Boat with 200 asylum seekers capsizes off Australia
June 21st, 2012 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, June 21 (IANS) A boat carrying around 200 asylum seekers capsized Thursday in Indonesian waters off Australia's Christmas Island, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.The boat capsized about ... 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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Air Canada passengers burned during turbulence
September 20th, 2011 - 12:27 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Vancouver, Sept 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) At least six people on an Air Canada flight sustained various degrees of injuries on Monday when their flight hit turbulence. It is reported that three cabin ... Read more...
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Australian police raid Greenpeace’s offices in Sydney
July 22nd, 2011 - 1:29 am ICT by BNO News
SYDNEY (BNO NEWS) -- Australian police on Thursday raided the head office of environmental lobby group Greenpeace International in Sydney after some group's members destroyed a genetically modified (GM) wheat crop in ... Read more...
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Kashmir merchant navy officer missing
May 31st, 2011 - 2:21 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, May 31 (IANS) A merchant navy officer from Jammu and Kashmir has gone missing from his tanker vessel since May 27, three days after leaving an Australian port for ... Read more...
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Child porn website mastermind held in Australia
May 21st, 2011 - 4:05 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, May 21 (IANS) Australian Police have arrested an alleged mastermind of one of the world's largest child pornography websites, a media report said Saturday.Four children from New South Wales ... Read more...
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Two Melbourne airports get threats
May 18th, 2011 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, May 18 (IANS) Australian police swarmed two airports in Melbourne Wednesday morning after threat letters were sent to media outlets, officials said.The Herald Sun reported that a letter threatening ... Read more...
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Indian youth’s death in Australia ‘tragic’: Deputy Oz envoy
April 23rd, 2011 - 4:41 pm ICT by ANI
By Naveen KapoorNew Delhi, Apr 23(ANI): The Deputy High Commissioner of Australia to India, Lachlan Strahan, on Saturday said that the killing of another Indian youth in Australia is a "tragic incident".Lakhwinder ... Read more...
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Sex scandals harming Australia’s national security: Defense Minister
April 6th, 2011 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Apr 6 (ANI): Australia's Defense Minister Stephen Smith has said the nation's security is being harmed by "betrayal of trust" in sex scandals that have hit the defense services.Australia's defense force ... Read more...
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‘Oz teen accused of killing Indian-origin student waited till victim was ‘alone’ at home’
March 15th, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Mar 15 (ANI): Australian Police have claimed that the teenager accused of murdering Indian-origin student, Tosha Thakkar, had waited to carry out the act till she was alone at home.The ... Read more...
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Indian student raped, murdered in Australia, Krishna calls it unfortunate (Lead)
March 14th, 2011 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney/New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A 24-year-old Indian student was raped and murdered and her body found stuffed in a suitcase in Australia's Sydney city last week. Indian External Affairs ... Read more...
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Oz Govt.condemns murder of Indian in Sydney
March 14th, 2011 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar. 14 (ANI): The Australian High Commission on Monday extended its sincere condolences to the family and friends of 24-year-old Indian student Tosha Thakkar who was murdered in Sydney last ... Read more...
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Australian police lose track of licensed weapons
March 6th, 2011 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 6 (IANS) Police in Western Australia are faced with an awkward situation after losing track of thousands of weapons, forcing them to admit that its firearms licensing system ... Read more...
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Australians among earthquake looters in Christchurch
February 25th, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Feb 25 (ANI): Australians are allegedly among bogus officials who are going door-to-door in quake-struck Christchurch scouting out appliances to steal from stressed and vulnerable locals.The search for earthquake survivors continues ... Read more...
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Oz considering banning electronic tickets, automatic baggage check-ins over security reasons
January 9th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): In a latest move on the crackdown of the airport security, Australia could soon ban electronic tickets and automatic baggage check-ins, and bar non-passengers from entering terminals.According to ... Read more...
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Oz police expose paedophile parents network, with arrests in US, UK
December 31st, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Dec 31 (ANI): An investigation by Australian police has unravelled an international network of paedophile parents, which has led to arrests in the US and Britain.The operation by Queensland police, Task ... Read more...
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Australia is good place to live, says Haneef
December 18th, 2010 - 1:42 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Dec 18 (IANS) Mohamed Haneef, an Indian doctor who was falsely accused by Australian police of aiding terrorists, has said he still thinks Australia is a good place to live and ... Read more...
