Sydney : A dark-skinned doll brought on to the pitch at the end of the Australian Rugby League final has become the talking point of the game.The doll was carried by the daughter of Johnathan Thurston, captain of the winning team, North Queensland Cowboys.Thurston is an indigenous Australian, as was, for the first time in […]
Sydney : Nauru’s government is promising to open up its regional centre for asylum seekers, effectively ending detention.Justice Minister David Adeang says some 600 outstanding asylum seekers’ refugee claims would be processed within the next week.It means asylum seekers will be free to move around the island, something that has been welcomed by rights groups.All […]
CHANDIGARH: The Bathinda Police last night arrested Director Agriculture Punjab Mangal sINGH sANDHU in a case of corruption related to purchase of spurious pesticides. He was earlier demoted from his psot but he had obtained stay order from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. It is learnt that Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had […]
BATHINDA: Punjab congress will fight on the streets for the cause of Farmers of Punjab. This was stated by S Partap Singh Bajwa, President, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee while touring the Malwa belt of cotton affected fields and interacting with farmers. Bajwa also toured the Basmati fields in the Fazilka today. He assured the farmers that […]
New Delhi : Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) secretary Aditya Verma on Monday said the Supreme Court upheld its January 22 decision that barred N. Srinivasan from attending any meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), adding that they would write to the board president Shashank Manohar to take a call on […]