Australian High Commission welcomes Bijoy Jain’s MPavilion commission

Australian High Commission welcomes Bijoy Jain’s MPavilion commission

New Delhi : Acting Australian High Commissioner Chris Elstoft today congratulated Indian architect Bijoy Jain for winning the commission by Australia’s Naomi Milgrom Foundation to design the third edition of MPavilion.An annual design event for Melbourne, MPavilion is a unique architecture commission for the historic Queen Victoria Gardens to house talks, workshops, performances and installations […]

Shotgun defies BJP, meets Lalu ‘boldly and openly’

Shotgun defies BJP, meets Lalu ‘boldly and openly’

Patna : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shatrughan Sinha met Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in Patna on Tuesday and dubbed his meeting as ‘boldly and openly’.He also posted pictures of the meeting on his twitter account. “Meeting openly…and boldly..!,” he tweeted.He also described Lalu as an ‘old friend’, saying that […]

Bizarre arrest comes to an end as ‘Babli’ walks free

Bizarre arrest comes to an end as ‘Babli’ walks free

Korea (Chhattisgarh : The goat, who was arrested for grazing in a judge’s house in Chhattisgarh’s Korea district, has been released on bail after Chief Minister Raman Singh’s intervention.However, the owner of the goat, Abdul Hasan, has been arrested under CrPC Sections 151 and 107.Raman Singh had earlier said that he didn’t have much information […]

Sikh Indian-American actor prohibited from Mexico-US flight over turban

Sikh Indian-American actor prohibited from Mexico-US flight over turban

Karachi : A Sikh Indian- American designer and actor has claimed that he was prohibited from boarding an Aeromexico flight from Mexico City to New York because he refused to remove his turban.”This morning in Mexico City I was told I could not board my @aeromexico flight to NYC because of my turban,” Waris Ahluwalia […]

Papua New Guinea hit by 6.3 magnitude earthquake

Papua New Guinea hit by 6.3 magnitude earthquake

Sydney : An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the richter scale hit the coast of Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island on Tuesday morning. The quake hit 96 kilometres southwest of Panguna at 0019 GMT, according to the US Geological Survey.The epicenter was 104 kilometres southwest of the larger town of Arawa also on Bougainville Island and […]