The Overseas Friends of BJP Australia was launched in Sydney and Melbourne on the weekend of 23 & 24 November amidst much fanfare today and with people joining with full enthusiasm. Termed as a ‘Soft Launch’ the response generated was anything but soft. It created just the atmosphere of excitement among friends, participants and […]
ECCV is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the Victoria Law Foundation to develop tailored community language videos to inform ethnic communities about elder abuse. Australian researchers estimate that between 2% and 7% of older persons, over 65 years of age, in Australia experience mistreatment including neglect. “We are very […]
Educating the community is the key to stopping violence against women, Minister for Community Services Mary Wooldridge said today. Speaking at the annual White Ribbon Day lunch in Melbourne, Ms Wooldridge said that community education is required to change attitudes and behaviours that have allowed violence against women and children to continue. “The White Ribbon Foundation plays an […]
Minister for Women Pru Goward and Member for Oatley, Mr Mark Coure MP, today announced the NSW Government has awarded a grant to the St George region to help raise awareness about the impact of domestic violence. A grant of $1000 has been awarded to the St George Domestic Violence Committee to develop domestic and […]
Minister for Women Pru Goward today announced the opening of NSW’s first telephone counselling and referral service for men. The Men’s Referral Service offers an anonymous and confidential counselling service to men 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “A core part of the NSW Government’s plan to prevent domestic violence is to educate […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 Kala cotton, a rare species indigenous to the arid region of Kutch, was left in a forlorn state for financially better option of genetically-modified cotton varieties. But a British-based research project has helped in reviving this traditional craft, renewed the livelihood of many families and promises to make it global. To […]
Kolkata, Nov 21 “Contemporary black-and-white cinema…why not?” exclaim a clutch of international filmmakers who have opted to make their feature film debuts with black-and-white cinema that exquisitely weaves in light and shadow effects to create magic from monochrome. Brazil’s Eduardo Nunes and Poland’s Rafael Stemplewski’s maiden productions had their Indian premiere recently as part of […]
Mandavgan Farata (Maharashtra), Nov 22 The increasing health hazards owing to the high nitrate content in the waters of the Bhima river in the flourishing sugarcane growing area here had left most of the 20,000 Mandavgan Farata villagers in Maharashtra’s Pune district desperate for a cure. When the villagers were given the option to install […]
Supposing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit wins a fourth term, why would she not then be the Congress party’s prime ministerial candidate? Delhi is one of the nation’s most complicated states with multiple authorities always eager to take credit and pass on the blame, an alert and complaining middle class like the null point in […]