In the past few years, Australia has unintentionally shown the world two great examples of how not to organise a major global sporting event. Brisbane winning the bid for the Olympics and Paralympics was met with some joy in 2021, but raised plenty of eyebrows with people in the midst of a pandemic with a…
President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, R-S.C., in the special election to fill her late brother’s Senate seat for a full term in a post on Truth Social Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “I asked Darline, for the Good of our Nation,…
Certain species of sub-Antarctic seabirds are almost never seen along the New South Wales coast, but experts are not linking recent sightings to bird flu detections. James Bennett captured this image of the Kerguelen petrel in the distance, when it was seen “live at sea” in NSW for the first time. (Supplied: James Bennett) There…
An Australian business linking city-based investors with farmers is giving primary producers a new avenue for capital and a chance for city folk to farm from their smartphone. Using the online platform Invest Inya Farmer (IIF), investors can buy a share of farm produce before it matures and is sold. Investments can range from a…
The prospects for Palestinian statehood and a future for its people are “disappearing”, according to two former world leaders who are demanding the international community heap more pressure on Israel to change course. Mary Robinson, who served as Ireland’s first female president from late 1990 to 1997, and Helen Clark, New Zealand’s prime minister from…
JAMMU: The J&K administration Friday suspended mobile internet services in Doda district till further orders and deployed a large security contingent in Bhaderwah town, where tensions flared up after a 30-year-old man was shot dead around Thursday midnight following a run-in with the state police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) in a cattle smuggling stakeout.Three SOG…
Australian universities have long histories of passionate, provocative activism that uses protest to turn attention to injustice. This week though, the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion turned the mirror on the anti-Israel protest movement itself and the picture reflected back was often ugly. Jewish staff and students have told the antisemitism royal commission…
SRINAGAR: Politics is heating up in J&K ahead of NC’s proposed protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 20 over restoration of statehood, with Congress Friday announcing it would join the sit-in.BJP has planned a gherao of the secretariat in Srinagar on the same day to protest the NC govt’s “corruption, arbitrary governance,…
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has refused to say who paid for her trip to Italy, after returning to London to speak at a pricey political dinner. Senator Hanson has been in the United Kingdom and Europe for almost two weeks. She has described the trip as “a fact-finding mission” and met with multiple right-wing…
BENGALURU: The Department of Space (DoS), which has tightened exit rules to stem a “spate of voluntary retirements and resignations” from scientists working on flagship missions, is grappling with a bigger challenge quietly building inside India’s space establishment: a growing manpower crunch.DoS employment data analysed by TOI shows nearly three out of every 10 sanctioned…