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Dr Renu Sharma Scholarship: Offering $10,000 to Boost STEM Education for Women and Indigenous Students

Dr Sharma, who has a PhD in nematology (roundworms), migrated from India in 2000 with her husband and twins after quitting a prestigious position in the Indian Ministry of Agriculture.

Australia sending six more military personnel to tackle Houthis in Red Sea

Since January 2024, Australia has provided support to coalition strikes aimed at protecting international shipping transiting the Red Sea.

$15 million illicit tobacco import racket with alleged links to Middle Eastern crime family busted

It is alleged that some of the men work for freight and transport logistics companies in trusted positions.

United States national charged for allegedly importing 2kg cocaine into Melbourne

“This amount of cocaine could have accounted for about 10,000 individual hits of cocaine, had it reached the Australian community.”

49-year-old Adelaide man jailed over $7 million cocaine import

Intelligence obtained during the Operation Ironside enabled the AFP to disrupt the plan to smuggle the drugs into Australia inside two welding machines.

Australia to establish National Student Ombudsman to investigate complaints against universities

"Not enough has been done to tackle sexual violence in our universities and for too long students haven’t been heard."

Couple excrete more than dozen heroin pellets, charged at Perth airport

"Should you ever consider using illegal substances, just think about where they potentially come from."

Former Australia coach Justin Langer appointed head coach of IPL team Lucknow Super Giants

In the year 2021, during Langer's tenure, Australia won the T20 World Cup for the first time.

International police operation takes down world’s most harmful ransomware criminals

More than 200 cryptocurrency accounts allegedly owned by the ransomware group have been frozen by law enforcement, stripping the group of significant profits.

Calls for increased funding for breast and ovarian cancer research

Proceeds from the Mother’s Day Classic go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation in accordance with the selection of MDC event participants.

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Australia signs defence deal with India then walks into disputed history, exposing geopolitical fault line

Australia views its relationships in Islamabad and New Delhi through entirely separate bilateral lenses, India views Western engagement with Pakistan through the uncompromising prism

Rishen Shekhar appointed ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor for International and Future Students

Shekhar said he was looking forward to joining ANU in its 80th year and helping tell the university’s story more widely.

Can you send your Indian passport home with a relative after getting Australian citizenship?

"After receiving citizenship, to return the Indian passport, can it be handed over to a relative who is returning back from a visit here so that they can formally hand it over to the Passport office back in India, or does it need an in-person appointment?"
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