Новости за 18.12.2015

The heavy rains and subsequent floods subdued all festivities in the city for a while.

Two youths were booked by police on Friday for using a police sticker on their high-end bike and obstructing police from discharging their duty. The incident took place at Hartali Mor under the S K Puri police station area.

Chief minister (CM) Nitish Kumar is working hard to mediate repeat of a Bihar-type of ‘grand alliance’ in Assam, a state where elections would be held early next year. Buoyed by its success in Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is making an all out effort in the northeastern state to snatch power from Congress.

WTO talks were headed into overtime as trade ministers could not reach an agreement on removing export subsidies and allowing special safeguards measures (SSM) for developing countries such as India to raise duties in case of import surge.

BJP legislator Amit Satam moved a private member’s bill in the House on Friday suggesting amendments to the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act

BJP legislator Ashish Shelar has proposed changes in the BMC Act to compel the civic body to develop open spaces in Mumbai, instead of private parties. Shelar has moved a private member’s bill in the legislative assembly on Friday

T he state government has issued instructions for conducting fire audits of all the slum colonies in Mumbai close on the heels of the blaze in the Damu Nagar shanties in Kandivili. The state told has the fire brigade to suggest alternative methods of relief and rescue for thickly populated slums

CM Nitish Kumar has set an ambitious target for the education department to prepare a road map to ensure the state figures among top five states in the country in terms of literacy rate.

T he state government will conduct an inquiry into irregularities in the deals of Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd, said cooperation minister Chandrakant Patil

The state has launched ‘Mazi Kanya Bhagyashree’ scheme for girl child on lines of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padao’ of the Centre. Making the announcement in state legislature, women and child development minister Pankaja Munde said that Rs 153 crore had been sanctioned by the government in the first year for various initiatives under the scheme

MIM has demanded closure of all liquor shops on the occasion of Eid-e-Milad on December 24

Goa Police Rope In Squad To Strengthen Security

Attempts To Energize Sluggish Property Market

Doctors have a mantra involving a few 80s for those who wish to live beyond 80 years. Your waist must be below 80cm, blood sugar 80 mg/dL, cholesterol 80 mg/dL and blood pressure 80mmHg. Also, stay 80 meters away from smokers, take vitamin D through sunlight for 80 days and walk 80 minutes a day, said eminent Bhopal-based cardiologist Dr P C Manoria on the first day of national conference of Indian College of Cardiology in Patna on Friday

A huge chunk of ‘Khasmahal’ (government) land leased to the Associated Journal Limited (AJL), the owner of National Herald, has been encroached upon by locals here. Bihar’s revenue and land reforms minister Madan Mohan Jha on Friday said his department would look into the matter and, if necessary, take legal steps.

Penalized For Not Transferring Land Rights

Kalyan Theatre Forced To Stop All Screenings

With the RJD on Friday announcing schedule for the election of its national president and no other prominent party leader staking claim for the post, incumbent Lalu Prasad (67) is all set to become the party boss for the ninth consecutive term (2016-19). Lalu is RJD’s national president ever since its formation on July 5, 1997.

A 40-year-old commuter died after falling on the tracks at Borivli railway station during evening peak hours on Thursday.

Patna police on Friday arrested one Manoj Mehta, kingpin of an interstate gang involved in kidnappings for ransom, from Patuli police station area in Kolkata. He was accused in the kidnapping case of a Ghaziabad-based man, Kaushal Kishore Singh. Manoj, a native of Nawada district, is also an accused in 24 cases in different states.

More than 1,000 Xaverians and their family members had a gala time at an informal get-together organised at St Xavier’s High School on Friday evening, where began a three-day colourful extravaganza to mark the finale of the platinum jubilee year celebrations of the school.