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'CRIME-FREE<br />
COUNTRY?'<br />
Small business owners<br />
are furious after bloody<br />
robbery in Papatoetoe<br />
50-year-old Gurdeep Singh underwent a<br />
surgery after sustaining a fracture in the skull<br />
URJITA BHARDWAJ<br />
Small business owners livid after<br />
the bloody assault at a Kiwi-<strong>Indian</strong><br />
Papatoetoe jeweller are planning a big<br />
protest to express growing frustration over<br />
poor law and order.<br />
Teenage robbers forced their way into<br />
Pooja Jewellers on <strong>June</strong> 23, and pummelled<br />
its 50-year-old owner with a hammer before<br />
scooting off with gold.<br />
Three of them were arrested a few days<br />
later but anger over the violent assault<br />
is simmering in the south Auckland<br />
neighbourhood.<br />
“How can we save our family, our<br />
business,” Jagjeet Sidhu roared as he<br />
addressed an emergency meeting of at least<br />
40 small businesses in Papatoetoe on <strong>June</strong><br />
26. <strong>The</strong> general secretary of Auckland <strong>Indian</strong><br />
Retailers Association (AIRA), which called<br />
for the meeting, echoed a sentiment that<br />
hung over the meeting hall like dense fog on<br />
a cold winter morning.<br />
Lawyer Arunjeev Singh was among those<br />
present. “Offenders who indulge in these<br />
types of armed robberies… they<br />
need to be aware that there will<br />
be retaliation, or resistance,” he<br />
Pg5<br />
asserted.<br />
IN CINEMAS NOW
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LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW<br />
AUCKLANDERS QUALIFY FOR THE<br />
ENTRUST DIVIDEND<br />
Each year, Entrust makes an annual dividend<br />
payment to Aucklanders with a power account<br />
in the Entrust district.<br />
This year’s payment will be made in late<br />
September. To ensure that you receive your<br />
dividend, eligible beneficiaries within the<br />
Entrust District need to look out for their<br />
Entrust payment preference form, which is<br />
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What do I need to do?<br />
It’s as easy as checking your mailbox or email<br />
inbox for information from Entrust. Review<br />
the payment details showing on the form or<br />
email. If you need to fill in or change those<br />
details, just follow the instructions and return<br />
the information to Entrust by Friday 02 August<br />
<strong>2024</strong>.<br />
How do I update my payment details?<br />
Payment updates can be made on the printed<br />
form or via the secure web page at<br />
www.entrustnz.co.nz<br />
Details of how to use the secure web page are<br />
in the form or email sent out by Entrust.<br />
What are my payment options?<br />
When you receive your Entrust dividend<br />
payment form or email you can choose<br />
whether you want the September dividend<br />
payment credited to your bank account or<br />
your power account.<br />
What is the Entrust dividend?<br />
Entrust (formerly called the Auckland Energy<br />
Consumer Trust), is a private trust that<br />
owns the majority of Vector on behalf of its<br />
beneficiaries.<br />
Entrust owns 75.1% of shares in Vector<br />
which are held in trust for energy consumer<br />
beneficiaries in central, east, and south<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Entrust dividend is New Zealand’s largest<br />
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What is the Entrust District?<br />
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How do I know if I’ll get the dividend?<br />
You need to meet three conditions to be<br />
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What is the <strong>2024</strong> roll date?<br />
It is near the dividend payment date but for<br />
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When do I get my dividend?<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>2024</strong> Entrust dividend will be paid in late<br />
September to eligible Entrust beneficiaries.<br />
How much is the dividend this year?<br />
<strong>The</strong> dividend amount varies each year as<br />
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by Vector, of which Entrust is the majority<br />
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Check your mailbox or email inbox for your<br />
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If you are using the secure web page just<br />
follow the instruction on the form or email.<br />
You’ll need to have your ICP number handy.<br />
You can find that on your power bill.<br />
I have received my form or email and all<br />
details are correct, do I need to send it<br />
back?<br />
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you are filling in, updating or changing your<br />
payment details. So, if it’s all good, you don’t<br />
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I have received my form or email and<br />
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should I take?<br />
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are no payment details on your form or on the<br />
secure web page, then it is very important that<br />
you update those payment details. Without<br />
correct payment information we will not know<br />
how to pay you at dividend time and will have<br />
to send you another form at that time. That<br />
will cause delays in getting the money to you.<br />
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Read online www.iwk.co.nz Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
NEW ZEALAND 3<br />
Parent visas<br />
not coming<br />
this year.<br />
Here’s why<br />
<strong>Indian</strong><br />
<strong>Weekender</strong><br />
readers,<br />
RAVI BAJPAI<br />
If you were waiting for a longer-term<br />
parent visa, don’t hold your breath. It<br />
is not coming this year as officials say<br />
they have more pressing tasks at hand.<br />
RNZ has reported that Immigration<br />
Minister Erica Stanford has confirmed<br />
the government won’t start work on the<br />
project until next year.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were a range of immigration<br />
issues the government was dealing with<br />
to ensure the integrity of the country's<br />
border was maintained, RNZ quoted her<br />
saying.<br />
"Our key focus currently is ensuring<br />
the AEWV [Accredited Employer Work<br />
Visa] settings are right," Stanford<br />
said. "(However) the government has<br />
committed to introducing the five-year<br />
parent visa this term."<br />
Stanford’s announcement in April<br />
this year that she was looking at<br />
reforms to family visas this term raised<br />
hopes among New Zealand’s migrant<br />
communities.<br />
She also signalled she wants changes<br />
to the partnership visa policy, describing<br />
the culturally arranged marriage visa as<br />
not fit for purpose.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two main ruling coalition partners–<br />
National and ACT–had both waved the<br />
promise of a parent visa as they courted<br />
migrant communities in the national<br />
elections last year.<br />
For years, migrants-not just from Indiahave<br />
campaigned for a more relaxed<br />
visa regime that allows their parents to<br />
live with them for longer durations. <strong>The</strong><br />
current settings permit parents to visit<br />
only for short periods and impose a limit<br />
on how frequently they can visit New<br />
Zealand.<br />
In the months leading to the October<br />
2023 elections, those pleas seemed to<br />
have finally been heard. All the three<br />
main political parties–National, ACT and<br />
Labour–announced lucrative election<br />
promises on this front. <strong>The</strong> policies<br />
differed in specifics but were largely<br />
aimed at finding a longer-term solution<br />
for migrants’ parents.<br />
National said they would allow relatives<br />
to visit family members for five years,<br />
with the possibility of renewal for another<br />
five years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new ‘Parent Visa Boost’ would<br />
need to be sponsored by children or<br />
grandchildren, and applicants would need<br />
private health insurance among other<br />
conditions.<br />
ACT's proposal, titled ‘Unite Visa’,<br />
would enable relatives to visit family<br />
for up to five years at a time, provided<br />
they pay an annual $3,500 fee to cover<br />
potential health costs.<br />
Those promises were front and centre<br />
every time their leaders met with the<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> community during the election<br />
campaign. Fair to say the voters now<br />
deserve to know that promise is on track.<br />
"Our key focus<br />
currently is ensuring<br />
the AEWV [Accredited<br />
Employer Work<br />
Visa] settings are<br />
right. (However)<br />
the government<br />
has committed to<br />
introducing the<br />
five-year parent visa<br />
this term." Erica<br />
Stanford<br />
While you’re<br />
adding to<br />
your weekend<br />
plans, we’re<br />
adding better<br />
access to the<br />
city. That will<br />
make getting<br />
around town<br />
even easier,<br />
weekends or<br />
weekdays.
4<br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Luxon’s curious Instagram<br />
video after Papatoetoe robbery<br />
RAVI BAJPAI<br />
off public complaints of poor<br />
law and order by blaming his<br />
<strong>The</strong> public outrage following<br />
predecessors.<br />
the gruesome assault and<br />
He has been on the move the<br />
robbery at a Kiwi-<strong>Indian</strong><br />
last few weeks attending public<br />
jewellery store in Papatoetoe<br />
seems to have caught the prime<br />
minister’s attention.<br />
Christopher Luxon posted a<br />
video on social media yesterday,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 23, deriding violent robberies<br />
like the one at Pooja Jewellers two<br />
days back.<br />
<strong>The</strong> video begins with a<br />
split screen. On the top, Luxon<br />
meetings where small business<br />
owners have often asked him why<br />
crime hasn’t reduced under his<br />
watch.<br />
<strong>The</strong> police minister’s response<br />
has been consistent–the crime<br />
peak fuelled by the previous<br />
Labour government wouldn’t<br />
abate overnight. To be fair, that<br />
line of reasoning isn’t totally<br />
looks into his phone screen. On It’s no surprise then Luxon wants to show he cares–that he is not oblivious to people’s pain unreasonable.<br />
the other screen below, CCTV<br />
<strong>The</strong> government is pushing<br />
footage of last month’s robbery<br />
at Manurewa’s House of Gold<br />
jewellery store plays out.<br />
<strong>The</strong> prime minister nods his<br />
head a couple times–seemingly<br />
taking in the violent robbery–and<br />
then shakes his head before<br />
offenders.”<br />
As the video unfolds, the prime<br />
minister rattles off a list of steps<br />
his government is taking to stem<br />
the crime wave that has spread<br />
a reign of terror among small<br />
business owners.<br />
six months into a National-led<br />
government, Police Minister Mark<br />
Mitchell is continuing to fend<br />
for changes it promised to make<br />
the law tougher for criminals.<br />
Legislative changes take time, and<br />
even when they do change their<br />
impact is often seen over time.<br />
But in politics, public perception<br />
matters. It’s been six months<br />
keeping the phone down and<br />
Luxon appears to be using a<br />
“Our government said<br />
since Luxon’s government took<br />
staring into the camera.<br />
violent robbery that happened<br />
charge. People want to see<br />
“Look…this sort of thing has right under his watch to highlight<br />
that we would crack<br />
perceptible change. Brazen<br />
been happening for far too long his government’s stellar work in down on crime. We assaults like the ones at Pooja<br />
in New Zealand,” Luxon says with reducing crime.<br />
promised to restore Jewellers stoke the kind of<br />
a grim face before taking a rather Coming just two days after the<br />
frustration and fear that often<br />
law and order, and<br />
curious turn.<br />
Papatoetoe robbery that has riled<br />
leads to public discontent.<br />
“Our government said that retailers across the country–many that means there are It’s no surprise then Luxon<br />
we would crack down on crime. of them Kiwi-<strong>Indian</strong>s–the video’s serious consequences wants to show he cares–that he<br />
We promised to restore law and timing is conspicuous, to say the for serious<br />
is not oblivious to people’s pain.<br />
order, and that means there are least.<br />
That seems to be the trigger for<br />
offenders.”<br />
serious consequences for serious Some context is in order. About<br />
his latest video.<br />
'No sentence will<br />
ever bring Janak<br />
home': Inquiry head<br />
RNZ<br />
<strong>The</strong> man who murdered<br />
Auckland dairy worker<br />
Janak Patel has been<br />
sentenced to life imprisonment<br />
with a minimum non-parole period<br />
of 15 years.<br />
Frederick Hobson, who pleaded<br />
guilty to murder, and Shane<br />
Tane, who pleaded guilty to<br />
aggravated robbery, were both<br />
sentenced in the High Court in<br />
Auckland this morning.<br />
Hobson was sentenced to life<br />
imprisonment, with a non-parole<br />
period of 15 years, while Tane was<br />
sentenced to four years and six<br />
months' imprisonment.<br />
A third man - Henry Ford -<br />
had already been granted a stay<br />
of proceedings due to being<br />
terminally ill.<br />
Patel was stabbed to death<br />
while working at the Rose Cottage<br />
Superette in Sandringham, central<br />
Auckland in November 2022.<br />
Victim 'simply doing his<br />
job' - police<br />
After the sentencing Detective<br />
Inspector Geoff Baber said Patel<br />
had only arrived in Auckland a<br />
short time before his killing.<br />
He had been looking after the<br />
dairy for the owner.<br />
"He was simply doing his job and<br />
should not have been subjected to<br />
the violent events that unfolded<br />
that night.<br />
"While today's sentencing brings<br />
an end to court proceedings,<br />
Janak's family will live with his<br />
absence for the rest of their lives.<br />
"No sentence will ever bring<br />
Janak home."<br />
Police also acknowledged the<br />
wider Sandringham and retail<br />
communities.<br />
"Janak's murder had a profound<br />
impact on the Sandringham<br />
community given the superette's<br />
place in the neighbourhood,"<br />
Detective Inspector Baber said.<br />
"This community also played<br />
an important role in assisting our<br />
investigation team in the days and<br />
weeks following this incident, and<br />
I would like to acknowledge this<br />
support."<br />
He also praised the police's<br />
investigation team.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> team worked thoroughly<br />
to piece together the facts<br />
surrounding Janak's death, with<br />
his killer in custody within days,"<br />
he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir work resulted in the three<br />
offenders being charged and<br />
made to "face the consequences<br />
of their violent actions".<br />
An earlier court hearing was<br />
told Hobson planned to enter the<br />
superette, armed with a knife, to<br />
take cash and any other items he<br />
could manage.<br />
At about 8pm, he wore a black<br />
bandana covering half of his face,<br />
and ran into the dairy.<br />
He confronted Patel with the<br />
knife, causing him to flee into a<br />
back room.<br />
Auckland dairy worker Janak Patal was stabbed to death while working at the Rose Cottage<br />
Superette in Sandringham, central Auckland in November 2022<br />
Hobson took the cash register,<br />
as well as a box of butane<br />
lighters and vapes, before leaving<br />
the store.<br />
Patel ran after him, armed with<br />
a hockey stick from the back<br />
of the shop.<br />
Hobson put the cash register<br />
in a nearby recycling wheelie bin<br />
"This community also<br />
played an important<br />
role in assisting our<br />
investigation team in<br />
the days and weeks<br />
following this incident,<br />
and I would like to<br />
acknowledge this<br />
support." Geoff Baber<br />
as Patel approached, and went<br />
towards him aggressively, as Patel<br />
retreated swinging the hockey<br />
stick.<br />
Court documents revealed<br />
Hobson lunged at Patel and<br />
knocked him to the ground,<br />
stabbing him at least three times.<br />
Hobson tried to wrestle the<br />
hockey stick from Patel's grasp,<br />
stabbing him a further three times.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> final blow was to Mr Patel's<br />
neck, causing him to fall to the<br />
ground once again."<br />
Patel used the wheelie bin in an<br />
attempt to get away from Hobson,<br />
but collapsed after taking five<br />
steps back towards the dairy.<br />
Hobson collected the bin and<br />
left the scene.<br />
Patel's death sparked protests<br />
by dairy owners over the safety<br />
of small businesses, while more<br />
than $100,000 was raised for his<br />
family.<br />
Read online www.iwk.co.nz<br />
South Asian<br />
photographer<br />
exploring colour<br />
discrimination<br />
in NZ<br />
BLESSEN TOM/RNZ<br />
South Asian photographer<br />
Abhi Chinniah is turning<br />
heads in the country's fine<br />
arts scene with powerful and<br />
creative portrayals of the migrant<br />
and refugee experience.<br />
Her curated photographic<br />
collection graced the lobbies of<br />
prominent buildings on Auckland's<br />
waterfront - including PwC Tower,<br />
HSBC Tower, Aon Centre, Jarden<br />
House and Deloitte Centre - as<br />
part of the Auckland Festival<br />
of Photography <strong>2024</strong>, which<br />
ran through <strong>June</strong> 13. "It's really<br />
meaningful to have all these<br />
faces in these spaces for people<br />
to see," said Chinniah, standing<br />
near her collection in the lobby of<br />
Auckland's PwC Tower. "<strong>The</strong>y're<br />
more than photos to me because<br />
they're all people with incredible<br />
stories."<br />
A self-taught portrait<br />
photographer, 32-year-old<br />
Chinniah's journey began at the<br />
age of 13. Her father gifted her a<br />
Sony point-and-shoot camera<br />
to capture Rotary Club events<br />
in eastern Malaysia, where her<br />
parents were active members.<br />
"That camera ended up<br />
becoming mine," she recalled. "I'd<br />
take photographs of my friends,<br />
dressing them up in whatever<br />
outfits I had at home."<br />
Born in Christchurch to Sri<br />
Lankan Tamil Malaysian parents,<br />
Chinniah's family moved back<br />
to Malaysia in 1998 when she<br />
was six. She grew up in eastern<br />
Malaysia before returning to New<br />
Zealand as a teenager in 2010.<br />
It wasn't until 2016 that Chinniah<br />
picked up a camera again.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> company I was working for<br />
needed some product shots, and<br />
it kind of just went from there,"<br />
said Chinniah, who was working in<br />
marketing at the time.<br />
"I realized that being away from<br />
my family gave me the freedom to<br />
pursue art, without anyone telling<br />
me I had to be a lawyer or an<br />
accountant."<br />
However, her artistic journey<br />
hasn't been without challenges.<br />
"During Covid, I was made<br />
redundant from my job and<br />
photography costs a lot," she said.<br />
"But I always say that I made this<br />
choice because I love doing it."<br />
Chinniah's first encounter with<br />
colourism came on a trip abroad.<br />
"At dinner, there were comments<br />
about my skin colour," she<br />
recalled. "I was the only darkskinned<br />
person at the table, and<br />
that comment stuck with me."<br />
This experience inspired her<br />
first photo essay, Light Skinned,<br />
Dark Skinned. She highlighted<br />
the pervasive influence of skin<br />
whitening products in the South<br />
Asian community, recounting<br />
how advertisements during her<br />
childhood in Christchurch made<br />
her yearn for lighter skin.<br />
"I would watch those ads and<br />
think, 'I want to be that lightskinned<br />
person'," she said. "I<br />
genuinely believed that using<br />
those creams would make me look<br />
like the woman on the box."
