NEW DELHI: Australia won the men’s field hockey World Cup after a gap of 24 years with a 2-1 victory over defending champions Germany in the final on Saturday. Luke Doerner scored the winning penalty corner 11 minutes from the end after Edward Ockenden put the Kookaburras ahead in the sixth minute and Moritz Furste [...]
LAHORE: Inquiry Committee has completed its investigations on Pakistan cricket team’s defeat in Australia and recommended ban on former captain Shoaib Malik and pace bowler Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan. The committee, headed by PCB chief operating officer Wasim Bari, was investigating the Pakistan team’s defeat in Australia. It has handed over its report to chairman Pakistan Cricket [...]
SYDNEY: Australia on Monday axed 20,000 migrant applications in a major overhaul aimed at clamping down on foreign students gaining permanent residency through courses such as hairdressing and cookery. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the reforms, which follow a sudden rise in Australia’s Indian population and an embarrassing rash of attacks on students from the [...]
SYDNEY: Australian miner Resourcehouse said Saturday it had signed a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal with energy-hungry China, calling it the country’s “biggest-ever export contract”. Resourcehouse chairman Clive Palmer said the company had negotiated a 20-year agreement to supply China Power International Development (CPI) with 30 million tonnes of coal a year from a proposed mine in [...]
SYDNEY: Australian winegrowers have been forced to let their grapes wither on the vine and halt production due to damaging levels of over-supply in the sector, a leading industry body said Sunday. The country needs to lose 20 percent of its vineyards to counter the glut, which, coupled with a strong Australian dollar, has left [...]
