NSW TO SHARE VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXPERTISE WITH BHUTAN

NSW TO SHARE VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXPERTISE WITH BHUTAN

The NSW Government has agreed to share the state’s vocational education training expertise as part of a new agreement signed with the Kingdom of Bhutan. NSW Premier Mike Baird today met with Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay at NSW Parliament where the official signing took place. Experts from TAFE NSW will travel to Bhutan to […]

More Victorians receiving the oral health care they need

More Victorians receiving the oral health care they need

New figures released in Dental Health Services Victoria’s 2015-2016 Annual Report show more Victorians are accessing critical oral health care than ever before. Highlights include: 10,122 Indigenous patients accessed care – up to 8.8 per cent 401,067 individuals treated across Victoria (includes the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and community public health agencies across Victoria) […]

NSUI threatens country-wide protests

NSUI threatens country-wide protests

The student wing of the Congress party, NSUI, on Thursday warned of country-wide protests if any action was taken against it for burning an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 11. “We will launch country-wide protests if any action is taken against us after the probe. We have done nothing wrong,” NSUI leader […]

Russia, India share need to rebuild Afghanistan: Putin

Russia, India share need to rebuild Afghanistan: Putin

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said India and Russia were both interested in deepening “constructive multilateral cooperation” to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan where decisive action was needed to defeat terrorism. In an interview with IANS and Sputnik news agencies, Putin said Afghanistan was of concern as the “situation on the territory between India and Russia […]

AIMPLB, Muslim bodies reject move on Uniform Civil Code

AIMPLB, Muslim bodies reject move on Uniform Civil Code

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and a number of other prominent Muslim organisations on Thursday rejected the Law Commission’s questionnaire on the Uniform Civil Code, calling it “misleading”. Calling the questionnaire “misleading and divisive”, AIMPLB General Secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani said Muslims will not respond to it. “We will boycott this questionnaire. […]

Putin says India ‘privileged strategic partner’

Putin says India ‘privileged strategic partner’

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Russia remained the top supplier of advanced weapons and defence technology to its “privileged strategic partner” India and added that Moscow and other BRICS nations were determined to back New Delhi’s anti-terror fight. “Russia remains in the lead in terms of both direct supplies of most advanced weapons and […]

IOC president calls for ‘stronger’ WADA

IOC president calls for ‘stronger’ WADA

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach called on the member states of the European forum to join forces for anti-doping. Regarding the recent row between the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Bach wanted to “address the extremely important issue of the protection of the clean athletes and the fight against doping” and […]

Soldiers help deliver baby in Rome square

Soldiers help deliver baby in Rome square

Two soldiers on duty in a central Rome square helped a woman give birth when she went into labour while trying to reach a nearby hospital on foot, reports said. The soldiers were guarding a Jewish synagogue in Piazza San Bartolomeo on Rome’s Tiberine Island when they heard cries from the woman at around 10.45 […]

Spanish diplomat found dead in Pakistan

Spanish diplomat found dead in Pakistan

A Spanish diplomat was found dead in his home in Pakistan in what appeared to be a suicide, said a police official on Thursday. According to the police, John Jenner was found dead in his F7-2 residence in Islamabad, locked from inside. A 38 bore pistol was also found near the dead body, reported The […]

Modi’s Dussehra arrow: Will decimate terror, its backers

Modi’s Dussehra arrow: Will decimate terror, its backers

In an obvious reference to Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the time had come to uproot terror and those who patronise terrorists. Addressing a massive Dussehra gathering at the Aishbagh Ram Leela ground here, Modi said terrorism in all forms was anti-humanity and Hindu Lord Rama represented all that was human. It […]