Unauthorised cancellation of air tickets is something unheard off. It caught the whole community unawares when they themselves or their friends and relatives were told, some at the check-in counters, that their e-tickets had been cancelled and hence they no longer had valid documents entitling them for travel. But they had fully paid for […]
Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 Word of the Year is actually one pictograph among an unlimited set of little images that can range from smiley faces to red angry faces, from happy cats to family portraits, and include a coffee cup, football, taco, house, thumbs-up, hat, sun, and shoe: emoji. Oxford University Press (OUP) explained that […]
Wednesday 18 November, 2015 Surgeons from around the country are meeting today in Melbourne to explore the correlation between distractions such as using a mobile phone while commuting and the epidemic of road trauma. Scientific co-convenor of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Trauma Symposium, ‘Fatal Distraction’ Dr Valerie Malka is a trauma and […]
Applications are now open for the Australian Government’s Business Partnerships Platform for international development, inviting businesses to develop new initiatives to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Business Partnerships Platform will help implement the Ministerial Statement on Engaging the Private Sector in Aid and Development, which aims to collaborate with the private sector to boost […]
Government of India Ministry of External Affairs CPV Division (Patiala House, Tilak Marg, New Delhi) No. VIII/410/1/2013 Dated 9th December 2013 PUBLIC NOTICE The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has set a deadline of the 24th November, 2015 for globally phasing out all non-Machine readable passports (MRPs). From 25th November 2015 onwards, […]
Retired foreign secretary Shyam Saran was invited as 2015 Telstra Distinguished International Fellow of the Lowy Institute, as he delivered this important lecture on Diwali and Remembrance Day on November 13 in Sydney. Here is the transcript of the lecture… “Let me begin by addressing a criticism which is often levelled against Indian policymakers, and […]
Sadako was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was two kilometers away from where the bomb exploded. Most of Sadako’s neighbors died, but Sadako wasn’t injured at all, at least not in any way people could see. Up until the time Sadako was in the seventh […]
QUT has become the first Queensland branch of the Australia India Institute (AII) in a move to strengthen research links and partnerships with one of the world’s largest economies. Led by QUT Business School, the partnership offers opportunities for collaborative research and training to enhance understanding and cooperation between Australia and India on trade, scientific, […]
Minister for Sport Stuart Ayres with Lleyton Hewitt FAST4 Tennis is returning to Sydney in January 2016, with the event to be headlined by 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and to feature a new format that pits three Aussie stars against the best in the World. This year’s […]
November 12, 2015 A rare holey dollar unearthed by a farmer ploughing a paddock in 1961,which he promptly sold for forty-seven-pounds ten shillings, ($95), is about to be sold for $100,000. The coin, which goes under the hammer at a Sydney auction next week, was found when the farmer spotted something shiny in his tilled […]