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The Tasmanian Treasurer has accused the Greens of proposing risky economic policies and the Liberals of big spending.
Michael Aird says the Greens have only just submitted to Treasury their spending promises of more $600 million for costing.
On the other hand, he has accused the Liberals of manipulating their costings.
“Combined, the Liberal Party and the Greens [...]

The Treasurer Troy Buswell says a $210 million hole in the Government’s request for a budget top up is to be allocated to the Health Department.
The Treasurer requested the advance in parliament this week to cover unforseen Government spending.
But, the document tabled in parliament detailing the expenditure falls $210 million short of the overall amount [...]

A western Victorian council has refused to rejoin the Wimmera Development Association, because of rising costs.
The Buloke Shire Council says the fees are almost $30,000 for the next year.
Chief executive Warwick Heine says the money could be better spent within the shire.
“It’s money that’ll go into our economic development projects budget that we use to [...]

There has been more criticism of the Joint Strike Fighter program in the US, with concerns raised about budget blowouts and delays.
A report from a US congressional watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, says the cost of the program has increased by $46 billion and development is two-and-a-half years behind schedule.
Australia is planning to buy up [...]

The Member for Murrumbidgee says he has caught a glimpse of a review into the state’s juvenile justice system and it shows a failure of Labor Government policy.
The Government commissioned the independent review last year, saying it wants to address the state’s high jailing rates.
The report has been with the Juvenile Justice Minister Graham West [...]

Kolkata, Sep 19 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee flagged off Sealdah-New Delhi Duronto express, the country’s first point-to-point non-stop train in Kolkata.

The Duronto express will cover the 1447-km distance between Sealdah and New Delhi in 16 hours and 20 minutes.

“After 30 years there is a train called Duronto. It will go faster than Rajdhani and [...]

Siliguri, Sept 18 (ANI): The festival of Durga Puja is just round the corner. However, this time around, the festival may not be full of pomp and show as compared with previous years in Siliguri.

The festival is known for massive makeshift [...]

New Delhi, Sep 14 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday asked the State Governments to adopt new, time bound and transparent selection process for the state police forces on the lines of the Central Police Force selection procedure.

Addressing the three-day long conference [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): The Union Government on Thursday announced a five percent increase in the dearness allowance for its employees and pensioners, with effect from July this year.

The announcement will entail an outgo of about Rs 2,904 crore this fiscal. [...]

London, Sept 3 (ANI): Caped crusader Batman has been voted Britain’s favourite super hero in a new poll.

The ‘Dark Knight’ pushed webslinger ‘Spider-Man’ at the second place followed by the ‘Superman’ at third.

Batman, the alter-ego of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne, has been immortalised in the 1960s TV series as well as a big budget movie [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): In a new report, scientists have determined that climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters.

Scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the US [...]

London, Aug 28 (ANI): California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding an online “garage sale” in a bid to balance the 26-billion dollar deficit of the state budget.

The “Governator” has put up 6,000 items including cars, computers and binoculars for sale on eBay and Craigslist.

Schwarzenegger has even autographed the [...]

Washington, August 24 (ANI): Smokers may exacerbate the problem of malnutrition in developing countries because they tend to finance their habit by dipping into the family food budget, say a pair of researchers.

Steven Block and Patrick Webb, of Tufts University, have revealed that their fidning is based on a study conducted in Java, Indonesia. [...]

Melbourne, Aug 21 (ANI): Scottish musician Calvin Harris has used bikinis and body paint in ‘human synthesiser’ to produce music for his new single Ready For The Weekend.

A total of 15 women had their bodies painted to use them as switches [...]

New Delhi, Aug 20 (ANI): A conference of Secretaries of Administrative Reforms will be held here tomorrow.

It will be inaugurated by Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

First of its kind, the day-long conference is being organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.

Secretaries of Departments [...]

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has given up all plans of directing a film based on the cult British TV series The Prisoner.

Nolan was to direct a big budget blockbuster version of the 1968 show starring Patrick McGoohan, and his exit has now kicked of rumours that he plans to start early with [...]

New Delhi, Aug 18 (ANI): Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday asked the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to complete all the ongoing expansion programmes on time.

He was reviewing the Q1 performance of the public sector major at a meeting here today.

He said, the economy looks set for a [...]

London, Aug 13 (ANI): A design that makes bikes as “intelligent” as computers has been unveiled by British Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman.

Thanks to the revolutionary system, the bike can never be stolen and has puncture-proof tyres, and it could be in everyday use by 2029.

Its system has an “unbreakable” locking device which allows only the [...]

Tehran (Iran), Aug. 9 (ANI): Britain’s troubled relations with Iran suffered a further setback as a British embassy official confessed to spying during a trial in Tehran, saying that Britain had provided financial assistance to Iran’s reformists to weaken the hardline clerical regime during the [...]

Melbourne, July 15 (ANI): Women who contribute more to the household finances, as compared to their husbands or partners, tend to do more housework, according to a study.

Led by Janeen Baxter and Belinda Hewitt, of the University of Queensland, the study showed that women contributing 70 per cent or more of the weekly income start [...]