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The Queensland Government has started the groundwork to build a four-lane highway south of Townsville to cater for population growth.
The Bruce Highway will be upgraded between Vantassel Street and Cluden, which will eventually become part of the Southern Access Corridor.
Queensland Main Roads Minister Craig Wallace says refinement of the design will continue over the next [...]

The City of Geraldton-Greenough is supporting Skywest permanently basing more aircraft in Geraldton.
This week, the airline announced it is considering using Geraldton as a permanent hub to avoid congestion issues at the busy Perth Airport.
Geraldton-Greenough Mayor Ian Carpenter has welcomed the idea.
“We’d certainly be keen to progress those discussions,” he said.
“We actually extended the apron [...]

Aboriginal people from across the Kimberley have formally endorsed traditional owners continuing negotiations over the proposed Kimberley gas hub.
Fifty people gathered in Broome this week for an update on negotiations between Woodside, the State government and the traditional owners over access to land at James Price Point, the proposed LNG hub.
The two-day meeting marked a [...]

Aboriginal people from across the Kimberley have formally endorsed traditional owners continuing negotiations over the proposed Kimberley gas hub in Western Australia.
A total of 50 people gathered in Broome this week for an update on negotiations between Woodside, the State Government and the traditional owners over access to land at James Price Point.
At stake is [...]

Oghi (Manshera, Pakistan), Mar.10 (ANI): At least five people were killed here after suspected Islamist militants attacked the office of a U.S.-based Christian aid agency on Wednesday.
Media reports said the gunmen burst into the office of the World Vision agency in Mansehra district, 65 km north of Islamabad, at about 9 a.m. local time.
The town [...]

The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) says a $500,000 Commonwealth grant will enable Aboriginal people to make the most of job opportunities associated with the Kimberley gas hub.
The money has been allocated to the KLC’s job readiness program from the Commonwealth’s Innovation Fund.
The program aims to overcome the hurdles facing Aboriginal people when applying for jobs, [...]

WASHINGTON: A city in Kansas which is seeking to be a test hub for a high-speed broadband network being built by Google has temporarily changed its name to… Google.
Topeka mayor William Bunten issued a proclamation declaring that, for the month of March, the Kansas capital would be known as “Google, Kansas — the capital city [...]

Kolkata, Sep 17(ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Thursday said that the Government would revive plans to build a one billion dollar IT hub, which was earlier, scrapped due to land acquisition problems.

The State Government has planned an IT [...]

Palamu (Jharkhand), Sept 17 (ANI): Five farmers in Kadal village in Jharkhand’s Palamu district were forced to leave their recently purchased land, as the Maoists staked a claim to it under the Red cauldron.

The Maoists have reportedly taken [...]

Mumbai, Sept 17 (ANI/Business Wire India) — Halma India, the Mumbai-based hub office of Halma p.l.c., has appointed Mahadev Dhuri as India sales manager for two of its ophthalmic companies, Keeler Limited and Volk Optical Inc.

The two companies are world leaders in their respective fields. [...]

Ranchi, sep 2 (ANI): The Jharkhand Police on Wednesday rescued a State Government official, who was abducted by the Maoists in Palamau District.

According to police sources, a 20 member armed gang of the Jharkhand Liberation Tiger (JLT) had abducted Alok Kumar, a Circle Officer (CO) of Paki block in Palamau district, on Monday.

The incident tookplace [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Taliban insurgents have resorted to ‘organized crime’ to generate funds for their militant activities being carried out in the lawless northwestern Pakistan, and the banned outfit has made Karachi their hub for the new ‘business’.

The Taliban is using Karachi, Pakistan’s financial capital, to regroup, smuggle weapons and even work seasonal jobs, [...]

London, August 20 (ANI): Thanks to a web tool, citizens of Afghanistan would be able to record incidents of rigging in the country’s electoral process by recording the episodes via text messages.

The second democratic presidential election in Afghanistan under the present [...]

Karachi, Aug.18 (ANI): The Buddhist religion is virtually extinct in Pakistan, as there is not even a single monastery in the country which once remained a hub of Buddhism.

Pakistan, where the Gandhara civilization is believed to have flourished, holds an [...]

Kumartuli (West Bengal), July 16 (ANI): The global economic meltdown has now hit the business of idol makers in Kumartuli of West Bengal, as export orders from expatriate Indian belonging to the Bengali community has declined.

Kumartuli is the hub of clay idol makers of West Bengal.

Durga Puja, a festival of Hindu Goddess Durga, which [...]

Mumbai, July 14 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party activists staged a demonstration here demanding that the recently opened Bandra-Worli Sea Link should be accessible to pedestrians.

Ten years and 325 million dollars later, the ambitious sea bridge aimed at easing Mumbai’s notorious traffic jams, opened on June 30, holding out [...]

Attock, July 7 (ANI): Apart from being responsible for the current dismal security situation of Pakistan, the Taliban has also forced Attock’s famous handmade carpet industry to the brink of collapse.

The carpet industry is suffering from lack of foreign buyers and tourists, leading to a [...]

Sonepat, July 5 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. Manohar Singh Gill, today inaugurated the newly laid synthetic hockey surface at Sports Authority of India (SAI), northern regional centre at Bahalgarh in Sonepat.

The new hockey surface will be used during national coaching camps for training the elite hockey players as well [...]

Jaipur, July 4 (ANI): Chomu, a small town near Jaipur, is emerging as favourite hub for the purchase of agriculture equipments and machines.

In spite of being surrounded by non-fertile land, people in this region are economically self-sufficient because of their technical capabilities.

The agricultral machinery business in the town has flourished a lot due to [...]

Sydney, July 2 (ANI): Tech Mahindra, the new owner of the troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has officially written to the World Bank seeking an end to the eight-year ban against Satyam Computer Services for allegedly providing improper benefits to bank staff.

The company has rebranded itself as Mahindra Satyam.

“We wrote to the bank [...]