If you head to Chaat Street expecting to order your favourite curry, you'll have to think again. Owner and chef Vaibhav Vishen is opening Wellingtonian's eyes to Indian cuisine and its wide-ranging street foods, one tapas dish at a time. Chaat are traditional savoury snacks sold by Indian and South Asian street vendors. “These traditional dishes from the streets of India are a combination of textures, spice, and a variety of complex flavours. That is what 'chaat' literally means, to lick, and it’s a blanket term for street food in India,” says Vaibhav.

Designed to honour the often overlooked heroes within our communities, the 2023 Local Business Hero Awards by Prospa celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand’s vibrant community of small business owners. With a 40 percent increase in nominations from last year and over 1.74 million impressions across Neighbourly and Stuff, Prospa’s fourth annual Local Business Hero awards was a resounding success. The awards drew 897 nominations from all corners of Aotearoa New Zealand, each business was nominated by people from within their own community. The increased entries are a testament to the fact that Kiwis are embracing not only their local small businesses but the Prospa awards, which are going from strength to strength each year. Wilson has won an NZ Local Business Hero Winner Certificate, $2,500 cash, a Stuff advertising package valued at $5,000 and a Neighbourly advertising package valued at $2,500.

Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news long bond yields are rising sharply again. The release of these minutes brought a yawn from equity and currency markets but set US bond yields noticeably higher, especially at the long end. In Japan their services sector expanded faster running with good solid gains. The China 10 year bond rate is little-changed at 2.70%. And the NZ Government 10 year bond rate is up another +4 bps at 4.73% and touching its early March highs.

In a Montana Courtroom, Debate Over Whether States Can Make a Difference on Climate Change, and if They HaveA chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on theduring the past week: Sun, Jun 25, 2023 thru Sat, Jul 1 2023. Story of the Week...

While eating the spicy food, the woman began to feel a tickling in her throat, which turned out to be caused by a small stuck piece of chicken bone. The woman did not immediately consult a doctor, as she thought that the piece of bone would go away on its own, but it did not. Finally, he went to the emergency room, where the otolaryngologist determined there was indeed a small piece of chicken bone stuck in his throat. However, the doctor suggested a gentler, if unusual, method: drink four cans of sugary cola, because it would melt the piece of bone. To his great surprise, the syrup really helped, and he felt better the next morning, the chicken bone from his throat had disappeared.

New Zealand cannot arrest its way out of the gang problem. That's according to a report by the Chief Science Advisory - requested to inform policy for reducing gang harm. It instead calls for improvements in addressing related factors such as family harm, youth offending and drug use. Co-author Tracey McIntosh says legal action over simply being associated with gangs causes collateral damage. And it means you have much more distrust in a community and those young people who you actually don't want to enter into a pathway of gangs actually feel that they have no other opportunity."

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:36 am, July 5th, 2023 - 124 commentsCategories: education, science - Tags: culture warsThe Ministry of Education has asked for some initial feedback from teachers on a new draft of the science curriculum. That’s not the only interpretation of the science curriculum news this morning. What I know from RNZ,a new science curriculum is being developed (primary? I really hope the science curriculum is going to start teaching whole systems thinking in schools. There is no science education on a dead planet.

Barfoot & Thompson reported remarkably flat sales in June as the housing market remains subdued over winter. The real estate agency, the largest in the Auckland residential property market, reported 711 residential sales in June, barely changed from 723 in May and 684 in June last year. However last month's sales were the second lowest, behind only June 2022, for the month of June since 2010, suggesting the Auckland housing market remains in a slump. Selling prices edged up slightly with the agency's average selling price coming in at $1,097,896 in June, up $27,077 compared to May. "The current housing market cycle is probably one of the hardest Aucklanders have been through in recent years," Barfoot & Thompson Managing Director Peter Thompson said.

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I know, I know, I know. I know, I know, I know. In this paper we report that in the ESCIMO climate model the world is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming. In ESCIMO we observe self-sustained thawing of the permafrost for hundreds of years, even if global society stops all emissions of man-made GHGs immediately. To stop the self-sustained warming in ESCIMO, enormous amounts of CO2 have to be extracted from the atmosphere.

New Zealand’s crown deficit has grown to $6.5 billion in the eleven months ended in May, more than $2 billion worse than forecast in Budget 2023. The shortfall was largely due to weaker tax revenue from corporate profits, which have been struggling against high interest rates. Core Crown tax revenue was $103.3 billion, but $2.2 billion below forecast. Core crown expenses were close to forecast at $115.1 billion but the missing tax revenue added $2.1 billion to the operating balance deficit of $6.5 billion. Net debt was $5.1 billion higher than forecast at $73.3 billion, or 18.9% of gross domestic product (or 39.5% using the old core debt measure at $153 billion).

A video from TikTok user @nataliebonbon has racked up nearly 3 million views after she detailed her flirting with another passenger onboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to San Diego. Watch the video above.TikTok user @nataliebonbon sent a flirty note to a fellow plane passenger (TikTok/ nataliebonbon)She wrote a note on a napkin to the unaware passenger, "If you're single/interested text me sometime", along with her phone number and the obligatory smiley face. Natalie passed it to the passenger, but he was a bit confused at first, asking if she had dropped the napkin. After posting the video on TikTok, even the airline involved wanted an update: "As the love airline, we're now invested! This story originally appeared on Stuff.co.nz – read the original here.For a daily dose of 9Honey, subscribe to our newsletter here

nzherald.co.nz published this video item, entitled “PM lines up a ‘good chat’ with Kiri Allan | Focus Morning Bulletin: July 4, 2023” – below is their description. Kiri Allan’s future remains uncertain ahead of a meeting with the Prime Minister, Waka Kotahi accused of being overcautious with access to the Harbour Bridge and violent protests ease in France after days of unrest in the latest headlines. Video / NZ Herald / Getty / AP Subscribe and be notified of breaking news: https://goo.gl/LP45jX Check out our playlists: https://goo.gl/Swd249 Like NZ Herald on Facebook: https://goo.gl/tUC4oq Follow NZ Herald on Instagram: https://goo.gl/oLicXe Follow NZ Herald on Twitter: https://goo.gl/Wi6mbv nzherald.co.nz YouTube ChannelGot a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.

'It has to be brutal': All Blacks still haunted by Christchurch shockerSPOTLIGHT: All Black flyhalf Richie Mo’unga says his team can’t afford to be “one-dimensional” when they face Argentina in their Rugby Championship Round One opener in Mendoza on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENTIan Foster’s side learnt some important lessons after their 18-25 defeat to Los Pumas in Christchurch last year. The story continues below…“Real good lessons learned in Christchurch,” Mo’unga told media ahead of Saturday’s clash. ADVERTISEMENT“They are a big physical team, real good loose forwards who want to get on the ball and love to jackal. Not trying to match them, passion for passion, but being really smart about how we play footy.