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When a travel agency goes bust, travelers can be left thousands of dollars out-of-pocket or stranded far from home, and recent cases show members of the Indian Australian community are particularly vulnerable to these risks. Preetinder Grewal reports....

There are concerns that unscrupulous migration agents overseas are targeting desperate visa seekers by promoting false or misleading information, after media reports that Australia may open its Work and Holiday visa to applicants from thirteen countries including India. 

Having made a name for herself in south Indian cinema, Navneet is India’s first parliamentarian of Punjabi origin to have been elected from Maharashtra.

After the Indian government’s move of stripping Jammu & Kashmir of the special status it enjoyed for seven decades, the Kashmir valley has remained under lockdown with restrictions on mobile internet and mainstream political leaders under detention. The discussion is now around its likely fallout once the lockdown is lifted and people come out of their houses. Ramesh Vinayak is the editor of Hindustan Times’ Chandigarh edition and has reported from Kashmir for over 30 years. He says fears are the situation will get more complicated.

Around one in four Australian children are affected by bullying at school. As a parent, it can be hard to know what to do if your child is a victim of bullying or if they're the bully themselves. SBS has contacted some experts about what parents can do to support their children and end bullying.

"I hear of villages in India where a girl child hasn't been born for two years," says Canberra-based Jass Tiwana Dhaliwal, who has penned a poem to share the heartache she felt when reads tragic news stories like that.

ਪੇਸ਼ ਹੈ ਜੱਸ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ ਦੀ ਜ਼ੁਬਾਨੀ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਲਿਖੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ, 'ਇਕ ਅਣਜੰਮੀ ਧੀ ਦੀ ਪੁਕਾਰ'   

"I hear of villages in India where a girl child hasn't been born for two years," says Canberra-based Jass Tiwana Dhaliwal, who has penned a poem to share the heartache she felt when reads tragic news stories like that.

ਪੇਸ਼ ਹੈ ਜੱਸ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ ਦੀ ਜ਼ੁਬਾਨੀ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਲਿਖੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ, 'ਇਕ ਅਣਜੰਮੀ ਧੀ ਦੀ ਪੁਕਾਰ'   

"I hear of villages in India where a girl child hasn't been born for two years," says Canberra-based Jass Tiwana Dhaliwal, who has penned a poem to share the heartache she felt when reads tragic news stories like that.

ਪੇਸ਼ ਹੈ ਜੱਸ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ ਦੀ ਜ਼ੁਬਾਨੀ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਲਿਖੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ, 'ਇਕ ਅਣਜੰਮੀ ਧੀ ਦੀ ਪੁਕਾਰ'   

In a move described as the most wide-reaching in seven decades, India has scrapped Indian-controlled Kashmir's special constitutional autonomy.

India’s national government has scrapped the special status for Jammu & Kashmir that allowed the state to have its own constitution and laws - the move coming in the wake of days of uncertainty that saw curfew-like situation in the Kashmir valley with mobile internet suspended and tens of thousands of additional troops being deployed.