Read online www.iwk.co.nz Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
NEW ZEALAND 5<br />
Papatoetoe assault was teen's<br />
4th robbery this month<br />
Auckland <strong>Indian</strong> Retailers Association (AIRA) called for a meeting on <strong>June</strong> 26<br />
‘How can we save our<br />
family, businesses’<br />
• Continued from Page 1<br />
Singh's statement pertained<br />
to a sentiment that has been<br />
simmering for years but has<br />
only grown following this week’s<br />
gruesome attack at Pooja<br />
Jewellers–self-defence and<br />
vigilance.<br />
"Is it a crime-free country?," one<br />
of the retailers said.<br />
“We should create WhatsApp<br />
groups to send out alerts<br />
whenever we spot anything<br />
suspicious,” a panellist suggested.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gathering agreed on using<br />
social media as a tool to "spot<br />
and report" to ensure the safety of<br />
business owners.<br />
“We need more streetlights and<br />
CCTV installations in the streets…<br />
more police patrolling the area,”<br />
said one of the retailers present.<br />
“We should train our staff to strike<br />
back with force,” another argued.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panellists suggested the<br />
idea of organising a protest next<br />
week. No dates were discussed<br />
but the retailers seemed quite<br />
warm to the idea of sending a<br />
message to the government.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel, consisting of<br />
Rajesh Goel, president of AIRA,<br />
Arunjeev Singh, and Jagjeet Sidhu<br />
emphasised that the New Zealand<br />
Police should not be blamed.<br />
“It is the New Zealand judicial<br />
system that has loopholes. <strong>The</strong><br />
New Zealand Police are merely<br />
following a manual given to them,”<br />
said Singh.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel and business owners<br />
also shared their concerns about<br />
the rising crime rates in Auckland,<br />
particularly in retail and business<br />
areas. <strong>The</strong>y emphasised that the<br />
only way forward is “to establish<br />
a deterrent and not rehabilitation”<br />
for offenders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> brother of Gurdeep Singh,<br />
who sustained a fracture in his<br />
skull while resisting the robbery at<br />
Pooja Jewellers, said the 50-yearold<br />
was back home after his<br />
surgery.<br />
“Doctors have suggested ample<br />
rest and we need your love and<br />
prayers for his speedy recovery,”<br />
Kuldeep Singh said.<br />
RAVI BAJPAI<br />
One of the teenagers arrested<br />
for the bloody assault at a<br />
Papatoetoe jeweller over<br />
the weekend was on a robbery<br />
spree this month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 15-year-old was among a<br />
group of robbers who forced their<br />
way into Pooja Jewellers on <strong>June</strong><br />
23 and pummelled the owner’s<br />
head with a hammer, inflicting a<br />
fracture in his skull.<br />
Police say the youngster was<br />
involved in two aggravated<br />
robberies and an aggravated<br />
burglary this month.<br />
According to NZ Police, the<br />
youngster carried out two<br />
robberies in Mount Roskill and<br />
one in Sandringham just this<br />
month. Two of these happened<br />
on successive days–<strong>June</strong> 14 and<br />
<strong>June</strong> 15.<br />
Detective Inspector Karen Bright<br />
says investigators’ work has<br />
finished and “further arrests are<br />
likely.<br />
“We understand how distressing<br />
incidents like these are for victims<br />
and we hope these arrests will<br />
help provide reassurance to both<br />
the victims in this case and to the<br />
community,” Bright says.<br />
Two other teenagers–aged 14<br />
and 16–were also arrested for<br />
the robbery. <strong>The</strong> eldest one has<br />
been charged with swinging the<br />
hammer and injuring 50-year-old<br />
Gurdeep Singh, who has already<br />
undergone a surgery.<br />
In a statement on Tuesday, police<br />
said multiple search warrants were<br />
executed across Tāmaki Makaurau<br />
the last few days, leading to the<br />
capture of the suspects linked to a<br />
string of aggravated robberies this<br />
month.<br />
"Four arrests have been made<br />
over five aggravated robberies at<br />
various businesses this month,"<br />
police said.<br />
Detective Inspector Bright says<br />
five search warrants were carried<br />
out in central, south and west<br />
Auckland on Tuesday.<br />
"Today’s action is a result of<br />
astute detective work over recent<br />
days and weeks," she said. "We<br />
have laid charges against three<br />
males for the aggravated robbery<br />
on Sunday evening, and inquiries<br />
are continuing into outstanding<br />
offenders."<br />
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More bad news<br />
for low-skill<br />
migrant workers<br />
RAVI BAJPAI<br />
Low-skilled migrants hoping<br />
to work in New Zealand<br />
were dealt another blow on<br />
Wednesday with the government<br />
taking more joy out of the<br />
proposition.<br />
Most people who land a job in<br />
ANZSCO level 4 or 5 occupations–<br />
the official classification for lowskill<br />
work–are no longer allowed<br />
to bring in their families with them.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se include roles like<br />
hospitality workers, bus and truck<br />
drivers, supervisors, fast-food<br />
cooks, labourers, kitchen hands,<br />
cleaners, factory workers, etc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new rules follow a<br />
slew of restrictions the<br />
government announced last<br />
month that have already made<br />
it difficult for low-skill overseas<br />
workers to find jobs in New<br />
Zealand.<br />
Immigration New Zealand (INZ)<br />
says starting <strong>June</strong> 26, <strong>2024</strong>, those<br />
RNZ<br />
A<br />
Kiwi-<strong>Indian</strong> Harvard<br />
graduate once vying for<br />
the title of New Zealand's<br />
smartest teen claims to have<br />
harnessed artificial intelligence<br />
to fully automate the process of<br />
creating video for social media.<br />
Soumil Singh founded a<br />
platform called Unfaze.ai, which<br />
used AI to create video content for<br />
individuals and brands.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company had received<br />
financial support from several<br />
investment funds, including Y<br />
Combinator, Hack VC, Soma<br />
Capital and Pioneer Fund.<br />
New York-based Singh, who<br />
studied applied mathematics and<br />
computer science at Harvard, said<br />
that while the engagement rate on<br />
TikTok was 93 percent higher than<br />
other social media networks, the<br />
need to create a large volume of<br />
fresh content was often resourceintensive<br />
and cost prohibitive.<br />
"This creates an access barrier<br />
for many New Zealand content<br />
creators, influencers and SMEs,"<br />
Singh said.<br />
"While the production of a single<br />
video could take an agency weeks<br />
to complete and cost thousands<br />
of dollars, recent advances in<br />
machine learning have now<br />
made it possible for content<br />
creators to simply 'instruct' the<br />
artificial intelligence to produce<br />
video content to meet their<br />
specifications.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> cost of a campaign [on<br />
social media] is centred in the<br />
production of each piece of<br />
in these low-skill jobs without a<br />
pathway to residency won’t be<br />
allowed to support work, visitor or<br />
student visa applications for their<br />
partners and dependent children.<br />
<strong>The</strong> family members are still<br />
allowed to apply for an independent<br />
visa on their own merit if they<br />
qualify for it, an immigration<br />
official says.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> government has made this<br />
change to align with the broader<br />
suite of changes to the AEWV<br />
[Accredited Employer Work Visa]<br />
scheme earlier this year, and<br />
returns the settings to similar ones<br />
under the previous Essential Skills<br />
Work Visa,” read an INZ press<br />
release on Wednesday.<br />
Erica Stanford has made no<br />
bones about her displeasure<br />
with the AEWV scheme letting in<br />
thousands of low-skill migrants in<br />
jobs that she feels could have been<br />
filled by locals.<br />
While announcing the first lot<br />
of restrictions last month, the<br />
content. To produce an effective<br />
result requires multiple different<br />
versions to be tested and, even<br />
then, the video can't be reused<br />
indefinitely.<br />
"This is one of the reasons<br />
many companies may not even<br />
have a short-form video content<br />
strategy and rely on paid media<br />
ad platforms."<br />
Singh said New Zealand<br />
businesses on low budgets<br />
benefitted from being able to use<br />
AI to remove this obstacle.<br />
"We believe this technology has<br />
the potential to be transformative<br />
immigration minister said the rules<br />
are being changed largely to make<br />
sure New Zealanders get priority<br />
when it comes to jobs that are not<br />
in the skills shortage category.<br />
<strong>The</strong> changes announced last<br />
month included a new English<br />
threshold, meaning applicants<br />
now need to score at least Band 4<br />
in IELTS, or equivalent in PTE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new provisions also require<br />
the government to first verify that<br />
none of the unemployed locals<br />
qualify for the role, and that<br />
employers will need to advertise<br />
the job vacancy for an extra week.<br />
If low-skill workers do make it<br />
through these settings, they can<br />
work only up to two years, and a<br />
third year if their employers take a<br />
fresh Job Check.<br />
Vandana Rai of Immigration<br />
Advisers New Zealand Limited<br />
points out the latest adjustment<br />
does not impact individuals<br />
currently holding visas as<br />
partners or dependents of AEWV<br />
Kiwi-<strong>Indian</strong> develops AI tech to<br />
create short-form video content<br />
Soumil Singh is a graduate of Harvard University. Photo: Supplied<br />
"This is one of<br />
the reasons many<br />
companies may not<br />
even have a short-form<br />
video content strategy<br />
and rely on paid media<br />
ad platforms."<br />
for thousands of SMEs around<br />
the world, providing them almost<br />
unlimited access to video content<br />
which they can use to market their<br />
products," he said.<br />
Singh said the platform had<br />
raised $5.5 million and was<br />
using the funds to further the<br />
development of the technology<br />
and support the video creation<br />
software launch in July on its<br />
existing online platform.<br />
He said the research would<br />
bring it closer to the production<br />
of AI-generated videos that were<br />
indistinguishable from manually<br />
created content.<br />
"While the current technology<br />
version can produce entertaining<br />
content for individual creators,<br />
a new suite of features set to<br />
launch in the coming weeks will<br />
make it the first platform to allow<br />
a company to create images<br />
of their products with multiple<br />
backgrounds using generative AI<br />
models and then convert these<br />
