Commonwealth Games

COMMON

WEALTH

GAMES

The Commonwealth is an association of independent sovereign states spread over every continent

and ocean. From Africa to Asia, the Pacific shores to the Caribbean, the Commonwealth’s 2 billion 

people make up 30% of the world’s population and are of many faiths,races,languages,cultures &

traditions - and over half of them are young people under the age of 25.

The Commonwealth is a unique family of 53 developed and developing countries, but there will be representation from 71 nations and territories at Glasgow 2014. These nations and territories work 

together to promote peace, democracy, sustainable development, human rights and health, and to

share ideas, knowledge and experience. And of course every four years they all come together to

take part in the Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth Games Federation is the organisation responsible for the direction and control of the Commonwealth Games.

MEDAL TALLY

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
England (ENG)	12	11	9	32
Australia (AUS)	11	9	12	32
Scotland (SCO)	7	3	5	15
Canada (CAN)	4	1	4	9
India (IND)	3	4	3	10
New Zealand (NZL)	2	2	4	8
Cyprus (CYP)	1	1	1	3
Nigeria (NGR)	1	0	1	2
Singapore (SIN)	1	0	0	1

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Scientists Capture Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis for the First Time Ever

What's so special about photosynthesis? It's the common process that every plant goes through, and it's crucial for life on Earth. Now, though, scientists have managed an extraordinary feat. They've taken the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water into protons, electrons and oxygen.

"A crucial problem facing our Center for Bio-Inspired Fuel Production (Bisfuel) at ASU and similar research groups around the world is discovering an efficient, inexpensive catalyst for oxidizing water to oxygen gas, hydrogen ions and electrons," said Devens Gust, the center's director. "Photosynthetic organisms already know how to do this, and we need to know the details of how photosynthesis carries out the process using abundant manganese and calcium."So why bother unraveling the secrets of water splitting? Understanding the mechanism is essential for the development of artificial systems that mimic and surpass the efficiency of natural systems. In the case of plants, it may be possible to create an "artificial leaf" that could actually generate power.

In order to get a closer look at photosynthesis, the researchers used the world's most powerful X-ray laser, named LCLS. Extremely fast femtosecond laser pulses recorded snapshots of the PSII crystals before they exploded in the X-ray beam. This allowed that scientists to gather snapshots of the water-splitting process, damage-free.

"This is a major step toward the goal of making a movie of the molecular machine responsible for photosynthesis, the process by which plants make the oxygen we breathe, from sunlight and water," said John Spence, a team member involved in the new study.

Jaguar Land Rover unveils a new engines named Ingenium

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has unveiled its four cylinder engine family named Ingenium.

Ingenium are compact, low emission, lightweight diesel and petrol turbocharged engines which will provide performance and efficiency. Both the variants are designed to reduce CO2 emissions.

The production is expected to begin at the carmakers manufacturing center near Wolverhampton, UK in 2015.

This new engines are designed for seamless Installation for the upcoming models of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.

Both the Diesel and petrol variants will share most of the internal components like the aluminum block with the same stroke, bore, cylinder spacing along with 500 -cc cylinder capacity.

Jaguar Land Rover Groups Engineering Director, Dr Ziebart said "We believe that with the range of technologies we are investing in, Jaguar Land Rover can absolutely satisfy the often conflicting requirements of delivering engaging high-performance luxury vehicles that reduce our carbon footprint in the long-term."

Live Cricket Score

Australia 517/7d & 290/5 (69.0 ov)

India 444

Australia lead by 363 runs with 5 wickets remaining

Border-Gavaskar Trophy - 1st Test

Test no. 2148 | 2014/15 season

Played at Adelaide Oval

9,10,11,12,13 December 2014 (5-day match)

Mitchell Marsh struck thre

Stumps - Day 4

	Australia 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	CJL Rogers	c Dhawan b Ishant	9	39	22	1	0	40.90
	DA Warner	c Ishant b KV Sharma	145	253	163	19	0	88.95
	SR Watson	c Dhawan b Aaron	14	53	33	3	0	42.42
	MJ Clarke*	c Pujara b KV Sharma	128	244	163	18	0	78.52
	SPD Smith	not out	162		231	21	0	70.12
	MR Marsh	c Kohli b Aaron	41	106	87	5	0	47.12
	NM Lyon	b Mohammed Shami	3	14	14	0	0	21.42
	BJ Haddin†	c †Saha b Mohammed Shami	0	7	5	0	0	0.00
	MG Johnson	not out	0		4	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 4, w 9, nb 2)	15
	Total	(7 wickets dec; 120 overs)	517	(4.30 runs per over)

Did not batPM Siddle, RJ Harris

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Fall of wickets 1-50 (Rogers, 7.5 ov), 2-88 (Watson, 18.3 ov), 2-206* (Clarke, retired not out, 43.2 ov), 3-258 (Warner, 56.2 ov), 4-345 (Marsh, 84.2 ov), 5-352 (Lyon, 87.3 ov), 6-354 (Haddin, 89.2 ov), 7-517 (Clarke, 119.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Mohammed Shami	24	2	120	2	5.00	93	18	0	(1w)
	VR Aaron	23	1	136	2	5.91	89	23	0	(2nb, 3w)
	Ishant	27	5	85	1	3.14	119	8	0	(1w)
	KV Sharma	33	1	143	2	4.33	111	15	0
	M Vijay	13	3	29	0	2.23	58	3	0

