Новости за 14.06.2015

Keith Vaz had published a scathing report as the chair of the home affairs select committee which said that the already existing backlog of visa applications will take 24 years to be cleared by the UK Border Agency.

Labour Party vice-chairman and Britain’s most influential Asian MP Keith Vaz may soon face an inquiry by the UK’s parliamentary watchdog for allegedly using his political clout to get the government issue travel documents to Lalit Modi to move outside the UK.

Labour Party vice-chairman and Britain’s most influential Asian MP Keith Vaz may soon face an inquiry by the UK’s parliamentary watchdog for allegedly using his political clout to get the government issue travel documents to Lalit Modi to move outside the UK.

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party and the country’s home secretary Theresa May will finally have something to pin down British MP of Indian origin Keith Vaz.

Keith Vaz, the longest serving Indian origin MP in Britain’s House of Commons who could soon face a British parliamentary inquiry for his role in helping former IPL chief Lalit Modi, gave an exclusive interview to TOI recently on his future in politics.

A national crisis caused by the April 25 earthquake and its aftermath has pushed an estimated one million people below poverty line, a Nepal government report has revealed.

A national crisis caused by the April 25 earthquake and its aftermath has pushed an estimated one million people below poverty line, a Nepal government report has revealed.

An organisation representing OBC Hindu community in Kerala today criticised the Catholic bishop's views on inter-religious marriages and said a case should be registered against him for his remarks.

A new freight train linking Harbin city in northeastern China to Germany's Hamburg was launched on Saturday. The train, which will open a new trade route between China and Europe will run a distance of 9,820 Kms.

At least 12 people died and several are missing as a result of heavy rainfall and floods overnight in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Georgian news agencies reported on Sunday.

Pakistan has imposed a one-month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said on Sunday, giving a temporary reprieve to a death row prisoner whose lawyers say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

A primary school trust in the UK has banned Muslim students at four schools in London from fasting during Ramzan on grounds that it would endanger their health and cited that under Islamic law children are not required to fast.

Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that nobody can shake him as he had the blessings of people who had made him the chief minister.

Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday promised stern action against those involved in cricket betting after the CID, which is probing the case, comes out with its report.

Seema and Sahana awake early every morning, strap on bundles of newspapers, straddle their bicycles and pedal away, dropping off their cargo in nearly 80 houses and shops in the city of Vijayapura.

While residents of Hubballi are struggling to get pure water and keep themselves free of water-borne diseases, the Karnataka water board is claiming just the opposite.

The Kannada version of Marathi book "Ganyarache Por" (Singer's Son), authored by late classical singer Bhimsen Joshi's eldest son Raghavendra Joshi, will be released at Srujana Auditorium here at 5.30pm on Sunday.

There is a need of about 50 blood bags per day in Hubballi and blood banks are able to provide only about 35.

Mandya police are doing their own version of PM Narendra Modi's Swachch Bharat Mission. They are cleaning up police station premises of unclaimed vehicles! By using database management software, police have managed to dispose of 786 recovered vehicles that were lying in police station premises for years.

Filing a complaint against erring autorickshaw drivers has become easy with city police keeping complaint cards at vantage points like bus stands, the city railway station and tourist spots.

The city witnesses the first pre-monsoon showers with 3.4mm rainfall in last 24 hours. The intermittent showers since Friday evening brought relief to denizens from blistering heat.

State minister for urban development, parliamentary affairs and waqf Azam Khan’s Sunday visit to city has enhanced possibility of the opening of proposed Haj House in Varanasi for pilgrims of east UP region.

A small change in name on corporation records might be a costly affair.

Tanseel Mohammed, a 42-year-old auto driver, is a non-smoker.Whenever his passengers light cigarette in his auto, he requests them to drop it, a plea often brusquely brushed aside.

Forget crowd-funded movies made using professionals; this group of amateurs from a nondescript village in Punalur have made a crowd-funded film by themselves.