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  Former Australian PM Tony Abbott to visit India in August

  India | August 02, 2021 11:28 IST

  Ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will visit India in early August to progress the Indo-Australian economic and trade relationship.

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  PM Modi speaks to new Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull

  Politics | September 17, 2015 22:33 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to new Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull and congratulated him on his appointment to the top post."Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and I spoke a short while ago. I

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  Tony Abbott ousted as Aus PM in internal party challenge

  World | September 14, 2015 19:38 IST

  Canberra:  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was today dramatically ousted from power by challenger Malcolm Turnbull in an internal party vote just two years after his increasingly unpopular conservative government took office.In the hastily-arranged late

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  Australia puts tough condition on uranium sale to India

  World | September 08, 2015 14:16 IST

  Melbourne:  Australia should not sell uranium to India until it sets up an independent nuclear regulator, separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and allow safety inspections, a multi-party committee recommended today.The Treaties Committee tabled

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  Australia to continue MH370 search: Tony Abbott

  World | August 06, 2015 6:20 IST

  Canberra:  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday said the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will continue, following Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement that the piece of wreckage which washed up on Reunion

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  Delevigne lauds people's changing attitude towards same-sex marriage

  Hollywood | July 07, 2015 16:26 IST

  Los Angeles: Model-actress Cara Delevingne says it's "wonderful" that the world is becoming more accepting of same-sex marriages.The 22-year-old star, who is currently dating female musician St. Vincent, says she has always been "open" about

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  Australia PM makes no promise to repatriate ISIS man's family from Middle East

  World | June 24, 2015 7:01 IST

  Canberra:  Australia's prime minister said Wednesday he felt for the five children of an Australian man in the Islamic State who became notorious last year for posing for photographs while clutching the severed heads of

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  Top 5 'jaadu-ki-jhappi' moments of PM Narendra Modi in last 1 year

  Politics | May 30, 2015 23:32 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to mastered the art of developing soulful relations with the world leaders.Be it US President Barack Obama or Australian Premiere Tony Abbott, it took just two meetings for PM Modi

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  Australia PM vows 'candid debate' on same-sex marriage

  World | May 27, 2015 14:53 IST

  Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed for a "full, frank and candid" debate about legalising same-sex marriage in the country.Momentum for the proposed changes is growing in Australia after the predominately Catholic

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  Singaporeans mourn death of founding father Lee Kuan Yew

  World | March 23, 2015 7:44 IST

  Singapore: Singaporeans wept and world leaders paid tribute Monday as the Southeast Asian city-state mourned the death of its founding father Lee Kuan Yew.The government announced that Lee, 91, "passed away peacefully" early Monday at

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  Australia marks completion of military operation in Afghanistan

  World | March 21, 2015 12:03 IST

  Canberra: Parades were held all across Australia on Saturday marking the completion of a military operation in Afghanistan, launched against the deadly September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.'Operation Slipper' began in 2001 and

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  Australian teenager's involvement in IS attack 'horrific': Abbott

  World | March 12, 2015 11:32 IST

  Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that the reported involvement of an Australian teenager in an Islamic State (IS) suicide attack in Iraq is an "absolutely horrific situation".Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi, who was

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  Australian PM Tony Abott makes unannounced trip to Iraq

  World | January 05, 2015 11:49 IST

  Baghdad: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made an unannounced visit Sunday to Baghdad, meeting with top officials to discuss ways his country can aid Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State group.Abbott and

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  Australian PM Tony Abbott: I was a good sledger

  Cricket | January 02, 2015 12:34 IST

  Sydney: If “sledging” had been the sole criterion to get into a playing XI of a cricket team, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, by his own admission, showed enough expertise in that area to get

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  Indian team attends afternoon tea session with Australian PM Tony Abbott

  Cricket | January 01, 2015 12:15 IST

  Sydney: The touring Indian cricketers and their home team counterparts were today hosted by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott for an afternoon tea at his official residence on the New Year's Day here today.Players from

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  System failed to track Sydney gunman: Abbott

  World | December 17, 2014 13:51 IST

  Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott acknowledged on Wednesday that the nation's security system failed to keep track of a gunman responsible for a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe, and promised a transparent investigation

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  Sydney hostages pleaded for sick, elderly, young

  World | December 16, 2014 17:14 IST

  Sydney: The Sydney hostages pleaded for help—for those among them who were pregnant, sick and elderly. Also for those who were young and deserved a shot at a decent life.After a gunman took 17 hostages

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  Australian PM lays flowers at Sydney makeshift memorial

  World | December 16, 2014 11:50 IST

  Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial here and mourned the death of the victims of the terror attack in which three people, including the gunman, were killed.Accompanied

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  Gunman in Sydney hostage crisis was known to police: PM Tony Abbott

  World | December 16, 2014 10:59 IST

  Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed on Tuesday that the gunman at the centre of the Sydney siege, in which two hostages were shot dead, was known to the federal police and had an

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  Victims killed in Sydney hostage drama identified

  World | December 16, 2014 6:51 IST

  Sydney: Two hostages who have been killed in the 17-hour-long hostage drama at a cafeteria here were identified as the manager of the Lindt Chocolate cafe and a lawyer.The 38-year-old lawyer, Katrina Dawson, was a