Australia has so far refused to sell uranium to India because it has not signed the non-proliferation treaty.
The ban was imposed this week among guards and attendants at the building in Canberra, Australian media reported.
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Darren Lehmann has extended his contact as Australia's head coach until 2019 to cover the World Cup and the Ashes series in England that year, the country's cricket board (CA) said on Monday. The 46-year-old former left-handed batsman took on the role on the eve of the 2013 Ashes and despite losing 3-0 in England, he went on to guide the team to series wins over South Africa, England, India, New Zealand and West Indies. He also won the 2015 World Cup on home soil with Australia, who currently top the ICC rankings in both test and one-day international cricket.
Australia's Fair Work Ombudsman is investigating the national cricket board's controversial pregnancy clause in contracts offered to elite women players.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Australia has built an artificial pitch at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane to help its batsmen deal with spin-bowling on the slow tracks of the subcontinent, where they have so often struggled in the past.
Champions Manchester City galvanised their pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday with an emphatic 3-0 victory over a Southampton side who have surprisingly come between the leading title protagonists.
'Before Shastri's induction, things were sketchy and it was not known who was responsible for taking cricketing decisions around the team. The selectors chose a squad of players, the captain ran the show on the field and the coaches helped draft plans, or sort of tried to. There needed to be one man who could coordinate all elements around the squad -- someone who had the backing of the Board, the respect of the players and that of the support staff.'
Sourav Ganguly has disclosed that Rahul Dravid was aware of what Greg Chappell was up to during his stint as India coach but he "could not control" the Australian.
Masashi Motoyama's double strike gave the Japanese side a 2-1 victory in a pre-season friendly.
Murali's presence in Australia had been in doubt ever since since Australian Prime Minister John Howard branded him a "chucker".
A number of other frontline ships, submarines and fighter jets of the three countries will be part of the over week-long drill in the Bay of Bengal which is taking place in the backdrop of a major military face-off between armies of India and China in the Sikkim section.
Indian coffee shops market over the next four-five years will grow between 6 and 18 per cent CAGR, all due to the growing coffee culture among the youth, increasing urbanisation, rising disposable income levels and changing eating and drinking preferences, says Atanu Biswas.
A flurry of opinion polls paint a mixed picture of Labour's popularity among British voters.
Sony on Monday said that British-born Sir Howard Stringer will take over from Nobuyuki Idei as group chairman and chief executive of the Japanese giant.
The former Australia captain will lead the team in a one-day game against the tourists at Manuka Oval in Canberra on January 28.
The world's fastest man was officially charged by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of committing a doping offence.
The Olympic flame returned to Australia for the first leg of a six-week global relay leading up to the Athens Games.
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.
Australia fast bowler James Pattinson will miss the rest of the Ashes series against England with a back injury, Cricket Australia said on Monday.
An outpouring of grief followed the Olympic 400 metres freestyle champion's disqualification at the Olympic trials.\n\n
India's projected 8.1 per cent GDP growth rate this year was "quite achievable" as investors' confidence had gone up substantially due to sustained economic reforms, a noted economist said on Monday.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Martin Scorsese may work together in Internal Affairs, a remake of three Chinese gangster films, Wu Jian Dao.
He has won all but two of the 12 Democratic primaries so far.
The end to the stalemate came after Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to allow MPs to review the controversial bill in a year's time.
Senator John Kerry continued his unexpected triumph in the Democratic race to challenge US President George W Bush by pulling off yet another victory in the New Hampshire primary on Monday.
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