images into the creation of shortform<br />
video content," he said.<br />
holders, and ongoing applications<br />
submitted by partners or<br />
dependents before <strong>June</strong> 26 will be<br />
assessed based on the regulations<br />
in place at the time of application.<br />
"Furthermore, AEWV holders in<br />
ANZSCO level 4 or 5 roles with a<br />
"It is crucial to consider<br />
whether these changes<br />
strike the right balance<br />
between maintaining<br />
immigration standards<br />
and supporting the<br />
needs of New<br />
Zealand's labour market<br />
and communities."<br />
Vandana Rai<br />
RNZ<br />
A<br />
57-year-old man has been<br />
arrested after pretending<br />
to be injured on the East<br />
Tāmaki overbridge on Auckland's<br />
Southern Motorway.<br />
Emergency services were called<br />
to reports of a man who appeared<br />
injured at about 7.46 am on<br />
Monday.<br />
Police arrived to find the man<br />
"who was pretending to be injured<br />
as part of what we can only<br />
describe as reckless behaviour<br />
in an attempt to gain publicity",<br />
Inspector Danny Meade said.<br />
"Emergency services from<br />
across Tāmaki Makaurau have<br />
been put in a situation where<br />
considerable time and resources<br />
were tied up as we dealt with<br />
residency pathway, such as those<br />
on the Green List or a Sector<br />
Agreement, or earning at least<br />
1.5 times the relevant median<br />
wage, are exempt from these<br />
changes. Similarly, AEWV holders<br />
in ANZSCO level 1, 2, or 3 roles<br />
remain unaffected."<br />
She adds while there are<br />
arguments supporting the change<br />
in policy, the practical implications<br />
for workers and their families<br />
cannot be ignored.<br />
"It is crucial to consider whether<br />
these changes strike the right<br />
balance between maintaining<br />
immigration standards and<br />
supporting the needs of New<br />
Zealand's labour market and<br />
communities.<br />
"Additionally, these modifications<br />
are poised to discourage skilled<br />
professionals from taking up roles<br />
in ANZSCO level 4 and 5 positions,<br />
further burdening NZ employers<br />
already grappling with a myriad of<br />
HR challenges."<br />
'Reckless': Man pretending to be<br />
injured on motorway arrested<br />
this incident, not to mention the<br />
inconvenience to the public due to<br />
the lane closures involved.<br />
"This was a significant and<br />
unnecessary incident that in no<br />
doubt, will have impacted many<br />
people over the disturbing sight.<br />
"It is also incredibly lucky this<br />
man's reckless actions did not<br />
cause injury to himself or any<br />
other road users."<br />
Man behind stunt claims it<br />
was to raise suicide prevention<br />
awareness in New Zealand.<br />
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were temporarily blocked as<br />
emergency services responded,<br />
causing delays.<br />
Traffic was unusually heavy<br />
during peak-hour as a result.<br />
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Manu, Moana,<br />
Whenua: Queen<br />
St illuminated in<br />
cultural light<br />
Bhartiya Samaj Charitable<br />
Trust hosts Matariki festival<br />
IWK BUREAU<br />
Tāmaki Makaurau, known<br />
for its prominent display<br />
of te ao Māori in urban<br />
landscapes worldwide, is gearing<br />
up for its grandest Matariki<br />
celebration yet.<br />
Matariki ki te Manawa (at<br />
the heart) presents a 20-day<br />
calendar of wonder and wānanga<br />
(learning), brought to you by<br />
Auckland Council and backed by<br />
the city centre targeted rate as a<br />
key part of the Matariki Festival.<br />
An experience that every Kiwi<br />
will relish is Tūrama, the beloved<br />
series of large-scale illuminated<br />
art installations, has returned to<br />
Queen Street from Sunday, 9 <strong>June</strong><br />
to Sunday, 4 August.<br />
This enchanting event will<br />
transform the heart of Auckland,<br />
inviting you to rediscover the<br />
Waihorotiu valley and imagine its<br />
appearance and atmosphere from<br />
centuries past.<br />
Tūrama is a creative<br />
collaboration featuring the talents<br />
of artists Graham Tipene (Ngāti<br />
Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti<br />
Hine, Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Manu),<br />
Ataahua Papa (Ngāti Korokī<br />
Kahukura, Ngāti Mahuta), and<br />
Angus Muir Design.<br />
<strong>The</strong> project is overseen by<br />
Auckland Council's city centre<br />
Tūrama Kaitiaki, Aotea Square<br />
place activation principal, Barbara<br />
Holloway.<br />
This year’s event is proudly<br />
brought to the city centre by Ngāti<br />
Whātua Ōrākei and Te Kaunihera<br />
o Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland<br />
Council), with support from the<br />
city centre targeted rate.<br />
Tūrama promises to be a<br />
captivating experience for all<br />
Aucklanders, highlighting the<br />
rich cultural heritage and natural<br />
beauty of the region through<br />
stunning light displays inspired<br />
by birds (manu), the sea (moana),<br />
and the land (whenua).<br />
IWK BUREAU<br />
On <strong>June</strong> 22, <strong>2024</strong>, the<br />
Bhartiya Samaj Charitable<br />
Trust hosted a vibrant<br />
celebration of the Matariki<br />
Festival at the Mount Roskill War<br />
Memorial Hall. <strong>The</strong> event drew<br />
over 200 attendees, including<br />
seniors, dignitaries, Members of<br />
Parliament, Dr. Carlos Cheung,<br />
Patron and Auckland Council<br />
Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board<br />
member Dr. Ashraf Chaudhary<br />
QSO JP, Jessica Phuang, Ethnic<br />
Responsiveness Manager for<br />
NZ Police, and community<br />
leaders representing various<br />
organisations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> festivities started with a<br />
heartwarming performance by<br />
Bhartiya Samaj school children,<br />
who captivated the audience<br />
with their cultural displays. <strong>The</strong><br />
children also delivered speeches<br />
that highlighted the importance<br />
of Matariki and its significance<br />
in Māori culture. <strong>The</strong>ir insights<br />
into the traditions and customs<br />
associated with Matariki enthralled<br />
the audience.<br />
A standout moment was the<br />
mesmerising performance by a<br />
Māori Kapa Haka group. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
powerful presentation of traditional<br />
Māori songs and dances left the<br />
audience in awe and added an<br />
authentic touch to the celebration.<br />
<strong>The</strong> day was filled with joy and<br />
camaraderie as attendees engaged<br />
with one another and participated<br />
in various cultural activities.<br />
Overall, the celebration was<br />
a resounding success, leaving<br />
a lasting impression on all who<br />
attended.<br />
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importance of cultural diversity<br />
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International yoga day celebrated<br />
at heritage centre in Rotorua<br />
IWK BUREAU<br />
<strong>The</strong> 10th International Day of<br />
Yoga was a vibrant affair at<br />
the Hindu Heritage Centre<br />
in Rotorua, collaborating with the<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> High Commission to New<br />
Zealand on Saturday, 22 <strong>June</strong><br />
<strong>2024</strong>. <strong>The</strong>med "Yoga for Self and<br />
Society," the event highlighted<br />
yoga's dual benefits for individuals<br />
and communities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> celebration united<br />
participants from diverse<br />
backgrounds, including Maori,<br />
Italian, German, American,<br />
Spanish, South African, <strong>Indian</strong>, and<br />
Fijian communities, showcasing<br />
yoga's unifying power. Part of the<br />
Health for Humanity Yogathon, the<br />
event aimed to inspire everyone to<br />
incorporate yoga into their daily<br />
lives.<br />
Featuring Surya Namaskars,<br />
various yoga practices, meditation,<br />
mantra chanting, and talks by<br />
experts, the event emphasised<br />
yoga's holistic benefits. Led by<br />
renowned Yogacharya Ma Ananda<br />
Kalaadevi, the session was<br />
both impactful and memorable,<br />
inspiring attendees to practice<br />
yoga at home, in schools, and at<br />
workplaces.<br />
Expressing her delight at<br />
the community’s enthusiastic<br />
participation, Ma Ananda<br />
Kalaadevi remarked, “This<br />
International Day of Yoga<br />
programme created a wonderful<br />
opportunity for people to explore<br />
the connections between body,<br />
mind, and soul.<br />
<strong>The</strong> turnout and engagement<br />
we saw, especially at the Hindu<br />
Heritage Centre, were truly<br />
heartening.”<br />
Dr. Guna Magesan, President<br />
of the Hindu Council of New<br />
Zealand, expressed gratitude for<br />
the enthusiastic participation and<br />
announced the upcoming New<br />
Zealand Hindu Elders Conference<br />
on September <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
Participants are encouraged to<br />
share their yoga experiences and<br />
Sun Salutation counts on social<br />
media using #YogathonNZ. <strong>The</strong><br />
Hindu Council of New Zealand<br />
looks forward to continuing this<br />
journey of health and humanity in<br />
the future.<br />
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Missing <strong>Indian</strong><br />
man from <strong>The</strong><br />
Gap still not found<br />
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Despite extensive search<br />
efforts, one of the two<br />
fishermen who went<br />
missing at <strong>The</strong> Gap near Taiharuru<br />
before midnight on 1 May remains<br />
missing; a New Zealand police<br />
spokesperson told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Indian</strong><br />
<strong>Weekender</strong>. <strong>The</strong> man believed to<br />
be missing is 34-year-old Ferzil<br />
Babu.<br />
His friend and fishing partner,<br />
37-year-old Sarath Kumar<br />
Sasidharan Nair, was found<br />
deceased by the Police National<br />
Dive Squad on 3 May.<br />
"His death has been referred to<br />
the Coroner."<br />
<strong>The</strong> duo was fishing at<br />
Taiharuru, Whangārei Heads,<br />
at a spot known as <strong>The</strong> Gap.<br />
Emergency services were alerted<br />
around midnight after the pair<br />
failed to return home by 11 p.m.<br />
as expected.<br />
"Despite extensive search<br />
efforts, the man has not yet been<br />
located," spokesperson noted.<br />
Kumar, a registered nurse<br />
in the Whangārei Emergency<br />
Department, had only been living<br />
in Whangārei for two months after<br />
migrating to New Zealand in late<br />
2023.<br />
He leaves behind a wife and a<br />
5-year-old daughter.<br />
Babu moved to New Zealand<br />
after marrying his wife in January<br />
2023. <strong>The</strong> couple welcomed a son<br />
six months ago.<br />
he families of the deceased<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> are grateful for the support<br />
and efforts of the police and<br />
search and rescue teams. A police<br />
liaison officer has constantly<br />
touched the association and the<br />
families.<br />
"Our thoughts remain with both<br />
men’s families as they continue<br />
to deal with the loss following this<br />
tragic incident," the police said.
