Новости за 21.12.2015

The summer of 2016 is likely to be crueller than its predecessor, but may prove kinder on power cuts if the government keeps its word.

Twenty buses of Ola Shuttle and Shuttl, two companies that provide app-based bus services within the city, were seized over the past week, allegedly for permit violations.

Outgoing Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said he will try to form a new government after his conservative Popular Party won the most seats in a general election but lost its absolute majority.

Outgoing Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said he will try to form a new government after his conservative Popular Party won the most seats in a general election but lost its absolute majority.

Former state higher education minister Laxmikant Sharma, accused in the Vyapam scam, walked out of jail on Sunday to a hero's welcome from supporters.

Cochin Shipyard will be the first one in India to build sophisticated ships to carry liquefied natural gas (LNG) under the 'Make in India' initiative.

Next time you visit Gujarat, you must visit Rani ki Vav, an excellent symbol of our great art and culture,“ tweeted PM Narendra Modi in 2014 soon after Rani ki Vav received the Unesco heritage tag. The Rani ki Vav or Queen's Stepwell is in Patan district of Gujarat, very close to Vadnagar where Modi was born.

With Nachom-ia Kumpasar making it to the Oscars' initial shortlist this year, and 20 movie releases in the last five years, the industry has got a new lease of life

Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the Sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to a new study .

Nepal's second-largest city and its leading tourist hub Pokhara is built on massive debris deposits which are associated with strong medieval earthquakes, a new study has found.

Driving in winters could soon become easier and safer, thanks to a new material developed by scientists that could `de-ice' snow-covered, slippery roads potentially for years.

Parents, take note! Children tend to consume more calories after playing online games that involve food, a new study has found. Researchers found that shortly after playing a game with an embedded food advertisement, children ate 55% more of the candy offered to them than children who had played a game with an embedded toy advertisement.

Almost six months after VHP announced its nationwide drive to collect stones for the construction of Ram temple here, two trucks laden with them arrived in the temple city on Sunday .The police said it was monitoring the situation.

Pointing out to the susceptibility of a child to imagination or tutoring, a special court on Saturday acquitted a Bandra school peon of raping a then five-year-old girl at school in July 2013.

In a state which faces repeated droughts and is infamous for the highest number of farmer suicides in the country , here is a surprising statistic. The largest share of water from state's dams--as much as 74%--goes to agriculture. Industry is assigned the smallest share of 8.4% while drinking water gets twice as much at 17%.

Maharashtra arrested 942 cyber criminals last year, second only to UP with 1,233 arrests. Data profiling by the National Crime Records Bureau 2014 report shows that 100 of those arrested in this state were neighbours or relatives, 91 students, 81 sexual freaks and 55 religious persons.

Maharashtra arrested 942 cyber criminals last year, second only to UP with 1,233 arrests. Data profiling by the National Crime Records Bureau 2014 report shows that 100 of those arrested in this state were neighbours or relatives, 91 students, 81 sexual freaks and 55 religious persons.

The AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa set yet another ball rolling for the much awaited December 31 party meeting by reconstituting the executive committee of the party. Out of the 77 members appointed to the executive committee, 72 are women. This significantly boosts the presence of women in the committee of around 250 members.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley was politically correct when he chose to meet the chief minister Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat, not at her Poes Garden residence, on Sunday to discuss the flood devastation in the state.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said he has instructed insurers to settle all claims relating to floods in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu within four weeks.

Road transport is vital for India's socio­economic growth, but the increasing number of vehicles has also cost lives and caused injuries.

Sivaprasad Velayudhan, 37, founder-director of Realworks Studios India, says they’ve done very little marketing. “The only sales we did was distributing CDs with our work to a few potential clients.

The health ministry is planning to ramp up its de-worming programme to cover 48 crore children across the country next year, up from nine crore targeted during 2015 in 11 high-burden states, an official said.