	India 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	M Vijay	c †Haddin b Johnson	53	143	88	3	2	60.22
	S Dhawan	b Harris	25	36	24	5	0	104.16
	CA Pujara	b Lyon	73	187	135	9	0	54.07
	V Kohli*	c Harris b Johnson	115	267	184	12	0	62.50
	AM Rahane	c Watson b Lyon	62	111	76	10	0	81.57
	RG Sharma	c & b Lyon	43	142	89	5	0	48.31
	WP Saha†	c Watson b Lyon	25	87	68	2	0	36.76
	KV Sharma	b Siddle	4	13	8	0	0	50.00
	Mohammed Shami	c Watson b Siddle	34	32	24	3	1	141.66
	Ishant	c Smith b Lyon	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	VR Aaron	not out	3		4	0	0	75.00
	Extras	(lb 4, w 1, nb 2)	7
	Total	(all out; 116.4 overs)	444	(3.80 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-30 (Dhawan, 7.4 ov), 2-111 (Vijay, 30.1 ov), 3-192 (Pujara, 49.3 ov), 4-293 (Rahane, 75.2 ov), 5-367 (Kohli, 94.1 ov), 6-399 (RG Sharma, 107.5 ov), 7-406 (KV Sharma, 110.2 ov), 8-422 (Saha, 113.3 ov), 9-422 (Ishant, 113.5 ov), 10-444 (Mohammed Shami, 116.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	MG Johnson	22	6	102	2	4.63	96	14	0	(2nb)
	RJ Harris	21	6	55	1	2.61	101	7	0
	NM Lyon	36	4	134	5	3.72	138	11	2
	PM Siddle	18.4	2	88	2	4.71	75	10	1	(1w)
	MR Marsh	11	4	29	0	2.63	53	4	0
	SR Watson	5	1	13	0	2.60	24	2	0
	SPD Smith	3	0	19	0	6.33	5	1	0

	Australia 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	CJL Rogers	c RG Sharma b KV Sharma	21	52	45	2	0	46.66
	DA Warner	b KV Sharma	102	271	166	11	1	61.44
	SR Watson	b Mohammed Shami	33	119	86	4	1	38.37
	MJ Clarke*	c †Saha b Aaron	7	34	20	1	0	35.00
	SPD Smith	not out	52		64	5	0	81.25
	MR Marsh	c Vijay b RG Sharma	40	21	26	4	3	153.84
	BJ Haddin†	not out	14		15	2	0	93.33
	Extras	(b 1, lb 6, w 5, nb 9)	21
	Total	(5 wickets; 69 overs)	290	(4.20 runs per over)

To batPM Siddle, MG Johnson, RJ Harris, NM Lyon

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Fall of wickets 1-38 (Rogers, 12.1 ov), 2-140 (Watson, 38.5 ov), 3-168 (Clarke, 45.6 ov), 4-213 (Warner, 59.1 ov), 5-266 (Marsh, 64.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Mohammed Shami	11	2	42	1	3.81	46	5	0
	Ishant	14	3	41	0	2.92	68	4	0	(6nb)
	KV Sharma	16	2	95	2	5.93	59	11	4
	M Vijay	6	0	27	0	4.50	24	2	1
	RG Sharma	12	2	35	1	2.91	52	3	0
	VR Aaron	10	0	43	1	4.30	41	4	0	(2nb, 1w)

MATCH DETAILS

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Toss - Australia, who chose to bat

Test debut - KV Sharma (India)
Player of the match - tba

Umpires - M Erasmus (South Africa) and IJ Gould (England)TV umpire - MD MartellMatch referee - JJ Crowe (New Zealand)Reserve umpire - GC Joshua

Close of play

• - day 1 - Australia 1st innings 354/6 (SPD Smith 72*, 89.2 ov)
• - day 2 - Australia 1st innings 517/7d (SPD Smith 162*, MG Johnson 0*, 120 ov)
• - day 3 - India 1st innings 369/5 (RG Sharma 33*, WP Saha 1*, 97 ov)
• - day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 290/5 (SPD Smith 52*, BJ Haddin 14*, 69 ov)

MATCH NOTES

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Day 4

 

Day 3

 

Day 2

 

Day 1

• • India: 400 runs in 108.3 overs (653 balls), Extras 7
  • Drinks: India - 422/8 in 113.3 overs (Mohammed Shami 15)
  • Innings Break: India - 444/10 in 116.4 overs (VR Aaron 3)
  • Lunch: Australia - 32/0 in 10.0 overs (CJL Rogers 19, DA Warner 13)
  • Australia: 50 runs in 15.5 overs (95 balls), Extras 0
  • 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 67 balls (DA Warner 29, SR Watson 19, Ex 2)
  • DA Warner: 50 off 63 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
  • Australia: 100 runs in 26.2 overs (160 balls), Extras 3
  • 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 157 balls (DA Warner 51, SR Watson 33, Ex 16)
  • Tea: Australia - 139/1 in 38.0 overs (DA Warner 69, SR Watson 33)
  • Australia: 150 runs in 41.1 overs (252 balls), Extras 17
  • Drinks: Australia - 190/3 in 53.0 overs (DA Warner 96, SPD Smith 13)
  • DA Warner: 100 off 154 balls (11 x 4, 1 x 6)
  • Australia: 200 runs in 54.5 overs (337 balls), Extras 20
  • Australia: 250 runs in 63.4 overs (390 balls), Extras 21
  • 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (SPD Smith 10, MR Marsh 40, Ex 0)
  • SPD Smith: 50 off 59 balls (5 x 4)
  • End Of Day: Australia - 290/5 in 69.0 overs (SPD Smith 52, BJ Haddin 14)