An organisation that governs and cares for the transgender community in Malaysia has lodged a police complaint on a hate video that sought physical violence against the community. The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organisation lodged the complaint at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur after a group of Indian-Malaysian transgender women complained about the […]
The State Government is safeguarding Western Australia’s $7 billion agrifood industry from destructive animal and plant diseases, pests and weeds. Agriculture and Food Minister Ken Baston said frontline biosecurity defence was vital. “Being able to stop the risk at the WA border not only protects our agricultural industries but provides a competitive market […]
The NSW Government is encouraging students to use National Skills Week as an opportunity to consider an apprenticeship or traineeship as a long-term career and to share in the benefits from the state’s investment in infrastructure. Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business John Barilaro said National Skills Week will inform and inspire […]
In a miraculous surgical feat, an Indian-American surgeon has gifted a pair of new ears to an eight-year-old boy in the US, media reported. Elijah Bell, a second-grade student at the Frazer Elementary in Stark county, Ohio, was born with bilateral atresia microtia — a rare birth defect where the outer ears are undeveloped. But […]
Indian restaurant owners in Britain have called on the government to introduce short-term work visas in order to plug the shortage of curry chefs across the country, a media report said on Sunday. The owners are preparing a submission to Prime Minister David Cameron and cabinet members, which warns that 90 percent of Indian curry […]
The toll in blasts in a warehouse in China’s Tianjin city has risen to 123, authorities said on Sunday. The identities of all victims have been verified, Xinhua quoted Gong Jiansheng, deputy head of Tianjin’s publicity department as saying. Fifty people, including 34 firefighters and four policemen, continued to remain missing nearly two weeks after […]
The death toll in Philippine typhoon Goni has risen to 14, the state disaster management agency said on Sunday. At least 11 others were injured and three remained missing, Xinhua quoted the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) as saying. Over 33,000 were evacuated in five regions in Philippines due to the rough […]
Three militants were killed and an army soldier injured in a night-long gunfight in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, an official said on Sunday . “At 8 p.m. yesterday (Saturday) a search party of 21 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and police was fired upon by hiding militants in Khumhaira forests (Handwara) in the Kupwara district,” a senior police […]
A n Indian-American classical dancer is set to perform at a concert in California this weekend to raise funds for a high-poverty elementary school, a media report said. Sharanya Balaji, a 16-year-old senior from Harker school, said she wants to help the Grant Elementary School which lacks basic education facilities, mercurynews.com reported on Friday. “It […]
Eight Western Australian firefighters left Perth today bound for the United States where they will help fight dozens of bushfires burning across the western part of the country. The four Department of Parks and Wildlife and four Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) personnel are part of a contingent of 71 firefighters from […]