Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ordered a multi-agency probe team on the global expose by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), dubbed the “Panama Papers”, which found over 500 Indians also had alleged offshore links. “A multi-agency group is being formed to monitor the black money trail,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here after […]
Prospective homebuyers in NSW will soon have greater access to discounted pre-purchase inspection reports, with reforms announced today by Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello. Mr Dominello said amendments to the Property Stock and Business Agents Regulation 2014 would help to reduce duplication of inspection reports, promoting peer-to-peer services that offer discounts to […]
World Autism Awareness Day (2 April) has highlighted the importance of Queensland’s innovative services for children with autism and the need for a continued focus on early intervention. On the eighth annual World Autism Day, Disability Services Minister Coralee O’Rourke said the Palaszczuk Government was committed to improving outcomes for young people with autism through […]
US presidential candidate and Republican front-runner Donald Trump reiterated his belief that Japan should arm itself to deter a threat from North Korea rather than have the US military protect the longtime ally against the rogue nuclear nation. “I would rather have them not arm, but I’m not going to continue to lose this tremendous […]
The arrival of the Europeans in the New World in the late 1400s led to the demographic collapse of Native Americans, shows a large-scale study of ancient DNA of pre-Columbian mummies and skeletons between 500 and 8,600 years old. Diseases brought by Europeans could be one of the reasons for the collapse, according to the […]
Mumbai police on Saturday summoned television actor Rahul Raj Singh for questioning in connection with the alleged suicide of actress Pratyusha Banerjee, an officer said. “We have called him and he is now with us… We are recording his statement,” Mumbai police spokesperson DCP Dhananjay Kulkarni told IANS. Singh, a former state-level cricketer who also […]
US President Barack Obama said that global efforts to improve nuclear security have removed from circulation material equivalent to 150 nuclear weapons, safeguarding it from extremists. “That’s material that will never fall into the hands of terrorists,” Obama said at a news conference on Friday during the closing of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, here. […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to develop and deploy technology to defend against nuclear terrorism as President Barack Obama called on global leaders to jointly confront the growing threat of the Islamic State. He made the pledge Friday at the conclusion of a two-day Nuclear Security Summit that brought 50 world leaders to Washington […]
March 2016 has become the hottest March ever on record in Australia, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), said in its monthly climate report. In the report released on Friday, the BoM said in March 2016, the average temperature was 1.7 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. This overtook […]
Queensland students are kick-starting their construction career and learning on the job as part of the team building the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Village. Minister for the Commonwealth Games said local students were gaining construction qualifications and real-world experience on the world-class Parklands Project site as part of the Queensland Government-funded Get Ready 4 […]