www.indianweekender.co.nz

New Zealand

Death of an Indian woman in Christchurch ‘unexplained’

Police has deemed the death to be ‘unexplained’, and inquiries are being made on behalf of the Coroner, police confirmed....

New Zealand

Supreme Sikh Society in South Auckland has a new team

Supreme Sikh Society of New Zealand (SSSNZ), the largest Sikh body in the country hosted its Annual General Meeting on Sunday, August 27 at the Takanini Gurudwara to choose its next leader and plan the activities for the next year....

New Zealand

South Indian badminton tournament coming up in Chch

with the Telugu and Malayali communities separate badminton tournaments over, plans are in place for a tournament for South Indian communities involving Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalis, to be organised next month....

Verdict 2017

Our health system needs a reboot

The queues in hospital waiting rooms are a nightmare. And even if you can afford to go see a GP then staffing shortages and rapidly rising costs mean you're in for a decent wait and a large bill....

Verdict 2017

English agrees for Hindi in schools

We are ready to accommodate the Hindi language, and we are confident that it would be relatively easier to find teachers in the Hindi language as Indian community is a well-educated community,” Mr English concluded....

Verdict 2017

Your party vote for NZPP will keep Winston Peters away from the government: Anil Sharma

With a significant portion of the country in the midst of ‘Jacindamania’, we have seen a rebalancing of the electorate....

Business

R Jay Finance celebrates 5 years: A big thank you to the community

R Jay Finance started five years ago after a relatively terrible working experience with a firm whose practices were unprofessional and unethical. Quitting that job was a blessing in disguise, and it gave birth to R Jay Finance......

Business

Make the best of opportunities in Auckland property market with Colliers International

The year 2016 had been a stellar year for the commercial property market across all sectors—commercial, retail, and industrial. And it wasn’t any different at Colliers, which has seen another record year in terms of revenue....

Business

Ashima Singh: creating new benchmarks in business

Indian Weekender spoke to Ashima to know more about her journey from starting as a student to working as a registrar at Auckland Court to winning the prestigious award....

Sports

Sports

Bangladesh 103-3, need 356 runs to beat India in one-off Test

Bangladesh face a big test of saving the one-off cricket Test as they reached 103 for three in their second innings after India set them a target of 459 on the penultimate day in Hyderabad on Sunday, February 12....

Sports

Ronaldo wins FIFA best player award

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Best Male Player Award over his great rival Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann for a stellar 2015-16 season, at a glittering ceremony in Zurich....

Sports

Pankaj Advani wins World Billiards Championships title

Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won his 11th World Billiards (150-Up format) Championships title by beating Peter Gilchrist of Singapore in the summit clash on Monday, December 12....

India

The Triple Talaq case: Deconstructed

Justice Kurian Joseph in his judgment interpreted The Quran to come to the conclusion that triple talaq is not an essential practice of Islam...

India

India condemns London terror attack

India on Wednesday, March 22, strongly condemned the terrorist attack in London that reportedly killed two persons and injured several others....

India

Wonderful to be part of Sanjay Dutt's biopic: Dia Mirza

She is glad the project is giving her a chance to work with one of her favourite filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani, who is directing the film....

World news

World news

Early life on Earth began on land not sea: Scientists

A paradigm-shifting hypothesis has pushed back the time for the emergence of microbial life on Earth by 580 million years, suggesting that life began not in the sea but on land....

World news

Sikh group launches TV campaign to educate Americans about Sikhism

Appalled by the widespread ignorance of Sikhism that sparks hate crimes, a Sikh organisation has launched a $1.5 million TV campaign to educate Americans about the faith religion's values of tolerance and equality....

World news

Tata Motors unveils sports car Tamo Racemo

The sports car, equipped with advanced navigation, predictive maintenance, remote monitoring and over-the-air updates using Microsoft cloud-based technologies, is expected to hit the market in 2017-18....

Fiji

It's party time as Fiji celebrates Olympic gold

Fiji is bracing for the celebration of a lifetime as the island nation awaits the return of its victorious sevens team after winning gold at the Rio Olympics....

Fiji

Ministry aims to better aid cluster system

The government is committed to building and strengthening the Fiji humanitarian cluster system to improve humanitarian response in times of disasters....