$7.5 billion went through NSW cash registers in September with the State recording a bumper month of retail trade. NSW Treasurer Andrew Constance said the ABS figures released today show retail trade increased 1.7 per cent in September to be up 9.5 per cent through the year – the highest of all the States. “This […]
A new Speak-Out Hotline has been launched to protect people from race and religion-based harassment, intimidation and abuse, Minister for Police and Emergency Services Stuart Ayres and Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello announced today. Mr Ayres said the new hotline, which will be operated by the NSW Police Call Centre (PoliceLink) in conjunction with Multicultural NSW, […]
NSW Fair Trading Minister Matthew Mason-Cox today said Fair Trading officers seized hundreds of Nike and ASICS brand footwear in a raid at a home in Hurlstone Park, in Sydney’s inner-west. Mr Mason-Cox said more than 560 pairs of counterfeit Nike and ASICS brand footwear was seized at the make-shift warehouse, which had been under […]
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New Delhi, Nov 3 Manmohan Singh will be conferred one of Japan’s top national awards for his “significant contribution” towards boosting bilateral ties, the Japanese embassy said Monday. The former Indian prime minister said he was “truly honoured” for being chosen. Manmohan Singh is the first Indian to be conferred the ‘Grand Cordon of the […]
By Saeed Naqvi Even the skeptics now agree that India shall be a power in the Asian century. To insure this rise to the top, India must maximize all its assets. One asset for which it has a reputation is a lively media, a function of a relatively stable democratic order since independence. If information […]
Port Louis (Mauritius) India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj paid tribute to the ‘girmitiyas’, the nearly half a million Indians who arrived in Mauritius to work as indentured labourers in the 19th century, saying their sacrifice did not go in vain as they went on to become the architects of a resurgent and confident new […]
By Karishma Saurabh Kalita New Delhi “Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble,” said the three witches in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The day of the dead, better known as Halloween, will be celebrated all across the world Friday and Indian restaurants, cafes and nightclubs are in full swing to get their “spook” […]
New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the sale of khadi products had gone up by almost 125 percent since he urged the people to opt for the hand-woven cotton fabric. “I was told that khadi sales increased by almost 125 percent,” Modi said on the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme on All India Radio which […]