2nd International Day of Yoga Special message from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull On the occasion of the 2nd International Day of Yoga, Hon Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia has sent a special message complimenting Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for his leadership on International Day of Yoga and commending his vision for supporting global […]
NSW Premier and Minister for Western Mike Baird announced today that the NSW Government plans to raise the wall of Sydney’s Warragamba Dam to significantly reduce the flood risk in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Raising the dam wall by 14 metres is estimated to cost $690 million and, in next week’s Budget, $58 million will be […]
Argentina and defending champions Chile easily outclassed their respective opponents to enter the semi-finals of the Copa America Centenario football tournament in style. At the Gillette Stadium here late Saturday, Argentina showed ample glimpses of their awesome firepower by overpowering 2011 Copa America finalists Venezuela 4-1 in the quarter-finals. Gonzalo Higuain (8th, 28th minutes) struck […]
Director Ali Abbas Zafar, who has been working with Yash Raj Films ever since he made his debut in 2011, says the banner’s head honcho Aditya Chopra is an empowering producer. Zafar told IANS: “Adi (Aditya) is a very empowering producer and one of the reasons is that he is himself a director. So, he […]
Portugal and Austria played a goalless draw in a Group F clash of Euro 2016 at Parc des Princes in Paris on Saturday. The captain and star of the team Cristiano Ronaldo missed a late penalty on his record-breaking 128th Portugal appearance. Portugal dominated large swathes of the first competitive meeting between the sides since […]
Three years after becoming the world’s oldest skydiver, Aida Gemanque became the oldest Olympic torch bearer on Saturday when she carried the flame in the Amazonian city of Macapa, aged 106. Gemanque broke the record formerly held by Alexander Kaptarenko, who was 101 when he took part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay, Xinhua […]
The Russian Orthodox Church has rejected a last minute appeal to attend what was deemed as the first meeting of fellow church leaders since 787. Russia said it could not participate in the Holy and Great Council, on the Greek island of Crete, as not all churches will be present, BBC reported. The churches of […]
It was a warm Sunday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 30.1 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain partly cloudy. Light rains or thunderstorm are likely to occur in some areas towards evening or night,” said an official of the Indian Meteorological Department […]
The man charged with the killing of British Labour MP Jo Cox on Saturday gave his name at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain”. Asked to give his name as he stood in the dock at the court in London, Thomas Mair said: “My name is death to traitors, freedom for […]
A heavily pregnant woman and her husband were killed with bullets to their heads in an apparent case of honour killing in the suburbs of Pakistan’s Punjab province. The dead, identified as Muhammad Shakil, 30, and Aqsa, 26, were allegedly killed for “honour” by the woman’s brother who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia. Shakil […]