Новости за 19.06.2015

An 11-year-old girl has reportedlysuccumbed to dengue in Belthangady taluk.

All schools in the Thane corporation area have been ordered to remain shut for a day by municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal in view of the heavy rains coinciding with a high tide on Friday afternoon.

Scientists have discovered hot lava flows on Venus, providing evidence for active volcanism on Earth's neighbour planet.

Savitha Sri of Tanil Nadu turned the tables on favourite and her state mate Darsana MS to keep the tournament alive and deny her the title in the girls section of the National U-9 Chess Championship 2015.

The Baroda Rifle Club (BRC) will organize a state-level shooting championship at the Manjalpur sports complex in the city from August 16 to 20.

Dumka: Maluti is all set to attract pilgrims during the month-long shravani mela, beginning August 1.

Ranchi: Sushant ‘Byomkesh’ Singh Rajput was in Ranchi to gather information about the untold stories of India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. No, this time Rajput isn’t playing the Bengali detective’s new ‘action hero’ avatar. In fact, the actor will have more ‘action’ on 22 yards.

"Dear friends, I have decided to step down and therefore our party now has to find another leader," she said, her voice shaking.

Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he calls the "structurally perverse"economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth.''

An experimental drug, vying to become the first approved treatment for dwarfism, improved growth in children by a significant amount in a preliminary study, the drug’s developer, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, said on Wednesday.

Keith Vaz, Britain's longest-serving Indian-origin MP was today re-elected as chair of Parliament's influential Home Affairs Select Committee, even as a controversy rages over his help to scam-tainted former IPL chairman Lalit Modi in obtaining British travel documents.

A suspected arson attack overnight damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle, and police briefly detained 16 young Jewish settlers over the incident Thursday.

A Catholic church near the Sea of Galilee frequented by religious pilgrims and tourists was heavily damaged by fire Thursday in a possible attack by Jewish extremists.

A tiny Scottish island has been rocked by its first crime in about five decades -- a theft from its only shop.

Even as clamour to make the Delhi Noida Direct (DND) Flyway toll-free continues, the UP government could allow the concessionaire, Noida Toll Bridge Company Limited (NTBCL), to collect toll till 2031.

Doctors at a private city hospital successfully removed a giant neurogenic tumour weighing 7kg from the chest of a 31-year-old man on June 2 in a surgery that lasted five hours.

The body of a 65-year-old woman was found in her Sector 29 flat under mysterious circumstances on Thursday.The body, with no injury marks, was disovered around 8.30am by the housemaid.

Those who have been allotted land by the Noida Authority for residential plots but have failed to start construction within the stipulated period of two years — or according to the number of years mentioned in the lease deed —now face a lighter penalty. The new rule takes effect from Friday.

Come August 15, tourists thronging Punjab's Attari border for the Beating the Retreat ceremony are likely to be welcomed by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.

Owing to a dispute over sharing of water, a farmer was killed at Kaleke village in Barnala district on Thursday.

Adopting a tougher stand against policemen for allegedly gunning down one of its members, the Amritsar unit of SAD issued a week's ultimatum to the special investigation team (SIT), constituted to probe killing of Mukhjeet Singh alias Mukha, to bring out the truth failing which the Akali leaders threatened to begin an agitation for justice.