Former weightlifter Malleswari is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal at Sydney in 2000 by lifting 110 kilogram and 130 kilogram in the 'snatch' and 'clean and jerk' categories.
Around 18,000 people had been evacuated from flooding in New South Wales by Monday and emergency services feared up to 54,000 people could be displaced with rain forecast to continue until Wednesday.
During a match at Sydney, racial slurs were hurled at Indian cricketers.
There have been reports that the third Test between India and Australia, scheduled to take place in Sydney, could be shifted to Melbourne amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the city.
After an impressive five-wicket haul against Australia in Sydney, India head coach Ravi Shastri had said that Kuldeep Yadav wil be the "no.1 overseas spinner." However, he remains largely out of contention for a place in the XI in the upcoming Test series.
India took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match T20I series against Australia following their 6-wicket victory in the second match in Sydney. India won the first match by 11 runs. The third game is scheduled for Tuesday, also at the SCG.
Australia beat India by 51 runs and sealed the series by 2-0. Indian cricketer KL Rahul said that sometimes as a team they have to accept that the opposition played better cricket.
Thanks to no local transmission case of Covid-19 in Sydney over the last week, life for the touring Indian cricketers is expected to be a bit more relaxed.
With the Covid-19 pandemic ensuring that the entire squad had to reach early and undergo quarantine, the team management is taking care to give them format-specific practice.
A 25-strong Indian squad, led by its star skipper Virat Kohli, reached here on Thursday for a gruelling two-month Australia tour that starts with a 14-day quarantine-cum-training period on the outskirts of the city.
The digital edition of Sydney Film Festival will run from June 10 to 21 and feature world premieres of true stories from Australian documentary filmmakers; a program of shorts from budding filmmakers of the Australian film industry.
An Australian fusion startup called HB11 which is a spin-off from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, has secured patents for its ground-breaking, laser-driven technique for fusion energy generation that promises clear, safe energy.
Sydney has been hit by the heaviest rains in three decades after a storm caused flooding along Australia's east coast, but in the process extinguished a number of bushfires that have been raging for months.
As the deadly Australian bushfire continues to rage in the south coast, three more deaths have been confirmed by the police.
Firstly the fire would cause damage to infrastructures such as pumping stations and pipes, and secondly, ash would wash into and pollute the water supply itself.
Australia's south-east region is slated to face "extreme heatwave" conditions, which is said to also elevate the already heightened fire risks, the weather department said. The "very hot pool of air" that built up over Australia last week, smashing records for the nation's hottest ever days, has merely re-circulated, creating "two separate rounds of extreme heat", The Sydney Morning Herald reported citing Blair Trewin, senior climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, as saying on Wednesday.
A concerned city dweller wrote: "We're at the point where smoke in Sydney is so bad, experts are calling for air pollution shelters" One user commented; "This is like Kuala Lumpur in 1993 when rainforests were taken down for agriculture. This smoke is sickening!"
Hazardous smoke levels triggered alarms within the building, forcing the staff to go outside while a number of key personnel remained in the control room to maintain fire response coordination, reports Xinhua news agency.
The fire season in Australia varies by area and weather conditions, although blazes are generally recorded in the southern summer (between the months of December to March).
A non-stop Qantas New York to Sydney flight, deemed as the world's longest with nearly 20 hours in the air without layovers, took off on Saturday.
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