Cricket Australia congratulates cricketer Fawad Ahmed, who last night won the prestigious Australian Muslim Sportsperson of the Year award at the 8th annual Australian Muslim Achievement Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Sydney last night and organized by Mission of Hope, acknowledges the contribution of members of the Muslim community in Australia. Ahmed beat Sydney Roosters […]
In an Australian first, coloured holograms will capture the 2013 Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks celebrations on a special edition collector coin, developed by the Royal Australian Mint. The $1 silver proof coin will feature an image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Effect, which is revealed atmidnight on New Year’s Eve. City of Sydney Lord Mayor […]
Wellington, Nov 28 The woman found killed in her Welligton home in New Zealand earlier this week has been identified as Sarwan Lata Singh. Police said Thursday she was of Indian origin. A man whose name was suppressed appeared in the Wellington district court Wednesday on charges of murder and aggravated burglary at the Indian-origin […]
Manchester, Dec 1 An Indian origin doctor in Britain has received an excellence award for his work across the medical space. “Dr. (Jaswinder S.) Bamrah is a dedicated medical professional conducting a large number of lectures nationally to psychiatrists, general practitioners, to other disciplines and voluntary organisations such as Alzheimer’s Disease Society and PACE on […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday attacked the Congress on issues of corruption and security of women in the national capital. He said people of Delhi should remember “Nirbhaya” while going to vote for the assembly polls Dec 4 and asserted that the city was not safe […]
London, Dec 1 An Indian-origin couple was found dead at their home in London, a media report said Sunday. The woman, identified as Poonam, and her husband Sanjeev Kumar, lived in Southall, BBC reported. The Metropolitan Police said the woman had been killed by “compression of the neck” while her husband was found hanging in […]
Jammu, Dec 1 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday reacted with a barrage of posts on microblogging social networking site Twitter to contest the criticism levelled against him and his government by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his maiden public rally here Sunday. Commenting on the ‘facts’ Modi […]
New York, Dec 1 At least four people were killed and 67 others injured when a passenger train derailed in New York City, prompting a major emergency services response. Firefighters and emergency rescuers swarmed the scene near Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, where at least two train cars had flipped on their sides, CNN […]
Bangalore/Chennai, Dec 1 Cruising at 32km per second, the Indian spacecraft to Mars is now in the sun’s orbit on its way towards the red planet after leaving earth’s gravity early Sunday, making India the first Asian country and fourth in the world to leap into interplanetary space. “The spacecraft (Orbiter) is on course to […]
Jaipur, Dec 1 About 29 million people voted across Rajasthan Sunday to pick a new 200-seat Rajasthan assembly in keenly fought elections which both the Congress and the BJP claimed they would win. More than 72.49 percent of the state’s 40 million electorate had voted by 5 p.m., and the polling percentage could be higher […]