Новости за 27.12.2015

Smoking in India is falling steadily even as the number of women smokers is rising, making it home to the second largest number of female smokers after US.

Electronic testing tracks might soon replace the present system of regional transport officials supervising and evaluating tests for those seeking driving licences.

Audience heading to watch any offering by John D’Silva can sometimesor rather most timesget blinded by the man who can leave you mesmerized.

India’s newest state capital Amaravati will get an underwater tunnel in river Krishna, about three-km long, for vehicular traffic if the state government has its way.

Unidentified miscreants damaged the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Throne car which belonged to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mehboob Ali Pasha.

Unidentified miscreants damaged the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Throne car which belonged to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mehboob Ali Pasha.

Three youngsters from the city, who were nabbed at the Nagpur airport on Saturday while they were on their way to Srinagar to take up jihad, were arrested by the Hyderabad police on Sunday evening under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly trying to join the Islamic State (IS).

Even as the state is reeling under a severe cold wave, meteorological experts warn that the situation might only worsen by next week. As on Sunday, the capital city, Hyderabad shivered as the mercury levels dropped to 12 degree Celsius, the lowest this season.

Within days of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer’s bodies being found in a Kandivli drain, her estranged husband, Chintan, was under the scanner as the cops had gone through his call records

Three separate incidents of chain-snatching by bikers were reported in Rabodi and Kasarvadavli on Saturday

It was a perfect Christmas and New Year Eve gift for Happy Streets regulars who looked more than happy while streaming into the 1.1km stretch from Konkanipada bus depot to Yeoor foothills on Sunday morning

Buckling under pressure from residents, the TMC has stalled the construction of a special ladies toilet at Mahatma Phule garden near Jambhli Naka, adjacent to Kopineshwar temple

Investigators probing the murders of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani conducted searches at their premises to look for evidence. Hema operated from her studio at Andheri and Bhambhani from his Matunga home

The Silver Jubilee Batch (class of 1990) of IIT-Bombay, which met on Sunday morning decided to fund three existing initiatives as a part of their ‘Legacy Project’ and pledged a sum of Rs 6.5 crore towards it

Experts say there is enough scientific evidence to suggest that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) can work effectively to quit smoking.

Three members of a family were killed and three injured after a Punjab roadways bus rammed their Maruti Swift DZire at DB Gupta Road on Sunday morning.

The capital's misadventure with the BRT corridor may finally come to an end with the city government set to start dismantling it from early January.

The state government has rejected the proposal for minimum pass percentage in theory exams for SSC and HSC that was tabled by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in October 2014

The Parsis’ sacred fire, the Iranshah, had an arduous journey before it settled in Udvada

The Transport Division Loss Recovery (TDLR) surcharge, which is a huge burden for over 10 lakh power consumers in the city, may continue in 2016-17, fear BEST committee members. But the final decision on the matter remains with the state regulatory commission

The city has a second chance to improve its ranking in the All India Swachh Bharat Test as Union Ministry of Urban Development has decided to conduct cleanliness survey afresh from first week of January. Additional municipal commissioner P K Srivastava said, “We will start the Shivri waste treatment plant in next 30 days. In December, we have decided to collect garbage from Zone-VII which includes Indiranagar, Vikasnagar, Khurramnagar, Munshipulia, etc.”

Mixed emotions gripped 70-year-old Arun Krishna Rao ‘Jhansi Wale’, the great grandson of Damodar Rao, the foster son of Rani Laxmibai, when he stepped into Jhansi Fort. He was here with his son for a felicitation ceremony on the inaugural function of Jhansi Jan Mahotsav on Sunday.

The Uttar Pradesh Police is all set to have a new chief in the new year. The present DGP Jagmohan Yadav will retire on December 31. With a series of court orders questioning extensions given to retired bureaucrats on one hand and short tenures of state police chiefs on the other, the Akhilesh Yadav government is yet to take a call on Yadav’s successor. According to sources, leading the list of probables to head India’s largest police force are VK Gupta and Javeed Ahmad though Ranjan Dwivedi is the senior most.