Sydney, India is the biggest single source of permanent migrants to Australia overtaking China. The number of permanent migrants from India was 29,018 in 2011/2012, up by 12.7 percent on the previous year. According to the Herald Sun, China was number two as visa places fell from 29,546 to 25,509 last year.
Kuala Lumpur, The number of divorce cases among Indians in Malaysia has risen to about 5,000 a year. Tamil Bell Club Malaysia national president S.V. Lingam said that if the trend continued, the community would be plagued with social problems.
New York, Jun. 3 (ANI): Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani,’ which opened in 162 theatres on Friday, earned 1.6 million dollars.
Box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian told the New York Post that it was very unusual to see a Bollywood film in top 10, asserting that sometimes these movies did crack into the top 20 or top 15 (domestically).
He said that they are usually not released in that many theatres but make a big splash.
The top box office earners this weekend are:
1. ‘Fast and Furious 6 – 34.5 million dollars
Melbourne, One South Australian family-owned business has allowed its workers to bring their dogs to the office.
SACARE’s marketing communications manager Chloe Kempe said that as working in the disability services area was quite an emotional task, having pets in the office was a great stress buster, News.com.au reported.
The company owns supported accommodation for people, who are suffering from mental illness or have high and complex needs resulting from degenerative illnesses, acquired brain injury or physical disability.
London, June 3 (ANI): Software giant Apple, which has been accused by the US government of fixing prices of e-books with publishers, would be facing the three week non-jury trial from Monday.
New Delhi, The UPA Coordination Committee will meet here today to finalise the Food Security Bill.
The decision was taken on Saturday at the Congress Core Group meet at the Prime Minister”s residence.
Meanwhile, UPA Government has an option to get the Food Security bill passed either in a special session of the parliament, or to implement through an ordinance or executive order.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh were present during the meeting.
Mumbai The police custody of Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan, and actor Vindoo Dara Singh in the IPL betting and spot-fixing case ends today.
Both of them will be produced in court later in the day.
The police custody of Meiyappan and Vindoo was earlier extended till June 3.
The Mumbai Police is likely to ask for an extension of their remand.
Washington, June 3 (ANI): The court-martial trail of Bradley Manning, the Army private who has admitted to sending more than 700,000 war-related and other classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks, has begun.
The trial in the year-year-old espionage case has begun after months of pretrial hearings and will be held in Maryland, about 30 miles north of the White House. According to Fox News, Manning is charged with indirectly helping the enemy by causing classified material to be published on WikiLeaks.
At least 55 people were killed on Sunday in a major fire accident at a poultry processing plant in northeast China, charring the entire facility.
The fire broke out at around 6:06 am (local time) at a slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township of Dehui City, Jilin Province, according to firefighters.
At least 55 people were killed in the fire, rescue headquarters confirmed. Over 300 workers were in the plant when the accident happened, survivors were quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency as saying.
At least 55 people were killed today in a major fire accident at a poultry processing plant in northeast China, charring the entire facility.
The fire broke out at around 6:06 am (local time) at a slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township of Dehui City, Jilin Province, according to firefighters.
At least 55 people were killed in the fire, rescue headquarters confirmed.
Over 300 workers were in the plant when the accident happened, survivors were quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency as saying.
An estimated 35 per cent of the 45,000 new cancer cases registered in Gujarat every year are that of the head and neck due to high tobacco consumption, according to Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI).
“An estimated 30-35 per cent of cancer cases recorded in the state every year are that of head and neck cancer. More than 50 per cent of the men in state show symptoms of this cancer because of high tobacco consumption,” Associate Professor, Department of Community Oncology, GCRI, Dr Parimal Jivrajani said.
The chief of the Argentine Federal Police’s dangerous drugs division was shot at outside his house, an official said.
Nestor Roncaglia was shot in the chest and hand Saturday night in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, Security Secretary Sergio Berni said Sunday.
“We are not ruling out any theory because it would be irresponsible to say what happpened, but we are convinced it was not a common assault,” Berni told the press.
Roncaglia is out of danger but remains in the intensive care unit of a Buenos Aires hospital.
Troubles mounted for beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines with three more senior executives including its chief information officer, quitting even as a section of its pilots threatened to restart their agitation over non-payment of salaries for last 10 months.
“The airlines’ chief information officer Saurav Sinha, flight operations head Capt Ronald Nagar and cabin crew head Ajit Bhagchandani have put in their papers recently,” Kingfisher Airlines sources said.
