On the coming Wednesday, August 5, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, India.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a speech delivered at the NZ-China Business Summit, which was attended by over 500 delegates, in Auckland on Monday, called out China on recent developments including “Hong Kong’s new security law, the situation of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang province, and Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organisation”.

The hunt is on for the best exponents of Indian cuisine, crafts and performance to take part in this year’s Auckland Diwali Festival, which is due to be celebrated on October 31, and November 1, 2020.

After a massive food distribution drive during various alert levels, the Supreme Sikh Society of New Zealand is now gearing up to distribute over 2,000 blankets on Sunday, July 19, at 2pm.

A major five-year study by Massey University, which was presented at the Parliament this week, has revealed that Gandhi Nivas’ interventionist model, where it works directly with perpetrators of family violence, was able to prevent almost 60 percent of the men who have taken part in the programme from reoffending.

After being closed for nine weeks, Auckland Zoo is excited to be reopening to the community on Wednesday 27 May and offering Kiwis a safe and nurturing environment to reconnect with wildlife and their whānau and friends following life at home during Alert Levels 4 and 3.

At a time when insensitive, divisive comments were being made by some people with vested interests and defamatory comments being made on whole communities within New Zealand, Auckland witnessed a significant event where young people came together on a common platform to discuss the manner by which they could contribute to New Zealand’s nation building efforts.

March 8th, 2020 was marked worldwide as another historic day. Women have celebrated since the beginning of this movement 170 years ago.

It was a bumper weekend at the Hare Krishna Auckland (ISKCON) premises in Kumeu, with the Hare Krishna Annual Food Festival on January 25, and the annual Krishna Holi the next day. Both events were well-attended, as noted by the organisation in separate Facebook posts later.

Auckland-based Maa Shakti Charitable Trust organised a lohri mela on January 11, which included cultural performances, Bollywood songs, bhangra, martial arts performances, live DJ and bonfire. There were food stalls, stalls selling traditional Indian clothes, and fun rides for children.

Bhartiya Samaj Charitable Trust, which has been organising an annual youth summer camp for the last 18 years, had this year’s event between January 13 to 17, for 105 children aged 6 to 14 years, at the Mount Roskill War Memorial Hall in Auckland. The five-day event was made possible by over 20 volunteers organising activities with an an underlying purpose-to develop the overall…

Aucklanders from all walks of life are being encouraged to apply for Auckland Council’s six demographic advisory panels.