Australia had agreed to start negotiations on a civil nuclear deal with India during the October visit of PM Julia Gillard to New Delhi. ...
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Tendulkar is only the second Indian after Soli Sorabjee to get the honour. ...
05:52 PM, Nov 06, 2012
In this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha also talks about Nitin Gadkari, Khap leaders and many more. ...
10:33 AM, Oct 21, 2012
An aggressive President Barack Obama ripped into Mitt Romney's economic blueprint in a town hall style debate. ...
11:57 PM, Oct 19, 2012
"Tendulkar is almost as widely admired in Australia as he is here in his homeland," Julia Gillard said. ...
05:40 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard tripped and fell on the grass during her visit to Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat on Wednesday. Gillard's shoe got stuck in the grass but soon got up and carried on with her visit. Gillard is on a three-day visit to India. Gillard, while attending a function on Tuesday, said she would be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, adding that her Labor ...
02:59 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Julia Gillard said Sachin Tendulkar is admired by all in Australia and has impressed at every level and not just on the cricket field. ...
09:57 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that Sachin Tendulkar is a rare talent and fits the bill for Order of Australia. ...
09:04 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Melbourne: Nearly a year after it reversed its policy of not supplying uranium to India, Australian government has, however, said the sale will not start quickly and even a safeguard agreement is likely to take one or two years. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is on a three-day visit to India, hosed down any suggestions that uranium sale to India will start quickly. Negotiating a safeguard agreement is likely...
04:50 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The honour will be conferred on Sachin by Australian cabinet minister Simon Crean when he visits India some time soon. ...
10:52 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday emphatically won the Labor leadership ballot, handing her arch-rival Kevin Rudd a resounding defeat by 71 votes to 31. With the win in the 103-member caucus, the country's first female prime minister ended Rudd's hopes of returning as premier any time before the General Elections next year, the Herald Sun reported. It is the biggest win in a Labor leadership ballot in...
07:42 AM, Feb 27, 2012
CANBERRA Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line on Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the colleague she ousted in a Labor Party coup nearly two years ago. The vote by party lawmakers, scheduled for Monday, is an effort by Gillard to knock down a power struggle that has been percolating for weeks, and that spilled over onto the...
03:12 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Melbourne: The Australian government has been asked to step up its condemnation for China after the latter's security forces fired into a crowd of Tibetans during the weekend in a restive area of Sichuan Province. According to 'The Australian' report, the Australia's Tibet Council asked Julia Gillard to condemn the Chinese authorities for the incident. The firing occurred on last Saturday as people gathered in Dari in the Golog prefecture...
08:22 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Melbourne: Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on Monday strongly criticised Julia Gillard for amending the long-standing Labor policy to sell uranium to India calling it a "shameful abject submission to US pressure." In an opinion piece published in 'The Age', Fraser, who led the country during 1975-83 as a Prime Minister, said "Canberra's abject submission to US pressure is shameful." He said Gillard has been "dead wrong" in doing...
08:52 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is all set to announce her new team on Monday while support for Labor government and Gillard as Prime Minster fell by four per cent in a latest poll. According to 'the Australian', Gillard on Sunday had discussed key portfolio positions in a series of telephone calls with senior ministers. The reshuffle was prompted after Small Business Minister Nick Sherry informed about his resignation...
08:28 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Melbourne: Calling the ruling Labor's decision to lift ban on uranium sale to India as "deeply significant", Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith on Monday said it would advance Canberra's interests and benefit its ties with the "emerging super power." Asserting that the global community has come to accept that India would not sign Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, Smith, who was among those who supported Prime Minister Julia Gillard's bold move to...
09:01 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Canberra: If Australia sells uranium to India, it should sell to Pakistan as well, Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Malik Abdullah in Canberra told ABC Radio on Monday. On Sunday, Australian Labor government voted to overturn ban on uranium sales to India at the Labor's national conference, in which Prime Minister Julia Gillard said would boost trade and enhance Australia's relationship with India. Abdullah claimed that Australia should sell uranium to...
07:21 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: India on Sunday welcomed the decision of Australia's ruling Labor Party to allow supply of uranium, reversing its long held position. "It is learnt that the Australian Labour Party agreed today, to allow sale of Uranium to India for power generation. ...We welcome this initiative," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said in statement. He said bilateral cooperation in energy sector is one of the important aspects of India's...
08:48 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Melbourne: Australia's ruling Labor on Sunday voted to overturn a decades-old ban on uranium sale to India, paving the way for Canberra to supply yellowcake to a nation outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Delegates at the 46th national conference of the Labor in Sydney endorsed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to export uranium to India, with 206 of them voting in favour and 185 against. Gillard, while moving a motion...
09:46 AM, Dec 04, 2011
The world's highest paid head of government is a woman. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will now get a salary higher than what US President Barack Obama and British premier David Cameron take home every year. ...
12:46 PM, Dec 01, 2011