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How food<br />
waste is<br />
baked into<br />
daily life<br />
About 40 per cent of food is wasted globally, and New Zealand is not doing much better. File photo<br />
ELOISE GIBSON/RNZ<br />
About 40 per cent of food is<br />
wasted globally, and New<br />
Zealand is not doing much<br />
better.<br />
A lot of food waste happens<br />
before it gets to consumers, a new<br />
report on the problem has found.<br />
About 40 percent of food is<br />
wasted globally, and the prime<br />
minister's chief science adviser<br />
Dame Juliet Gerrard - whose<br />
office wrote the report - says there<br />
is no evidence Aotearoa is doing<br />
any better.<br />
She says while there is a lot<br />
individual shoppers can do to<br />
help, a lot of waste is beyond their<br />
control.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report said preventing food<br />
loss and waste at source had the<br />
greatest potential benefits, while<br />
narrowly focussing on household<br />
decisions could only solve part of<br />
the problem.<br />
About a third of food loss<br />
happens in homes, according to<br />
Australian estimates.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report recommended<br />
setting a target of halving food<br />
loss and waste by 2030.<br />
Gerrard said there were changes<br />
available at every step of the<br />
process.<br />
"If you are [a farmer] supplying<br />
a major retailer, you sign up<br />
to a particular agreement to<br />
say you'll supply a certain<br />
amount of produce to particular<br />
specification. You don't want to<br />
be in breach [so] to meet those<br />
terms, there's a huge incentive to<br />
overproduce," Gerrard said.<br />
"If you're [a shopper] going to<br />
the supermarket and there's a<br />
three-for-the-price-of-one special<br />
you might buy it. That takes the<br />
food waste off the books for the<br />
supermarket, but doesn't stop the<br />
food being wasted if it just sits at<br />
the back of your fridge."<br />
"So much of it is out of the<br />
consumer or eater's control and<br />
this report lays that out," said<br />
Kaitlin Dawson, executive director<br />
of NZ Food Waste Champions,<br />
who helped launch the report.<br />
But Dawson said customers had<br />
a part to play, too - for example,<br />
rejecting slightly damaged<br />
produce or only taking the newest<br />
items.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> most wasted item in New<br />
Zealand is bread, but not just at<br />
the household level. How full are<br />
the bread shelves at your local<br />
supermarket?<br />
<strong>The</strong>y keep them pretty stocked<br />
because that's what we expect<br />
and... there's often a lot of<br />
wastage at the end of the day."<br />
Packaging large quantities of<br />
food together could encourage<br />
waste, she said, as could 'best<br />
before' dates, which put people<br />
off selecting items that were still<br />
perfectly edible.<br />
Another of the report's<br />
recommendations was food<br />
sectors - such as bread or<br />
tomatoes - getting together to<br />
tackle waste all along the chain,<br />
which Dawson said had worked<br />
effectively overseas.<br />
She said overseas experience<br />
had shown voluntary business<br />
groups could lead the way, but at<br />
some point that reached a limit<br />
and government regulation was<br />
needed.<br />
'So much more we could do'<br />
At Fair Food's warehouse in<br />
the Auckland suburb of Avondale,<br />
trucks arrive carrying bread,<br />
eggs, milk and produce from<br />
supermarkets, all of it edible but<br />
unsellable because it is damaged,<br />
surplus or nearing its 'best before'<br />
date.<br />
A lot of it is bread or bananas.<br />
When RNZ visited, senior driver<br />
Vasene Pua was unloading box<br />
after box of bananas, which he<br />
said were perfectly fine but had<br />
been sent by a local Countdown<br />
because they were unlikely to sell.<br />
Manager Michelle Blau was<br />
overseeing rows of volunteers,<br />
who were hand-sorting items from<br />
the trucks into food fit for fresh<br />
food parcels, which would go to<br />
hungry people; lightly damaged<br />
items like soft carrots or bruised<br />
tomatoes, which would be cooked<br />
by chefs into a curry; and food<br />
unfit for humans, which would go<br />
to piggeries.<br />
She said more bananas arrive<br />
each day than they can give away<br />
- bananas are "highly cosmetic"<br />
and susceptible to being rejected<br />
by shoppers for minor blemishes,<br />
she said, plus they are imported to<br />
New Zealand in bulk.<br />
Fair Food has struck a<br />
partnership with an ice-cream<br />
company to make banoffeeflavoured<br />
ice-cream and sell it to<br />
fundraise for the organisation, she<br />
said.<br />
Bread was sorted at the<br />
supermarket pick-up point before<br />
the drivers pick it up, then its put<br />
into one of three bread bins at<br />
the Fair Food depot: called Fat<br />
Breadies Drop, Breadie Mercury<br />
and Ziggy Starcrust. All the<br />
working parts of the warehouse<br />
have names, Blau said.<br />
"Last week we shared 13,973<br />
kilos of food with people and 1165<br />
kilos went to our local pig farmers,<br />
and when you add that up it's 37<br />
tonnes of emissions saved," she<br />
said.<br />
"I actually give a lot of credit to<br />
the supermarkets because they<br />
have a choice about partnering<br />
with us.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y really do the right thing<br />
and think ahead and think, if no<br />
one's going to buy that let's pull<br />
it off the shelf now while it's still<br />
good."<br />
Blau said food rescue centres<br />
could do "so much more" if they<br />
had better resourcing, for example<br />
reducing waste from the 90<br />
percent of New Zealand's food<br />
production made for export. This<br />
food might be rejected if turns out<br />
less-than-perfect, but be perfectly<br />
edible, she said.<br />
"It's one thing for something to<br />
have an export value and be sold<br />
around the world, it's another to<br />
say, is this good food for people?".<br />
Dawson said current levels<br />
of waste are a problem, given<br />
15-20 percent of New Zealanders<br />
don't always have enough to eat,<br />
despite enough food being grown<br />
to feed them.<br />
It was also a problem for<br />
curbing climate change.<br />
About four percent of New<br />
Zealand's planet heating<br />
emissions are from food breaking<br />
down in landfill, creating methane,<br />
a potent warmer. That does not<br />
count the wasted emissions from<br />
producing uneaten food in the first<br />
place.<br />
"Every single stage of that<br />
item of food being grown,<br />
packed, picked, manufactured,<br />
transported, put on our shelves..<br />
.if we then waste that food, all<br />
of those emissions are wasted,"<br />
Dawson said.<br />
She said some waste happens<br />
at farm level - such as if a glut<br />
meant broccoli prices dropped so<br />
much that it was cheaper to let<br />
the vegetables rot, than to harvest<br />
and sell them.<br />
But growers are too busy to find<br />
ways to use the surplus, so they<br />
need help identifying options such<br />
as food charities, juicing, powders<br />
or other avenues, Blau said.<br />
Gerrard added that not only<br />
does growing and wasting<br />
food create planet-heating<br />
emissions, climate change itself is<br />
contributing to food waste.<br />
For example, climate changefuelled<br />
cyclones have devastated<br />
food growing regions, or broken<br />
supply chains leading to gluts of<br />
food like kiwifruit.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report concluded solving<br />
the problem would require a coordinated<br />
approach.<br />
But Dawson had one small tip<br />
anyone try do in the meantime -<br />
she puts half of every loaf of bread<br />
in the freezer as soon as<br />
she buys it.<br />
Auckland sees surge in new homes being built<br />
MELANIE EARLEY/RNZ<br />
Close to 65,000 homes have<br />
been built in the Auckland<br />
region since 2018, last<br />
year's Census data shows,<br />
outpacing population growth for<br />
the first time in decades.<br />
Census 2023 data showed<br />
between 2018 and 2023, 64,800<br />
new homes were built in Auckland.<br />
Auckland Council said that was<br />
due to the introduction of the<br />
Auckland Unitary Plan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plan was a guide for the use<br />
of Auckland's resources, including<br />
land development, and dictates<br />
what can be built and where.<br />
Auckland Council chief<br />
economist Gary Blick said the<br />
plan had made changes to boost<br />
housing capacity in the region.<br />
<strong>The</strong> data showed there had<br />
been an 11.9 percent increase in<br />
new homes since 2018, while the<br />
population had increased by 5.4<br />
percent.<br />
"Even after recovering from the<br />
pandemic-related population loss<br />
over 2020 to 2022, this confirms<br />
what we've seen in building<br />
consent data and population<br />
estimates - Auckland has built<br />
a lot of homes in recent years<br />
relative to its population growth,"<br />
Blick said.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> new census results are<br />
also consistent with University of<br />
Auckland research, showing that<br />
the Unitary Plan has led to more<br />
housing choice and more new<br />
homes than would otherwise have<br />
been the case."<br />
<strong>The</strong> surge in new houses had<br />
"helped" housing afforability, Blick<br />
said, but he noted that housing<br />
in Auckland was still expensive<br />
relative to incomes.<br />
Census data had also shown<br />
Auckland had the highest growth<br />
in new housing in New Zealand,<br />
far surpassing any other region.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next closest was Canterbury<br />
with almost 26,000 new homes<br />
being built.
Read online www.iwk.co.nz Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
NEW ZEALAND 11<br />
<strong>The</strong> true measure of strength<br />
ANANDITAA<br />
In a world fueled by unceasing<br />
ambition, strength is often<br />
narrowly defined as physical<br />
supremacy and quantifiable feats.<br />
Nations vie for dominance<br />
through economic leverage,<br />
military prowess, and the<br />
dissemination of information and<br />
disinformation. Modern man’s<br />
relentless quest for growth and<br />
dominance has drained the<br />
very resources that sustain life;<br />
and economic progress has, in<br />
many ways, resulted in moral<br />
and ethical regression. <strong>The</strong><br />
Amazon rainforest, often called<br />
the "lungs of the Earth," is being<br />
depleted for cattle ranching and<br />
soy cultivation. Oceans, once<br />
brimming with life, are now<br />
polluted and overfished, with<br />
species like the Atlantic cod nearly<br />
driven to extinction. Meanwhile,<br />
industrial pollution has rendered<br />
air in cities like Beijing and Delhi<br />
almost unbreathable.<br />
Trophy hunting, a prominent<br />
industry in countries like South<br />
Africa, where participants pay<br />
thousands of dollars for the<br />
grotesque spectacle of killing<br />
majestic creatures including lions,<br />
elephants, and giraffes—often<br />
bred specifically for this purpose—<br />
generates approximately $744<br />
million annually.<br />
This indulgence stands as<br />
a stark contrast to traditional<br />
sustenance hunting that once<br />
maintained ecological balance;<br />
it reflects vanity and a distorted<br />
notion of power.<br />
Deeply rooted in the ancient<br />
traditions of the <strong>Indian</strong><br />
subcontinent, Hinduism ascribes a<br />
sacred status to animals believing<br />
them to be vital to life's harmony.<br />
Cows are worshipped, snakes<br />
revered, and even the humblest<br />
creatures are considered<br />
manifestations of the divine.<br />
Across diverse spiritual cultures,<br />
whether one turns to the sacred<br />
verses of the Bible or the profound<br />
teachings of Buddhism and Islam,<br />
there is a common emphasis on<br />
the interconnectedness of treating<br />
animals with kindness and the<br />
impact it has on personal integrity<br />
and growth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quran teaches that animals<br />
are creatures of God and should<br />
be treated with respect, while the<br />
Book of Genesis urges responsible<br />
stewardship of animals.<br />
Yet, even in countries like India,<br />
modern pressures erode these<br />
ancient and ethical foundations.<br />
Urbanisation, industrialisation,<br />
and burgeoning population<br />
growth have led to increased<br />
human-animal conflicts and<br />
habitat destruction, challenging<br />
the preservation of values and<br />
consequently life.<br />
<strong>The</strong> soul of a society is reflected<br />
in how it preserves the sanctity<br />
of all lives and nurtures its most<br />
vulnerable members, including the<br />
voiceless animals that share its<br />
land.<br />
Compassion towards animals is<br />
more than just an act of kindness,<br />
it stands as a testament to an<br />
overarching responsibility towards<br />
all living beings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> moral fibre of a nation<br />
forms the truest gauge of its<br />
strength, its greatness. And it<br />
transcends all tangible metrics, to<br />
something subtle yet significant;<br />
its heart.<br />
We live in a world where<br />
we are more connected and<br />
aware than ever before. While<br />
navigating this complex world, we<br />
often find ourselves conflicted,<br />
often overshadowing ethical<br />
considerations and many a<br />
time, reverting to our roots, all<br />
while being more informed and<br />
conscious of global issues. We<br />
need to ask ourselves, how we<br />
can leverage this awareness for<br />
the growth of a unified human<br />
community and what values will<br />
define our legacy.<br />
True knowledge and spiritual<br />
wisdom enable us to see beyond<br />
societal status or physical<br />
differences, viewing all living<br />
beings with the same level of<br />
understanding, and recognising<br />
the inherent worth and dignity of<br />
every being.<br />
<strong>The</strong> way we treat each other<br />
and the most vulnerable among<br />
us—humans and animals alike—<br />
reflects our collective character.<br />
It is the kindness we extend<br />
to those who cannot speak for<br />
themselves, the compassion<br />
we show to the most vulnerable<br />
among us, and the moral choices<br />
we make every day that will define<br />
us.<br />
(<strong>The</strong> author is a Mumbai-based<br />
producer and actor)<br />
Fake police: Scammer arrested after being chased by officers<br />
RNZ<br />
A<br />
man who scammed people<br />
out of nearly $300,000 by<br />
pretending to be a police<br />
officer has been arrested.<br />
On Monday the 25-year-old<br />
man, a UK national, was chased by<br />
police through Auckland central<br />
on foot.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scam involved a call to a<br />
landline by someone pretending<br />
to be a police officer and providing<br />
a fake badge number.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were 18 Aucklanders,<br />
aged between 56 and 90, with the<br />
majority over 80, allegedly duped<br />
We are not now that strength<br />
which in old days<br />
Moved earth and heaven, that<br />
which we are, we are;<br />
One equal temper of heroic<br />
hearts,<br />
Made weak by time and fate,<br />
but strong in will<br />
To strive, to seek, to find, and<br />
not to yield.<br />
— ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred, Lord<br />
Tennyson<br />
out of money.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> scam will always involve<br />
this so-called officer asking for<br />
financial information or asking you<br />
to withdraw cash to be collected<br />
as part of an investigation into<br />
banks," Detective Senior Sergeant<br />
Craig Bolton said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man faces 22 charges of<br />
obtains by deception, attempting<br />
to obtain by deception and<br />
escaping custody. He was due to<br />
appear in the Auckland District<br />
Court on Tuesday. His bail will be<br />
opposed by police.<br />
"We will allege in court that this<br />
man, who only arrived in New<br />
Zealand in early <strong>June</strong>, was on his<br />
way at the time to collect more<br />
cash from a previous victim,"<br />
Bolton said.<br />
"Instead, real detectives turned<br />
up at the victim's doorstep to<br />
advise him he was about to be<br />
scammed out of $20,000 in cash.<br />
"Financial Crime investigators<br />
from all three policing districts'<br />
fraud teams in Tāmaki Makaurau<br />
have been working together to<br />
piece together this offending, and<br />
this is a great outcome."<br />
A total of $297,700 in cash was<br />
lost by victims.<br />
Man left with<br />
burns after<br />
dermatology<br />
clinic gives<br />
wrong<br />
treatment<br />
RNZ<br />
A<br />
man was left with large<br />
burns across his body after<br />
a dermatology clinic gave<br />
him a treatment for a different<br />
patient, the health watchdog has<br />
found.<br />
He had been undergoing a<br />
regular course of phototherapy<br />
at the clinic to treat his eczema,<br />
said the Health and Disability<br />
Commissioner's report.<br />
An hour after he left the clinic,<br />
the man received a call from the<br />
dermatologist advising that he had<br />
received the wrong treatment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dermatologist told the man<br />
an employee, "had opened a folder<br />
for a different patient and loaded<br />
their treatment", which was much<br />
stronger than the man's usual<br />
treatment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dermatologist apologised<br />
for the mistake and told the man<br />
that he would develop bad burns,<br />
for which he prescribed aspirin and<br />
a topical steroid cream.<br />
By the next morning the man had<br />
developed several blisters on the<br />
front of his body.<br />
Over the next few days, the<br />
blistering worsened, covering most<br />
of the front of the man's body, from<br />
his chin to his waist.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pain rendered him bedbound<br />
and unable to carry out daily<br />
tasks, and he had to take two days<br />
off work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> clinic in their investigation<br />
of the mistake found two errors<br />
were made.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first was that the employee<br />
who opened the man's profile in the<br />
phototherapy system, accidentally<br />
clicked on a different patient with<br />
the same first name after they<br />
had confirmed the profile for the<br />
correct patient.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second error was that<br />
the employee did not enter the<br />
patient's phototherapy dose into<br />
the clinic's practice management<br />
software until after the man had<br />
completed his treatment.<br />
If it had been entered prior, the<br />
system would have generated an<br />
alert if the dose is more than 20<br />
percent higher than the previous<br />
dose.<br />
<strong>The</strong> health and disability<br />
commissioner found the clinic<br />
breached the Code of Health and<br />
Disability Services Consumers'<br />
Rights.<br />
Deputy health and disability<br />
commissioner Dr Vanessa<br />
Caldwell commended the clinic<br />
on its prompt and transparent<br />
investigation into the mistake.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> changes to the clinic's<br />
processes were specific and<br />
appropriate to reduce the risk of<br />
the same error happening again."<br />
However, Caldwell found the<br />
clinic breached Right 4 of the Code,<br />
for failing to provide services to the<br />
man with reasonable care and skill.<br />
She said the injury was avoidable<br />
and should not have occurred.
