Australia Secures Onshore Manufacturing agreements for Two COVIC-19 Vaccines

Australia Secures Onshore Manufacturing agreements for Two COVIC-19 Vaccines

A free COVID-19 vaccine will be available progressively throughout 2021 in Australia, if promising trials prove successful, following a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between the Australian Government and pharmaceutical companies. Under the agreement, the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland/CSL will provide more than 84.8 million vaccine doses for the Australian […]

India, China Defence Ministers agree to resolve border tensions through talks

India, China Defence Ministers agree to resolve border tensions through talks

Indian Defence Minister Rajanth Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe met in the Russian capital on Friday to discuss their border dispute and agreed to de-escalate the situation through talks. The two-hour meeting between the Indian and Chinese delegations, which started at 9.30 p.m. Indian Standard Time, saw the border disputes discussed at length. […]

New plan for Australia to reopen by Christmas

New plan for Australia to reopen by Christmas

The National Cabinet met today to discuss Australia Roadmap for Recovery The Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory agreed in-principle to develop a new plan for Australia to reopen by Christmas, including the use of the hotspot concept for travel between jurisdictions. This plan […]

Jobs by attracting Business and Talent to Australia

Jobs by attracting Business and Talent to Australia

International businesses will be lured to Australia and exceptional talent will be encouraged to call Australia home under a new initiative to support the post-COVID recovery and boost local jobs. The new, whole-of-government Global Business and Talent Attraction Taskforce will bring together experts from across the Commonwealth, States and Territories as well as the private […]

Gordon Ramsay: I would love to open my restaurant in India

Gordon Ramsay: I would love to open my restaurant in India

Cooking should be an example in many schools for boosting students’ confidence and making them understand how to look after their well-being Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay loves India and its diverse culture, and he says he would like to open a restaurant here one day. “There are very few countries in the world that have […]

The last aalap- remembering Music doyen Pandit Jasraj

The last aalap- remembering Music doyen Pandit Jasraj

BY SUKANT DEEPAK  New Delhi It was a long journey for the six-year-old who, on his way to school stopped the moment Begum Akhtar’s ghazal ‘Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de’ wafted from a small shop. They say everything changed for that little boy in that pause. The one who the world would later […]

It looks it needed a virus to turn you spiritual: Sadhguru

It looks it needed a virus to turn you spiritual: Sadhguru

BY SUKANT DEEPAK  New Delhi Stressing that right now, people’s fear of the Coronavirus was essentially because mortality was staring them in the face and they were realising how fragile human life is, Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru, adds, “Because people believe they are immortal, once in a while, when something reminds them of […]