Time is on the side of two fencers attempting to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Australian No.1 ranked foil athletes Alisha Kwag, 16, and Lucas Webber, 20, have their sights firmly set on Rio qualification but Japan 2020 is also on their radar. They joined a group of 120 athletes and coaches for […]
Work on intersection improvements along Pennant Hills Road is gaining momentum with night work to start from Sunday 17 January. Mr Lee said the NSW Government is funding the $4.4 million project to reduce congestion along the major arterial through Carlingford as part of the $246 million Pinch Point Program. “Building work started on the upgrade in […]
Australia has been ranked number one overall in a global review of nuclear security by the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Globally, Australia ranked first on measures against theft of nuclear materials and second for protection against sabotage, including cyber-attacks. This is the third consecutive time Australia has topped the list. Australia’s high ranking demonstrates our commitment […]
Los Angeles, Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu‘s semi-biographical western film “The Revenant”, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has bagged 12 nods at the upcoming 88th Academy Awards. However, Indian films failed to make it to the list yet again. The nominees of this year’s Oscars were announced here on Thursday by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor John […]
Mumbai, Actor Rajesh Vivek, who was part of Bollywood for more than two decades, died following a heart attack in Hyderabad on Thursday, a close friend said. He was 66. “I knew Rajesh for more than 40 years. It’s extremely sad and a huge loss to the industry,” his friend Vishnu Sharma told IANS. Rajesh, […]
London, British film, TV and stage actor Alan Rickman, who carved out a niche for himself with his distinctive screen presence and voice and was best known for playing Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series and ruthless terrorist Hans Gruber in “Die Hard”, died here on Thursday, his family announced. He was […]
Sydney, Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis survived a scare to win their 29th consecutive match and enter the women’s doubles final of the Sydney International here on Thursday. The Indo-Swiss tennis pair won a rain-interrupted semi-final 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in one hour and 32 minutes to beat Romanian-Kazakh pairing of Raluca Olaru and […]
Mumbai, Hamid N. Ansari, a techie from Mumbai who went missing in Pakistan on November 10, 2012, is reported to be alive and in custody of the Pakistan Army, an activists’ group said here on Thursday. “We are relieved and happy to hear that he’s safe. But we are uncertain of the future. We want our […]
Jakarta, In a brazen midday assault, a band of well-armed militants detonated explosives and opened fire on Thursday in the heart of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. When it was over, two people were dead and 19 others were wounded, police said. Five of the attackers were also killed. A manhunt was underway for additional suspects. […]
New Delhi, With a day left for the pilot-run of the odd-even scheme to end, the Supreme Court on Thursday declined an urgent hearing of a plea challenging a Delhi High Court go-ahead for it. The Delhi government hinted that the scheme that stipulated plying of odd-numbered cars only on odd dates and even-numbered cars […]