Cyber crime targets 5.4 mn Australians
September 6th, 2012 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
Canberra, Sep 6 (IANS) About 5.4 million Australians were targeted by cyber crimes, which cost the country 1.65 billion Australian dollars ($1.68 billion) in the past 12 months, according ... Read more...
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Maintenance laws misused by greedy: Court (Lead)
June 21st, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) The maintenance laws are "designed to help the needy and not the greedy", the Delhi High Court has said while expressing displeasure at the misuse ... Read more...
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Australian Billionaire Gina Rinehart is now the world’s richest woman
May 24th, 2012 - 7:24 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sydney, May 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Gina Rinehart Australia's richest woman, is now the world's weathiest woman as well.Rinehart has a personal fortune of 29.2 billion Australian dollars (28.5 billion US dollars). She ... Read more...
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Designer jeans worth $1 mn stolen from warehouse
February 27th, 2012 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Feb 27 (IANS) Thieves in Australia have stolen designer jeans worth about one million Australian dollars (over $1 million) from a Sydney warehouse.According to police, the theft occurred in ... Read more...
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Australia’s current account deficit falls in Q3
December 6th, 2011 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 6 (IANS) Australia's current account deficit fell by 1.02 billion Australian dollars ($1.05 billion), or 15 percent, in the September quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported ... Read more...
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Man leaves behind $1 million in Australian restaurant
November 23rd, 2011 - 8:53 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sydney, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A man has a very expensive memory lapse. The police in Australia are searching for a man who walked out of a restaurant leaving behind 1 million ... Read more...
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Australia’s ANZ Banking Group posts $5.5 bn profit
November 3rd, 2011 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 3 (IANS) ANZ Banking Group, one of the big four banks in Australia, Thursday posted a 19 percent rise in full-year net profit to 5.36 billion Australian dollars ... Read more...
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‘Foreign aid for flood-hit Pakistan inadequate’
September 27th, 2011 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 27 (IANS) Though many countries have announced assistance for the flood-affected people of Pakistan, the aid is inadequate, officials said Tuesday.The international community has, so far, committed over ... Read more...
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South Australia beckons Indian investors
August 2nd, 2011 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) The South Australia province Tuesday invited Indian investors to tap the huge potential of the largely unexplored mining sector along with education and renewable energy segments."We ... Read more...
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Adani Group acquires port in Australia
May 3rd, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmedabad, May 3 (IANS) Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZL), the port arm of Adani Group's flagship company Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), Tuesday announced its acquisition of a ... Read more...
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7-Eleven operators fined for exploiting Indian, Zimbabwe students
April 27th, 2011 - 3:18 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Apr. 27 (ANI): Two former 7-Eleven operators have been fined 150,000 Australian dollars after exploiting six international students from Zimbabwe and India.A Fair Work Ombudsman declared owners of stores in Park ... Read more...
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Media magnate Packer’s boat palace put up for sale
April 13th, 2011 - 9:35 am ICT by ANI
Sydney, Apr. 13 (ANI): Gaming and media magnate James Packer has listed his 46 m motor yacht, Z Sydney, on the market just over a year after it was first moored in ... Read more...
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Messi, Mourinho highest paid in world football
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:41 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Mar. 22 (ANI): Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho are the highest paid player and manager in world football with combined annual salaries of just over 63 million ... Read more...
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Indo-Australian gravity tie-up at risk over funding hunt
March 16th, 2011 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar. 16 (ANI): Time is running out for an Indo-Australian plan to join the US Laser Inferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) network.The detector, to be installed at Gingin in Western Australia, ... Read more...
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A wind-powered car that covered 5,000 km in barely $16
February 14th, 2011 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Feb 14 (IANS) It's a car that travelled a distance of 5,000 km in Australia at a cost of just $16. Wondering how? Well, it was powered by the wind.The Wind ... Read more...
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Australians could soon taste the sweet Indian mango
January 25th, 2011 - 5:54 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinNew Delhi, Jan. 25 (ANI): Australians are looking forward to eating Indian mangoes from next season, even as the governments of the two nations are fine tuning the modalities ... Read more...
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Australians strip for charity
December 5th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 5 (IANS) Nearly 300 Australians Sunday stripped down to their underwear and paraded through Sydney in an attempt to break a world record and raise money for a charity.The group ... Read more...
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England’s Barmy Army reduced to a battalion in Australia ahead of Ashes
November 4th, 2010 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANI
Perth (Australia), Nov.4 (ANI): England's Barmy Army will be reduced to a battalion this winter because Australia has become ultra-expensive.Around 40,000 supporters flew Down Under four years ago when England were thrashed ... Read more...