Editorial<br />
QUOTE OF THE WEEK<br />
“What you get by achieving your goals is not<br />
as important as what you become by achieving<br />
your goals.” - Henry David Thoreau<br />
IN FOCUS : Picture of the week<br />
Honeymoon<br />
comes with<br />
expiry date<br />
Six months into the National-led government, there is a growing sense of frustration<br />
among the public regarding the persistent issues of crime and public safety. <strong>The</strong><br />
recent assault and robbery at Pooja Jewellers in Papatoetoe have only heightened<br />
these concerns, leaving many wondering if the new government is overestimating its<br />
honeymoon period.<br />
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s administration has been vocal about its<br />
commitment to cracking down on crime.<br />
However, as violent incidents continue to occur, the patience of the public is wearing<br />
thin. While it is true that legislative changes take time and their impacts are gradual, the<br />
expectation for perceptible improvements in law and order is immediate.<br />
Luxon’s recent statement addressing the robbery at Pooja Jewellers underscores this<br />
point.<br />
<strong>The</strong> prime minister’s effort to connect with public sentiment and show that he is<br />
attuned to the pain and fear felt by citizens is a step in the right direction. But words<br />
alone are not enough.<br />
<strong>The</strong> public wants to see concrete actions and results that reflect the government’s<br />
promises.<br />
Police Minister Mark Mitchell has been actively attending public meetings in recent<br />
weeks, where small business owners frequently ask why law and order hasn’t improved<br />
under his watch.<br />
His response has been consistent: the crime peak fueled by the previous Labour<br />
government wouldn’t abate overnight.<br />
This has been Mitchell’s go-to response so far, and one wonders how long he can<br />
continue to pin the blame on a government that has not been in charge for nearly half a<br />
year.<br />
When asked if he had a timeline in mind for when his work will begin to show results,<br />
Mitchell told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Indian</strong> <strong>Weekender</strong>, “Well, I would have loved to fix [it] six months ago.<br />
<strong>The</strong> reality is, we are not going to turn it around overnight.<br />
It has taken six years to bake it in.” He highlighted that the previous government had<br />
prioritised reducing the prison population by 30 per cent and alternative actions where<br />
there were no consequences.<br />
Mitchell didn’t offer any commitments on the timeline but pointed out he has been<br />
trying to make sure the police are out on the streets and more visible.<br />
“[We are ensuring] they get back to basics…getting them out of some of the work they<br />
currently do so that they can work on their core role…so that when members of the public<br />
who put up their hand when they genuinely need it, they get the help they want.”<br />
Mitchell acknowledged that there’s a lot of work to do but noted that he has started to<br />
see some greenshoots.<br />
He pointed to Auckland CBD, where he claims crime is starting to reduce and statistics<br />
around violent crime are starting to trend downwards.<br />
<strong>The</strong> National government is facing the challenge of balancing the long-term process of<br />
legislative reform with the immediate need for public reassurance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> danger lies in overestimating the goodwill afforded by their new-government<br />
status. Six months is a significant period, and the public’s expectation for visible change<br />
is both reasonable and pressing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> government’s focus on blaming the previous Labour administration for the current<br />
crime wave, while not entirely unfounded, risks coming across as an excuse rather than<br />
a solution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> electorate voted for change, and they expect the new government to deliver on its<br />
promises swiftly and effectively.<br />
It’s essential for Luxon’s administration to recognise that public perception is shaped<br />
by immediate experiences. High-profile incidents of crime create a sense of urgency that<br />
demands prompt and decisive action.<br />
Measures such as increased police presence, enhanced community policing, and swift<br />
judicial processes can provide the immediate impact needed to reassure the public while<br />
broader legislative changes take effect.<br />
<strong>The</strong> prime minister’s engagement with the issue of crime and his commitment to<br />
addressing it are positive steps, but they must be backed by tangible actions that yield<br />
visible results.<br />
<strong>The</strong> government’s credibility hinges on its ability to deliver on its promises in a timely<br />
manner.<br />
In politics, the honeymoon period is finite, and the National government’s time to make<br />
a lasting impression is slipping away. Luxon and his team must act now to demonstrate<br />
their effectiveness and responsiveness to public concerns.<br />
<strong>The</strong> window of opportunity is narrowing, and the stakes are high. For the National<br />
government, this is a pivotal moment to prove that their commitment to reducing crime<br />
is more than just rhetoric—it’s a promise they intend to keep.<br />
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with two little granddaughters of Harayana Governor<br />
Bandaru Dattatreya, at his Parliament office in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)<br />
This week in New Zealand’s history<br />
23 <strong>June</strong> 1961<br />
Antarctic Treaty comes into force<br />
As claimant to the Ross Dependency, New Zealand took part in a 1959 conference in<br />
Washington DC about the political and international status of Antarctica. <strong>The</strong> resulting<br />
Antarctic Treaty covering all land and ice shelves south of latitude 60°S was agreed to by the<br />
12 participating states. In 2023 there were 56 parties to the treaty.<br />
23 <strong>June</strong> 1973<br />
World Court condemns French nuclear tests<br />
<strong>The</strong> ruling by the International Court of Justice was part of New Zealand’s long campaign<br />
against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Though the French ignored the court’s<br />
interim injunction and carried on testing in the atmosphere, continuing protests soon forced<br />
them to move the tests underground.<br />
24 <strong>June</strong> 1905<br />
New Zealand Truth hits the news stands<br />
At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, New Zealand Truth prided itself on being ‘the champion<br />
of the little person and the scourge of corruption and scandal in high places’.<br />
25 <strong>June</strong> 2003<br />
Parliament votes for prostitution reform<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prostitution Reform Act was passed on a tumultuous night in Parliament, with the<br />
public galleries filled with supporters from both sides. Christchurch Central Labour MP<br />
Tim Barnett had promoted the legislation as a private member’s bill. It passed by just one<br />
vote.<br />
<strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> 1881<br />
First registered female pharmacist<br />
Before 1880, the dispensing of medicines in New Zealand was largely unregulated. <strong>The</strong><br />
Pharmacy Act 1880 set up a Board of Pharmacy and a registration system to protect the<br />
public from ‘amateurs and witchdoctors’. <strong>The</strong> terms ‘pharmaceutical chemist’ and ‘chemist<br />
and druggist’ could now only be used by a registered pharmacist.<br />
<strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> 1919<br />
New Zealand Prime Minister signs Treaty of Versailles<br />
Bill Massey’s was the 17th signature on the treaty which formally ended the war between<br />
the Allies and Germany. Versailles was a milestone on New Zealand’s road to nationhood.<br />
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INDIA<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lok Sabha on<br />
Wednesday adopted a<br />
resolution condemning<br />
the Emergency imposed by then<br />
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi<br />
as Speaker Om Birla read out<br />
the resolution condemning the<br />
act and said that <strong>June</strong> 25, 1975<br />
will always be known as a black<br />
chapter in the history of India.<br />
On the occasion of the<br />
completion of 50 years of<br />
Emergency imposed in 1975,<br />
Birla praised the strength and<br />
determination of all those who<br />
strongly opposed the Emergency,<br />
fought and protected India's<br />
democracy.<br />
Birla said, "This House strongly<br />
condemns the decision to impose<br />
emergency in the country in 1975.<br />
Along with this, we appreciate<br />
the determination of all those<br />
people who strongly opposed<br />
the emergency, fought an<br />
unprecedented struggle and took<br />
the responsibility of protecting the<br />
democracy of India."<br />
He added, "<strong>The</strong> day of <strong>June</strong> 25,<br />
1975 will always be known as a<br />
black chapter in the history of<br />
India."<br />
Even as Birla was making<br />
his speech on Emergency, the<br />
opposition parties continued<br />
sloganeering "Stop Dictatorship".<br />
Afterwards, the Lok Sabha was<br />
adjourned till <strong>June</strong> 27.<br />
Lok Sabha Speaker further<br />
stressed the need to pass the<br />
resolution and asserted that the<br />
youngsters should be aware of<br />
the Emergency period. He said,<br />
"On this day in 1975, the then<br />
cabinet had post-facto ratified<br />
the Emergency, approving this<br />
dictatorial and unconstitutional<br />
decision. <strong>The</strong>refore, to reiterate<br />
Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
our commitment to our<br />
parliamentary system and this<br />
second independence achieved<br />
after countless sacrifices, it is<br />
necessary to pass this resolution<br />
today. We also believe that our<br />
young generation must know<br />
about this dark chapter of<br />
democracy."<br />
Om Birla was re-elected as<br />
the Speaker of the Lok Sabha on<br />
Wednesday after the motion for<br />
the same was moved by Prime<br />
Minister Narendra Modi and<br />
seconded by Defence Minister<br />
Rajnath Singh. <strong>The</strong> motion was<br />
adopted by the House through a<br />
voice vote.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lok Sabha Speaker targeted<br />
Indira Gandhi for imposing an<br />
Emergency on a country that<br />
always upheld the values of<br />
democracy. "India's democratic<br />
values were crushed and freedom<br />
of expression was throttled.<br />
During the emergency, the rights<br />
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Lok Sabha adopts resolution condemning<br />
Emergency, Om Birla says <strong>June</strong> 25 will be<br />
known as "Black Chapter" in <strong>Indian</strong> history<br />
India raises concerns about Myanmar<br />
violence; flags arms, narcotics trafficking<br />
India raised its deep concern<br />
over violence and instability in<br />
Myanmar and the threat posed<br />
by the trafficking of narcotics<br />
and weapons when external<br />
affairs minister S Jaishankar met<br />
Myanmar’s deputy prime minister<br />
Than Shwe in New Delhi on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
Jaishankar met Than Shwe,<br />
who is also foreign minister and<br />
led Myanmar’s ruling junta from<br />
1992 to 2011, at his hotel while<br />
he was transiting through the<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> capital on his way home<br />
from a foreign visit. This is the<br />
first publicly acknowledged visit<br />
to New Delhi by a senior junta<br />
member since the military took<br />
power in Myanmar through a coup<br />
in February 2021.<br />
“Discussed our deep concern at<br />
the impact of continuing violence<br />
and instability in Myanmar on our<br />
border. India is open to engaging<br />
all stakeholders in addressing this<br />
situation,” Jaishankar said in a<br />
post on X.<br />
“Particularly flagged illegal<br />
narcotics, arms smuggling and<br />
trafficking in persons as priority<br />
challenges,” he said.<br />
of the people were destroyed,<br />
and citizens lost their freedom. It<br />
was the time when the opposition<br />
leaders were put to jail... <strong>The</strong><br />
government during that time<br />
imposed several restrictions on<br />
the media...," he said<br />
Stepping up his attacks on<br />
the Congress party, Birla said,<br />
"Congress took such decisions<br />
that did the work of crushing the<br />
emotions of the Constitution.<br />
By bringing amendments to the<br />
MISA Act, the Congress party<br />
made sure that the courts could<br />
not provide justice to people<br />
arrested under MISA. To stop<br />
the media from writing the truth,<br />
the Parliamentary Proceedings<br />
(Protection of Publication) Act and<br />
other acts were brought."<br />
Birla expressed confidence that<br />
the 18th Lok Sabha will uphold<br />
its commitment to preserve and<br />
protect the Constitution created<br />
by BR Ambedkar.<br />
US expresses ‘some concerns’ over continuing India-Russia military cooperation<br />
<strong>The</strong> US has “some concerns”<br />
about India’s continuing<br />
military and technology<br />
cooperation with Russia though<br />
Washington is focused on working<br />
with New Delhi to narrow areas<br />
with divergences, US deputy<br />
secretary of state Kurt Campbell<br />
said on Wednesday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remarks by Campbell,<br />
widely seen as the architect of<br />
the Asia strategy of the Biden<br />
administration, came against the<br />
backdrop of reports that India and<br />
Russia are exploring the possibility<br />
of a visit by Prime Minister<br />
Narendra Modi to Moscow next<br />
month.<br />
Jaishankar also called for<br />
an “early return to the path<br />
of democratic transition in<br />
Myanmar”, and said India “stands<br />
ready to help in any manner”.<br />
This was in line with India’s<br />
stated position that all players in<br />
Myanmar should cease hostilities<br />
and return to the path of dialogue<br />
to find a solution.<br />
Myanmar’s junta has suffered a<br />
series of humiliating defeats since<br />
three powerful armed groups<br />
came together last year to launch<br />
“Operation 1027” (named after the<br />
date the offensive began). <strong>The</strong><br />
groups joined hands with smaller<br />
militias and captured key towns<br />
and trade posts along Myanmar’s<br />
borders with India, Bangladesh<br />
Campbell, however, during an<br />
online media briefing, ducked a<br />
question on whether such a visit<br />
could affect India-US relations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> US and India, he said, have<br />
a “full and frank” dialogue that<br />
encompasses discussions on their<br />
“mutual relationships with key<br />
countries”, including India’s ties<br />
with Russia.<br />
“We have been clear which<br />
areas are affected by the<br />
continuing relationship between<br />
India and Russia, militarily and<br />
technologically.<br />
I think we will take what steps<br />
we can to mitigate some of<br />
those engagements and we have<br />
and China and overran hundreds<br />
of military bases and positions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> junta’s grip on power has<br />
largely been limited to the central<br />
parts of Myanmar.<br />
In April, New Delhi’s interests<br />
were affected when resistance<br />
forces advanced in areas around<br />
Sittwe, where the port was<br />
developed with <strong>Indian</strong> financial<br />
aid. India shuttered its consulate<br />
in Sittwe and pulled its diplomats<br />
out of the city.<br />
India’s concerns have grown<br />
in recent weeks as government<br />
troops and resistance forces have<br />
clashed in the Sagaing region,<br />
which borders the northeastern<br />
states of Arunachal Pradesh,<br />
Manipur and Nagaland.<br />
expressed some concerns,” he said<br />
in response to a question about<br />
What powers will Rahul Gandhi have in<br />
Lok Sabha as Leader of Opposition?<br />
Congress leader Rahul<br />
Gandhi was appointed as<br />
the Leader of Opposition<br />
for Lok Sabha, a post which<br />
comes with certain powers in the<br />
Parliament. This is the first time<br />
in 10 years that a member of the<br />
Congress has been appointed the<br />
LoP, as it had less than 10 percent<br />
of seats in the Lok Sabha in 2014<br />
and 2019.<br />
<strong>The</strong> opposition party needs at<br />
least 55 seats to claim the Leader<br />
of Opposition post in the Lok<br />
Sabha, and the Congress party<br />
bagged 99 seats in the <strong>2024</strong><br />
general elections.<br />
While the Leader of Opposition<br />
is not a constitutional post, it<br />
will give certain powers in key<br />
decision-making to Rahul Gandhi,<br />
which includes key appointments.<br />
What powers does Leader of<br />
Opposition have?<br />
As the Leader of the Opposition,<br />
Rahul Gandhi will be a member of<br />
crucial parliamentary committees.<br />
He will be a member of several<br />
Joint Parliamentary Committees,<br />
the committees of Public<br />
Accounts, Public Undertakings,<br />
Estimates, and many more. He will<br />
also have a say in the appointment<br />
reported worries that sensitive<br />
technology supplied by the US to<br />
India could be accessed by Russia.<br />
<strong>The</strong> US has confidence and<br />
trust in India as it seeks to<br />
advance the bilateral partnership<br />
in technology and Washington<br />
also wants to develop a “much<br />
deeper and stronger technological<br />
relationship” with New Delhi, he<br />
said.<br />
Both countries have many<br />
areas of alignment, “but it is not<br />
surprising that there would be<br />
areas where we had perhaps<br />
different perspectives, views,<br />
historical ties”, he added.<br />
In the context of the bilateral<br />
of bureaucrats to key posts.<br />
Further, Gandhi is also entitled to<br />
be a member of certain committees<br />
responsible for appointing the<br />
heads of statutory bodies Central<br />
Vigilance Commission, the Central<br />
Information Commission, the<br />
Central Bureau of Investigation,<br />
the National Human Rights<br />
Commission of India, Lokpal and<br />
more.<br />
Rahul Gandhi is the third member<br />
of the Gandhi family to hold the<br />
Leader of Opposition post. Before<br />
him, his parents Sonia and Rajiv<br />
Gandhi held the LOP post. Rajiv<br />
Gandhi held the LoP post from<br />
1989-1990 while Sonia held the<br />
post from 1999 to 2004.<br />
strategic partnership, an<br />
important aspect is “our ability to<br />
share views on areas where we<br />
occasionally have disagreements,<br />
do those respectfully and seek<br />
where possible to narrow those<br />
areas where there are differences”,<br />
Campbell said.<br />
While India and the US have<br />
ramped up collaboration on the<br />
joint development and production<br />
of military equipment and<br />
launched the Initiative on Critical<br />
and Emerging Technology (iCET),<br />
Russia remains the largest supplier<br />
of defence hardware, accounting<br />
for almost 60% of the weapons<br />
used by <strong>Indian</strong> armed forces.
