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India, Australia working on comprehensive trade agreement: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India and Australia are working on a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), and exuded confidence that the bilateral trade will more than double in five years. The two countries have already signed India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), he said expressing hope the pact will help in doubling the two-way commerce in the next five years. Addressing a community event at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena, the Prime Minister said the two countries are now working on CECA. "We are building a resilient and reliable supply chain. This will strengthen the business of both countries," he said. Modi, who is visiting Australia as a guest of the Australian government, said the air connectivity between India and Australia has increased and the number of flights would go up further in the coming days. Australia was the 13th largest trading partner of India in 2022-23. While exports stood at USD 6.95 billion, imports from

Millions of Indians mourned Australian spinner Shane Warne death: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday invoked cricketing ties between India and Australia and said millions of Indians mourned when the great Australian spinner Shane Warne died last year. Modi addressed a well-attended community event at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, one of the country's biggest indoor stadiums, along with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese. He gave examples of yoga, cricket, films and the cooking show Masterchef' to highlight the strong bonds between India and Australia. "Our cricket relations have completed 75 years. Our off-the-field friendship is as profound as the interesting cricket matches on the cricket field," Modi said. "Last year, when the great Shane Warne passed away, millions of Indians mourned along with Australia. It felt as if we had lost one of our own," he said. Warne, 52, one of the greatest spinners cricket has ever seen, passed away in Thailand in March last year. He was found unresponsive in his villa and could not be revived.

India-Australia relationship based on mutual trust and respect: PM Modi

The India-Australia relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday as he addressed a special community event here. Modi along with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese attended the event at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena. Albanese welcomed Prime Minister Modi to the event, saying "Prime Minister Modi is the boss". "An absolute delight connecting with Indian diaspora at community programme in Sydney," Modi said during his address. Speaking about bilateral ties he said the "India-Australia relationship is based on mutual trust and mutual respect." Hailing the India-Australia cricket ties, he said millions of Indians were saddened when Aussie spin bowler Shane Warne died. Modi thanked Albanese for supporting him in unveiling the foundation stone of 'Little India', a suburb of Sydney. Earlier, Modi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese were welcomed with Vedic chants and traditional Australian aboriginal ceremony as they ar

'Prime Minister Modi is the boss', says Australian PM Anthony Albanese

"The last time I saw someone on this stage was Bruce Springsteen and he did not get the welcome that Prime Minister Modi has got," he said hinting at the cheerful crowd and visible excitement in the a

Australia's decision to not play warm-up games fraught with danger: Border

Questioning Australia's decision to not play any warm-up games ahead of the World Test Championship final against India and the Ashes series, former captain Allan Border said the move is "fraught with danger". The WTC final is scheduled to be held at The Oval in London from June 7-11, following which Australia will take on arch-rivals England in the five-match Ashes from June 16 to July 31. The Australian team will prepare for the six Tests by undergoing a high-intensity training camp in Beckenham, featuring centre-wicket practice and net sessions. "I don't care how hard you work in the nets, nothing replaces game time," Border told 'Fox Cricket'. "It just doesn't feel right not to play any cricket leading into an Ashes series. I just think that's fraught with danger... there's something gnawing at me saying it's the wrong decision," he added. The Indian team too won't play any warm-up game as the English County Championship is on and also the WTC being an ICC event, the England

Bakery operators fined $60,480 for exploiting Indian worker in Australia

The notices required the firm to calculate and back-pay entitlements to two workers, including an Indian, it employed between 2016 and 2018

Mutual trust translated into greater cooperation: PM Modi on India-Aus ties

"Our people-to-people contacts remain a strong pillar of our partnership. The Indian diaspora in Australia has increased over the past years," PM Modi said

Wants to take relations with Australia to next level: PM Modi to newspaper

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the Indo-Pacific region faces a number of challenges such as climate change, terrorism, security of sea lanes of communication and piracy, and asserted that India believes they can be addressed only through shared efforts. In an interview to "The Australian" newspaper, he said he wants to take the relationship with Australia to the "next level", including closer defence and security ties to help ensure an "open and free" Indo-Pacific. "I am not a person who gets satisfied easily," he was quoted by the newspaper as saying. "I have seen that Prime Minister Albanese is the same. I am confident that when we are together again in Sydney, we will get the opportunity to explore how we can take our relations to the next level, identify new areas of complementariness and can expand our co-operation," he added. Modi arrived in Australia on Monday for the third and final leg of his three-nation tour during which he will hold talks with his Australian ...

