After seeing a dramatic improvement in the emergency department against national benchmarks, the Health Minister Jillian Skinner congratulated Westmead Hospital. Mrs Skinner was accompanied by Member for Parramatta Dr Geoff Lee and Member for Granville Tony Issa as she toured the emergency department and met staff. Mrs Skinner said Westmead Hospital has dramatically improved its […]
Delhi will see The Trinamool Congress fight for all seven seats in the coming Lok Sabha polls, party national general secretary Mukul Roy said here Monday.Social activist Anna Hazare and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee will address a joint rally next month in Delhi.The rally could be held at the Ram Leela ground, added Roy. He […]
Najeeb Jung, Delhi Lt. Governor, has defended his decision to cancel the “management quota” in the criteria for nursery school admissions, and told the Delhi High Court that “commercialisation of education” cannot be allowed. His response came on a petition by the Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools against the December 2013 guidelines for […]
An Indian American scientist on Monday said that the application of computers in biology or computational biology was progressing well in India due to its increasing resource of students in the IT field.Computational biology involves application of computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioural, and social systems. “India is advancing well in computational […]
New Delhi, Feb 24 The 1960s movie “Mary Poppins” immortalised it with “Feed the birds, tuppence a bag” but beware – what 42-year-old Balwant Singh and many do-gooders in the capital and elsewhere practice every morning – feeding pigeons grain – could lead to compromising their health and hygiene of the surrounding area. Feeding birds […]
An India-born doctor in Australia, convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old patient, has lost his latest bid to stay in the country. Suhail Durani, 36, was convicted of inappropriately touching the patient and asking her indecent questions Feb 20, 2010, at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia state. In 2012, Durani lost his bid […]
Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe is calling on consumers from diverse backgrounds to take advantage of the extensive information available from NSW Fair Trading before buying a used car. “New migrants and people from non-English speaking backgrounds can face problems when undertaking a major purchase such as a car because of a lack of understanding […]
Health Minister Jillian Skinner today congratulated Westmead Hospital on a dramatic improvement in emergency department performance against national benchmarks. Mrs Skinner was accompanied by Member for Parramatta Dr Geoff Lee and Member for Granville Tony Issa as she toured the emergency department and met staff. Mrs Skinner said Westmead Hospital has dramatically improved […]
Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner today announced that NSW has secured production of the major international film Gods of Egypt, which will star Gerard Butler and Geoffrey Rush and begins filming in Sydney late next month. Mr Stoner said the NSW Government helped secure the production through NSW Trade & Investment’s State Investment Attraction Scheme. “Securing the […]
Afghanistan Saturday rebuffed Pakistan’s claim that 23 of its security personnel were killed by Pakistani Taliban militants on Afghan soil. “In the wake of the claim made by Pakistani officials that 23 security personnel of Pakistan were killed by militants inside Afghanistan, the ministry of interior conducted comprehensive investigation but could not find any evidence […]