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Aus police offer record $1 million reward for Indian suspect in murder case

Police Queensland has announced a record one million dollar reward for the public to catch an Indian nurse who fled to India after allegedly murdering an Australian woman on a beach four years ago in 2018. Toyah Cordingley, 24, was walking her dog on Wangetti Beach, 40km north of Cairns when she was killed in October 2018, 7news.com reported on Thursday. Rajwinder Singh, 38, who worked as a nurse in Innisfail, is the key person of interest in the case but fled the country two days after Cordingley was killed, leaving behind his job, wife and three children in Australia, the report added. Queensland Police is now offering 1 million Australian dollar, the largest ever offered by Queensland police, for information from the public in the ongoing search for Singh, with Detective Acting Superintendent Sonia Smith noting the reward is unique. We know that Singh departed Cairns on October 22, the day after Toyah was murdered, and then flew from Sydney to India on the 23rd. His arrival in .

Barclays builds up Asia business, sees growth in India, Australia

The British lender has been re-building its Asian business after a global restructuring in 2016

England enters the jam, puts Australia in a pickle in T20 World Cup

In Group 1 it will come down to Net Run Rate, if New Zealand, England and Australia win their final matches

India, Australia discuss early closure of trade deal signed 7 months ago

Both nations to hold annual joint ministerial commission meeting early next year

IND vs BAN Live Streaming: When and how to watch the T20 WC match in India

India vs Bangladesh T20 World Cup 2022 Live Streaming: The Indian team would be looking to get back to winning ways when they take on Bangladesh at the Adelaide Oval

Australian cash rate rises for 7th straight month to 2.85% to 9-yr high

Australia's central bank boosted its benchmark interest rate on Tuesday for a seventh consecutive month to a nine-year high of 2.85 per cent. The Reserve Bank of Australia's decided on a second consecutive quarter-percentage-point rise in the cash rate at its latest monthly board meeting following four consecutive half-percentage-point hikes. When the bank lifted the rate by a quarter percentage point in May, it was Australia's first rate hike in more than 11 years. The cash rate is now at its highest point since May 2013, when the bank cut the rate from 3 per cent to 2.75 per cent. Reserve Bank Gov. Philip Lowe said in a statement inflation in Australia is too high, and his board expects to increase interest rates further over the period ahead. The bank remains resolute in its determination to return inflation to a target band of 2 per cent to 3 per cent by raising the cost of money, Lowe said. Inflation rose from an annual rate of 6.1 per cent in the June quarter to 7.3 per cent

T20 World Cup: Australia captain Finch to undergo scan for hamstring injury

Australia captain Finch returned to form with a fluent 63 against Ireland to keep their T20 World Cup campaign alive but hamstring injuries to 3 different players including him is a cause for concern

IND vs SA T20 World Cup Highlights: Ngidi, Miller star as Proteas win big

India vs South Africa T20 World Cup 2022 Highlights: David Miller and Aiden Markram with the bat and Lungi Ngidi with the ball were the stars for South Africa as they beat India by five wickets

Years after Bt cotton, GEAC clears environmental release of GM mustard

First crop to get such recommendation since Bt cotton in years, say experts

Australian inflation hits 32-year high amid rising gas and housing prices

Australia's annual inflation has climbed to its highest level in 32 years amid soaring prices for housing and gas

Finch on Anchor, Stoinis in charge, Australia storm through Lankan bowling

The Australian team's performance on Tuesday against Sri Lanka proved they have enough fuel in the tank to pull back and punch up

Continental power grid spanning Japan to India inches closer to reality

Plans for a web of sub-sea cables that would create a continental power grid spanning Japan to India are rapidly becoming cheaper and more feasible

