Perth : Travellers to and from Australia have been left stranded or unable to go on holiday after an erupting volcano forced Indonesia to close five airports on Friday. Jetstar and Virgin cancelled all their flights between Australia and Bali’s Denpasar airport, hitting the school holiday season. It is the second day of flight disruptions […]
Victoria : Much of south-east Australia is bracing for a burst of cold weather over the weekend with temperatures set to drop to zero in many locations in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.Bureau of Meteorology New South Wales regional director Barry Hanstrum said the conditions were associated with a series of cold […]
Sydney : The former Zimbabwean ambassador to Australia has won $180,000 in a defamation case in Canberra against a journalist who published damaging allegations about her. The journalist, Reason Wafawarova, has been ordered to pay Jacqueline Zwambila $160,000 in general damages and $20,000 in aggravated damages after he falsely claimed she had lost her temper and […]
Amritsar, 10 July : Protesting against derogatory remarks against a particular section of Sikh community, activists of the Ranghreta Satkar Lehar burnt effigies of heads—Uday Singh and Thakur Dalip Singh—of the Namdhari cult. The agitators alleged that they hurt sentiments of the members of so-called lower caste. Led by Satkar Lehar convener Kashmir Singh Khunda, […]