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India, Australia to finalise early harvest agreement in next 30 days: Goyal

India and Australia had set a tight deadline of concluding an early harvest agreement - a precursor to FTA or CECA by December 25, as more work needed to be done towards the deal

Australia's trade minister to visit India to advance FTA negotiations

An official statement by Tehan's office on Tuesday said he will travel to India to advance negotiations on a free trade agreement and promote Australia as a premium destination for students, tourist

Quad should stop driving wedges between regional countries, says China

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will participate in the fourth Quad foreign ministers' meeting on February 11 in Melbourne along with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the US

Jaishankar to visit Australia, Philippines from Feb 10-15: MEA

His visit to Australia from February 10 to 13 will be his first trip to that country as external affairs minister.

Australia's trade minister to visit India to further FTA negotiations

Australia's Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Dan Tehan will travel to India on Wednesday

Saqlain Mushtaq may continue as head coach of Pak for series against Aus

Former spinner Saqlain Mushtaq is likely to continue as head coach of Pakistan for the upcoming home series against Australia in March-April. Saqlain's future with the team was under a shadow recently when he resigned as head coach of international player development at the High Performance Centre while his interim tenure as head coach of the national team also ended with the tour to Bangladesh. A reliable source in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that Saqlain was most likely to continue as head coach for the Australia series. "He will be asked to continue as interim coach until the PCB makes a final call on who will be permanent coach of the national team after the Australia series," the source said. The source added that the PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja had already spoken to Saqlain about the Australia series and the former spinner is most likely to also get a pay raise as head coach. "Saqlain was reluctant to continue working with the PCB over some pay disputes but apparently

Australia's tour of Pak after 24 years confirmed to begin from Rawalpindi

Cricket Australia and Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed that Australia men's team tour of Pakistan will start with Rawalpindi hosting the first Test on March 4

Australia shares end higher to mark best week since late-December

Sector leaders Block, Xero and Wisetech Global rose between 0.9% and 2.5%

Australia's central bank stresses policy patience as peers push to tighten

Yet that stoic stance is becoming harder to sustain as its global peers turn more strident on inflation and financial markets howl for near-term rate hikes

Australia to host Quad Foreign Ministers meeting later this month

The last Quad Foreign Ministers meeting was held virtually in February last year

Skipper Dhull leads India to fourth consecutive U-19 World Cup final

Dhull struck a sublime 110 in as many balls

Australian shares extend gains as RBA urges patience on policy tightening

The Reserve Bank of Australia said it had "a rare opportunity" to reach full employment with the unemployment rate expected to fall under 4% for the first time in half a century

Not wanting to spend 22 weeks in bio-bubble, Starc opts out of IPL auction

The former Royal Challengers Bangalore player has only featured in two IPL seasons, bagging 37 wickets in 27 matches

Australian govt announces $703 mn funding for Great Barrier Reef

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding over the next nine years is aimed at improving water quality, reef management and research

Malinga appointed as specialist bowling coach for SL's Australia tour

Legendary pacer Lasith Malinga has been appointed as a specialist bowling coach for Sri Lanka's senior men's national team's upcoming tour of Australia, country's cricket board announced on Wednesday. "Malinga, in his new short-term role as a specialist coach, will support Sri Lanka's bowlers, providing tactical insight and technical expertise to help the on-field execution of strategic plans," Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said in a release. "SLC is confident that Malinga's vast experience and renowned death-bowling expertise, especially in the T20 format, will help the team immensely going into this series." Sri Lanka are scheduled to play five T20 Internationals in Australia starting from February 11. The former player, one of the island nation's greatest fast bowlers, has worked as a mentor for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in 2018. The 38-year-old Malinga was appointed by the executive committee of SLC in consultation with the technical advisory committee of the Lanka

Warner, Marsh not in Australia side for Sri Lanka T20 series

Australia is hosting Sri Lanka in a five-match T20 series, with the games to be spread across the Sydney Cricket Ground, Manuka Oval in Canberra and the Melbourne Cricket Ground from Feb. 11-20

Australian inflation surges in December quarter, market bays for rate hikes

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics out on Tuesday showed the headline consumer price index rose 1.3% in the fourth quarter and 3.5% for the year, topping forecasts

Sensitive issues to remain out of India-Aussie early-harvest deal

The proposed deal is likely to include lower tariff and greater market access for Indian exporters in areas such as textiles, pharmaceuticals, footwear and leather

Australian PM Morrison's WeChat account taken over, says report

Morrison's 76,000 WeChat followers were notified his page had been renamed "Australian Chinese new life" earlier this month. The change was made without the government's knowledge: Report

Australian PM says decarbonisation among biggest post-pandemic challenges

PM Morrison also said Australia remains a stable and reliable partner as well as an important geopolitical stabiliser in the Indo-Pacific region