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Pietersen asked to be careful about his tweets
December 11th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 11 (ANI): England team managing director Hugh Morris has asked batsman Kevin Pietersen to be careful when posting tweets on his Twitter account following his latest outburst on the networking ... Read more...
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Bandit nabbed in dramatic police jet-ski chase
November 22nd, 2010 - 3:36 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 22 (ANI): The Australian police opened fire on an alleged bandit, sparking a chase that saw an officer commandeering a jet ski to capture the offender.The drama began when the ... Read more...
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Hospital staff booked for filming women in toilet
November 10th, 2010 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Nov 10 (IANS) A 53-year-old man was questioned by the Australian police for secretly filming women in a staff toilet of a hospital.The man who worked at the Royal Dental Hospital ... Read more...
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Four Australian police officers dismissed for racist email
October 29th, 2010 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Oct 29 (IANS) Four police officers in Australia have been sacked for circulating emails that were racist and sexual in nature, said an official. One of the emails was of a ... Read more...
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Two rape suspects fled to India, say Australian cops
October 22nd, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Oct 22 (IANS) Australian police will consult Indian authorities in an effort to trace two men who were accused in a "vicious" rape in Melbourne earlier this month but fled to ... Read more...
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Australian cops use Facebook to curb stalker
October 20th, 2010 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Oct 20 (IANS) Now the long arm of the law can reach you through the world wide web too. Australian police have shown the way by using Facebook to restrict ... Read more...
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Queensland cops’ brutality towards tourists revealed in video released by Oz police
October 12th, 2010 - 4:34 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Oct 12 (ANI): Australian police have released disturbing video footage of a senior officer's assaults on an alleged offender at Airlie Beach police station, a day after he was sentenced to ... Read more...
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15 more Australian cops face probe over racist emails
October 11th, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Oct 11 (IANS) At least 15 more Australian police officers will be probed over circulation of racist and pornographic emails, including one ridiculing the death of an Indian that sparked a ... Read more...
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Victorian police’ ‘racist emails’ “unhelpful” for country’s image, warns Oz diplomat
October 11th, 2010 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Oct 11 (ANI): The Australian High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, has warned that the racist email scandal involving Victorian police officers was "unhelpful" for the country's image and will ... Read more...
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Racist email scandal hits Australian police
October 9th, 2010 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 9 (IANS) Police officers in Australia's Victoria state have been caught joking about the electrocution of a train passenger in India in a racist email, a media report said.The ... Read more...
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Australian Police nailed in shocking racist scandal targeting Indians
October 9th, 2010 - 11:58 am ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): After a series of attacks on Indian students in Australia, a racist e-mail scandal has broken out showing Victoria Police officers joking about a video which shows an ... Read more...
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Australia taser video upsets many people
October 6th, 2010 - 1:57 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
A video has been released which shows that Australian police officials used a taser 13 times on an unnamed man. There has been quite an uproar over the situation.According to reports, this ... Read more...
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Indian student goes missing in Sydney
October 4th, 2010 - 7:06 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Oct 4 (ANI): Australian police have appealed for help to find an Indian engineering student, who disappeared from his northwest Sydney home just months after arriving in the country.According to ... Read more...
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Grey’s Anatomy Sneak Peeks-Rachael Taylor Joins Cast
September 20th, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Sep 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Australian star Rachael Taylor is joining the cast of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, and is expected to come in to the show during the middle of the season. Taylor ... Read more...
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Police hunt for Indian-looking sex predator in Australia
September 6th, 2010 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Sep 6 (IANS) Australian police are looking for a young man of Indian appearance for sexually assaulting three women, a media report said Monday.
Two women were assaulted by the ... Read more...
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Facebook failed to reveal paedophile ring: Report
August 27th, 2010 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 27 (IANS) Australian police have alleged that Facebook failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on the social networking site.
The failure by the ... Read more...
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Australian cops hunt Asians for bashing youth
August 5th, 2010 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Aug 5 (IANS) Australian police are hunting a gang of thugs of Asian appearance for beating up three youths in this city.
A 20-year-old was taken to hospital and treated for serious ... Read more...
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‘Indian appearance’ man wanted in Australia for sex assault
August 4th, 2010 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Aug 4 (IANS) Australian police are hunting for a man of "Indian appearance" for sexually assaulting a teenager in this city almost a year ago.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said they had ... Read more...
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