Another two major Asian airlines will boost their services to Queensland this year bringing the number of new inbound seats to the state to more than 500,000. Tourism Minister Kate Jones today said EVA Air and AirAsia X would increase their services from Taiwan and Malaysia. “These new flights will bring a potential 44,000 additional […]
Indian film production and distribution company Eros International Plc on Monday announced its collaboration with UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) to offer eligible students an opportunity to promote talent via a scholarship fund. The Eros International Graduate Scholarship Fund recipients will begin their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate starting fall […]
Galaxies “waste” large quantities of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, says a study. More oxygen, carbon and iron atoms exist in the sprawling, gaseous halos outside of galaxies than exist within the galaxies themselves, leaving the galaxies […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hinted that some measures are likely to further empower state-run banks legally in dealing with the rising bad loans. “Various suggestions have come up for empowering the banks, functioning in an environment, so that they can deal with the situation (bad loans). The government is fully committed to support […]
Pakistan is not desperate to resume peace talks with India, a top official has said. There was no restlessness on the Pakistani side for a dialogue, Sartaj Aziz, the Adviser on Foreign Affairs to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was quoted as saying in a news report on Monday. But he quickly added on Sunday that […]
The army said on Sunday that all its ammunition depots in Jammu and Kashmir are safe as regular safety audits of these installations are carried out. Reacting to some media reports that raised questions over the safety of the army’s ammunition depots in the state, Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of the army’s Udhampur headquartered Northern […]
Colors organised Talent Hunt Australia for the second time in two years in conjunction with the elegant creations, to give a platform for Australian talent to be showcased around the globe. The event which was held on the 29 th May at Parra Villa Function Lounge in Parramatta, More than 400 people witnessed talent which came from cities […]
Why has the Australian Government launched new advertising for the National Security Campaign? The national security campaign has been running in various forms since December 2002. The new campaign, ‘If it doesn’t add up, speak up,’ targets all Australians to remind us that everyone can help keep Australia safe by calling the national security hotline […]
Colleagues and a former school teacher of Indian-American Mainak Sarkar have expressed shock and sadness over news of the researcher fatally shooting his wife and a University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) professor before turning the gun on himself. Sarkar, 38, fatally shot engineering professor William Klug, 39, in his office at the UCLA on Wednesday. […]
Three BSF troopers were killed and 10 other persons, among them civilians, were injured — three critically — on Friday in a Hizb-ul-Mujhadeen attack on a security forces convoy in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, police sources said. A police official here in Srinagar told IANS that “a BSF convoy coming from Jammu to Srinagar was […]