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WORLD 15<br />
Modi to visit Moscow soon,<br />
Russian state media says<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> Prime Minister Narendra<br />
purchases of discounted Russian<br />
Modi will visit Russia for the<br />
crude oil, giving Putin’s nation a<br />
first time since the Kremlin’s<br />
major financial lifeline as it faces<br />
invasion of Ukraine, in a trip<br />
that highlights the growing ties<br />
between the two countries despite<br />
New Delhi’s close relationship<br />
with Washington.<br />
Preparations are being made for<br />
Modi’s visit to Moscow and dates<br />
will be announced soon, Kremlin<br />
spokesperson Yuri Ushakov said,<br />
according to Russia’s stateowned<br />
TASS news agency.<br />
global isolation.<br />
At the same time, India’s ties<br />
with the United States have grown<br />
stronger, amid shared concerns<br />
over China’s assertiveness in the<br />
Indo-Pacific region.<br />
Modi met with US President<br />
Joe Biden during a state visit to<br />
Washington last <strong>June</strong>, in a trip<br />
further cementing their defense,<br />
trade and technology partnership.<br />
“I can confirm that we are<br />
Russian President Vladimir Putin and <strong>Indian</strong> Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shanghai <strong>The</strong> <strong>Indian</strong> leader also addressed<br />
preparing a visit by the Prime<br />
Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September 2022. (Alexander Congress during that trip, an<br />
Minister of India,” he said,<br />
according to TASS.<br />
“I can’t say about the dates yet,<br />
because the dates are announced<br />
by the parties in agreement. But<br />
we are actively preparing. And this<br />
visit will happen.”<br />
CNN has contacted India’s<br />
Ministry of External Affairs for<br />
comment. <strong>The</strong> upcoming trip<br />
will be Modi’s first to the country<br />
since 2019 and comes less than<br />
a month after he was narrowly reelected<br />
as prime minister during a<br />
weekslong vote.<br />
Demyanchuk/Pool/Sputnik/Reuters)<br />
Modi last met Russian President<br />
Vladimir Putin on the sidelines<br />
of the Shanghai Cooperation<br />
Organization summit in<br />
Uzbekistan in 2022, where he told<br />
the leader that today’s era is “not<br />
of war”.<br />
Putin also visited New Delhi just<br />
months before his unprovoked<br />
invasion of Ukraine.<br />
India’s ties with Russia date<br />
back decades to the Cold War<br />
and have remained strong despite<br />
repeated sanctions on Moscow<br />
from Western governments.<br />
New Delhi has repeatedly<br />
abstained from votes condemning<br />
Russia at the United Nations and<br />
has avoided public criticism of<br />
Moscow’s war in Ukraine.<br />
India remains heavily reliant<br />
on the Kremlin for its military<br />
equipment – a vital link given<br />
India’s ongoing tensions at its<br />
shared Himalayan border with<br />
China – and has ramped up<br />
honor typically reserved for<br />
close US allies and partners, and<br />
attended a lavish state dinner.<br />
Later that year, Putin did not<br />
attend the Group of 20 leaders’<br />
summit in New Delhi, during which<br />
leaders delivered a consensus<br />
statement criticizing his invasion<br />
of Ukraine. India is a member of<br />
the Quad security grouping with<br />
the US, Japan and Australia and<br />
also has a seat at the table of two<br />
Moscow-friendly groupings, the<br />
SCO and the BRICS bloc, which<br />
includes Russia and China.<br />
Will Elon Musk's SpaceX ‘rescue’ Sunita Williams<br />
from space after Starliner's Helium leak?<br />
Elon Musk owned<br />
SpaceX might step in to<br />
rescue Sunita Williams and<br />
her colleague Butch Wilmore<br />
stranded at the International<br />
Space Station (ISS) after<br />
their Boeing Starliner experienced<br />
troubling helium leaks.<br />
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and<br />
Sunita Williams launched on the<br />
Starliner on <strong>June</strong> 5, expecting<br />
a nine-day mission at the ISS.<br />
However, helium leaks have<br />
left their return date<br />
uncertain, prompting<br />
NASA to seek<br />
solutions. Earlier<br />
they were<br />
supposed to<br />
return on July<br />
2 and now the<br />
re-entry has<br />
been further<br />
delayed.<br />
Boeingrival<br />
SpaceX<br />
may ultimately<br />
be tasked with<br />
bringing them home<br />
aboard its Crew Dragon<br />
spacecraft. However, this<br />
development is expected to be a<br />
significant blow to Boeing, which<br />
has already faced approximately<br />
$1.5 billion in cost overruns<br />
beyond its initial $4.5 billion NASA<br />
contract. As it comes as a big<br />
setback to make Starliner a viable<br />
option for ISS missions.<br />
Despite the severity<br />
of the situation, reports<br />
suggest NASA and Boeing officials<br />
have downplayed the need for<br />
SpaceX's involvement. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
insist that the current issues with<br />
the Starliner do not necessitate<br />
intervention. Nevertheless,<br />
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which<br />
recently ferried four astronauts<br />
to the ISS<br />
in March,<br />
remains<br />
ready for the<br />
task. It can<br />
accommodate two<br />
to four passengers and<br />
can fit additional occupants<br />
in an emergency.<br />
Since 2020, SpaceX has been<br />
the sole commercial company<br />
approved to transport astronauts<br />
and cargo to the ISS. This situation<br />
underscores the competition and<br />
challenges within the commercial<br />
spaceflight sector.<br />
Astronauts Wilmore and<br />
Williams will stay aboard the ISS<br />
until at least July 2 as officials<br />
investigate the helium leaks<br />
affecting the Starliner, which<br />
remains docked at the station.<br />
Michael Lembeck, an aerospace<br />
engineering professor at the<br />
University of Illinois Urbana-<br />
Champaign and a former Boeing<br />
spaceflight consultant, told NY<br />
Post that he believes that the<br />
Starliner will still likely be the<br />
astronauts’ return vehicle. "Right<br />
now, I’d say the need for SpaceX<br />
to step up is very low," Lembeck<br />
said. "We would have to see a<br />
big problem come up in the next<br />
couple of days to warrant that<br />
reaction."<br />
NASA’s decision to delay the<br />
astronauts' return allows more<br />
time to study the Starliner while it’s<br />
still attached to the ISS, ensuring<br />
a thorough understanding of what<br />
went wrong. <strong>The</strong> capsule carrying<br />
the astronauts will make it back<br />
to Earth, but the service module,<br />
which houses the engines, fuel,<br />
and helium tanks, will not.<br />
With ample helium gas<br />
remaining, officials assure that<br />
Wilmore and Williams can still fly<br />
home despite the leaks if any dire<br />
issues arise aboard the ISS.<br />
A big setback for Boeing's space<br />
mission<br />
Experts also feel, NASA may<br />
be weary as a rescue mission<br />
involving SpaceX would<br />
suggest serious, potentially lifethreatening<br />
hardware defects with<br />
the Starliner.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last time NASA needed<br />
external help to bring an astronaut<br />
home was in 2022, when a Russian<br />
Soyuz capsule leak stranded<br />
American astronaut Frank Rubio.<br />
Although NASA considered<br />
SpaceX for that rescue, Rubio<br />
returned on an empty Soyuz<br />
capsule launched by Russia,<br />
extending his mission to a recordbreaking<br />
371 days.<br />
Boeing's hopes of making<br />
Starliner the second option for<br />
NASA scientists to reach the ISS<br />
face a significant setback with<br />
this incident. <strong>The</strong> aerospace<br />
giant's struggles highlight the<br />
high stakes and challenges of<br />
commercial spaceflight.<br />
UAE-India CEPA<br />
Council, <strong>Indian</strong><br />
Chamber of<br />
Commerce,<br />
discuss<br />
opportunities<br />
to leverage<br />
benefits of CEPA<br />
UAE-India CEPA Council<br />
in collaboration with<br />
the <strong>Indian</strong> Chamber<br />
of Commerce held a business<br />
roundtable in Odisha, to discuss<br />
opportunities to leverage the<br />
benefits of the UAE-India<br />
Comprehensive Economic<br />
Partnership Agreement (CEPA).<br />
<strong>The</strong> meeting brought together<br />
nearly 30 businesses from Odisha<br />
and a high-level UAE delegation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> UAE delegation was led by<br />
Abdulnasser Alshaali PhD, the<br />
Ambassador of the UAE to India,<br />
with participants including Ahmed<br />
Aljneibi, Director of the UICC,<br />
Mohammad Haseeb, Strategic<br />
Country Manager - India, Ras Al<br />
Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ),<br />
and Yogpal Singh, Director,<br />
Corporate Affairs, DP World.<br />
Underscoring the importance of<br />
Odisha to the UAE, Alshaali noted,<br />
"Odisha has played a critical<br />
role in supporting the UAE-India<br />
bilateral partnership.<br />
Its highly developed minerals<br />
and industrial sector and strong<br />
human capital are of key interest<br />
to UAE investors. We are confident<br />
that today's event will serve to<br />
ensure businesses in Odisha<br />
take advantage of a range of<br />
economic, trade, and investment<br />
opportunities that have been<br />
offered through the signing of the<br />
CEPA."<br />
In his remarks, Aljneibi<br />
highlighted the rapid growth<br />
in Odisha's total trade with the<br />
UAE. "In the 2023-<strong>2024</strong> fiscal<br />
year, trade between the UAE and<br />
Odisha reached USD 2.63 billion,<br />
with Odisha constituting the UAE's<br />
eighth-largest trading partner<br />
among India's <strong>28</strong> states and eight<br />
union territories.<br />
It is essential that we undertake<br />
all efforts to continue to build<br />
upon this constructive trading<br />
relationship and seek out new<br />
avenues for mutually beneficial<br />
growth. <strong>The</strong> UICC, in partnership<br />
with the ICC, is committed to<br />
supporting businesses in Odisha<br />
to achieve their international trade<br />
and investment ambitions."<br />
Odisha is India's largest<br />
producer of steel, stainless<br />
steel, ferroalloys, alumina, and<br />
aluminium. <strong>The</strong> state holds<br />
a significant share of India's<br />
reserves of nickel, bauxite,<br />
iron ore, and coal. Over recent<br />
years, constructive steps have<br />
been undertaken to develop<br />
deeper investment and trade<br />
collaboration between the UAE<br />
and India.<br />
In <strong>June</strong> 2022, several<br />
memoranda of understanding,<br />
valued at USD 2.76 billion, were<br />
signed between the Government<br />
of Odisha and UAE companies.<br />
Most notably, the Lulu Group<br />
committed to exploring<br />
opportunities to establish<br />
hypermarkets, shopping malls,<br />
and agriculture and seafood<br />
processing hubs in the state.
