NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee Friday abruptly decided to defer the adoption of its report on a contentious bill – which seeks automatic removal of the Prime Minister, chief ministers and ministers from office if they are detained for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges – when its members were in the middle of…
This week’s BHP workers’ strike in the Pilbara was billed as the most significant industrial relations dispute in Australia’s resources sector in decades, which could cost tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue and royalties. On Wednesday, unionised staff in Port Hedland walked off the job for an eight-hour strike. But the number of…
NEW DELHI: The Centre told Supreme Court Friday that visa and consular services, which are outsourced, offered to lakhs of Indian nationals, OCIs and foreign visa applicants were severely impacted in Indian missions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait, Singapore and Canberra (Australia) as Delhi high court had quashed the selection of private service providers.“We outsource…
You wake in fright to find a stranger in your home and fear your family is at risk, but what happens if there is a confrontation and that intruder ends up injured or even dead? According to Tamworth-based solicitor and former NSW Police prosecutor Alix Thom, the answer is not simple. She said legislation on…
While it is famous for its bananas, Carnarvon is lesser-known for its involvement in Australia’s technological evolution. When Australia connected with the UK for its first-ever live telecast in 1966, the small outback town 900 kilometres north of Perth was the base of operations for the country. During the telecast, families in Carnarvon were reunited…
Victoria Police has called a public meeting in the Wimmera town of Donald on Monday night, as the community continues to grapple with the alleged murder of 13-year-old Layla Jeffery. The teen was last seen in Donald on July 4, prompting a large-scale search of the surrounding area. Remains believed to be hers were found…
“This really irked me today.” Five simple words. How many of us could utter them on any day about an issue, or a person, or a thing? I try to practice the “nothing’s going to irk me or live rent-free in my head because there are so many wonderful things to think about”, but I…
Responsibility for rehabilitating and cleaning up the Liberty Bell Bay site could ultimately fall to the Tasmanian government, according to legal experts, after administrators failed to secure a buyer for the embattled manganese smelter. Administrators announced on Thursday that they had been unable to secure a buyer for the northern Tasmanian smelter, triggering its immediate…
NEW DELHI: The May NEET-UG paper tested what they knew. Its cancellation tested whether they could go again. And they restarted – reacquiring given-away books in Ludhiana, extending a break from mobile phone in Baramati, preparing in Hindi in Hanumangarh and studying through power cuts in Srinagar. The scrapping of the May exam over a…
The United States has struck bridges in Iran and Tehran has responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, local time, as the two sides risk further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure. At sea, where the renewed conflict has again cut off energy supplies from the Gulf, US…