Thousands of Sikhs gathered at the Manukau Square in Auckland on March 25 to protest against the death sentence awarded by an Indian court to a fellow Sikh. Community spokesperson Daljit Singh told the gathering that the decision of the Indian court was shocking and that it contradicted the worldwide campaign against capital punishment and India’s avowed principles of non-violence.…
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The number of women abandoned, harassed and ill-treated by their husbands and members of their families abroad has been on the rise, Overseas Indian Affairs minister Vayalar Ravi has said. He told the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) on March 15, 2012 that his ministry had received 381 complaints, in addition to 532 complaints received by the Non-Resident Indian…
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Potential entrants in the various categories of the Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards (IBA) 2012 will have the benefit of expert advice from a number of sponsors who offer specialist services to their clients. Among them are Title Sponsor (and Sponsor of the ‘Best Large Business’ category and ‘Supreme Business Year of the Award’) BNZ Partners, KPMG New Zealand (Sponsor…
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The campaign to preserve vernacular mother tongues and make knowledge accessible to students through translation across the linguistic arc has taken a big stride with a new bilingual dictionary series in Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada from the source language, English. An initiative of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), National Translation Mission, Regional Institute of South…
Read MoreThe Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal has censured an Indian immigration adviser, upholding two complaints brought against him by his clients. Auckland based Rajesh Kumar has had his immigration adviser licence suspended for two years and was ordered to pay his complainant Paramjit Singh $8276 as compensation, in addition to a penalty of $4000. A notification issued by the…
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With India’s global profile growing, and opening of more missions planned in Africa and Latin America, the federal government has expanded its budgetary outlay in fiscal year 2012-2013 for the external affairs ministry from about US$ 1.4 billion to about US$ 1.9 billion, an increase of 36%. This amounts to an increase of about US$ 500 million over the previous…
Read MoreThe Feilding District Court sentenced on March 19, 2012 a farmer to a prison term of two years and three months on a number of fraud-related charges. Peter Joseph Nitschke (32) was found guilty in January 2012 of seven fraud charges totalling $2.3 million. The charges followed a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into Capehorn Farming Company Limited (Capehorn). Capehorn…
Read MoreThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has confirmed that it would not be pursuing the complaint made regarding the receivership of the Yarrow group of companies. SFO Chief Executive, Adam Feeley, said, “There has been a very thorough assessment of the allegations made, and we have also sought advice from the Crown Solicitors. We are satisfied that the information provided does…
Read MoreOne of the largest Muslim organisations in Australasia is to employ state-of-the-art technology and social networking sites to promote its activities and interact better with its members and the communities in general. The South Auckland Muslim Association (SAMA) will also use Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites to propagate the teachings of Islam, the Holy Quran and highlight its programmes…
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Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is working with Education New Zealand to develop a partnership agreement to strengthen the framework of the New Zealand Specialist Agents (NZSA) programme. Undertaken as a part of the efforts to deliver higher quality service to the education sector, the initiative would enable INZ to foster its network with specialist agents and lift the confidence of…
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