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8) Fielder's choice?<br />
9) Trooper's warning<br />
10) Wood-surface applications<br />
11) Tropical fruit dance?<br />
12) Great Salt Lake state<br />
13) Adjusts, as a spark plug<br />
18) Multicolored gems<br />
23) "_ on Down the Road"<br />
24) Traffic tangles<br />
25) Eagerness<br />
26)_ the land (how things stand)<br />
27) Alamogordo's county<br />
<strong>28</strong>) Kinshasa drum?<br />
29) Australian bush call<br />
30) Just right<br />
31) Wonderlands<br />
33) Southern breakfast dish<br />
36) Auto despair site?<br />
37) Marx or Benz<br />
39) Pirate's knife<br />
40) Town of many trials and hunts<br />
42) Plains homes<br />
43) Plays with crayons<br />
45) Lecterns<br />
46) Tim Duncan, for one<br />
47) Kind of package<br />
48) Cold spell<br />
49) Nautical mile<br />
50) Not going anywhere<br />
51) Condemn<br />
54) "Put_ Happy Face"<br />
55) Photo_ (media events)<br />
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ACROSS-----------<br />
1) "Brian's Song" star James<br />
5) Comes out of one's skin<br />
10) Self-congratulatory<br />
14) Radius' comrade-in-arms?<br />
15) Youngest-ever Oscar<br />
winner<br />
16) Folkestone farewell<br />
17) "B 5!" "C 11!"?<br />
19) Took_ (snoozed)<br />
20) Downed<br />
21) Typing type<br />
22) Considers carefully<br />
24) "Emma" author Austen<br />
25) Hersey's bell town<br />
26) Place or site<br />
29) Transverse beam<br />
32) Itsy-bitsy bits<br />
33) "In_ tn1st"<br />
34) Recipe word<br />
35) Cravings<br />
36) Emulate "Old Blue Eyes"<br />
O, O!<br />
Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
CROSSWORD ANSWERS<br />
37) Kid's "seat" on Santa<br />
38) Alternative to .net<br />
39) Less extroverted<br />
40) TV's "Cosmos" creator<br />
41) Author's explanation<br />
43) Yuletide songs<br />
44) Backup sounds<br />
45) Random sampling<br />
46) "Monkey Trial" teacher<br />
48) Seafood choice<br />
49) Josh<br />
52) Door section<br />
53) John Wayne character,<br />
larger-than-life?<br />
56) More than suggest<br />
57) Recording studio alert<br />
58) Water sport<br />
59) Some antique autos<br />
60) Family men<br />
61) Bud holder<br />
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1) Island south of Florida<br />
2) Dismounted<br />
3) Archer or Heche<br />
4) Endless faultfinder<br />
5) Home of the John Deere<br />
headquarters<br />
6) Like beverages at barbecues<br />
7) A 1 Capp character<br />
8) Fielder's choice?<br />
9) Trooper's warning<br />
10) Wood-surface applications<br />
11) Tropical fruit dance?<br />
12) Great Salt Lake state<br />
13) Adjusts, as a spark plug<br />
18) Multicolored gems<br />
23) "_ on Down the Road"<br />
24) Traffic tangles<br />
25) Eagerness<br />
26)_ the land (how things stand)<br />
27) Alamogordo's county<br />
<strong>28</strong>) Kinshasa drum?<br />
29) Australian bush call<br />
30) Just right<br />
31) Wonderlands<br />
33) Southern breakfast dish<br />
36) Auto despair site?<br />
37) Marx or Benz<br />
39) Pirate's knife<br />
40) Town of many trials and hunts<br />
42) Plains homes<br />
43) Plays with crayons<br />
45) Lecterns<br />
46) Tim Duncan, for one<br />
47) Kind of package<br />
48) Cold spell<br />
49) Nautical mile<br />
50) Not going anywhere<br />
51) Condemn<br />
54) "Put_ Happy Face"<br />
55) Photo_ (media events)<br />
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Your Weekly Horoscope: 27 <strong>June</strong> - 04 July, <strong>2024</strong><br />
ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20)<br />
As the wheel of the seasons turns once<br />
more, the spoke of summer is at your<br />
door. Thursday marks the solstice point,<br />
so answer the call, grab your bathing suit<br />
and inflatables, and make a beeline for<br />
the nearest pool party over the weekend.<br />
As the monthly full moon lights up the<br />
sky on Friday, the peak in lunation is prime time for socials,<br />
activities, and if you prefer, getting ahead by burning some<br />
midnight oil.<br />
.TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 20)<br />
<strong>The</strong> sun, Mercury, and Venus all head<br />
up your sphere of local connections<br />
this week, making it social as well as<br />
neighborly. With a family feel, perhaps it’s<br />
time to get involved in community spirit.<br />
Ever resourceful and hands-on, consider<br />
selling your wares or produce at a local<br />
makers market, setting up your own stall or pop-up shop.<br />
Consider organizing a cooperative as a more collective way<br />
to bring home the bacon.<br />
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUN 21)<br />
You’ve had four planets in your sign,<br />
and at the end of the week, that’s down<br />
to one. <strong>The</strong> lucky one, Jupiter. So you<br />
can concentrate on your fortune and<br />
make your luck happen! Think big, and<br />
remember: Words are spells. Treat them<br />
as such, and you’ll bag a dream or two by<br />
the end of its one-year run in your sign.<br />
CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 20)<br />
It’s the solstice and the beginning of your<br />
sunny, summery birthday season, water<br />
nymph! With the longest day of sunlight<br />
marking the entry point to your sign, we’re<br />
off to a great start on Thursday. Venus and<br />
Mercury also dive into Cancerian waters<br />
on Monday, preceding the sun. This means<br />
the vibe is perfect for supporting your birthday celebrations<br />
and all you love. Your glow-up is here, so note those<br />
compliments rolling in and how you really feel at home.<br />
LEO (JUL21-AUG 20)<br />
As the planets pile into your zen zone this<br />
week, take time out to rest and recoup. It’s<br />
summer from Thursday, but I’m sure you<br />
can put your feet up in a hammock under<br />
dappled light and recharge those batteries<br />
sooner. Sleep, dream, or be with those lifers<br />
who feel like family—those that you choose<br />
as lifers, and your spiritual or artistic community. <strong>The</strong>re’s<br />
plenty to catch up on with friends you haven’t seen for a<br />
while as La Luna’s full moonlight draws out the social side.<br />
VIRGO (AUG 23-SEP 23)<br />
Charge your social battery, Virgo! <strong>The</strong><br />
beginning of summer is here, and it’s all<br />
about group activity, friends, and meaningful<br />
interaction. Eating out is a must, and yes,<br />
picnics count! This is a brilliant time to<br />
network, so get canny with your connections,<br />
whether personal, business, or special interest. Groups and<br />
dinner parties are the spheres where great conversations<br />
happen, so be at your best; you may meet someone who<br />
feels like family.<br />
LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23)<br />
You will be open to having different<br />
experiences this week, Libra, with the new<br />
moon in Gemini. You might be preparing to<br />
travel, or you could want to learn about a<br />
different culture or niche subject. You will<br />
be pushing yourself to keep an open mind<br />
about different opinions and life beliefs as well. As the moon<br />
moves into Cancer over the weekend, you could be reflecting<br />
on your long term career goals.<br />
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)<br />
You will be working on yourself this week,<br />
Scorpio, with the new moon in Gemini. You<br />
might want to better understand your own<br />
motives and behaviours, and you could<br />
be researching topics related to self help<br />
or psychology. You may be making a big<br />
purchase too, or you’re working to save or<br />
invest some of your money. As the moon moves into Cancer<br />
over the weekend, you may be travelling.<br />
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21)<br />
You will be building upon your relationships<br />
this week, Sagittarius, with the new moon in<br />
Gemini. You may feel closer to your partner,<br />
or you’re having greater success with dating.<br />
You could even reach a pivotal relationship<br />
milestone, or you may be meeting up with<br />
good friends to hang out. As the moon moves into Cancer<br />
over the weekend, you may want to open up emotionally<br />
to people, or you’re reflecting on how you can respond to<br />
conflict differently.<br />
CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 21)<br />
You will be productive at work this week,<br />
Capricorn, with the new moon in Gemini. A<br />
job opportunity may come your way, or you<br />
could be developing various projects. You<br />
may be taking greater care of your body<br />
too, by sticking to a regular exercise routine,<br />
eating healthy, or getting to sleep early. As the moon moves<br />
into Cancer over the weekend, you may be connecting with a<br />
good friend or going on a date.<br />
AQUARIUS (JAN 22-FEB 19)<br />
As the summer rolls in on Thursday,<br />
highlighting your sphere of work and wellness,<br />
go with it and enjoy more outdoorsy, vitalitybuilding<br />
social connections. This period has<br />
a “family and cherished friends” feel about<br />
it that’s oh so wholesome and emotionally<br />
nourishing. So relax your mind and feel the warmth those<br />
connections generate within you. That’s an aspect of good<br />
health right there.<br />
PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)<br />
Summer. Is. Finally. HERE! And that means<br />
the water babies come out to splash, frolic,<br />
and soak up vital solar energy. Enjoy your<br />
leisure time, and if you need a reason, this<br />
season lights up your playful sphere of<br />
fun, dating, romance, and talents. This<br />
area gives back in a mutually beneficial<br />
loop, boosting your presence, vitality, and self-esteem, so<br />
swim, immerse in music, read a good book, or nurture that<br />
artistic side.
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FEATURE 17<br />
Beer and lime chicken Chicken lemon coriander soup<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 250 gm chicken<br />
• 1 inch ginger<br />
• 1 green chilli<br />
• black pepper as required<br />
• 1 teaspoon vinegar<br />
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice<br />
• 5 cloves garlic<br />
• 10 sprigs coriander leaves<br />
• 2 teaspoon corn flour<br />
• salt as required<br />
• 1 tablespoon water<br />
Method<br />
• Add all the chicken in a pot and fill the pot with<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 400 gm chicken<br />
• 3 tablespoon lime juice<br />
• 2 teaspoon honey<br />
• 1 teaspoon black pepper<br />
• 1 tablespoon spice paprika<br />
• 1 1/2 cup beer<br />
• 7 cloves minced garlic<br />
• salt as required<br />
• 3 tablespoon cilantro<br />
Method<br />
• Wash and clean the chicken,<br />
cut them into desired pieces<br />
and pat dry. Next, take a bowl<br />
and add beer, lime juice, honey,<br />
garlic, salt, paprika, pepper and<br />
cilantro. Mix all the ingredients<br />
and let the honey dissolve<br />
completely.<br />
• In the next step add the chicken<br />
pieces to the bowl and and<br />
marinate for about half an hour.<br />
• Preheat the grill, and place the<br />
chicken pieces after removing<br />
the excess marinate. You can<br />
keep the marinade for basting<br />
the chicken and grill by flipping<br />
sides. Place the chicken pieces<br />
on the grill and let them cook<br />
for 5-7 minutes each side or<br />
until the chicken is tender and<br />
juices run clear.<br />
• Serve hot with lemon, green<br />
chili sauce/green chutney.<br />
Chilli chicken<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 500 gm chopped chicken<br />
• 1/2 cup corn flour<br />
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic paste<br />
• 2 tablespoon sliced green chilli<br />
• 2 tablespoon vinegar<br />
• salt as required<br />
• 1 beaten egg<br />
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger paste<br />
• 2 cup chopped onion<br />
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce<br />
• 1/2 cup sunflower oil<br />
• 1/2 cup sliced capsicum (green<br />
pepper)<br />
• For Garnishing<br />
pieces in the oil until cooked<br />
through. Remove and drain<br />
excess oil on absorbent paper.<br />
Meanwhile, heat 1 or 2 tbsps<br />
of oil in a separate pan over<br />
medium flame. Once the oil is<br />
sufficiently hot, add the onions<br />
and fry for 2-3 minutes till they<br />
turn translucent. <strong>The</strong>n add the<br />
capsicum and green chillies<br />
and mix well again. You can<br />
also add some dry roasted<br />
green chillies to accentuate the<br />
taste. Moreover, If you prefer<br />
the dish extra spicy, you can<br />
• 1 handful chopped spring also add some vinegar-soaked<br />
onions<br />
Method<br />
• To make this delicious recipe,<br />
begin with washing the chicken<br />
in some lukewarm water and<br />
rinse it again in cold water.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n take a large bowl and<br />
combine chicken, eggs, gingergarlic<br />
paste and cornflour in it.<br />
Mix all the ingredients properly.<br />
You can also drizzle a little<br />
water to the batter to coat the<br />
chicken pieces evenly. Once<br />
done, refrigerate the chicken<br />
for 1-2 hours.<br />
• After 1-2 hours, take out the<br />
marinade. Next, heat oil in a<br />
deep pan over a high flame.<br />
Carefully place the chicken<br />
green chillies to this recipe, as<br />
it adds to the taste and flavour.<br />
(optional)<br />
• When the veggies are partially<br />
cooked, add soy sauce, vinegar,<br />
chicken and salt. Mix all the<br />
ingredients well and make sure<br />
that the chicken is well coated<br />
in the sauces. Keep stirring so<br />
that the chicken does not stick<br />
to the pan.<br />
• Once done, remove and transfer<br />
the dish to a bowl. Garnish with<br />
the spring onions and roasted<br />
sesame seeds (optional) and<br />
serve it to your family and<br />
friends. We are sure your loved<br />
ones will love this awesome<br />
recipe.<br />
water up to a level where it covers the chicken. Add<br />
1 tbsp of salt, ½ inch ginger and a few coriander<br />
leaves. Let this boil for 15 minutes<br />
• Take the chicken out of the pot and let it cool down.<br />
Once it cools down, start shredding the chicken<br />
using either fork or knife. Meanwhile, add some<br />
butter in a pan and add chopped garlic and ginger<br />
to it. along with green chilli slit in half.<br />
<strong>Indian</strong> grilled chicken pasta<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 150 gm halved chicken<br />
• 5 gm salt<br />
• 10 gm green olives<br />
• 5 gm garlic<br />
• 70 gm pasta penne<br />
• tomato chili sauce as required<br />
• barbeque sauce as required<br />
• black pepper as required<br />
• 30 gm lettuce leaf<br />
• 10 gm cherry tomatoes<br />
• 10 ml virgin olive oil<br />
• 5 gm thyme<br />
• 50 ml cocktail sauce<br />
• mayonnaise as required<br />
• tomato ketchup as required<br />
Method<br />
• To make this delicious recipe,<br />
preheat the grill to a high heat.<br />
Apply steak seasoning on the<br />
chicken halves. (Note: steak<br />
seasoning can be prepared<br />
by mixing together salt, black<br />
pepper, garlic and a tiny dash<br />
of chili flakes)<br />
• Now, grease the grill gate and<br />
put the chicken to grill. Cook<br />
Fried chicken momos<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 2 cup all purpose flour<br />
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder<br />
• salt as required<br />
• 2 cup refined oil<br />
• For Filling<br />
• 1 cup chicken<br />
• 1 tablespoon garlic<br />
• 1/4 tablespoon vinegar<br />
• 1/2 cup onion<br />
• 1/2 tablespoon light soya<br />
sauce<br />
• 1/4 tablespoon black pepper<br />
Method<br />
• To prepare this delicious<br />
chicken momos recipe, mix allpurpose<br />
flour, salt and baking<br />
powder in a dough kneading<br />
plate and knead to a stiff<br />
dough using a little water. Keep<br />
it aside to rest for at least 30<br />
minutes before you make balls<br />
out of it.<br />
• Put a saucepan over medium<br />
flame and heat 1 tbsp oil in it.<br />
When the oil is hot enough, add<br />
finely chopped onion and garlic<br />
to it.<br />
• Once they are cooked until soft,<br />
add the chicken.<br />
• Turn the heat high and take it<br />
off the heat until the chicken<br />
is almost cooked. Do not cook<br />
it completely. Mix in the soya<br />
sauce, salt, vinegar and black<br />
pepper.<br />
• Roll the dough thin (translucent)<br />
and cut into 4"-5" rounds.<br />
• Take a wrapper, wet the edges<br />
and place some filling in the<br />
centre, bring edges together to<br />
cover the filling, twist to seal<br />
and fill the rest in the same<br />
way.<br />
• Put a steamer over medium<br />
flame and steam these chicken<br />
momos for about 10 minutes,<br />
and leave them to cool.<br />
• Meanwhile, heat some oil in<br />
a wok and once the oil is hot<br />
enough, carefully slip these<br />
steamed momos in it and<br />
deep-fry them. Remove on<br />
a kitchen napkin to soak the<br />
extra oil. Serve hot with spicy<br />
chutney!<br />
• Once the ginger and garlic cook nicely, add in 1 cup<br />
of chicken stock and about 2 cups of water along<br />
with the shredded chicken and bring this to a boil.<br />
Season it with salt and pepper and add vinegar. To<br />
this, add a cornflour slurry and coriander leaves<br />
along with the juice of 2 lemons. Serve hot with<br />
some toasted bread!<br />
each side of the chicken for 6 to<br />
8 minutes or until the juices are<br />
cleared out. After the chicken<br />
is grilled, remove from heat<br />
and allow them to cool. Cut the<br />
halves of chicken into strips.<br />
• In the meanwhile, take a deep<br />
bottomed vessel and boil<br />
the penne pasta in a slightly<br />
salted water.<br />
• Boil the pasta for around 8 to<br />
10 minutes or until it turns soft.<br />
Now, drain the water and rinse<br />
the pasta with cold water to<br />
cool it down.<br />
• Next, take a large mixing bowl<br />
and combine all the sauces,<br />
mayonnaise, olive, lettuce and<br />
cherry tomatoes together.<br />
Pop in the pasta and chicken<br />
into the mixture and toss well.<br />
You are now ready to rock this<br />
amazing dish.<br />
Tips<br />
• For Fried Chicken Momos,<br />
make sure you have steamed<br />
them before deep frying. If you<br />
don't follow this step, there are<br />
chances that momo skin will<br />
tear up in hot oil.<br />
• While frying the momos, make<br />
sure that you balance the heat<br />
of hot oil. It should be neither<br />
too hot nor too warm as it can<br />
hamper the momo skin.<br />
• Always make sure while<br />
making Chicken Momos that<br />
your filling is made of minced<br />
chicken and not chicken<br />
pieces.
