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UBT MLC Sachin Ahir joins Shinde Shiv Sena NEW DELHI: Uddhav Thackeray‘s Shiv Sena (UBT) suffered another setback as MLC Sachin Ahir joined the Eknath Shinde-led faction on Tuesday.He filed nomination for Maharashtra council deputy chairperson post as Mahayuti candidate.The latest rebellion in Shiv Sena (UBT) involves 6 of the party’s nine Lok Sabha MPs…
Elii Emeghebo was walking past Peter Jackson’s Pitt Street shop in Sydney two years ago, when he did a double take. The Nigerian-Australian model, who had previously modelled for the brand, noticed an image in the shopfront’s window of a man who appeared almost identical to him — except for one important thing. In an…
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued a warning for consumers using sexual enhancement products after an investigation found several brands contained hidden amounts of viagra and other prescription-only drugs. The TGA tested 11 products that claimed to be dietary or natural formulas, and found they contained undeclared prescription drugs with the substances sildenafil, commonly…
A childcare provider in Victoria has become the first to be stripped of Commonwealth funding since the government legislated new safety standards for the sector last year. Laugh & Learn Family Day Care Education & Training operates nine family day cares in Melbourne and was found to have seriously breached safety standards at two of them,…
SIR begins in 4 states, 1 UT NEW DELHI: The Election Commission‘s voter verification drive under the special intensive revision (SIR) began on Tuesday across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya and Jharkhand, with booth level officers (BLOs) starting house-to-house visits to verify electoral rolls.As part of the month-long exercise, BLOs will visit every household between June…
Your honour, Legally Bonde was an indisputable hit. The 2001 romantic comedy and satire, which had Australian director Robert Luketic at its helm, starred Reese Witherspoon as bubbly sorority girl Elle Woods, who enrols in Harvard Law school in a bid to win back her ex-boyfriend. Its sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,…
Modelling by the CSIRO shows that even the installation of 10 upstream “detention” basins would not have saved Lismore during the record-breaking floods of 2022. The organisation has been running scenarios through its super-computer in Canberra to test how flooding would be reduced in northern NSW towns devastated by the 2022 floods. Loading… They include…
Greg English is ropeable that the drive to his local MP’s electorate office will go from taking just 15 minutes to potentially more than 11 hours. The fourth-generation dairy farmer lives in the Far North Queensland seat of Hill, which will be abolished at the next state election in a redistribution announced this week. Hill…
Pushkar Singh Dhami set to become first BJP CM to complete five consecutive years in Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will create history on July 4, becoming the first BJP Chief Minister in the state to complete a continuous five-year tenure in office.Before him, veteran Congress leader the late Narayan Dutt Tiwari was…
A life jacket, an oar and a plastic bucket stopped “Stinker” from becoming a sinker, and today the 77-year-old was reunited with the rescuers who saved his life. John Clarke, known locally as “Stinker”, thought he was heading out for a routine fish when he launched his tinnie off Port Stephens on June 24. The…