Perth : FOR the first time in its 114-year history the Australian Army is being run by an elite group of special-forces officers.The new Chief of Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell was a senior officer with the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment.His deputy Major General Rick Burr is a former commanding officer the SASR and […]
Sydney : Controversial Australian businessman Alan Bond has died at the age of 77, his family have announced.Mr Bond died on Friday morning at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth days after undergoing heart surgery. Mr Bond, who was born in the UK, became one of Australia’s richest men, funding Australia’s shock win of the […]
Perth : Australia conducts one of the world’s most aggressive mass surveillance programmes, US journalist Glenn Greenwald has said.Mr Greenwald was one of the reporters who broke the 2013 story on internet surveillance by the UK and US.He told broadcaster ABC that Australia was “probably the country that has got away with things the most” […]
AMRITSAR, June 7 :Sikh24 has received concerning news that a young Gursikh from UK was arrested yesterday by the Amritsar police.Dapinder Singh, aged 29, hails from Derby, UK. He was in Amritsar for 31st anniversary commemoration programs of Indian Army Invasion of Darbar Sahib.Dapinder Singh is trying to get in touch with the UK consulate. […]
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab today took a major step by putting all 13040 village Panchayts on web, becoming the Ist State of the Country with information of all villages on web.Punjab Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Mr. Sikander Singh Maluka said that the functioning of Gram Panchayats in Punjab has been strengthened through computerization under e-panchayats […]