Bob Carr joined the Australian Labor Party as a 15-year-old boy in 1963. He went on to become NSW Leader of the Opposition for 7 years until finally becoming the Premier in 1995, and New South Wales’ longest serving one. After retiring, he came back as a Senator in the Federal Parliament and represented Australia on the global stage as a first class Foreign Affairs […]
New Delhi Prime Minister NarendraModi yesterday symbolically wielded the broom in Dalit colony where Mahatma Gandhi once stayed to launch a unique nationwide campaign which seeks to change Indians’ mindset vis-a-vis hygiene and clean up the country in five years. In a spirited speech near the India Gate monument a short while later, Modi told […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi A matriarch in Maharashtra adopts over one thousand orphan children; another in Rajasthan becomes the youngest Sarpanch of her native village with an MBA, leaving a lucrative corporate career behind; and yet another 23 year old becomes the first Kashimiri woman to develop an android app for the people of her […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi Odisha borders on the Bay of Bengal. The eastern part, close to the sea is more prosperous, with a lot of tourist locations and religious places. The western part is a hilly and forested area, generally drought prone. It is a predominantly tribal belt. However, the western part of the state […]
Compiled by Swati Misra with Inputs from Nikita Sharma On July 28, 2014 CEPS and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad, India signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bolster linkages between Indian and Australian academic and law enforcement institutions in the field of policing and security. The MoU is seen to […]
Gurgaon, Oct 2 (IANS) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and HRD minister Smriti Irani seeking their intervention into the immolation attempt by a college girl here. ABVP activists at a meeting in sector 12 demanded high-level inquiry into the self-immolation attempt by Pinky Chauhan a student of the […]
Stockholm, Oct 2 (IANS) Stefan Lofven, head of the Social Democratic Party, was Thursday voted by parliament to be the new Swedish prime minister. Lofven got 132 “yes” votes in the 349-seat Parliament, with 49 “no” votes, 154 abstentions while 14 other members were absent, Xinhua reported citing Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. The 154 abstentions came […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) Indian runners Rahul Kumar Pal and Suresh Kumar set their personal best times to finish a creditable fourth and fifth in the men’s 10,000 metres final at the Asian Games here Thursday. Bahrain’s Elhassan Elabbassi finished the race in 28 minutes and 11.2 seconds to clinch the gold from Japan’s Osako Suguru, […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s Inderjeet Singh took home the bronze medal from the men’s shot put final at the Asian Games here Thursday. The Indian’s best throw of 19.63 metres came on his fifth attempt, out of six, to surprisingly clinch the medal at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium. Saudi Arabia’s Sultan Abdulmajeed Alhebshi set […]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India drive received mixed response Thursday in Odisha. While central government offices organised the cleaning drive, the state government, its ministers, and officials preferred to stay away from the campaign. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the campaign in state capital Bhubaneswar and wielded the broom, symbolically, […]