Book: Coolie Woman – The Odyssey of Indenture; Author: Gaiutra Bahadur; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 274; Price: Rs.599 Over half a million Indians were taken to the Caribbean colonies to work on the sugarcane plantations; a little more than a third of them were women. Some of them travelled abroad on their own without male […]
Beijing, May 8 (IANS) China’s foreign trade volume declined 0.5 percent year-on-year from January to April to $1.32 trillion, data showed Thursday. Exports decreased 2.3 percent year-on-year, while imports went up 1.4 percent during this period, Xinhua quoted the General Administration of Customs as saying. The trade surplus stood at $35.24 billion, down 41.4 percent from […]
Washington, May 8 (IANS) The Indian Embassy here has awarded the new contract for providing Visa/OCI/PIO/Renunciation of Indian Citizenship Certificate application support services to the Cox & Kings Global Services Pvt. Ltd. The new service provider will be operational from May 21, a day after the current service provider, BLS International Ltd. closes all its operations […]
Rio de Janeiro, May 8 (IANS) Ronaldinho and Kaka were left out of Brazil’s 23-man squad for the 2014 football World Cup Wednesday as coach Luiz Felipe Scolari kept faith in his 2013 Confederations Cup-winning team. Former Barcelona star Ronaldinho has struggled with form and fitness for Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro football club and was not expected […]
• $24.4 million to support multicultural affairs and citizenship • Leadership programs for new and emerging communities extended & enhanced • Coalition Government maintaining strong funding investment to enhance harmonious cultural diversity The Victorian Coalition Government has maintained its strong investment in multicultural affairs and citizenship with an allocation of $24.4 million in the 2014-15 […]
The State Government has announced funding of $30.3million to continue and build on the work already undertaken to close the gap in life expectancy for Aboriginal people. Health Minister Kim Hames has also directed that $2million from the general health budget be allocated to the Footprints to Better Health Strategy (FBH), bringing the total to […]
The annual Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition is one of the highlights of the Indian Film Festival and attracted thousands to the Federation Square in Melbourne on 4 May. Over twenty talented contestants from all over Australia competed for the winning titles with Bollywood’s brightest stars Malaika Arora Khan from India’s Got Talent, Dhoom 3 Director […]
Washington, May 7 (IANS) Ukraine’s border guard has received a large percentage of the US-funded equipment it had requested, a Pentagon spokesman said. Steven Warren told reporters Tuesday that the Pentagon recently provided funding to Ukraine for locally purchased equipment, Xinhua reported. “To date,” he said, “using Cooperative Threat Reduction funds, Embassy Kiev has purchased and […]
Washington, May 7 (IANS) Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly brought down the then US president, is back in the news saying “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” Breaking her silence over the scandalous affair in the 1990s with Clinton – which led to the […]
Rome, May 7 (IANS) Inter captain Javier Zanetti has confirmed that he will retire from football following 19 seasons with the Milan club. The Argentine joined Inter in 1995 as Massimo Moratti’s first signing after taking over the club. After a long-time in service, he found that he could not carry on, reported Xinhua. “After suffering […]