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 […]
As the world celebrates the birth of the author and poet Rudyard Kipling in Bombay (Mumbai) India in 1865, a wonderful textile commissioned by his father, Lockwood, has emerged for sale at Indar Pasricha Fine Arts in London. Not many people realize that many of […]
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 […]
Correctly spelling an 11-letter word ”” ”˜clairvoyant’ ”” won 10-year-old North Sydney Public School student Sri Vaishnavi Kolluri the title of NSW’ s best speller. The aspiring year 4 student and a gymnast said she had practised lots of words with her mother. “Mum’s a big help, my memory is good and I knew all […]
