Out of 211 winners, 68 were Best in Show, 86 Gold, and 57 Silver awardees, with 41 wines, 24 spirits, two sakes, and one mead taking home the top honours.

Vedam, Pennsylvania’s longest-incarcerated person to be cleared of a crime, had been convicted in 1983 for the murder of 19-year-old college student Tom Kinser, whose body was found nine months after he disappeared in 1980.

The lake, previously informally known as Berwick Springs Lake, had no official gazetted name before being designated Guru Nanak Lake in 2023.

The festivities were graced by Senator Paul Scarr, MPs Margie Nightingale and Julie-Ann Campbell, representing the Prime Minister’s Office, as well as local area councillors and a large gathering of the Indian community and friends of India.

Himatjit Singh Kahlon, 42, was sentenced to 21 years for manslaughter and methamphetamine supply after a fatal Honey House Beer, part of a Canadian meth shipment, caused a young man’s death.

One of Diwali’s messages is that good triumphs over evil — that we must come together in joy and unity, working together to overcome darkness and division.”

SB 509 aimed to train officers to recognise and respond to so-called transnational repression — defined as harassment, intimidation, or violence directed by foreign governments against individuals abroad.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand described her meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as focused on “building on the momentum” from their leaders’ encounter earlier this year at the G7 Summit.

Anmol entered the United States illegally in 2023 and was later released into the country under the Biden administration.

The magistrate laughed at the prosecutor's claim that the Victoria Police was unable to locate Pradeep Tiwari, the Maribyrnong Mayor, to serve the notice for the court proceedings.