Australia to raise spending to boost slowing economy amid inflation

Australia's new government released plans on Tuesday for more spending on families, the elderly, defence and its Pacific neighbours as the country braces for an economic slowdown due to rising interest rates, inflation and disastrous floods. Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his centre-left Labour Party's first annual budget for the fiscal year that began in July. It is the first budget in nine years by a Labour government and comes as Australia contends with unprecedented levels of debt that has mounted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chalmers said rising inflation was the primary influence on his economic blueprint. Inflation is forecast to peak at 7.75 per cent by December and remain higher for longer than had previously been expected. It's framed against a backdrop of a complex combination of a serious economic downturn overseas, damaging and devastating natural disasters here at home, war in Europe, a slowdown in China brought about by COVID -- all of these issues combining at on

Indonesia to get drugs from Singapore, Australia amid rising kids' deaths

Indonesia is expected to receive drugs for acute kidney injury from Singapore and Australia amid increasing children's deaths from the disease, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced

Japan, Australia upgrade security pact against China rising assertiveness

Japan and Australia on Saturday signed a new bilateral security agreement to reflect the deteriorating security outlook for their region driven by China's increasing assertiveness. The upgrade of the Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, a pact first signed in 2007 when China's rise was less concerning, was the major outcome of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's meeting with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in the west coast city of Perth. It builds on a reciprocal access agreement that Kishida inked in January with then-Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that removes obstacles to holding joint military exercises in either country. That is the first such agreement Japan has struck with any country other than the United States. Japan announced on Saturday that its Self-Defense Forces will train and take part in exercises with the Australian military in northern Australia for the first time under the agreement. In the context of that agreement, Albanese tol

Japan's PM Kishida heads to Australia to step up military, energy ties

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is travelling to Australia for talks with his counterpart Anthony Albanese, said on Friday he wants to bolster military and energy cooperation between the two countries amid their shared concerns about China. Kishida said he hoped to update their 2007 bilateral security pact to factor in the progress they've made and further promote their partnership. Australia's liquefied natural gas and coal exports are key to a stable energy supply for resource-scarce Japan, and Kishida said he hoped to discuss the future of Japanese resources and energy stability with Albanese. For Japan, Australia is an important country that we share universal values with, such as freedom and democracy, as well as strategic benefits, and it is an important country also from the resource and energy point of view, Kishida said before boarding his flight to Perth. Australia is our special strategic partner," Kishida added, noting that Australia is a key member of the Qu

Aussie back-up wicketkeeper suffers freak injury; could be replaced in WC

Australia's back-up wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis has suffered a mishap on the golf course leaving him hospitalised just three days ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup Super-12 opener against New Zealand

Australia drops recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Australia has reversed a previous government's recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the foreign minister said Tuesday. The center-left Labor Party government Cabinet agreed to again recognize Tel Aviv as the capital and reaffirmed that Jerusalem's status must be resolved in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. Australia remained committed to a two-party solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and we will not support an approach that undermines this prospect, Wong said. Former conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison formally recognized West Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 2018, although the Australian embassy remained in Tel Aviv. The change followed the then-U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to shift the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Joe Biden has kept the embassy in Jerusalem as the U.S. steps back from its once-intense mediation between the Israelis and ..

Floods in southeast Australia could inundate or isolate 34,000 homes

Around 34,000 homes could be inundated or isolated in Victoria state as a flood emergency continues across parts of Australia's southeast, an official said Monday. Victoria is the worst-affected state with some towns experiencing the highest river peaks in decades. The states of New South Wales and Tasmania were also experiencing flooding in an emergency that began last week. Federal Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said Victoria faced some serious flooding with more rain forecast for late this week. It's quite likely we'll see a flood peak happen and waters recede, followed by another peak, as different river systems come together, Watt told Australian Broadcasting Corp. So this is a very serious situation and the reports I'm getting is we could be looking at up to 9,000 homes inundated in northern Victoria and potentially close to about 34,000 homes in Victoria either inundated or isolated, Watt added. Two people drowned and two were reported missing in Victoria and Ne

India loses by 1-4 against Australia in AFC U-20 Asian Cup Qualifiers

India's campaign in the AFC U-20 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2023 Qualifiers suffered a jolt when they went down to Australia 1-4 at the Ali Sabah Al-Salem Stadium, here on Sunday.