Commonwealth News

Commonwealth Games 2022 is starting from today in Birmingham, England. Today the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony will be held in which PV Sindhu will be the flag bearer for the Indian team.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to 215 players selected for the Commonwealth Games 2022. This dialogue took place through video conferencing.

Talking about what Ravi Shankar Prasad has done she remarked, “He has electrified the other members of our Commonwealth family.”

A distinguishing feature of the Commonwealth is that it not just a network of governments, but a family of interconnected networks.

The move is also expected to help India in making a fresh appeal to the United Nations to get the JeM and its chief Maulana Masood Azhar banned.

 Indian boxing star Vijender Singh will be gunning for his third professional title when he takes on Briton Lee Markham for the Commonwealth Super Middleweight belt on July 13 in London.

Prince Charles has been approved as the successor to Queen Elizabeth as head of the Commonwealth.

At the October 16 to 19 meet, Prasad will tell the forum how India has been using the Jandhan account, mobile and Aadhaar card to provide direct subsidy to the needy while wiping out the middlemen.

As many as 300 Indian firms and over 100 businesses from the Commonwealth will participate in the two-day India-Commonwealth Small and Medium Enterprises trade summit here.

Charles said some northern nations seemed worryingly ambivalent about the difference.

The CMAG is held for ministers from the 52 Commonwealth countries to raise important issues and action points for the benefit of the organisation's membership.

Sakshi has been preparing for the upcoming PWL, her next target is to do well in Asian Games in Jakarta and Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

The Maldives on Thursday pulled out of the Commonwealth calling as "unjust" the grouping's decision to penalise the island nation over the circumstances that led to then President Mohamed Nasheed's ouster in 2012 and the lack of subsequent progress in resolving the political unrest.

Voting to elect a new government on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, international observers invited to monitor the polls.

The Malta summit emphasised the link between global warming and migration. 

A number of countries including Canada, Britain and Australia have pledged nearly USD 2.5 billion to help the poor countries fight global warming.

Prince Charles warned today that if international leaders fail to clinch a deal on climate change at talks in Paris next week, it would leave mankind facing a "perfect storm".

Creating a more participatory approach to tax co-operation tops the agenda of this year's meeting of Commonwealth finance ministers in Lima on October 7.