Venu Menon

Aug 20, 2024 | indiannewslink.co.nz | Venu Menon |Venkat Raman

Venu MenonWellington, August 21,2024Tonga Language Week 2024 is under way across New Zealand. The celebration is part of the Pacific Language Week series and aligns with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Decade of Indigenous Languages Programme aimed at sustaining and revitalising heritage languages. This year’s theme for the Tongan Language Week is sustaining the language by using it at home, church and the community at large.

Aug 19, 2024 | indiannewslink.co.nz | Venu Menon |Venkat Raman

Venu MenonWellington, August 20,2024Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is toying with the idea of participating in Pillar Two of AUKUS, the security partnership forged between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Luxon’s keynote foreign policy address to Sydney-based think tank Lowy Institute last week was distinctly hawkish on Wellington’s enhanced partnership with Australia in ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific region.

Aug 15, 2024 | indiannewslink.co.nz | Venu Menon |Venkat Raman

Venu MenonWellington, August 15,2024High Commissioner of India to New Zealand Neeta Bhushan today hoisted the tricolour at the Indian High Commission in Wellington  to mark the 78th Independence Day of India. High Commissioner Bhushan then read out Indian President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the nation delivered on Independence eve. In her address, the President said Independence Day “makes us recall the days when the nation was under a foreign rule.

Aug 14, 2024 | indiannewslink.co.nz | Venu Menon |Venkat Raman

Venu MenonWellington, August 14,2024The Indian diaspora gathered at the High Commission of India premises in Wellington on Wednesday to witness a video highlighting the poignant scenes of truckloads of people leaving their homeland and heading towards unknown destinations in the turbulent aftermath of India’s partition in 1947. The Government of India has declared August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day since 2021.

Aug 13, 2024 | indiannewslink.co.nz | Venu Menon |Venkat Raman

Venu MenonWellington, August 14,2024The student protests that upended the Sheikh Hasina regime and replaced it with an interim government under Nobel laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus is a watershed moment for Bangladesh. It marks a shift away from the political, military and bureaucratic nexus that has run the country in the past. The students are now in charge. But restoring a semblance of order amid the turbulence is the primary challenge facing the interim government.