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New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Friday approved a proposal relating to provision of long term water supply scheme for Army and Air Force stations in Jaisalmer and Barmer districts.
The Rajasthan Government’s Public Engineering Department is implementing the Barmer Lift Water Supply Project to supply drinking water to Jaisalmer and Barmer districts.
The [...]

A public meeting of 200 Lauderdale residents have heard the views from 11 election candidates on the proposed Ralphs Bay canal estate.
The Tasmanian Planning Commission is due to deliver its final verdict on the proposal on March 26, having already rejected it on environmental, visual and social grounds.
The Greens’ leader Nick McKim and Labor backbencher [...]

New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has cleared the draft of the Food Security Bill.
The Bill will enable every person Below the Poverty Line (BPL) to receive 25 kilograms of wheat or rice per month at the rate of Rupees three or 0.065 [...]

The Commonwealth has given the go ahead for the private sector to run the new $360 million Midland health campus, provided there are no job losses.
The public facility will replace the ageing Swan District hospital and have more than 300 beds.
The State Government has been considering going into a public-private partnership for the hospital and [...]

Moree Plains Shire Council says it will not stop commercial development on Taylor Oval because of opposition from a minority group.
Last year, the Land and Environment Court blocked a proposal to build a department store on the site.
It ruled the council failed to exhibit the plans properly and said the oval is classed as Crown [...]

Japan was accused of scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy.
The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Doha until next week, is gearing up to vote on banning trade in bluefin [...]

A new opinion poll shows voter satisfaction with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s performance has dropped to its lowest level since he became the leader of the federal Labor Party.
The Newspoll in the Australian newspaper shows 48 per cent of voters are satisfied with Mr Rudd’s performance, while 41 per cent are dissatisfied.
It is the first [...]

New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The government Monday introduced in the Lok Sabha a constitutional amendment bill that proposes to rename Orissa as Odisha.
A constitutional amendment bill to change the name of the state’s language from Oriya to Odia was also introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram introduced the Orissa (alteration of name) [...]

Kuching (Malaysia), Mar.16 (ANI): A one-legged Malaysian going by the name of Junaidi Fauzan, hopes to scale the country’s highest mountain — Mount Kinabalu, in Sabah, this year.
The 58-year-old retiree wants to do this after he completes his kayak trip from here to Kota Kinabalu, reports The Star.
“I plan to kayak from the western tip [...]

Islamabad, Mar.16 (ANI): The Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has proposed a ban on Indian television channels in the country.
The committee, which had proposed such a ban earlier also, has asked cable operators not to air Indian television channels and dramas.
Committee member Senator Tariq Azeem said that he had twice adopted resolutions [...]

The Murri Task Force is calling for a new trustee to be appointed for Moree’s Taylor Oval, after Moree council approved commercial development on the site of Indigenous burials and historical sporting moments.
The call comes six months after the Supreme Court blocked a proposal to build a department store on Taylor Oval due to the [...]

Tasmania’s Department of Infrastructure is considering re-routing the Brighton bypass around an aboriginal heritage site.
A preliminary report has found a three and a half hectare area in the path of the proposed route contains artefacts and evidence of habitation that could be of world significance.
The Department was considering expanding the planned bridge over the site [...]

Labor says it would spend $394 million to revitalise the River Torrens precinct in the city.
Part of the Convention Centre would be rebuilt and expanded west to the Morphett Street bridge.
The waterfront promenade would be upgraded, with a permanent water and light display on the river.
Premier Mike Rann denies the ALP plan is a response [...]

The AFL is considering whether to implement a nine or 10-team finals format for when the competition expands to 18 teams in 2012.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou confirmed the AFL is exploring the merits of expanding the home-and-away season to 23 or 24 rounds once the Gold Coast (2011) and greater Western Sydney franchises (2012) [...]

A nine-year moratorium on the ivory trade will be challenged at a United Nations-led meeting of 175 countries starting in Doha today.
Tanzania and Zambia have put in a proposal to down-list local populations of elephants to allow new stockpile sales of ivory.
The European Union was instrumental in securing a nine-year moratorium on the trade.
But Vera [...]

Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding has rejected a proposal to build a dam on the Wentworth River upstream of the Mitchell River in East Gippsland.
Mr Holding accuses the National party of making a secret offer to vegetable growers on the Mitchell flats near Bairnsdale to build the dam if the Coalition won the next election.
The [...]

The South Australian Law Society says the state needs a law reform commission.
Society president Richard Mellows says policy on criminal justice should be given detailed analysis and this fails to occur in South Australia.
He says the Society is concerned by an ALP proposal to allow evidence of prior offending to be given in some trials.
Mr [...]

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will this morning begin a round of meetings with state premiers to push his plan to overhaul the health system.
Mr Rudd will meet the New South Wales Premier, Kristina Keneally, in Sydney.
He plans to talk with the other premiers and chief ministers individually between now and mid-April, when they will [...]

The Defence Department says it is working to resolve a pay anomaly involving Australian soldiers serving overseas.
ABC TV’s Hungry Beast program says soldiers travelling to and from Iraq are not receiving the tax-free benefit and allowance owed to them.
It says a document given to the program shows a proposal to give all soldiers access to [...]

A proposal to establish a prostate cancer support organisation in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains and Monaro has won community support.
People met in Cooma this week to discuss the group’s formation with ACT supporters also attending to provide advice.
It is proposed the group will give information and support to men and their partners at [...]