had participated in [...]
Leading Indian-origin women from the fields of journalism, art, education and finance were among the awardees at this year’s Asian Women of Achievement Awards announced at a high profile event here.
Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and actress Liz Hurley looked resplendent in saris as they attended the ninth annual awards event [...]
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