The next phase of a campaign to provide help for gamblers from a culturally diverse background has launched, building on a highly successful first phase. “Gambling is an issue for people from all walks of life, however, research shows that people from a migrant background face different issues and significant barriers in seeking help.” says […]
Since August 2021, Centrelink have put debt pauses in place to help ease the pressure on people dealing with COVID-19 lockdowns and more recent disaster events. These debt pauses will be ending between July and October 2022, depending on which event affected you. The more recently you were affected, the longer you will have until […]
United Nations, Aug 16 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appointed India’s Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma to a panel of eminent experts on internet governance. Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Reesa were also appointed to the 10-member Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel, Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric […]
Mumbai, Aug 16 After disaster struck the two Independence Day long weekend releases — Aamir Khan’s long-awaited, mega-hyped ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and the Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Raksha Bandhan’ — a wag commented that Bollywood has become like the Congress: it has only its past to live on and stares at a dim future, unless a miracle […]
Akshay Kumar has been busy promoting his film Raksha Bandhan and appeared as a special guest on a reality show. He was surprised after hearing an audio message from his sister Alka Bhatia. Read on to know what made the actor emotional… Addressing him as ‘Raju’, she says in Punjabi, “I just remembered while chatting […]
New Delhi, Aug 15 In another thrust to his electric vehicle (EV) dream, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the country needs to be ‘Aatmanirbhar’ (self-reliant) in its energy sector. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 75th Independence Day, Modi said that from solar energy and bio […]
The sails of the Sydney Opera House will be cloaked in the tricolours of the Indian national flag tonight to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure welcomed the lighting up of the iconic Sydney landmark in orange, white and green to commemorate India’s […]
The stock-market ‘King of Bulls’ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala — the founder of Akasa Air, the India’s newest private airline – passed away here on Sunday morning following a prolonged illness, his close associates said. He was 62 and is survived by his wife Rekha and three children, who were with him when he breathed his last, […]
As the country prepares for its 75th Independence Day, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, joined by his family, hoisted the Tricolour at his residence here on Sunday. It was an expression of his support for the nationwide ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign. It is an initiative of the central government to get all Indians to be […]
As India is set to celebrate the 75th Independence day with patriotic fervour and enthusiasm, the police in the national capital are on their toes to prevent any untoward incident. “During the Independence Day season, there is a high footfall of people in the markets, temples and commercial places. This rush of people can be […]