Health Minister Jillian Skinner has urged families across NSW to discuss their wishes regarding organ donation and register to become donors to boost the state’s transplantation rate. The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) 2014 Performance Report -released today – shows there were 92 organ donors in NSW in 2014, from whom 263 organs were retrieved […]
In 2014, the number of Victorians who donated their organs at death reached 117,exceeding the previous record outcome of 110 deceased organ donors in 2013, according to the latest national data released. This is the highest ever annual outcome for any state and territory in Australia. DonateLife Victoria State Medical Director and National Medical Director […]
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 has approved Dushmantha Chameera as a replacement player for Dhammika Prasad in Sri Lanka’s squad for the tournament, which starts on 14 February. Prasad fractured his hand while training on Saturday. The 23-year-old Chameera’s only ODI was against Sri Lanka in Wellington last month, […]
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday in a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of granting full statehood to New Delhi, India’s capital city. Kejriwal, who is reaching out to the Modi-led central government after weeks of a bitter election campaign, also invited the prime minister to his oath-taking ceremony but the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday took to social networking site Twitter to convey his best wishes to the Indian cricket team for the World Cup beginning Saturday. Defending champions India will start their Cup defence against traditional rivals Pakistan in Adelaide Sunday. “As the 2015 Cricket World Cup begins, my best wishes to the Indian […]
Their golden era of cricket is well past them. What Zimbabwe were in the late 1990s are of stark contrast to what they are today. After the retirement of the Flower brothers (Andy and Grant), Heath Streak, Alistair Campbell, Neil Johnson and Paul Strang, Zimbabwean cricket nosedived. However, it has raised its head again. Come […]
From the ruins of war to rubbing shoulders with world beaters at the biggest stage for limited-overs cricket, the meteoric rise of the Afghanistan cricket team is nothing short of a fairy tale. Amid the explosions rising from constant fighting, political or otherwise, cricket has taken giant strides in the war-ravaged nation. Born and brought […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not be able to attend AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister-elect Arvind Kejriwal’s oath taking ceremony in New Delhi on Saturday, party leader Manish Sisodia said. Sisodia told media that owing to the prime minister’s schedule, Modi will not be able to attend the swearing-in ceremony. “I would have been […]
Washington, Feb 12 At least 26 Americans of Indian or South Asian origin have been featured in this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list or what the US business magazine terms “today’s greatest gathering of young game changers, movers and makers.” “Our fourth annual celebration is bigger than ever: 600 millennials in 20 fields” says […]
The biggest travel trade delegation from India has arrived in NSW to take a tour of destinations featured in the successful Jhappi Time tourism campaign first-hand. NSW Premier Mike Baird said 30 travel agents and wholesalers are taking part in the Focus on India familiarisation tour of Sydney and regional NSW between Sunday 8 February […]