The Melbourne Newsroom

Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar live on ABC 24 discussing India's impact in Australia as a growing superpower.

Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar is a former Indian Government Minister and in 2006 was conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award by the President of India. He was visiting Melbourne to deliver a keynote lecture at the Australia India Institute's inaugural conference on 'The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India and its Aspirations' from 22 to 23 September.

The University of Melbourne has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India to help improve India’s national mental health system.

The impact of the mobile phone in India could be compared to the invention of the iconic Colt revolver, according to Professor Robin Jeffrey from the National University of Singapore.

The Australia India Institute and the Victorian State Government will today launch a Doctoral Scholarship Program to allow ten of India’s best and brightest PhD students to study in Victoria.

The Australia India Institute and the University of Melbourne are poised to become the focus of Indian studies in Australia through a series of key initiatives announced by the State Government.

VIDEO ALERT: Death of Tamil Tigers’ leader not a guarantee for peace, says Dr Pradeep Taneja.

The armed struggle of Tamil Tigers for an ethnic homeland in Sri Lanka is reported to have ended after 26 years, yet Dr Pradeep Taneja from the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences said peace will be short-lived if the Sri Lankan Government does not “reach out to the Tamil people and appeal to their grievances”.