New Delhi, February 21: After a phase of decline in Indian students going to Australia, the continent nation is once again registering a rise in number of students applying for admissions to its universities. Talking to IANS on the sidelines of a press meet, Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese said around 30 ...

Sydney, February 21: Ricky Ponting Tuesday conceded that he might have played his last One-day International after being dropped from the Australian side for the remainder of the tri-series and said his focus will now be on Tests besides playing state cricket for Tasmania. Ponting was overlooked by the selectors Monday after ...

Brisbane, February 21: India lost to Sri Lanka by 51 runs in the eighth match of the ODI tri-series at the Gabba here Tuesday. Chasing 290, India were bowled out for 238 in 55.1 overs. Virat Kohli top-scored for India with 66 while Irfan Pathan made 47. Sri Lankan fast bowler Thisara Perera took ...

Brisbane, February 20: Former captain of Australian cricket team Ricky Ponting has been dropped from Australia’s limited-overs squad in a selection decision that could mean the end of his ODI career. Ponting scored 18 runs at an average of 3.6 in five innings against India and Sri Lanka. The selectors met on ...

Sydney, February 17: Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland said Friday that the International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board would be silly to reject the recommendations of the Woolf report on cricket's global governance due to objections from the Indian cricket board. Sutherland feels there is a lot of really good ...

Sydney, February 16: Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds Thursday announced his retirement from all forms of the game citing family reasons. The all-rounder has not represented the national side for three years. He was sent back from the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup in England for disciplinary reasons and since then has not donned ...

Melbourne, February 14: A man accused of strangling his girlfriend and killing her two siblings has allegedly “confessed” to killing her to a friend, who was writing a book on the murders, a court heard. Prosecutor Michael Byrne told the Brisbane Supreme Court that even without the confession, the Crown had ...

Sydney, February 14: India's Adani Group has hit the Australian headlines with their $10-billion mega plan to build Queensland state's largest coalmine, a 500-km railroad, a new township and even a Greenfield airport. According to sources, chairman Gautam Adani was in Queensland, in the north-east of this country, last weekend to finalise ...

Sydney, February 10: An Indian-origin Sydney accountant who stole 45 million dollars from a major finance company and then spent the money on a shopping spree, has been sentenced to 15 years' jail. Over the course of five years, Rajina Subramaniam, in her role as a senior accountant with ING Holdings, siphoned ...

New Delhi, February 10: Chief coach Michael Nobbs says the Indian hockey team has to be as ruthless as World champions Australia if they have to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. The 57-year-old Aussie said after a training session of his wards preparing for the Olympic Qualifiers here Feb 18-26 that ...