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Australia’s foreign minister quits
Published on 23 Feb, 2012 at 8:19 in Australian | Viewed 1 views times | No Comments
Canberra: Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday made a sudden announcement to resign from his job.
Rudd’s decision comes amid leadership tensions within the Labor Party as there were speculations that Rudd was threatening Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s authority, reported Xinhua.
Rudd said the decision came as he no longer felt he has the Labor leader’s support.
“The truth is I can only…
Australia sees rise in Indian students’ applications
Published on 23 Feb, 2012 at 8:06 in Education | Viewed 1 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: After a decline, Australia is once again registering a rise in number of Indian students applying for admissions to its universities, an official said Tuesday, adding that the country was safe for them.
Ted Baillieu, premier of Australia’s Victoria province who is visiting India, said that the number of Indian students in Australia saw a rise and the southern…
Mahashivaratri celebrated across India
Published on 21 Feb, 2012 at 11:47 in India | Viewed 10 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Millions of Hindus thronged temples across the country on Monday to celebrate Mahashivaratri, with some shrines receiving as many as one hundred thousand devotees.
It is the first time after 11 years that the festival has fallen on a Monday, a day when devotees normally offer prayers to Lord Shiva.
From the crack of dawn, huge crowds visited temples big and small all over the country. The biggest and…
‘Ban Gita’ court battle restarts in Russia
Published on 20 Feb, 2012 at 11:28 in World | Viewed 11 views times | No Comments
Moscow/New Delhi: Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred ‘Bhagavad Gita’ branded as “extremist literature” and banned, after the state prosecutors filed an appeal against an earlier judgment in December last year throwing out their case.
The state prosecutors have already filed their appeal in the…
Australia froths at Indian mouthwash advertisement
Published on 8 Feb, 2012 at 8:56 in Australian | Viewed 39 views times | No Comments
Sydney: The Australian cricket body has ordered the removal of a boundary-rope advertisement of an Indian mouthwash in Hindi after health authorities launched a probe over its similarity with a chewing tobacco product marketed in India.
Cricket Australia (CA) is in frantic damage control after the federal health department reportedly launched the investigation into the advertisement of the Indian mouthwash. The…
No proof to try Chidambaram in 2G case: Court
Published on 7 Feb, 2012 at 0:18 in India | Viewed 31 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: There was ‘no material on record’ to suggest Home Minister P. Chidambaram was ‘acting’ on ‘corrupt motives’ or ‘abused his official position’, a Delhi court Saturday said, dismissing Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy’s plea to make the minister a co-accused in the 2G case.
“I do not find any sufficient ground for proceeding against Mr. P. Chidambaram. The plea is without any merit and the same is dismissed,”…
246 survive Papua New Guinea ferry accident
Published on 6 Feb, 2012 at 23:41 in Australian | Viewed 28 views times | No Comments
Sydney: A total of 246 people have been rescued after a ferry accident off the coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities here said Friday. The vessel was carrying about 360 people.
Five ships carried the survivors to Lae town in the South Pacific country Thursday night, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
Rony Naigu, an official of the Papua New Guinea rescue centre, said about 100 people were believed trapped…
Supreme Court cancels 2G telecom licences during Raja tenure
Published on 2 Feb, 2012 at 9:34 in India | Viewed 32 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled all 122 licences granted to telecom firms during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja and left it to the trial court to judge if Home Minister P. Chidambaram needed to be tried.
The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly said but for the initiative of enlightened citizens…
3.5 magnitude earthquake felt in Haryana
Published on 29 Jan, 2012 at 9:16 in India | Viewed 59 views times | No Comments
Chandigarh: A mild earthquake, measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, was felt in parts of Indian state of Haryana at 4.55 am on Sunday, Met officials said here.
The mild tremors were felt in the border areas of Rohtak and Sonipat districts, 210 km from here, for a few seconds.
“The intensity of the tremors was slight,” a met official said.
No loss…
Minor Australian kids charged with rape, arson
Published on 29 Jan, 2012 at 9:03 in Australian | Viewed 164 views times | No Comments
Melbourne: Crime by minors is soaring in Australia as nearly 300 children under 10 years have been charged with offences like rape and arson, a newspaper has revealed.
The Herald Sun got access to statistics allegedly kept hidden by police in Australian state of Victoria that would expose at least 288 children investigated for 305 serious offences in the past five…
