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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
In the month of the June this year, a small but significant news related to the Kiwi-Indian community had escaped the usual media glare that typically accompanies with any news of public recognition to the member of the community in New Zealand.
The news was about Jeff Khan, a popular radio journalist of Wellington103.5 FM – a Wellington Hindi radio program, being conferred Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Award for 2017 along with 11 other recipients.
The Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Awards are about recognising the people who selflessly give so much to our communities – people who volunteer their time and effort to make our city a better place.
The 12 recipients of this year’s awards were presented with their certificates by Mayor Justin Lester at an event at City Gallery Wellington on Thursday, June 8.
Mr Khan has dedicated almost three decades of his life to broadcasting, spending much of his time in a studio passing on important national and community news to the Hindi communities in Wellington, Auckland and his native Fiji.
The Award Citation for Jeff Khan read “It would be hard to imagine Wellington’s Hindi Radio Programme without the voice of Jeff Khan.”
Mr Khan has dedicated almost three decades of his life to broadcasting, spending much of his time in a studio passing on important national and community news to the Hindi communities in Wellington, Auckland and his native Fiji.
Mr Khan moved to New Zealand in 2008 and worked for Radio Tarana in Auckland before arriving in the Capital in 2010. For the past seven years, Jeff has kept his community up-to-date on current affairs, births, deaths and marriages and local events.
The community has also benefited from Jeff’s media experience in times of natural disasters, including the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake and the damage in Fiji after Cyclone Winston.
Mr Khan was a key source of information for the community, giving live updates on air about closures, damage and civil defence information, and organising for donations of food and clothing to be collected and sent to Fiji.
In the month of the June this year, a small but significant news related to the Kiwi-Indian community had escaped the usual media glare that typically accompanies with any news of public recognition to the member of the community in New Zealand.
The news was about Jeff Khan, a popular radio...
In the month of the June this year, a small but significant news related to the Kiwi-Indian community had escaped the usual media glare that typically accompanies with any news of public recognition to the member of the community in New Zealand.
The news was about Jeff Khan, a popular radio journalist of Wellington103.5 FM – a Wellington Hindi radio program, being conferred Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Award for 2017 along with 11 other recipients.
The Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Awards are about recognising the people who selflessly give so much to our communities – people who volunteer their time and effort to make our city a better place.
The 12 recipients of this year’s awards were presented with their certificates by Mayor Justin Lester at an event at City Gallery Wellington on Thursday, June 8.
Mr Khan has dedicated almost three decades of his life to broadcasting, spending much of his time in a studio passing on important national and community news to the Hindi communities in Wellington, Auckland and his native Fiji.
The Award Citation for Jeff Khan read “It would be hard to imagine Wellington’s Hindi Radio Programme without the voice of Jeff Khan.”
Mr Khan has dedicated almost three decades of his life to broadcasting, spending much of his time in a studio passing on important national and community news to the Hindi communities in Wellington, Auckland and his native Fiji.
Mr Khan moved to New Zealand in 2008 and worked for Radio Tarana in Auckland before arriving in the Capital in 2010. For the past seven years, Jeff has kept his community up-to-date on current affairs, births, deaths and marriages and local events.
The community has also benefited from Jeff’s media experience in times of natural disasters, including the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake and the damage in Fiji after Cyclone Winston.
Mr Khan was a key source of information for the community, giving live updates on air about closures, damage and civil defence information, and organising for donations of food and clothing to be collected and sent to Fiji.
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