Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 30 (IANS) The CPI-M Tuesday pulled up party leader and former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan for defending his then aide arrested for setting ablaze the memorial to a communist veteran. After a lull in intra-party conflict, the state unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist criticised Achuthanandan for his stand on the […]
NSW residents will be able to give their New Year’s resolutions a kick-start with the assistance of an innovative phone-based coaching service that has already helped over 250,000 NSW residents make lasting improvements to their diet and fitness. Assistant Minister for Health Jai Rowell urged people throughout NSW to take advantage of the NSW Government’s […]
Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts, Troy Grant, has welcomed the appointment of Ms Mouna Zaylah, Co-Director of the Arab Film Festival Australia, to the NSW Film and Television Industry Advisory Committee. Ms Zaylah’s three-year term will start on 1 January, 2015. “NSW is Australia’s undisputed film and television production hub offering the strongest […]
Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts, Troy Grant, has welcomed the reappointment of the Hon Helen Coonan and Peter Mason AM to the Sydney Opera House Trust for three-year terms starting on 1 January, 2015. Two new appointments to the Trust will be made in the New Year – which will include a Chairperson […]
NSW Fair Trading Minister Matthew Mason-Cox is today warning people to be on their guard against scammers posing as Buddhist monks. “Fake Buddhist monks have once again hit the Sydney streets,” Mr Mason-Cox said.“ As more people converge on the Sydney CBD for Christmas, New Year and holiday festivities, so to have these scam monks. […]
Minister for Roads and Freight Duncan Gay is reminding boaties to take extra care when celebrating on the Harbour this New Years Eve with special conditions in place to ensure a safe environment to bring in the new year. “Every year we see more and more boats on the Harbour enjoying what is described as […]
Lucknow, Dec 29 (IANS) Five members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were arrested by police Monday for allegedly putting up posters in Azamgarh that described Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav as “missing”. Yadav, who is the local MP, has not visited his Lok Sabha constituency ever since he won the polls from […]
Accra (Ghana), Dec 29 (IANS) Saudi Arabian authorities have refused to grant over-flight permits to Nigerian cargo planes carrying military equipment including armoured tanks from Pakistan which Nigerian authorities have procured in order to fight the Boko Haram rebel group, media reported Monday. It may be recalled that IANS, quoting Pakistani officials in Abuja early […]
Srinagar, Dec 29 (IANS) A large blaze Monday gutted the district magistrate’s office in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said. “Fire started in the office in Pulwama district around 3.30 p.m. Timely action by the staff of the office saved official records,” an official here told IANS. “Fire tenders were immediately pressed into service […]
Ramallah, Dec 29 (IANS) Israeli troops Monday shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said. Israeli soldiers at Za’tara roadblock, south of Nablus, opened fire on a group of Palestinian teenagers, killing the 16-year-old boy, Xinhua reported citing the witnesses. Israeli Radio quoted the army as saying that […]