Environment Minister Mark Speakman has invited community organisations and councils to apply for a share of the NSW Government’s $5.3 million Restoration and Rehabilitation Grants Program. Mr Speakman said the Environmental Trust Grants Program aimed to help community organisations, local councils and other groups run projects that would prevent or reduce environmental degradation at […]
NSW Premier Mike Baird today announced the establishment of Jobs for NSW – an innovative new body to drive the creation of 150,000 new jobs over the next four years and cement NSW as the engine room of the Australian economy. The ground-breaking initiative will be led by the private-sector and work with government […]
N ot long ago, women in some backward blocks of Uttar Pradesh would deliver a child in full public view on the hospital floor. The patients and their attendants would be asked to mop the soiled labour room in the absence of cleaners. This shocking scenario is now changing. Babies are now taking birth on […]
The law and order situation is deteriorating in the national capital, Delhi Police crime figures for the first seven months of 2015 indicate. In fact, the number of cases recorded (106,422) breaks a 15-year record for the months of January to July. But police says the data does not indicate “the city is becoming more […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to waive off the rest of the jail term of the powerful Ansal brothers, convicted for causing death in the Uphaar cinema fire by their negligence, hasn’t gone down too well in the judicial corridors and also evoked much disquiet among the average litigant about the court’s lenient attitude towards the […]
Minister for Finance, Services and Property Dominic Perrottet and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro have welcomed the commencement of an information roadshow on the NSW Government’s Small Business Grants employment incentive scheme. The $27 million scheme provides eligible businesses with a $2,000 grant for each new full-time worker they employ, and a pro-rated grant […]
At a recent international conference organised by the Assilah Forum Foundation in the eponymous picture postcard-pretty town in northern Morocco, speakers highlighted the importance of India as a key player in the American “rebalance” in the Asia-Pacific, especially with the worrying rise of China, politically, militarily and economically. At a lecture in New Delhi to […]
Alappuzha (Kerala) Close to 40,000 people – young and old, domestic and international tourists – witnessed the 63rd edition of the Nehru Boat Race at the Vembanad lake. For the first time, this edition of the race, one of Kerala’s most popular events, saw a change in its schedule as the heats of the various events […]
Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Tourism has bagged this year’s prestigious Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award for its Muziris Heritage Project, an official statement said. The award was won by Kerala Tourism in the ‘Heritage & Culture’ category, the statement issued by the tourism department said. “This award is recognition of the Muziris project, aimed at […]
By:Kavita karki Ira Singhal, a 31 year old general category candidate who hails from Delhi became the first differently- abled woman to top UPSC Examinations 2014 in which the top four positions were bagged by women. Ira singhal was shocked and surprised at her achievement. Her disability could never become a liability on her as […]