Sydney, Australia's unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 percent in January, lowest since July 2011, data from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed Thursday. The ABS reported the number of people employed increased by 46,300 to 11.46 million in January. The increase in employment was driven by increased part-time employment, up 34,000 people to 3,400,800, and an increase in full-time employment, up 12,300 people to 8.06 million, the ABS said. The number of people unemployed fell by 15,300 people to 614,200 in January, reported Xinhua. Most economists expected just 10,000 jobs to have been added in January with the unemployment rate at 5.3 percent. Australia's financial services provider CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) that the ABS figures suggested Australia's job market was trending strongly. "That the unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 with an expansion in the participation rate says good things about the economy," he said. McCarthy said the two official interest rate cuts in November and December may have boosted employer confidence. ...
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Jalandhar, January 29 (Doaba News Service)- Indian students have started social networking in Australia to develop close relationship with the people there. President of the Sikh Federation of Australia Jaspreet Singh said the organisation was holding blood donation camps in this regard. “We have organised a few blood donation camps that have been highlighted by the leading Australian newspapers also,” he said, adding that “We have planned to organise one more in a next few days.” He said unfortunately some of the people were issuing hostile statements in India and creating troubles for Indian students in Australia. He pointed out that the statement given by the Shiv Sena against Australian cricket players, who are keen to play in the IPL, had sent a wrong signal. It had added an element of bitterness among relations between Australians and Indians, he added. Jaspreet has urged the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister that efforts should be made to create harmonious atmosphere among Indians in Australians and the people there. The government should also start some PR exercise in this regard, he ...
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Amritsar, January 24 (DMS)- Expressing concern over the increase in the number of attacks on Indian students in Australia, veteran Congress leader and MP Partap Singh Bajwa has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send an all-party parliamentary delegation to Australia to study the deteriorating situation there. Bajwa has also asked the Australian Government to take the necessary steps to check the “unbridled violence” against Indian students who had opted to go to that country after spending billions of dollars and had given a big boost to the economy of Australia with their efforts and money. “The PM should give personal attention to the issue. A large number of Indian students have gone to Australia after spending huge amounts and with very high hopes and ambitions. But their dreams have gone sour with increasing attacks against them. The Australian Government should also realise its duty to ensure the safety and security of Indians and to protect them against violence which has become a blot on an otherwise safe, secure and developed country,” said ...
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Takhtupura (Moga), January 15 (Doaba News Service)- The President of the SAD and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has demanded from the Union Government to set up a fast- track court for carrying out trials against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and other culprits involved in the 1984 riots. He was addressing a public gathering on the eve of the Maghi mela here, yesterday afternoon. He said the trial of the culprits involved in the anti-Sikh riots should be completed within six months. He also criticised the incidents of burning of a gurdwara in Melbourne and other incidents of attacks on Punjabi youths in Australia and said that he would be writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to express strong resentment with the Australian Government over its failure to check violence against Indians. Sukhbir also lashed out at the Congress over its alleged interference in the religious affairs of the community. He said Paramjit Singh Sarna, President of the Delhi Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, was an agent of the Congress and he was being pushed into the state to interfere indirectly in the coming SGPC elections. The local MP, Paramjit Kaur Gulshan, CPS ...
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