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Paresh Rawal’s Kishan vs Kanhaiya Reloaded show comes next Friday

The organisers of Kishan vs Kanhaiya Reloaded, a Hindi comedy play featuring Bollywood’s most versatile actor Paresh Rawal scheduled for Friday, September 28 at Victory Convention Centre in Auckland is selling out faster than expected....

New Zealand

“They rob for fun, and we pay the price in thousands of dollars” Grey Lynn dairy shop owner

Mr Prema says he was worried about such incident ever since a dairy owner in the neighbourhood was robbed and stabbed earlier in June this year....

New Zealand

The virtues of the Day of ‘Ashura in Muharram

The month is significant for both sects of Islam, the Shia and Sunni Muslims, as the tenth day of Muharram, also called Day of ‘Ashura is the day of mourning for the Shia Muslims and day of fasting and making extra prayers for Sunni Muslims....

New Zealand

We need to ensure NZ keep its trailblazer status in women empowerment

New Zealand was an early innovator – and it’s fair to say that our world leadership in women’s suffrage became a central part of our image as a trail-blazing ‘social laboratory’....

New Zealand

We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us

Today, 38 per cent of our House of Representatives is made up of women and I’m proud to be one of them. The Green Party and the Labour Party have the highest percentage and number of women MPs respectively....

World news

Galapagos Islands celebrate 40 years of World Heritage Site status

The Ecuadorian Galapagos Islands celebrated 40 years of the declaration of the archipelago as a World Heritage Site by Unesco....

Bollywood

Kangana Ranaut: If feminine ceases to exist then the world will become absolutely ugly

Kangana Ranaut has always fought and stood up for herself. Every time she spoke about her characters from Queen to Tanu Weds Manu to Simran, the feminist within her came out loud and clear....

Bollywood

Desire to pen book on India's unsung conservation heroes: Dia Mirza

Actor-environmentalist Dia Mirza, who could soon pen a new book on the "unsung" foot soldiers of conservation in India, said here that her literary tastes have evolved over the past years....

Bollywood

Remembering Sridevi, a genuine 24 karat star in films that often didn’t quite match her wattage

For our generation of movie-lovers, Sridevi was, and will always be, pure electricity, bonafide 'bijli', who, at her best, lit up the screen....

Technology

Making the switch to an Electric Vehicle

There's a silent revolution has begun brewing with personal transportation in NZ with the transition from fossil fuels to electric propulsion...

Health

Honey what are non-PHARMAC drugs?

Most people may not know what is meant by PHARMAC and non-PHARMAC drugs....

Recipes

Chicken Mughlai

Tantalising chicken pieces in a thick, cardamom-scented sauce...

Editorials

Three lessons of life that we can learn from Thai cave rescue mission

While experts and authorities all around the world would be busy in studying, analysing and documenting the key lessons from this amazing rescue mission to guide any similar future rescue missions, it is also important that we identify some critical ...

Immigration news

No immediate respite for deported Indian students who took sanctuary in Auckland Unitary Church

To start with, both INZ and the Ombudsman’s report have failed to deliver on a promise seemingly extended to students so brazenly then....

Women

Eating lots of rice may advance start of menopause

Eating lots of refined carbohydrates, particularly white pasta and rice, may advance the start of menopause by about one-and-a-half years, warns a study....