ISLAMABAD: International cricketers should support Afghanistan’s men’s team, not punish them by boycotting matches if the Taliban bars women from playing, the former director of the women’s side said. Tuba Sangar, who fled the country for Canada shortly after the fall of the country to the hardline Islamist group, warned that sports sanctions would damage … Read more
CANBERRA: The Covid-19 lockdown in Australia’s capital city has been extended by a month as the country continues to battle the third wave of infections. Andrew Barr, chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), said on Tuesday that Canberra will remain in lockdown until October 15. Restrictions were due to end on Friday after … Read more
Virat Kohli will continue his captaincy in all three formats of the game, a top BCCI official said on Tuesday, following reports that the batting great could be replaced as the limited-overs captain. Kohli has been performing well with the bat. This has led to the reports that the changes could be made after the … Read more
Australia’s competition regulator on Monday definitively blocked a pricing, code-sharing and scheduling deal between Qantas and Japan Airlines, saying the arrangement would hurt consumers. The deal would have seen the two airlines coordinate on how much fares would cost, as well as flight schedules. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ruled the proposal would “remove … Read more
Community groups in Australia’s Covid-hit cities are battling misinformation in multiple languages as they race to vaccinate a way out of “traumatic” lockdowns. Beneath the minarets of a mosque in west Sydney, 500 people are booked in for vaccine appointments at a pop-up clinic — part of a burgeoning network of initiatives by minority communities … Read more
Tim Paine, Australia’s Test captain, said on Friday that he believes nations would skip the Twenty20 World Cup next month or play Afghanistan because of the Taliban’s alleged prohibition on women participating in sport. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has yet to make the decisions regarding the government’s stance on women and Afghanistan men’s T20 … Read more
Cricket Australia (CA) on Thursday said it would cancel the historic maiden Test match against Afghanistan unless the Taliban backtracks on a reported ban on women playing sport. The governing body said the first-ever men’s Test between the two nations in November was under serious threat after the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, … Read more
Taliban officials said that women should not be allowed to play cricket as there might be some situations in which they will not be able to cover their faces and body. In response, Cricket Australia has threatened to cancel the Test match against Afghanistan which was scheduled to be played on November 27. In an … Read more
Australia defeated Vietnam 1-0 in Hanoi and became the first Asian Football Confederation (AFC) nation to win consecutive ten World Cup qualifiers in a row. The match was played at My Dinh National Stadium. Vietnam could have had a penalty in the 27th minute, but Australia defender Grant’s blocked the shot. A Grant header that … Read more
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza talks about the difficult life of an athlete and wants the world to know about it. Taking to Instagram, Sania wrote a long heartfelt note in which she spoke about the pressure, expectations, heartbreak, triumph, and pain an athlete has to go through. Sania, who is also the wife of … Read more
SYDNEY: A new Covid-19 pandemic tracking model showed that Australia’s current vaccination strategy should now prioritise delivering the Pfizer vaccine to people aged between 12 and 40 years old to achieve herd immunity. The findings, published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) on Monday, were made from a new model developed by James Cook … Read more
Officials say that COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Australia overnight, it was the first batch in a swap deal with the United Kingdom. Australia is utilizing COVID-19 vaccines to speed up its vaccination programs as it confronts a surge in cases that has put more than half of the country’s 25 million people in lockdown. … Read more
CANBERRA: Thousands of individuals have signed a petition asking the Australian government to introduce or import Covid-19 vaccines made by China. The petition, launched last week on the website of the Parliament of Australia, has garnered nearly 8,000 signatures, as of Saturday morning. The campaign was initiated due to the serious Covid-19 epidemic situation in … Read more
CANBERRA: At least six Australian universities have been ranked in the world’s top 100 despite the significant impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the sector. Times Higher Education on Thursday published its annual World University Rankings for 2022. The University of Melbourne was the highest-ranked of the Australian contingent at 33 – down from 31 … Read more
Australia stated today that it will prolong its prohibition on international incoming and outgoing travel until mid-December when it hopes to have vaccinated 80 percent of its adult population. The “human biosecurity emergency period” was supposed to end on September 17, but it has been extended until December 17. According to The Telegraph, Australian Health … Read more
SYDNEY: The Australian state of Queensland announced on Thursday that the government is about to launch a range of strict laws to make it much harder for intoxicated motorists to take to the roads. Under present rules in Queensland, people who have been sentenced for driving while having high blood-alcohol levels must prove their sobriety … Read more
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria will extend its lockdown as the state’s daily increase of local transmission stood on triple figures for the first time in the current outbreak. Victoria reported 120 new locally acquired cases and two deaths on Wednesday. “Due to the ongoing level of community transmission and the continued … Read more
Sydney: Australia’s economy expanded more than expected in the second quarter, data showed on Wednesday, easing concerns that the country could suffer a double-dip recession as it battles a fresh wave of Covid infections thanks to a pick-up in domestic demand. However, there are fears it will suffer a contraction in the current period with … Read more
