Gold Coast (Australia) / Saint-Imier (Switzerland) 4 to 15 April 2018. As a proud partner and Official Timekeeper of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018), Longines is committed to celebrating every World Record and Commonwealth Games Record broken during the Games. The world record holder will be presented with a certificate of achievement, an […]
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA: Today, Monday 9 April, Swiss watchmaker, Longines, honoured nine athletes from Australia, England, Scotland, Canada and India and celebrated three world records and eight Commonwealth Games records in a special Longines Records Ceremony. WORLD RECORD BREAKERS Cycling Track; Men’s 4000m Team Pursuit; Leigh Howard, Kelland O’Brien, Alex Porter and Sam Welsford; Australia; 3:49.804 Cycling Track; […]
On 4-15 April 2018, over 6,600 athletes and team officials from 71 nations and territories will converge on the Gold Coast for the the largest 12-day sporting and cultural event. Be a part of the biggest multi-sport event in Australia. For our listeners, there are still tickets available in athletics, weightlifting, boxing, badminton, table tennis, squash, shooting and more. […]
Culture and heritage are a distinct part of the identity of an individual and a community. The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha Australia hosts a variety of initiatives for a deeper understanding about the Indian Culture. One such Cultural Convention was ‘Sanskrutik Ek Khoj’ – In Search of Indian Culture’ witnessed by over 3000 audiences in the […]
Facebook will begin connecting with the 87 million users – including 562,455 in India – from Monday if their personal data was “improperly shared” with the British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. Those affected by the data privacy breach will see a detailed message at the top of their news feeds. Apart from those affected, […]
Indian shooters Mehuli Ghosh and Apurvi Chandela bagged silver and bronze respectively in the women’s 10m Air Rifle event at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Monday. Ghosh lost to eventual champions Martina Lindsay of Singapore in the shoot-off after both were tied at a CWG record score of 247.2 in the final. In the […]
India’s Manish Kaushik and Gaurav Solanki entered the quarter-finals of their respective weight categories in the men’s boxing competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Monday. Kaushik beat off a strong initial challenge before getting the better of Michael Alexander of Trinidad and Tobago in the round of 16 stage of the lightweight (60 […]
Chandigarh and its nearby areas in Punjab and Haryana were lashed by rains on Monday morning with the morning temperature dropping by about two degrees, the weather office said. The weather turned pleasant following the rainfall, which lasted for around one hour. The sky remained overcast. “It was quite dark when we were leaving for […]
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday over a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. “The US, along with Cote d’Ivoire, France, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in light of the latest allegations of a chemical […]
A Canadian humanitarian worker has been arrested in Nepal over paedophile charges, police said on Monday. The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police arrested Peter Dalglish over his involvement in paedophile activities in Kavre District, some 50 km north from Kathmandu, reports Xinhua news agency. “We have started investigation against the Canadian national,” Pushkar Karki, […]