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168 kg of heroin seized in Australia
November 2nd, 2010 - 1:58 am ICT by IANS
London, Nov 2 (IANS) Australian authorities have seized 168 kg of heroin, the fifth biggest shipment of the contraband ever to be smuggled into the country, hidden inside a consignment of wooden ... Read more...
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‘You can’t survive only as an athlete in Australia’
October 8th, 2010 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Bharat Sharma
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) If you thought only athletes in India find it hard to make a living out of sports and are forced to pick up a job ... Read more...
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Now, earn a $20,000 bounty by exposing your boss using pirated software!
September 14th, 2010 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Sept 14 (ANI): In a new campaign to pull up conniving companies using pirated software on the sly, a global software organisation is set to offer a big bounty to people ... Read more...
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Spiderman Arrested for Scaling Skyscraper in Sydney
August 31st, 2010 - 2:55 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Aug 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Spiderman, who was arrested last year and fined 750 Australian dollars for climbing the Royal Bank of Scotland, a forty one story building which is located in ... Read more...
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Hamilton fined, told to atone for dangerous driving
August 24th, 2010 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 24 (DPA) Australian authorities have demanded an apology from British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton after he was fined for dangerous driving while in Melbourne for this year's Australian Grand ... Read more...
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India’s Adani eyes Australia’s coal reserves
August 2nd, 2010 - 8:41 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 2 (DPA) India's Adani Group Ltd is set to announce it has bought a coal tenement in Queensland's Galilee Basis from Australia's Linc Energy Ltd, news reports said Monday.The deal ... Read more...
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Australia to spend $394 mn on diabetic care
March 31st, 2010 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
Canberra, March 31 (IANS) Australia will spend over 430 million Australian dollars ($394 million) for a new diabetic care programme, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said here Wednesday.
Unveiling the government's plans ... Read more...
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Sydney stalks F1 after Melbourne’s ardour cools
March 27th, 2010 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, March 27 (DPA) Melbourne was dullsville when it poached the Grand Prix from Adelaide 15 years ago.
Now, Australia's second-biggest city is the nation's most vibrant and it is Sydney that could ... Read more...
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Racist attacks intolerable to Australia, says Smith
March 4th, 2010 - 9:58 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, March 4 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, presently on a three-day India visit, reiterated on Thursday that there is no tolerance for racist attacks in his country."We condemn any ... Read more...
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British TV fined for killng rat on reality show
February 8th, 2010 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Feb 8 (DPA) British commercial broadcaster ITV was fined by an Australian court after it pleaded guilty to animal cruelty over the televised death of a rat, media reports said ... Read more...
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NSUI protests attacks on Indian students in Austraila
January 27th, 2010 - 7:16 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan.27 (ANI): Activists of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) staged a protest outside the Australian High Commission here on Wednesday over the growing number of racial attacks ... Read more...
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New Zealand cricketers most likely to part ways with national side
December 27th, 2009 - 6:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec. 27 (ANI): The Chief of Australian Cricketers' Association, Paul Marsh, has predicted that world's top cricketers would soon part ways from their national sides, and New Zealand players are most ... Read more...
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Climate change: India, China may force Australia to pay to secure deal
December 13th, 2009 - 12:20 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Dec.13 (ANI): Developing countries like India and China could force Australia to pay a hefty sum to enable them to cope with climate change in return for a deal in ... Read more...
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Oz Haat Charity Fair in Delhi from Saturday
December 3rd, 2009 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): Australia's High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese will inaugurate the Oz Haat Charity Mela on the front lawns of the high commision this Saturday.Showcasing Indian NGO vendors, the ... Read more...
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Feral camels take over remote Australian township
November 26th, 2009 - 9:16 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 26 (DPA) A herd of 6,000 camels is terrorising the remote far-north Australian township of Docker River, Northern Territory Local Government Minister Rob Knight told the Darwin parliament.
He said Wednesday ... Read more...
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Doctor-hunters seek bounty in Australia
November 26th, 2009 - 8:23 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 26 (DPA) Advertisements ran in local newspapers Thursday offering a finder's fee of 3,000 Australian dollars ($2,750) for anyone who can persuade an overseas doctor to work in Australia.
The advertisements ... Read more...
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400 Chinese students stranded in Australia as four schools close down
November 9th, 2009 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 9(ANI): At least 400 Chinese students are stranded in Australia after the closure of four schools, prompting the Chinese consulate in Sydney to warn students and their parents to be ... Read more...
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