Australia

Purushottam Sawrikar, Makhan Singh Khangure and Vijay Kumar have been awarded the Order of Australia medals for their achievements and contribution to the community.

Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2016 in Mathematics for his exceptionally wide-ranging, fundamental and creative contributions to the modern number theory.

The Better India Team visited The International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad this year and spoke to international guest kite flyers, asking them what they thought the ‘Better side of India’ was. We turned up some amazing answers.

Australian innovator Russell Collins has developed a Himalayan rocket stove that is energy efficient, clean, and less polluting and uses four to five times less firewood than a conventional stove for burning.

Her daughter’s late auditory impairment diagnosis set this mother on a journey to change the way treatment is handled in India.

In a historic moment for women's cricket in India, Indian batswoman Smriti Mandhana became the first and only Indian cricketer to be named in the first ever ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016.

Open Sky is an art community that offers a platform to different kinds of arts like music, poetry, stand-up comedy, theatre and magic.

26-year-old Uppma Virdi aka 'Chai Walli' recently impressed everyone when she was awarded ‘Australia’s Businesswoman of the Year’.

What is it about tea that having a cup always sounds like a great idea? Ask Madhur Malhotra, an ex-NRI who now sells tea, and he will guide you towards Chai 34 - one of the coolest tea hangouts in Bhopal. Here’s more.

Separated from his older brother at a train station in 1986, 5-year-old Saroo found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. A quarter of a century later, now settled in Australia, he painstakingly searched for his family using Google Earth and, incredible as it may sound, found his way home.