New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday advised students to give up any stress, compete with themselves and not with others, and take examinations as an opportunity to realise their own potential. Addressing students preparing for board and competitive examinations on his “Mann ki Baat” programme on All India Radio, Modi gave […]
New Delhi/Chennai, Feb 22 (IANS) India secured the freedom of aid worker Father Alexis Premkumar Antonysamy, eight months after he was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday expressed happiness at the release and spoke to Father Alexis. Alexis, who arrived in New Delhi from Afghanistan, thanked the government. “I want […]
Bhopal, Feb 22 (IANS) The toll due to swine flu in Madhya Pradesh has risen to 102, officials said Sunday. The figure was revealed by state health department officials to a central government team that is on a visit to various states to access the situation following the outbreak of the contagious H1N1 viral disease. […]
NSW Minister for Fair Trading, Matthew Mason-Cox, today revealed several real estate agents and agencies have been fined as part of a real estate compliance blitz in Sydney’s south “Over the past week, NSW Fair Trading officers have been out in Cronulla and the Sutherland shire investigating more than 114 real estate agencies as part […]
The day Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, which means Common Man’s Party) won unprecedented mandate in Delhi’s assembly election, the City Council in Paris, the French capital, was huddled together to approve tighter measures to fight air pollution. Considering the impacts on health and revenue from tourism, pollution free Paris is priority for the […]
The saffron brotherhood is apparently coming to terms with India’s pluralism – and the constitution. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s observation that his government will act against any religious group inciting violence shows he has realized, albeit belatedly, that he cannot afford to maintain his “dangerous silence”, to quote the New York Times, on the […]
With economic data before the union budget on Feb 28 showing inflation at a five-year low, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan can perhaps indulge in a belated celebration of his birthday that fell Feb 3 when he maintained the RBI repo rate at which it lends to commercial banks at 7.75 percent. Rajan […]
Jammu, Feb 21 PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be the new chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir two months after the assembly elections, as his party and the BJP finally arrived at an agreement on forming an alliance government in the state. Sources close to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron told IANS Saturday […]
The State Government will engage the community as part of its plan to expand Western Australia’s red light and speed camera fleet over the next five years. Releasing the five-year-plan, Road Safety Minister Liza Harvey announced that the State Government would increase the number of red light cameras from 30 to 90; raise the number […]
Demolition has begun on buildings and houses at Rocky Point Road Kogarah to make way for the first major ambulance station build in metropolitan Sydney for almost 20 years. Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the start of work at Kogarah marks a milestone in the Baird Government’s $150 million commitment to build five new super […]