Новости за 08.02.2016

Though delayed, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is hopeful of making two of the 10 zones in city open defecation free by March. Target is to make the entire city open defecation free by October 2 under Swachh Bharat Mission.

Ashok Munne, 31, is not the first amputee attempting to scale Mount Everest. But he wants to do it alone without any helpers who assist in climbing the difficult terrains. What is more, he also wants to fly off the peak on a paraglider.

The Nagpur For Kids (NFK) Club members were mesmerized to see a blanket of plants on hillock, along with a variety of birds and butterflies in the Rajbhavan premises. They not only got first hand experience of nature but also got some education during the visit to the bio-diversity park over 80 acres. The park has 29,000 plants of hundreds of species.

A weekend feast ended in tragedy when four colleagues of an IT Park-based call centre died in a road mishap near Octroi Check Post on Wardha Road in the early hours of Sunday. Their speeding car rammed into a parked truck. The lone survivor, now recuperating at Orange City Hospital, was the only one wearing a seat belt. The impact of the accident was so great that the head of the driver got severed from the body and was recovered from the rear seat.

Arzoo Singh Chauhan, a 23-year-old Delhi University student, was allegedly strangled by her boyfriend last week during a tiff over his impending marriage with someone else.

In a sign of the strength of India’s public research institutions, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) released seven new varieties of field crops including wheat, rice, chickpea, pigeon pea and mustard and identified 11 varieties of high-yielding agricultural and horticultural produce during 2015.

The ‘Go’ pill is Modafinil, which has gained currency in military aviation circles around the world for its alertness-enhancing and fatigue-managing properties. The ‘No-Go’ pill is Zolpidem, a sedative used to treat insomnia.

The Indian Air Force has some new weapons in its armoury. No, they are not hypersonic cruise missiles, nor bunker-bursting ‘smart’ bombs.