Victoria, Jan 10 (IANS) A man has died, and a state of disaster has been declared amid the ongoing bushfire crisis in the southeast Australian state of Victoria.Premier of Victoria Jacinta Allan said at a press conference that a man aged in his 60s was found deceased in his car near the town of Harcourt, 110 km northwest of Melbourne, on Friday afternoon.His death was not directly related to the fires, Allan said, but occurred in close proximity to a fire ground, reports Xinhua news agency.Three…
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Canberra, Jan 9 (IANS) Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and three people are missing amid an ongoing bushfire crisis in the southeast Australian state of Victoria. Authorities said that there were 30 active bushfires burning across Victoria as of Friday and that they are expected to be unpredictable, uncontrollable, and fast-moving due to catastrophic conditions, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius exacerbated by strong winds.Victoria Police Deputy Commiss…
Sydney, Jan 6 (IANS) Almost 7 million Australians are living in areas on the outskirts of major cities that are most exposed to deadly wildfires, a report has found. The report, which was published on Tuesday by NGOs the Climate Council and Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA), warned that Australia is increasingly at risk of an urban fire event similar to the January 2025 Los Angeles (LA) wildfires.It found that the urban fringe on the outskirts of the major cities of Sydney, Melbourne, …
Sydney, Jan 3 (IANS) Australian stand-in captain Steve Smith is ready to relinquish captaincy to a younger candidate in the absence of captain Pat Cummins if that is what the selectors wish to do. With Usman Khawaja hanging up his cricket boots on Sunday after the Sydney Test, Nathan Lyon has already been ruled out due to injury. Smith will now be the oldest player in the Australian XI, side by side with Scott Boland. When asked about possibly being involved in the 2027 Ashes series in England, …
Melbourne, Dec 31 (IANS) Thousands of police officers have been deployed across the southeast Australian state of Victoria to ensure public safety during New Year celebrations.Victoria Police said that thousands of general duty officers and specialist assets from the mounted branch, dog squad, water police, air wing and critical incident response team (CIRT) will work overnight on Wednesday to ensure that New Year celebrations are safe, Xinhua news agency reported.Superintendent Belinda Jones, V…
London, Dec 30 (IANS) The England team heaved a collective sigh of relief as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has given the players a clean chit in the case of alleged excessive drinking during a team-building trip to Noosa between the second and third Tests in The Ashes tour 2025-26. Multiple reports had claimed that England players had indulged in excessive drinking during the trip organised as a team-building exercise for the players to recover from the defeat and get ready for the n…
Melbourne, Dec 27 (IANS) England captain Ben Stokes said the wicket for the fourth Test of the Ashes series at Melbourne would likely attract greater criticism if it had been prepared somewhere else in the world, adding that one wouldn’t like to see a game finish in less than two days.The 10mm of grass left on the pitch resulted in 36 wickets falling in six sessions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), as England ended a 14-year wait for a Test match victory in Australia with a four-wicket w…