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SIR begins in 4 states, 1 UT NEW DELHI: The Election Commission‘s voter verification drive under the special intensive revision (SIR) began on Tuesday across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya and Jharkhand, with booth level officers (BLOs) starting house-to-house visits to verify electoral rolls.As part of the month-long exercise, BLOs will visit every household between June…

Modelling by the CSIRO shows that even the installation of 10 upstream “detention” basins would not have saved Lismore during the record-breaking floods of 2022. The organisation has been running scenarios through its super-computer in Canberra to test how flooding would be reduced in northern NSW towns devastated by the 2022 floods. Loading… They include…

Greg English is ropeable that the drive to his local MP’s electorate office will go from taking just 15 minutes to potentially more than 11 hours. The fourth-generation dairy farmer lives in the Far North Queensland seat of Hill, which will be abolished at the next state election in a redistribution announced this week. Hill…

Pushkar Singh Dhami set to become first BJP CM to complete five consecutive years in Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will create history on July 4, becoming the first BJP Chief Minister in the state to complete a continuous five-year tenure in office.Before him, veteran Congress leader the late Narayan Dutt Tiwari was…

A life jacket, an oar and a plastic bucket stopped “Stinker” from becoming a sinker, and today the 77-year-old was reunited with the rescuers who saved his life. John Clarke, known locally as “Stinker”, thought he was heading out for a routine fish when he launched his tinnie off Port Stephens on June 24.  The…

The value of Australia’s horticulture sector has more than doubled in a decade.  Fruit, vegetable and nut production was worth $19.5 billion dollars in the 2024/25 financial year, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Lucy Noble, head of industry insights at research and marketing body Hort Innovation, said the record result was…

NEW DELHI: United States ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Tuesday rejected row over renaming of the Indo-Pacific Command and said that “name on the letterhead” does not matter.While addressing the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum Leadership summit, Gor said India still conducts more military exercises with the US than any other country and has regular…

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Nerilie Abram has gone where most people will never go, and has done it five times. Nerilie Abram has been the Australian Antarctic Division’s chief scientist since August 2025. (Supplied: Australian Antarctic Division) For the chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Program, the harsh and icy continent is an endless source of fascination and wonder….