Vijaya Pereira — The 15th Australian Masters Games in Adelaide turned out to be the best for visiting Indian athletes as they took back home a rich haul of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals after a successful competing in the games held here early this month. More than 10,000 participants from across Australia and around […]
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, other political leaders, performers and thousands of Adelaide residents this Saturday, October 31st for “Walk Together“. As part of the National Day of Unity, Welcome to Australia SA encourages South Australians to participate in National Mosque Open Day by visiting a local Mosque before walking together from Festival Plaza (behind […]
Senator Singh is in India for the inaugural Australia-India Leadership Dialogue (see media release further down) but took the opportunity beforehand to seek a meeting in Mumbai with Indian Actor and polio campaigner Amitabh Bachchan to ask for his support in fighting TB in the Asia Pacific. From Tasmanian Labor Senator, Lisa Singh: “I was […]
Caste, caste, caste… As Bihar readies for the third phase of assembly elections on Wednesday, caste seems to have taken the centre stage yet again. Although rival claimants for power are talking about issues related to economic development, political activists and voters think it is caste which will finally determine who votes for who. That […]
A court here on Tuesday convicted a 39-year old man of robbing, raping, burning and killing a techie from Andhra Pradesh in January last year. Women Court special judge Vrushali Joshi finding Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap guilty and will pronounce the quantum of sentence on Wednesday. Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni said that the prosecution successfully […]
Not just being a leader in providing integrated cloud platforms and new-age Java, global software major Oracle has launched what is described as the world’s first microprocessor with enhanced security and better efficiency while running databases. At the OpenWorld 2015 conference here, Oracle introduced SPARC M7 processor which incorporates unique hard-wired security and performance functions […]
Permanent seats for India and an African representative in the UN Security Council and fighting terrorism were among issues raised and discussed in the ministerial meeting of Indian and African foreign ministers on the second day of the third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) on Tuesday and in the bilateral meetings that followed. Addressing the ministerial […]
A six-day joint naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka commenced in the seas off Trincomalee, in the eastern part of the island nation on Tuesday, the Lankan navy media unit said. The joint exercise titled “SLINEX 2015” is scheduled to end on November 1. Six naval ships and six Fast Attack Craft of the […]
NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance today announced the second massive crane which will build the skytrain on the $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest has been commissioned and is now fully operational. “The two giant horizontal cranes have already completed more than 550m of the 4km skytrain between Bella Vista and Rouse Hill,” […]
Social networking giant Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday visited the Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city and said: “It is even more stunning than I expected.” “I’m in India for our Townhall Q&A tomorrow (Wednesday), and I decided to visit the Taj Mahal. I’ve always wanted to see this,” Zuckerberg posted on Facebook […]