A strategy aimed at making Western Australia one of the world’s foremost culinary tourism destinations has been launched today by Premier Colin Barnett. Mr Barnett said Taste 2020 – A Strategy for Food and Wine Tourism would see the State Government working with seafood, agriculture, beverage and tourism industries to grow WA’s reputation as […]
Today I travel to New York to lead Australia’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, the largest annual gathering of world leaders. A major focus of this year’s meeting is the Sustainable Development Summit. I will join world leaders to endorse an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs will have […]
Indian director Pan NalinÂ’s film “Angry Indian Goddesses”, a story about a group of Indian girls in Goa gone wild, has been voted as the first runner-up at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which concluded here on Sunday. A huge cheer went up when TIFF creative directive Cameron Bailey announced the name of […]
In 2002, when experimental cinema was not as welcome as it is today, Meghna Gulzar dared to be different with “Filhaal…”, a film on surrogacy. The filmmaker is only glad she is “ahead of time” with her creativity. ” ‘Filhaal…’, even though it was appreciated, didn’t do very well commercially. Back then, people had said, […]
With the side-effects of therapy being one of the major stumbling blocks in advancing treatment for deadly diseases, a team of scientists, including one of Indian origin, has designed a “nanovehicle” that could drive drugs straight to their destinations – the diseased tissues – thereby sparing other healthy organs from any unintended effects. Made of […]
The Odisha government’s decision to resort to power outages much before summer looks like a man-made crisis, given the government’s failure to launch power projects and unregulated drawing of water by industries causing scarcity in reservoirs. In Odisha, once a power surplus state, the state government, which claims to be a pioneer in electricity reforms, […]
The hills of Manipur continue to simmer with tension ever since the state assembly, in a specially convened session on August 31, passed three controversial bills ostensibly to protect the rights of the indigenous people in the state. The passing of the Protection of Manipur People Bill, the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Bill […]
Despite a poor monsoon season this year, with rainfall deficiency being 55 to 60 percent, foodgrain states Punjab and Haryana are looking forward to procurement of 17.2 million tonnes of paddy this year. Punjab, where the paddy production and procurement is much higher than neighbouring Haryana, is in fact looking at a much higher procurement […]
Can’t remember the exact date and place of meeting Jagmohan Dalmiya for the first time, but it was sometime in 1979 when he and his close friend Inderjit Singh Bindra were seen as the new kids on the block on the cricket scene. The two had shaken the then khalifas of Indian cricket who had […]
Local field commanders of the Indian and Pakistani armies on Monday decided to exercise restraint to respect the bilateral ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Jammu and Kashmir between them, an army official said. “A brigade-level flag meeting was held between the Indian and Pakistani army at Chakan Da Bagh crossing point […]