ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS Registrations are now open for events celebrating this year’s Harmony Day on 21 March, Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said today. “Harmony Day is Australia’s largest national multicultural event. This year we are celebrating the strength of our cultural diversity, recognising the benefits diversity brings to our nation,” Senator […]
Terrible stories about the abuse of older people have been prominent in the media lately. What is the latest information on elder abuse and what can we do about it? How is it family violence and how should it be reported? These questions and more will be addressed by Seniors Rights Victoria in our first […]
A record cohort of medical graduates will commence their year-long internship in NSW hospitalstomorrow. The NSW Government will fund 983 intern places in 2016 at a cost of $107 million – this is more intern positions than any other state or territory. “I congratulate our medical graduates and share their excitement as they mark the […]
Mumbai, Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui on Monday filed a cross-FIR against five people following a woman’s complaint that he pushed her and behaved inappropriately during a dispute over parking space. The National Award-winning actor says it is a false allegation. A woman named Heena Sheikh filed the complaint at the Versova police station on Sunday against […]
Panaji, The Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a rare viral strain popularly known as ‘monkey fever‘, has claimed the life of a 60-year-old woman from Mauxi village in Goa, officials said on Monday. The victim from the village in North Goa, 50 km from Panaji, expired at the Goa Medical College Hospital located on the outskirts […]
New Delhi, Delhi Police on Monday arrested a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist from Mewat in Haryana and got his custody till February 1, officials said. Abdul Sami, a resident of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, was arrested from Nuh, the district headquarter of Mewat on the Delhi-Alwar highway, about 45 km from Gurgaon. “We arrested Abdul Sami […]
Kolkata/New Delhi, Stepping up its probe, a Kolkata Police team arrested a youth from Delhi in connection with the sensational hit-and-run case in which an IAF corporal was mowed down in the West Bengal capital. He was killed while supervising the Republic Day Parade rehearsal in the eastern metropolis last week. A Kolkata STF team […]
Jerusalem, India attaches the highest importance to its relations with Israel, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said as she met Israel’s top leadership, including President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. “India attaches the highest importance to full development of wide-ranging ties with Israel,” she said as she met Netanyahu who is […]
Hyderabad/New Delhi The protests over suicide of a Dalit research scholar rocked University of Hyderabad while police booked central minister Bandaru Dattatreya and three others for abetment of suicide and also for violations of the SC/ST act. A day after Rohith Vemula hanged himself in a university hostel room, protests broke out on the campus […]
Mumbai, A police complaint was registered on Sunday against Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui by a woman residing in his housing society alleging that the actor pushed her and behaved inappropriately during a dispute over parking space. Heena Sheikh, 24-year-old daughter of Soni Dandekar, the chairperson of the Zohra Aghadi Nagar housing society at Yari Road, […]