Новости за 01.07.2015

Five NGOs have come together to raise 20 million pounds for securing 100 elephant corridors in India by 2025 to curb increasing fragmentation of forests as well as human-elephant conflict, it was announced on Wednesday.

The US military is developing a next-generation hypersonic jet plane that could fly at up to five times the speed of sound - faster than a bullet.

A total of 188 meteorite impact sites on Earth have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery, a first-of-its-kind study has found.

A fabricated metasurface that leads to improved antenna performance may represent the first demonstrated practical application for invisibility cloaks, researchers say.

A ball boy collapsed and fans took cover as Wimbledon sweltered Wednesday on the hottest day ever recorded at the championships.

In the run up to UN climate change conference in Paris later this year, a green body today urged India to work with developing nations and push for a "fair and equitable" global deal which saves the world from catastrophic climate impacts.

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif on Wednesday asked cricket authorities in South Asian region to seriously think about staging day-night Test matches at night for the survival of the five-day format.

Pakistani officials Wednesday said they had killed a senior al Qaeda commander and three other militants in a raid earlier this week in eastern Punjab province.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today exempted the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi from appearing in-person after the LeT operations commander cited "serious threats to his life."

Google has announced a latest update of Gmail with some new features.

Local environmentalists on Wednesday again voiced their opposition to the Uttar Pradesh government`s move to reduce the eco-sensitive zone limit around Sur Sarovar or Keetham Lake from ten km to just 250 metres.

Sprint star Usain Bolt is in Munich on Wednesday, seeking treatment from famous doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt in a bid to cure his problematic pelvis injury before August`s world athletic championships.

Sunil Jaglan, a Haryana village headman whose online drive for the girl child went viral on Twitter after Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed it, is now determined to take it to the nomadic tribes so that they can spread the message to other parts of the state and beyond.

Local environmentalists on Wednesday again voiced their opposition to the Uttar Pradesh government's move to reduce the eco-sensitive zone limit around Sur Sarovar or Keetham Lake from 10 km to just 250 metres.

All-rounder Dwayne Bravo says a meeting with West Indies head coach Phil Simmons has not convinced him that he should return to Test cricket because player conditions have not improved.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has shrugged off claims that it is worried about the country's participation in the Champions Trophy following the proposal of a tri-series involving West Indies, Pakistan and hosts Zimbabwe.

A local court has awarded five years imprisonment each to the parents of a newborn girl whom they had abandoned a day after her birth.

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has decided to set up English-medium schools up to intermediate in all districts of Uttar Pradesh by 2017.

Sunil Jaglan, a Haryana village headman whose online drive for the girl child went viral on Twitter after Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed it, is now determined to take it to the nomadic tribes so that they can spread the message to other parts of the state and beyond.

A man has been arrested for allegedly smuggling bovines and 21 cattle were rescued from his possession in Ramban district, police said on Wednesday.