Of the 242 people on board its London-bound Air India flight AI-171, 241 were killed when the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday 12 June. Of those on board, 230 were passengers and 12 crew members. The sole survivor, a British national of India origin, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, miraculously not only survived by walked out of the rubble, with some injuries to his chest. He is being treated in at the Civil Hospital, Asarwa, in ...

17,000 Young Victorian families expected to benefit stamp duty exemption in the first year The Victorian Liberals and Nationals will scrap stamp duty for first home buyers on all properties up to $1 million – established or off-the-plan – in a bold and visionary policy to restore the dream of home ownership for a new generation. This announcement will form a centrepiece of Shadow Treasurer James Newbury’s Budget Reply Speech today. Stamp duty is one of the most punitive taxes ...

A historic cinematic moment unfolded today as the muhurat of “Me No Pause Me Play” was held in Madh, Mumbai, marking the beginning of a first-of-its-kind global film focused entirely on a subject long neglected by both cinema and society — menopause. The film is directed by Samar K Mukherjee and written & produced by Manoj Kumar Sharma. The project is co-produced by Suraj Singh Mass, Shakil Qureshi and Manoj Kumar Sharma have penned the screenplay and dialogues, while Akram ...

Sonam Raghuvanshi’s brother asks for death penalty A simple looking Indore woman, Sonam Raghuvanshi, has become the centre of world attention for what is now allegedly a ‘Mangal Dosh’ remedy she came up with – to plotting to kill her husband of a weeklong marriage. To achieve her goal, she allegedly took the help of her boyfriend lover Raj Kushwaha and three other hitmen who executed the plan. In Meghalaya where the couple had gone on honeymoon. The marriage lasted ...

The Allan Labor Government has let down victims of family violence, including those within the Aboriginal community, by failing to complete key recommendations from the Victorian Auditor-General (VAGO) to improve The Orange Door network. The Orange Door provides critical frontline support to victims of family violence, yet Labor’s mismanagement has undermined its effectiveness especially for Aboriginal communities. A recent VAGO report found the government had failed to complete essential governance reforms, leaving local governance group members unclear about their roles ...

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saket Gokhale has been in dispute with Lakshmi Puri, wife of Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. In 2021, Saket Gokhale tweeted about the real estate property Lakshmi Puri bought in Switzerland suggesting corruption and was sued for defamation. In 2021, in an interim order, the court restrained Saket Gokhale from posting “scandalous” tweets against Lakshmi Puri and her husband, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Justice C ...

On May 16, former Liberal leader John Pesutto was ordered to pay $2.3m in costs to Moira Deeming in her 2024 defamation win in the Federal Court. Mrs Deeming sued Mr Pesutto for defamation and won her Federal Court case in December last year that she was defamed by John Pesutto in radio interviews, a press conference and in Liberal Party documents by conveying she knowingly associated, or sympathized, with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, , Justice O’Callaghan had found. He ...

The courts are places of worship where justice is served and truth protected. It is not very common when, albeit in a lighter vein, anything which is not true is welcome. But, the Supreme Court of India on May 28, had that rare moment to promulgate that ‘small white lies are permitted’ in its pious sanctorum of justice, although Justice PV Sanjay Kumar was speaking with a tongue in cheek, all in the name of court etiquettes. It all happened because of ...

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