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Apr 22, 2021 12:40 PM IST The restrictions come a few days after the UK banned flights from India. The record-breaking surge in infections continues, with India reporting 3.14 lakh cases, the highest single-day spike anywhere in the world, in the last 24 hours.
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Apr 08, 2021 04:45 PM IST The move, after Europe’s drug regulator found a possible link between the Anglo-Swedish vaccine and rare blood clotting issues, is a huge hurdle for Australia's faltering inoculation effort, which relies heavily on the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Apr 06, 2021 08:35 PM IST The official program run by the Australian government aims to facilitate the entry of Australian companies into the Indian market. It is set to focus on the e-commerce channel to better market Aussie food, beverage and consumer products to Indian consumers.
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Apr 06, 2021 01:38 PM IST New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said health officials believe the risk of the virus being transmitted from Australia is low and that travel is now safe.
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Mar 31, 2021 05:59 PM IST Along with putting solar panels on its Melbourne brewery and buying power from a solar farm, CUB is looking to buy excess solar power from households, paying in cans of beer instead of cash, to help meet its target to use 100% renewable power by 2025.
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Mar 23, 2021 04:53 PM IST The floods could see prices of the power-station fuel extend March 22's two-year high, as coal in Europe also gained on the news.
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Mar 23, 2021 01:20 PM IST The national weather agency has posted severe weather warnings in every mainland state or territory but one, affecting around 10 million people in the country of 25 million, across an area the size of Alaska.
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Mar 22, 2021 11:30 AM IST Around 18,000 people had been evacuated from flooding in New South Wales by Monday and emergency services feared up to 54,000 people could be displaced with rain forecast to continue until Wednesday.
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Mar 19, 2021 02:07 PM IST Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall said the bill was passed in the upper house on Thursday night, it would modernise the legislation.
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Mar 18, 2021 12:24 PM IST The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the population grew by less than one percent in the year to September 2020, and actually declined in the last recorded quarter.
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Mar 16, 2021 07:00 PM IST The agreement announced on Monday involves News Corp's The Australian national newspaper, and metropolitan papers such as The Daily Telegraph in New South Wales.
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Mar 16, 2021 08:50 AM IST Among the four Quad nations, India is probably in the most advantageous position, and should leverage it
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Mar 16, 2021 08:37 AM IST Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus joined several other European nations on Monday in temporarily suspending vaccinations with AstraZeneca shots after reports of isolated cases of bleeding, blood clots and low platelet count in some of the nations.
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Mar 14, 2021 11:24 AM IST The world leaders pointed out that the collaboration which began with relief efforts post the devastating tsunami in 2004, evolved into a ‘democratic cooperation’ called the “Quad”
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Mar 13, 2021 11:58 AM IST Addressing a White House briefing on Friday soon after the historic virtual Quad summit between US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the top American official said the four leaders have agreed to hold an in-person summit later this year.
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Mar 13, 2021 10:49 AM IST Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the unnamed doctor last week treated two patients who had recently returned to Australia and had tested positive for the UK variant.
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Mar 12, 2021 09:51 PM IST The virtual summit was attended by US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
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Mar 12, 2021 08:11 PM IST The White House says the virtual meeting of the countries known as the Quad, the first at leader level, shows the importance Biden places on the Indo-Pacific region and that it will focus on ways to fight the coronavirus pandemic, as well as cooperate on economic growth and the climate crisis.
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Mar 12, 2021 11:03 AM IST Officially, the Quad was conceived as a space to cooperate for safeguarding shared security and other interests in the Indo-Pacific region. However, observers say that the forum is geared to counter China’s military and economic rise.
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Mar 12, 2021 07:48 AM IST Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific will also be discussed as the group plans to announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity for coronavirus vaccines in India.
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Mar 09, 2021 10:52 PM IST The leaders will discuss regional and global issues of shared interest, and exchange views on practical areas of cooperation towards maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region, said the MEA.
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Mar 04, 2021 02:34 PM IST According to ISRO, India has always recognised that space has dimension beyond national considerations, which can only be addressed along with international partners.
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Mar 02, 2021 10:29 AM IST Cipla Gulf FZ LCC is expanding its partnership with Alvotech for the marketing and distribution of four biosimilar medicines in Australia and New Zealand, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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Feb 26, 2021 09:35 AM IST "We...are confident that the aircraft are safe," Graeme Crawford, the acting chief of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, said in a statement.
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Feb 26, 2021 07:34 AM IST Facebook said it had signed partnership agreements with Private Media, which owns online magazines, Schwartz Media and Solstice Media. Commercial agreements will become effective within 60 days if a full deal is signed.