PM Modi arrives in Australia; to hold talks with PM Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Monday for the third and final leg of his three-nation tour during which he will hold talks with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese and attend a community event to celebrate the country's dynamic, diverse Indian diaspora. Modi is visiting Australia from May 22-24 as a guest of the Australian Government. Ahead of Modi's arrival, Prime Minister Albanese said in a statement, I am honoured to host Prime Minister Modi for an official visit to Australia, after receiving an extremely warm welcome in India earlier this year." Australia and India share a commitment to a stable, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific. Together we have an important role to play in supporting this vision," he said, amidst China's aggressive behaviour in the region as well as its efforts to expand its influence. Prime Minister Modi has also said that he was looking forward to his meeting with Albanese on May 24. During the visit, the Prime Ministers will attend

Australia, India share secure, prosperous Indo-Pacific: Aus PM Albanese

Australian PM Anthony Albanese, Monday, said that he is honoured to host PM Narendra Modi in Canberra and added that India and Australia share a commitment to a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific

Quad issues principles for critical tech, clean energy in Indo-Pacific

Quad leaders announced 'Principles on Critical and Emerging Technology Standards' to promote interoperability, innovation, compatibility, inclusiveness, free and fair market competition

Quad meet: US, Australian leaders spoke to PM Modi about requests they got

When US President Joe Biden walked up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Quad meeting, one of the points he made was the large number of requests he was getting from prominent citizens to attend the Indian leader's programmes during his next month state visit to Washington DC, officials said on Sunday. Echoing a similar view, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he too is finding it difficult to accommodate all the requests he is getting for a community event, where Modi will speak on Tuesday, even though the Sydney venue has a capacity of 20,000, officials added. Albanese remembered how at the Narendra Modi stadium more than 90,000 people welcomed him during the victory lap. To this Biden told Modi in a lighter vein that he should take his autograph. Modi and Albanese were in the Gujarat stadium to watch an India-Australia test match in March this year and had taken a lap of honour. As part of his ongoing three-nation visit, Modi is scheduled to arrive in Austr

Australia, India helping to search for crew of sunken Chinese vessel: China

China on Thursday said Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Maldives and the Philippines have extended emergency help to it in the search and rescue of a Chinese fishing vessel with 39 crew members onboard that sank in the Indian Ocean. A spokesperson for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) told the Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency on Thursday that based on drift modelling, a remote 12,000 square km zone has been identified to search for the vessel. A Chinese deep-sea fishing vessel Lupeng Yuanyu 028 capsized on Tuesday in the central Indian Ocean, which has so far left 39 people on board missing, including 17 Chinese mariners, 17 Indonesian mariners and five Philippine mariners. None of the crew has yet been found. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told the media here on Thursday that as we speak, the search and rescue operation is still underway. He said the rescue operation has drawn close attention from across the region. Countries such as .

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Indian temporary workers, students to be hit as Aus set to scrap Covid visa

Australian govt is set to scrap Covid work visa in move that could see sizable number of Indian students and temporary workers scrambling for other options to stay in country

PM's visit still on despite cancellation of Quad leaders meet: Australia PM

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday said that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi would still travel next week to Australia despite the cancellation of the Quad leaders' meeting in Sydney and he is looking forward to welcoming him. The Australian premier was responding to a question on whether Prime Minister Modi will still come to Sydney after Albanese cancelled the Quad leaders' meeting in Sydney on May 24 as US President Joe Biden postponed his visit to Australia to focus on crucial debt-ceiling talks to prevent a catastrophic federal default. Albanese, Modi, Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were to attend the Quad Leaders' Summit. "Prime Minister Modi will be here next week for a bilateral meeting with myself," Albanese told ABC Radio in Brisbane. Prime Minister Modi will also have business meetings and will hold a very public event at Homebush at the Olympic site in Sydney, he said. "He will also be engaging with Australian-India business relations I

Surge in Australians living in poverty amid cost-of-living crisis: Survey

A new survey by Australian Associated Press (AAP) revealed that 93% of people who used a charity's services in 12 months were struggling amid cost-of-living crisis

Australia cancels Quad leaders summit after Joe Biden postpones trip

Albanese said the leaders of Australia, the US, India and Japan would now meet at the G7 Summit in Japan this weekend

PM Modi to visit Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia from May 19-21

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia from May 19 to 24, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Tuesday. Modi will be in Japanese city of Hiroshima from May 19 to 21 for the G7 summit. The MEA said the prime minister will speak at G7 sessions with partner countries on subjects such as peace, stability and prosperity of a sustainable planet; and food, fertiliser and energy security. From Japan, Modi will then travel to Port Moresby where he will host the third summit of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation jointly with Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape on May 22, the MEA said in a statement. On the third and final leg of the trip, Modi will visit Sydney in Australia from May 22 to 24 to attend the Quad summit. The summit, being hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, will also be attended by US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. "The summit provides an opportunit

Australian consumer confidence hits lowest since April 2020: Report

The report underlined that -39 is the biggest net negative on this question in the history of the survey