Actress Paoli Dam, who plays the role of a lawyer in upcoming film ‘Ankur Arora Murder Case’, says she took inspiration from National Award winning actor Sunny Deol to enact her part.
“I was inspired by Sunny Deol’s role of a lawyer in Damini. His body language, mannerisms and diction in court room drama, all that I observed closely,” Paoli told PTI.
Sunny Deol had won critical applause for his role of an advocate in the 1993 film ‘Damini’.
A 15-year-old girl allegedly jumped to death from the seventh floor of an under- construction building here apparently depressed over her failure in Class 10 exam.
Jyoti allegedly jumped from the building located in Dwarka. She was found lying in a pool of blood by a labourer at the construction site.
No suicide note has been found. Police suspect it to be a case of depression due to poor result in Class X exams.
–PTI
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone talk to discuss ways for resolving the Syria crisis, the Russian foreign ministry said.
“On the US initiative, a telephone conversation was held on June 1 between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry. The sides discussed the ways of settling the Syria crisis, including the situation with the preparation of an international peace conference,” the ministry said in a statement.
The iconic Coffee House in the state capital of Uttar Pradesh has been locked, owing to a dispute between office bearers of the cooperative society running it that threatened public order, police said Monday.
City police ordered the closure of the coffee house, home to hundreds of commoners, intellectuals, journalists and some big names in politics of the past.
Situated in Hazratganj, the Coffee House has been the hub of many intellectual conversations. After a long spell of being closed on account of stiff competition, it had reopened a few years back.
May was the deadliest month in Iraq in more than five years with 1,045 people killed in acts of terrorism and violence, up from 712 violent deaths in April, the United Nations’ mission in that country said in a statement.
A total of 2,397 people were wounded in May due to escalating sectarian violence.
Baghdad was the hardest-hit province in terms of numbers of victims and attacks, according to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, which did not indicate the casualty figures for the capital city.
A wicket-keeper, aggressive batsman and India’s captain in Test, one-day and Twenty20 cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a master at juggling various jobs at the same time.
Now, ahead of the Champions Trophy that opens in England and Wales this week, Dhoni has been burdened with another
task – defending the alleged sins of his pay-masters.
Indian cricket was thrown into chaos last month when three players, including recent Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, were arrested for alleged spot-fixing during the glitzy T20 League.
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy will be produced before a Hyderabad court via video conferencing asw his custody ends on Monday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had on May 31 frozen fixed deposits worth more than Rs 34 crore of a media firm owned by Jagan Reddy in connection with the money laundering probe against him and others.
With this fourth attachment order, the agency has attached more than Rs 300 crore worth of assets and properties belonging to Jagan and others in the disproportionate assets case being probed jointly by the ED and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will on Monday give away 8,000 laptops to students in Ghaziabad near Delhi.
Ghaziabad Development Authority chairman Santosh Yadav yesterday said that projects worth Rs.3,750 crore would be launched by the Chief Minister on Monday.
In addition, 12 schemes would be unveiled along with an ambitious project of 5,000 houses for low income group and economically weaker sections.
The Chief Minister will distribute the laptops to 8,000 students as part of his Samajwadi Party election pledge.
As a brand in the West, Islam is, for many, pretty much at one of its lowest points, given the Woolwich attack and violent turmoil in many Muslim countries.
Even when you read an article published that defends Islam as a “religion of peace”, you can gauge the scepticism of readers from comments below.
One of the problems is those who endorse the religion have not been the most savoury of human beings – the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Voicing concern over the level of participation of minority children in education, an official panel has said that the percentage of Muslim community students is “insignificant” in educational institutions. It has suggested the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) issue advice to the state governments that minority community girls should be preferentially admitted in schools.
The panel has also favored setting up of model degree colleges in 90 minority-concentrated districts with full central assistance to the states.
The government will try to convince the Supreme Court that carving out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within 27 percent OBC quota was not on religious consideration but on the basis of backwardness, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said today.
“We (the Government) will try to convince the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court that the sub-quota is not religion-based, but is on the basis of backwardness,” he told a seminar here.
A prominent Sunni Muslim cleric influential in the Syrian uprising has issued a fatwa, or religious decree, calling on Muslims around the world to help Syrian rebels in the embattled town of Qusayr and labeling Hezbollah and Iran, which support the Syrian government, enemies of Islam “more infidel than Jews and Christians.”