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Topic: Sydney

Sydney’s swelling Covid outbreak risks scuppering Christmas

A new order limits gatherings in homes & venues across Sydney for 3 days, while state health officials work to trace the source & contain a growing cluster involving 83 people.

Australia considers swapping venues for last two India Tests due to Sydney Covid outbreak

Cricket Australia still wants to host 3rd Test in Sydney from 7 to 11 January, but could swap it with Brisbane, where 4th Test is scheduled from 15 January.

Sydney declared Covid hotspot, Queensland bans visitors from the Australian city

New South Wales state, which has Sydney as its capital, recorded 19 new cases of the virus on Wednesday.

After Melbourne, Sydney has new Covid hotspots as Australia’s infections cross 10,000

The outbreak in Sydney has caused the New South Wales state govt to announce it would reverse some easing of social-distancing restrictions, including in pubs.

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.

Sydney’s air pollution is so bad it’s setting off fire alarms

The pollution has been so bad it has set off building smoke alarms, while ash has been washing up on the beaches.

How to survive the world’s longest flight ⁠— Qantas’ non-stop NY to Sydney 20-hour route

Qantas' Project Sunrise is testing out long distance non-stop flights, with hopes of launching by 2022. However, the experience in itself is soul-crushing, body-buckling experience.

Air India commander Rohit Bhasin suspended for allegedly shoplifting a wallet in Sydney

The incident allegedly took place on 22 June, and Captain Rohit Bhasin, who comes from a family of commanders, has been placed on suspension pending inquiry.

This new blue pill is stopping HIV like never before, study shows

An anti-viral pill cut new HIV cases among men by almost a third to the lowest on record, study published in Lancet shows.

A marathon plane is in the making, and it could take you halfway around the world in 20 hours

Boeing believes its vehicles can survive a journey from Sydney to London, but airlines have to catch up by designing appropriate interiors. 

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.