March 10, 2020 13:56 pm
Pop star Miley Cyrus has canceled a trip to Australia for a bushfire relief concert three days ahead of the show, citing recommendations that travel be curtailed to counter the spread of the global coronavirus epidemic.
January 26, 2020 10:18 am
MELBOURNE, Jan 26: Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday dampening some of the fires that have razed 2.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) of land since September, but the wet weather caused major flooding.
January 4, 2020 21:05 pm
MELBOURNE, Jan 4: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has cancelled official trips to India and Japan that were scheduled for the second half of January as he battles a bushfire emergency at home.
November 13, 2019 10:25 am
SYDNEY, Nov 13: Australian officials ordered people in several communities, including a major tourist destination, to evacuate immediately on Wednesday as firefighters struggled to contain more than 150 bushfires raging across the country’s east coast.
November 13, 2019 09:57 am
The city of Sydney is facing a “catastrophic” bushfire threat for the first time since new fire danger ratings were introduced in 2009.
March 28, 2018 17:51 pm
UDAYAPUR, March 28: Ghurmi village in the district has become vulnerable to inferno after an oil tanker met with an accident along the Katari-Hardeni road section of Siddhicharan Highway on Wednesday morning.