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The Federal Government has agreed to make rural students exempt from changes to its overhaul of the Youth Allowance system in order to win Opposition support.
The Government’s proposed changes to student support payments have been stuck in a Senate stalemate for months.
The Government wanted to tighten the eligibility criteria for students receiving the payments, but [...]

(Reuters) – The number of victims of last week’s flood that destroyed a village near Kazakh financial hub Almaty has risen to 37, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
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“According to the preliminary data of the Emergencies Ministry, 37 bodies have been recovered already,” Aset Isekeshev told a government meeting. The previous toll was 34.
Eager to [...]

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he does not intend to promise any more new taxes.
This week Mr Abbott promised a six-month parental leave scheme that would be paid for by a new tax on big business.
Now he has told Channel Nine he is not planning to announce any other plans for new taxes before [...]

Minsk, Sept 17 (ANI): Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has arrived here to foster bilateral ties between the two countries.

Krishna is the first Indian External Minister to visit this country.

On Wednesday, Krishna visited the Victory Square Monument in [...]

Minsk, Sept 17 (ANI): India and Belarus will sign two bilateral agreements during External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna’s two-day visit to that country.

During his visit, Krishna will call on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.

He will also hold wide-ranging talks with his counterpart Sergey Martynov. The agreements to be signed are one on Cooperation in [...]

Kathmandu, Sep 15 (ANI): Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala and discussed various bilateral issues including greater sharing of vital information between the two countries.

According to Nepalnews, both the leaders also discussed electricity import from India, signing of extradition treaty and the agreements reached during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar [...]

Canberra (Australia), Sep. 14 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard said every effort would be made by her government to ensure the safety of international students in the country.

She was speaking on the opening [...]

Sydney, Sep. 6 (ANI): The Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) on Sunday urged the Australian Government to take steps for the welfare of students who are stranded after the closure of private colleges.

The FISA blamed Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard for failing to stop “the spin on the state of affairs” within [...]

New Delhi, Sep.2 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, today announced in New Delhi that the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, located at the University of South Australia, will step up its cooperation with Indian partners.

Inspired by former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, the new research centre was announced at [...]

New Delhi, Aug 31 (ANI): Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is on a five-day visit to India, on Monday assured that zero-tolerance for violence against Indian students has been adopted in Australia.

Gillard, who is also Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, called [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, begins her inaugural five-day visit to India on 31 August.

The visit, which will take her to New Delhi and Chennai, will strengthen Australia’s relations with India. Gillard is also Minister for [...]

Kathmandu, Aug 26 (ANI): Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala has said that she failed to accompany Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal in his maiden visit to India purely due to health reasons.

At the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party office where she was summoned to furnish clarification as to why she dropped out of Prime Minister’s visit [...]

Melbourne, Aug.22 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revealed that her country and India could consider parameters for an extradition treaty during her five-day visit from August 30.

The extradition treaty issue has once again acquired center stage attention after Australians expressed their outrage over a drunk learner driver fleeing to India on [...]

Melbourne, Aug.21 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard will undertake a five-day visit of India from August 30.

The visit is being seen as an effort on the part of Canberra to ramp up official efforts to rehabilitate Australia’s reputation as a non-racist prime center of higher education on the sub-continent.

The Gillard [...]

Melbourne, Aug.20 (ANI): The Australian Government proposed crackdown on vocational colleges and universities could leave thousands of international students, especially those from India, looking for somewhere else to study or needing refunds as rogue operators are shut down.

In a move to root out unscrupulous operators in the visa-driven sector, Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister [...]

London, July 10 (ANI): Lawyers representing unidentified individuals from the world of politics, television and sport have said that their clients are considering suing the tabloid News of The World and Scotland Yard for refusing to come clean on a series [...]

Canberra (Australia), July 6 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has expressed his dismay over reports of a sex betting ring on board a ship of the Australian Navy.

“Can I say I’m sure the Chief of Navy has all those matters under active investigation and that appropriate action will be [...]

Sydney, July 5 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that an alleged contest among sailors to have sex with as many female crewmates as possible needs to be fully investigated by the Australian Defence Force.

Gillard said nothing should preclude women from enjoying a full and rewarding career in the Australian Defence Force.

A [...]

Kuala Lumpur, June 19 (ANI): In a bid to enable Malay Tamil students to take Tamil language and literature subjects, the Malaysian Indian Congress has said it wants to extend the 10-subject limit for SPM students to 11 subjects by 2010.

“We have received feedback from students, and their parents, who are worried about not being [...]

Kathmandu, June 12 (IANS) Shailaja Acharya, the only woman politician in Nepal to have been a deputy prime minister, died here early Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s and pneumonia.
The 65-year-old, who came from one of the most politically active families of Nepal, had been admitted to the Teaching Hospital here Wednesday after receiving [...]