Новости за 16.09.2015

The Lucknow Zoo has invited suggestions for names of its two pairs of ostrich. Participants will be rewarded for names chosen for two female and two male birds. Visitors may put their suggestions in the drop box at the zoo gates, or mail to lucknowzoo@yahoo.com, sms or whatsapp on mobile number 7800106062, latest by September 25. Senders should specify their name and mobile number in the entry.

It would be a football-loving chief minister’s date with ‘sultan of free-kick swings’. When Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos leads other top players of Delhi Dynamo to a function at Agra on Saturday to meet chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, it would also be a moment to cherish for soccer lovers of the state.

Netanyahu spoke of plans to crack down on Palestinian protesters who hurl rocks and firebombs as he visited the site of a weekend car accident that killed a Jewish man.

City doctors have expressed concerned over the trend of ‘extremely high grade fever’ which has affecting a large number of people. In some cases, the high fever, ranging from 103-105 degrees, is causing convulsions and inflammation of the brain as well. As per estimates from government hospitals, at least 200 such patients have been attended in the past 15 days.

A dengue affected member in the family increases responsibility of the rest who must ensure the patient remains quarantined for at least 5-7 days so that the disease doesn’t spread. People with less immunity, such as children or elderly are more vulnerable to catching infection. Families of migratory dengue patients as well as those diagnosed with dengue in the city have to ensure infection doesn’t spread to neighbours and natives.

Few Americans want their country to take in more Syrian refugees even though many believe the United States should do more to help those fleeing the Middle Eastern country's brutal civil war, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

Even as three new cases of dengue were reported in the state capital on Wednesday taking the total to 16, experts laid emphasis on prevention especially in context of recent rains which has increased risk of dengue in city.

One section of Shiksha Mitras across the state has decided to head towards Varanasi in a bid to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who would be in his Lok Sabha constituency on September 18—putting police and administrative officials in a tizzy—while the other section has decided to begin teaching work from Friday. Thursday is holiday on account of Vishwakarma Puja.

One reason traffic moves so slowly on Vikas Marg, especially between Laxmi Nagar and Preet Vihar, is that thousands of people walk on it through the busiest parts of the day. With cars, bikes, vendors and haphazardly located toilets and transformers occupying the footpaths, pedestrians are forced to fight for space on the road.

Rashtriya Janata Dal strongman Raghunath Jha will formally join the Samajwadi Party here on Thursday. Senior SP leaders will be present at the party headquarters on Vikramadiyta Marg to welcome the former RJD leader into the party.

They live within a kilometre of two Metro stations yet residents of Sant Nagar, East of Kailash and Kailash Colony don’t walk to them because hawkers have occupied the pavements along Lala Lajpat Rai Road, the main thoroughfare.

To reach your nearest metro station, it would be advisable not to drive down one’s car or bike as most stations will have no space for parking private vehicles, other than bicycles. Following in state government’s footsteps to encourage bicycle riding in city, Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation has announced creation of ample space for parking bicycles across all 22 stations on metro’s North-South Corridor from Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport to Munshipulia.

Delhi has around 70 flyovers, the most for any city in India. They were built to give cars direct and smooth transitions past railway crossings and traffic bottlenecks. Ironically, it is now common to run into a traffic jam on stretches leading to and away from a flyover.

Three persons were arrested on Wednesday along with jewellery items worth Rs 21.37 lakh that were robbed from a highly fortified van on Kanpur–Lucknow highway on August 28. Armed men had shot dead driver of a security agency during the robbery and grievously injured a guard before fleeing with 7.19 kg jewellery.

Unclothed body of a 40-year-old cycle store owner named Raj Arora was found at his residence in Madiaon’s Paltan colony on Wednesday. The body was found after neighbours complained of foul smell emanating from the house and informed police. The police later found the body lying near the bathroom.

As Delhi grapples with congested roads and the increasing volume of traffic, its PWD minister has an interesting take on the problem. Satyendar Jain says that the city has sufficient road length required to accommodate the 82 lakh registered vehicles, but poor road engineering has let the traffic managers down.

Two Indians, including a doctor from Andhra Pradesh, have been abducted by suspected militants in Libya, the Ministry of External Affairs and local authorities said on Wednesday.

Hours before her scheduled interaction with debt-ridden tobacco farmers, Union commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday removed Tobacco Board chairman Dr K Gopal.

After going through thousands of snaps of attractive Indian ‘community dogs’ and their rescue stories, animal rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) selected Sheroo, a community dog from Sangam city for their fourth annual ‘Cutest Indian Dog Alive’ contest. The winner will be announced on September 28.

The worst year Delhi has had in terms of a dengue epidemic so far has been 2010, when official data suggests there were 6,259 cases and eight deaths. To put those numbers in perspective, Delhi’s population at the time was somewhere between 15 million and 16 million.

Five months after Cyberabad police commissioner C V Anand requested the GHMC to take action against 17 “illegal” mosques in Shastripuram area, the civic body sent a notice to Masjid-e-Ashara-e-Mubashara.

At a time when other government-run hospitals are creaking under the burden of dengue cases, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in east Delhi’s Geeta Colony is a picture of calm.

Robbers killed a 65-year-old widow at her house at MCH Colony in Amberpet and stole Rs 2 lakh worth property on Tuesday night.

About a decade after several police stations were moved from their locations in Maoist-affected areas in the district to more secure and urbanised areas, as many as 15 police stations have started functioning from their original locations again.

Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Wednesday sought to know from the Centre as to why IAS officer Satish Chandra was allowed to shift his cadre from Telangana to AP despite no similar grade officer was available there.