Volunteers from Tangaroa Blue will hit the coast around Yeppoon over the next four days to clean-up marine debris in the area following cyclone Marcia. The severe tropical cyclone crossed the coast at Shoalwater Bay, just north of Yeppoon, in February. Two months on litter, plastics and other refuse has made its way from the […]
Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today officially opened a new job training suite specifically designed for disadvantaged youth in the Illawarra, reinforcing the Coalition Government’s commitment to helping young people find and stay in a job. “The Coalition Government is investing $40,000 to establish a training suite and $70,000 to operate a […]
Giving a sensational twist to the ongoing re-trial of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the accident case, his lawyer Shrikant Shivade on Friday argued that one of the victims could have died because of the impact of the car falling off while being lifted by a crane. Salman’s vehicle had rammed into the American Express […]
The Supreme Court on Friday appointed CBI officer Vivek Priyadarshi to head the investigating team that is assisting former chief justice R.M. Lodha in determining the role of BCCI official Sunder Raman in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) betting and spot fixing scam. The apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Fakkir […]
A total of 475 people, including 73 Indians and 337 Bangladeshis, evacuated from strife-torn Yemen will arrive here on Saturday aboard two Indian ships, an official said on Friday. Besides, 65 Yemenis are aboard MV Coral and MV Kavaratti. “A team of Bangladesh officials has already arrived to take care of their nationals. We do […]
A week after it revised its outlook on India to positive from stable, international credit rating major Moody’s pegged India’s growth at 7.5 percent for 2015. “India’s economy is on a cyclical upswing. Forward looking indicators suggest domestic demand is gathering momentum,” said Faraz Syed, associate economist, Moody’s Analytics. According to the ratings agency, low […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation tour was marked by several high points – the surprise announcement on purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets in France, clinching a five-year uranium supply deal with Canada, pushing the Make in India initiative in Germany, assuring all of the ease of doing business in India, not forgetting the rockstar […]
A Ukrainian journalist was shot dead on Thursday by unidentified gunmen near his house in central Kiev, the country’s interior ministry said. Oles Buzina was killed at 1.20 p.m. by two masked gunmen, who fired several shots from a car and fled, Xinhua news agency reported citing ministry spokesperson Julia Mustash. Buzina, 45, worked as […]
Construction giant Shapoorji Pallonji plans to invest Rs.20,000 crore in building infrastructure, including roads, flyovers and separators at road junctions here. This was stated by Telangana government on Thursday after Shapoorji Pallonji chairman Shapoor P. Mistry and other officials met with Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao here. Mistry evinced interest to be a partner in […]
The two-day Business & Climate Summit to be held in Paris next month is about collaboration between business and the governments in the area of decarbonisation of the economy, an official of the United Nations said on Thursday. The international business community would converge on Paris next month at the Business & Climate Summit to […]