Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging pathsThe discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in New Zealand was enough for the government to put the entire country into strict lockdown t...
22 Aug, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
Sydney imposes nightly curfew as Australia battles Delta outbreakAustralia's third wave of COVID-19 infections, centred on Sydney, has forced more than half the population of nearly 26 million into lockdo...
20 Aug, 2021, 12.10 PM IST
Sydney records deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne lockdown extendedSydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia's third COVID-19 wave that threatens to push the country's A...
16 Aug, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, enters 6th lockdownMelbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia's most populous and third-most populous cities respectively, in locking down due to the spre...
05 Aug, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
Why most economists continue to back lockdownsAs with pandemic policy in general, much of the discussion of the Sydney outbreak has framed the problem as one pitting health against the ...
12 Jul, 2021, 09.49 AM IST
Pfizer pushes for third shot as Delta drives global outbreaksPfizer and BioNTech said they expected that a third dose will perform well against the strain, and that they would be seeking authorization...
09 Jul, 2021, 11.55 PM IST
Sydney to face prolonged COVID-19 lockdown amid record 2021 casesHundreds of extra police patrolled parts of Sydney to enforce the city's lockdown orders imposed to stamp out an outbreak of the highly inf...
09 Jul, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Sydney and Darwin in lockdown as COVID-19 cases pop up across AustraliaSydney began a two-week lockdown on Sunday as the Bondi neighbourhood cluster of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant rose to 11...
27 Jun, 2021, 11.04 PM IST
Sydney extends Covid-19 lockdown to entire city: State govt"From 6pm today all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into lockdown," said Gladys Berejiklian...
26 Jun, 2021, 10.19 AM IST
Half-a-million Sydney residents lock down as Delta spreadsThe areas of Sydney to be locked down midnight are Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and City of Sydney, all in the centre of the metropolis.
26 Jun, 2021, 09.02 AM IST
ASX 200 ends 0.3% down; banks, Woolworths drag Australia shares lowerThe ASX 200 index slipped 0.3 per cent to 7,275.3, heading for its first weekly drop in five. The 'Big Four' banks fell about 1 per cent ea...
24 Jun, 2021, 01.22 PM IST
Sydney faces 'scariest period' in pandemic amid Delta outbreakNSW officials have so far resisted calls for a hard lockdown although Australia has a good record of successfully suppressing past outbreak...
24 Jun, 2021, 09.42 AM IST
COVID-free for days, Australian state resumes singing, dancing, religious servicesThe changes announced by New South Wales (NSW) on Wednesday come in time for Australia's summer holidays and Christmas celebrations, and ma...
02 Dec, 2020, 12.14 PM IST
India-Australia friendship based on Bharosa, Samman: Australian PM Scott MorrisonPrime Minister Scott Morrison said the bilateral partnership is geared for the common good of the region and the global community, assertin...
14 Aug, 2020, 02.00 PM IST
Five million begin lockdown in Australian cityFive million people in Australia's second-biggest city began a new lockdown Thursday, returning to tough restrictions just weeks after they...
09 Jul, 2020, 01.00 PM IST
Road to recovery: Australia eases restrictions as coronavirus spread slowsDeclaring Australia was on the road to recovery with new coronavirus infections almost stamped out, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on T...
21 Apr, 2020, 11.20 AM IST
- New south Wales and India ink $1.6 million partnership to create futuristic tech jobs
New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it will allow NSW entrepreneurs and technology businesses access to new markets, tale...
16 Apr, 2018, 09.44 PM IST