Новости за 22.08.2015

Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) seem to be making most of the rupee depreciation against US dollar.

Two days ahead of the mega Patidar rally in Ahmedabad, cops have raised queries with regard to the number of people expected to attend it.

By the end of this academic year, well over 1,000 students will have passed out of Quepem's 22-year-old school in a remote locale — one where almost all the students are tribals from local villages.

This was the only Pakistani aircraft downed by the IAF in the eastern theatre during the 1965 Indo-Pak War.

Mamata broke her silence on the issue on Friday, two days after the post-midnight student arrests in Pune, saying that the Centre must talk to the students and teachers to break the 73-day deadlock.

The Kristu Purana, an epic poem on the life of Jesus Christ, was written 500 years ago, when Goa's natives embraced Christianity.

A CCTV footage of the incident allegedly showed that five youths were involved in the attack.

The state hopes to finish work for the 100 million gallon per day water treatment plant and a water-pipeline laying project from Hooghly to New Town soon.

With CBI seeking the judicial magistrate court’s permission to interrogate Madan Mitra, the transport minister’s supporters have put up more than 300 hoardings and banners across the city demanding his release.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will undertake a re-tender process to sell a huge chunk of land off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.

People who work night shifts rarely pay attention to the type of food they consume at work. Small changes in your snacking habits can make you healthier

An explosion at Khargragarh kills two persons 10 months ago. A blast on a local in Titagarh claims one life and injures 17.

The CID has busted an illegal arms and bombs manufacturing unit in Nadia’s Kalyani on Saturday.

An auto driver shot at a 30-year-old man at Salt Lake on Saturday evening.

Two persons from Gopalganj district in Bihar were arrested on Friday and the police suspect that they are part of a bigger gang that cons people with promises of fake jobs or lottery.

Last year, robbers fleeing a crime scene in north Kolkata scaled the wall of one of the most famous addresses in the city — Jorasanko Thakurbari.

At least a week before Ketan Mehta’s ‘Manjhi — The Mountain Man’ hit theatres, 50 websites and Torrent sharing sites had uploaded links to the complete film.

The incident involving a 22-year-old woman attempting suicide at Central Maidan on Friday after her long-time boyfriend rejected her marriage proposal has stirred a debate in the city about the increasing incidents of commitment phobia among youths to long-term relationships

The most important question on everybody’s lips in Presidency University on Saturday was how education minister Partha Chatterjee would attend the convocation, where he was guest of honour.

Presidency VC Anuradha Lohia kept her word. After the convocation, she returned to her chamber exactly as she had promised the agitating students.

While the newly opened arm of the Kapurbawdi flyover was expected to ease traffic, ever since its inauguration motorists have been getting stuck in the traffic jam caused on the arm. The vehicles are forced to slow down owing to sharp turns at the two arms – one towards Mumbai and other enroute to the Nashik highway. Motorists said that confusion over taking the left or right lane is causing the jam as also the speed breakers

Thane’s top junior athletes stole the limelight at the junior state athletics meet in Pune. National medalist Nidhi Singh took the lead to win an individual gold and silver in her pet events. Other young athletes-- Monica Joshi, Shruti Jadhav, Shreyas Magar, Apoorva Ghogare and Kiran Bhosale too made a mark

Eight women have been rescued from flesh trade in separate raids at Thane and Dombivli by the anti-human trafficking cell (AHTC) of the crime branch

The crime branch is giving final touches to a proposal to invoke the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against about 25 gang members of an Irani syndicate involved in street crime under the jurisdiction of Thane police commissionerate

The numbers said it all. Fifty-odd rabble rousers against some 500 students eager to get their degrees at the historic Derozio Hall.