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Australia seeks to further boost trade & ties with India to cut dependence on China

Australia wants to diversify its trade portfolio & boost ties with India as relations with China have sunk to their lowest ebb in 30 years since Covid.

Australian doctors fear harassment, Singapore develops smart masks & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

India, France, Australia hold first trilateral dialogue with focus on Indo-Pacific Region

The Indo-Pacific region has been witnessing increasing Chinese military assertiveness and all three sides agreed to hold the dialogue on an annual basis.

Govind Swarup, who pioneered radio astronomy in India, dies at 91

Govind Swarup was responsible for setting up India’s first group of radio astronomers, and is credited with building world’s largest and most powerful low frequency array in Pune.

Australia’s last two journalists in China flee after police call them for interviews

Their departure from China comes a week after Australia revealed that Chinese-born, Australian citizen Cheng Lei, who worked as an anchor in a news channel, has been detained.

Australia is set for economic pain as lockdown is extended despite falling infections

PM Scott Morrison, who is pushing for states to lift border restrictions to help kick-start an economic revival, termed the move to extend lockdown in Victoria as 'crushing news'.

What really matters to China when it comes to the Quad. It’s not the security pacts

Despite India, Australia, US and Japan’s efforts for a multinational alternative to China, it’s not going to take off for quite a while.

Facebook threatens to block news. Hope they really do it

The bargain that news organisations have struck with Silicon Valley in their search for traffic is an abusive relationship that benefits nobody.

‘Standing up against China’ — India set to step into another minilateral within Indo-Pacific

Foreign ministers of India, Australia and Indonesia to meet soon to formalise agenda on security and economic connectivity.

Facebook has sent the world a warning by threatening Australian news publishers

The standoff has turned one of Facebook’s most distant markets into a test case as watchdogs around the world turn their own power against digital behemoths.

On Camera

India’s amphibious operations depend on contingencies. Can the Armed Forces adapt?

The declassified doctrine outlines the framework for planning and execution of amphibious operations by integrating maritime, air and land domains.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?