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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Topic: Australia

Sydney’s open for business again. So where is everybody?

More than a week after schools and businesses reopened, traffic levels are edging back to pre-lockdown levels, yet there’s little sign of people taking to cars en masse.

Australia to toughen foreign investors rules as row with China continues

The announcement comes a day after PM Morrison signed a crucial defence agreement with India and upgraded ties, as both nations navigate fraught relations with China.

India, Australia sign defence pact, upgrade ties to ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’

The bilateral summit earlier scheduled to take place in India in January got postponed due to the bushfire crisis in Australia. PM Morrison said he missed 'Modi hug' & 'Gujarati khichdi'.

Standoff between India & China in Ladakh should be resolved bilaterally: Australia

Australian High Commissioner Barry O'Farrell said the military standoff in eastern Ladakh is not an issue for Australia or any other country to solve.

Soaring cost of beer – the big price Chinese will pay for their trade spat with Australia

China imports between 2 million to 3 million tons of Australian barley, considered the best, as domestic production can not meet quality requirement of breweries.

Why Adani’s controversial Australian coal mine could end up being a white elephant

Adani’s Carmichael coal mine project in Australia is predicated on the notion that it is an economically viable venture with a positive net present value.

Source code & privacy — how Aarogya Setu compares with contract-tracing apps of 5 nations

India is the only democracy among these six countries to keep the software source code of its Covid contact tracing closed to public scrutiny.

Australia slowly comes back to life, but citizens remain under cloud of Covid threat

Whether Australia has so far escaped the virus from skill or luck is impossible to know, but in the long term, it needs to maintain a heightened state of vigilance.

China considers more economic pain for Australia amid bitter spat over coronavirus origin

Chinese officials have drawn up a list of potential goods that could be subject to stricter quality checks, anti-dumping probes, tariffs or customs delays.

China slaps duties on Australian barley for 5 years as tensions over coronavirus escalate

Australia, whose biggest customer for barley is China, had fuelled tensions by calling for an independent investigation into the origins of the pandemic.

On Camera

What Trump-Harris result could mean for India in key areas, from geopolitics to trade & immigration

India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.