18<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Kamal Haasan<br />
says risk in making films that<br />
question govt: 'It's citizens<br />
right to ask questions'<br />
Artistes are citizens of the<br />
country who have every<br />
right to hold the authorities<br />
to account, said veteran star<br />
Kamal Haasan, admitting there<br />
is a "risk" in making films that<br />
question the government.<br />
<strong>The</strong> actor was speaking at the<br />
trailer launch of his upcoming film<br />
"Hindustani 2: Zero Tolerance",<br />
in which he reprises the role of<br />
Senapathy, a freedom fighterturned-vigilante<br />
who fought<br />
against corruption in India.<br />
Titled "<strong>Indian</strong> 2: Zero Tolerance"<br />
in Tamil, the upcoming movie is<br />
a sequel to Kamal's hit 1996 film<br />
"<strong>Indian</strong>", which featured him in<br />
a dual role. Shankar is returning<br />
to direct the second part in the<br />
franchise.<br />
Asked whether it's tough to<br />
make films that question the<br />
government today, the actor said<br />
this problem has persisted since<br />
the British era.<br />
"People were making films even<br />
then. We will continue to make<br />
those kinds of films, it doesn’t<br />
matter who is at the top of the<br />
establishment. That’s not just the<br />
filmmaker, that’s the citizen’s right<br />
to ask those questions.<br />
"We, as artistes, represent so<br />
many of you people. Thanks to<br />
the applause, we believe that we<br />
are your representatives, hence<br />
we talk boldly, without thinking of<br />
the guillotine. Yes, there is a risk,<br />
the government can get angry,<br />
but your applause puts out that<br />
fire, so make it louder," Kamal told<br />
reporters here.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 69-year-old said not only<br />
politicians, but citizens are also<br />
to be blamed for the corruption<br />
plaguing the country.<br />
"We are all responsible for<br />
the corruption and we must<br />
all change our mind. And the<br />
best time to change our mind is<br />
during elections. <strong>The</strong>se are just<br />
reminders of how corrupt we have<br />
become... Nothing has changed<br />
thanks to corruption. Everything<br />
will change thanks to the<br />
collective conscience," he added.<br />
<strong>The</strong> actor-filmmaker said while<br />
he is a fan of Mahatma Gandhi, he<br />
doesn't subscribe to the ideology<br />
of tolerance. Kamal also directed<br />
and starred in the 2000 film "Hey<br />
Ram", which was set against the<br />
assassination of Gandhi.<br />
"I am a great fan of Gandhi ji.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y say he taught you tolerance,<br />
'What do you think about<br />
tolerance?' I say I am not a great<br />
fan of that tolerance business.<br />
Gandhi ji is my hero but who do<br />
you tolerate, not a friend.<br />
"I want friendship to grow in<br />
the world. What you tolerate is<br />
a headache. Anything that’s a<br />
headache for society, you must<br />
have zero tolerance for. Find a<br />
medicine, put it out," he said.<br />
Also starring Kajal Aggarwal,<br />
Siddharth, and Rakul Preet Singh<br />
in key roles, "Hindustani 2" will hit<br />
the screens on July 12.<br />
Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD costliest ticket<br />
sold for `2,300. Is it more<br />
expensive than Jawan?<br />
Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD, directed by Nag Ashwin, stars a<br />
few big names from Bollywood and the south,<br />
such as Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas, Deepika<br />
Padukone, and Kamal Haasan. It will be released in<br />
theatres on Thursday. Amid buzz around the sci-fi<br />
film, Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD's tickets are selling for as high as<br />
`2,300 in cities such as Mumbai.<br />
Maison INOX: Jio World Plaza in BKC is selling<br />
‘Lux Superior’ tickets for Prabhas' Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD<br />
for `2,300 for <strong>June</strong> 27. <strong>The</strong> tickets are for the night<br />
show in Hindi.<br />
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only on Crickit. Anytime, Anywhere. Explore now!<br />
Interestingly, in September 2023, the tickets for<br />
Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Jawan were also priced as<br />
high as `2400, thanks to the huge buzz around the<br />
Atlee movie. <strong>The</strong> action film, Shah Rukh's second<br />
movie of the year, was released around eight months<br />
after his blockbuster Pathaan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Andhra Pradesh government has permitted<br />
to increase the ticket prices for Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD. Per<br />
a government order, the ticket prices for singlescreen<br />
theatres have been increased to `75, while<br />
multiplexes can charge up to `125.<br />
Additionally, the government has allowed five<br />
shows to be screened per day up to 14 days after<br />
the release instead of the usual four. This decision<br />
is expected to boost the film's revenue, which is one<br />
of the year's most anticipated releases. Telangana<br />
government also approved extra shows and hiked<br />
ticket prices for Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD.<br />
Directed by Nag Ashwin, this post-apocalyptic film<br />
is inspired by Hindu scriptures and set in the year<br />
<strong>28</strong>98 AD. Disha Patani is also a part of Kalki <strong>28</strong>98 AD.<br />
On Friday night, a new trailer for the film was<br />
unveiled. <strong>The</strong> trailer began with Amitabh Bachchan's<br />
character, Ashwathama, talking to Deepika<br />
Padukone's character, and saying, "<strong>The</strong>y say the<br />
whole universe resides within God. But God himself<br />
resides in your womb." More characters were<br />
introduced in the second trailer.<br />
A few days ago, the makers organised a grand<br />
event in Mumbai, where actors like Amitabh, Kamal<br />
Haasan, Deepika, Prabhas, and Rana Daggubati<br />
among others marked their presence.<br />
Friday, <strong>28</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Artificial Intelligence has<br />
been making it’s presence<br />
felt at a rapid face, and the<br />
latest form is mimicking famous<br />
celebrities.<br />
Actors such as Amitabh<br />
Bachchan, Anil Kapoor and Jackie<br />
Shroff back home in India have<br />
pre-empted the misuse of evolving<br />
tech and took the legal route to<br />
protect their personality rights.<br />
We have learnt that singer Kumar<br />
Sanu is next in line. His baritone is<br />
very popular and mimicked by a<br />
host of people.<br />
In such a situation, he doesn’t<br />
want his voice to be used for the<br />
wrong reasons. “I recently went to<br />
the United States to perform in a<br />
string of concerts. My next move is<br />
going to be approaching the court<br />
and take an order like this.<br />
Technology today is dominated<br />
by AI. Kisi bhi singer ka duplicate<br />
ban jaaye, I don’t think this will<br />
be correct. One has to protect<br />
themselves by way of such<br />
methods. AI is dangerous” he<br />
confirms.<br />
Yesteryear singers continue to<br />
stay relevant when their voices<br />
are used via AI in covers of<br />
latest songs. This is also proof<br />
that nostalgia is powerful, and<br />
filmmakers today are still busy in<br />
remaking old chartbusters.<br />
Read online www.iwk.co.nz<br />
Kumar Sanu to get personality<br />
rights protected like Amitabh<br />
Bachchan, says ‘AI se duplicate<br />
voice banana is wrong’<br />
Back from Jimmy Fallon's<br />
Tonight Show, actor Diljit<br />
Dosanjh is now busy<br />
promoting his upcoming film, Jatt<br />
& Juliet 3.<br />
Though he has often admitted<br />
that he doesn't like talking too<br />
much during media interactions,<br />
the Punjabi actor-singer can't help<br />
contain his excitement as he was<br />
at his candid best when he started<br />
the Punjab leg of promotions.<br />
“Punjab is my home, and I<br />
source my energy from its soil.<br />
No matter where I am in the world,<br />
Punjab is with me, in my blood,”<br />
said Dosanjh.<br />
Speaking his heart out about<br />
“Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiyat”,<br />
the actor elaborated on his future<br />
plans and ensured his fans that<br />
they would get to see more of him.<br />
“I am determined to do one<br />
Punjabi film, and an album every<br />
year. That's something substantial<br />
for me. I will continue to do<br />
everything else, but would never<br />
disconnect from Punjab,” he<br />
added.<br />
Reminded of an incident when<br />
the doors of a cinema hall in<br />
Ludhiana were smashed by the<br />
excited audience during the<br />
screening of Jatt & Juliet’s first<br />
instalment in 2012, the 40-yearold<br />
star said he always tries “not<br />
to miss a chance to break into<br />
bhangra at a theatre”.<br />
Dosanjh has earned a loyal<br />
fanbase who enjoy his singing<br />
as much as they adore him as an<br />
actor.<br />
In 2020, he became the first<br />
Punjabi artist to get featured at the<br />
Does this mean today’s music<br />
isn’t that good? Sanu replies,<br />
“I don’t know why producers<br />
and directors aren’t able to<br />
understand... they ignore melody,<br />
use saste lyrics, public pe<br />
zabardasti thop rahe hain. This is<br />
not good. Music ka jo criteria tha<br />
usko khatam karne pe tule hain. I<br />
am okay if they remake old songs,<br />
but if the original singer is still<br />
capable to sing it again, then usse<br />
achha koi aur nahi gaa paayega.<br />
yeh kyun nahi samajh paa rahe<br />
hain log?”<br />
Diljit Dosanjh: People say I've<br />
become a phenomenon, but I've<br />
been working for it for 22 years<br />
Times Square in New York City. In<br />
2023, he became the first <strong>Indian</strong><br />
artist to perform at Coachella<br />
Valley Music and Arts Festival. And<br />
earlier this month, he had another<br />
historic moment becoming the<br />
first ever Punjabi singer to appear<br />
on <strong>The</strong> Tonight Show.<br />
Asked about his journey from<br />
being a source of entertainment<br />
to inspiration, Dosanjh said, “It<br />
comes with time.<br />
People say I have become a<br />
phenomenon all of a sudden, but<br />
miss the fact that I have been<br />
working for it for the past 22 years.<br />
And when you keep the hard<br />
work on, such transitions happen,<br />
and you see them yourself,”<br />
said the actor, adding that<br />
he finds “sukoon” seeing the<br />
spotlight turning on Punjab and<br />
Punjabis, who are finally getting<br />
representation on international<br />
platforms.
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