The mortal remains of Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh was on Monday taken to Brar Square here in a gun carriage for the last rites ceremony. The cortege with Arjan Singh’s body wrapped in the flag left his 7, Kautilya Marg residence at 8.30 a.m. It was decorated with marigold flowers. Singh’s […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has arrived here to attend the annual UN General Assembly (UNGA) session. She will hold a high level meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday. Following the trilateral meeting, Sushma Swaraj will represent India at a UN reforms meeting convened by […]
Key Indian equity indices — the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 — surged during the early-morning trade session on Monday on the back of positive Asian peers and healthy buying in automobile, capital goods and banking stocks. Around 9.20 a.m., the wider 51-scrip Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) rose by 70.15 points, or […]
Seeking people from India We are running focus groups with people who have moved to Australia from overseas to work. We’d like to find out more about your experiences living and working here. The groups will run for about 2 hours and you will be paid $80 cash as a thank you for your time […]
New plans offer our best ever data allowances and international call destinations Telstra has today unveiled its new Go Mobile Plus and Pre-Paid Extra mobile plans, which offer generous data inclusions and unlimited standard international calls from Australia to more destinations than ever before. As the holiday season approaches, Telstra’s new mobile plans will make […]
The first ever British banknote to contain a portrait of a female went into circulation on Thursday, the Bank of England announced. The new tamper-proof ten pound note features the famous English novelist Jane Austen. Just over one billion polymer ten-pound notes have been printed ready for issue, and will begin to be seen in […]
Chief of Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri and his Turkish counterpart General Hulusi Akar warned against the “repercussions” of the scheduled Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum. In a telephone conversation on Thursday, the top generals raised concerns that the referendum would have negative impacts on the interests of regional people, Xinhua news […]
More than 1.3 billion people around the world are now using Facebook Messenger every month, the company has announced. The Messenger surpassed the one billion monthly active users (MAUs) mark in July 2016. “We’ve continued working hard to make Messenger the best it can be, introducing new masks, filters and reactions for video chat,… making […]
North Korea on Friday fired a ballistic missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a major show of defiance to the international community, the media reported. The launch is the second to fly over Japan in less than a month, and the first since North Korea’s sixth nuclear test and new UN sanctions against the […]
Three former Google employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the tech giant accusing it of discriminating against women when it came to pay and promotions. According to a report in Fortune late Thursday, the three former employees who served as software engineer, communications specialist and manager, filed the lawsuit that said: “Google pays women […]