Новости за 05.08.2015

A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for the head of the political party that controls Pakistan`s biggest and richest city, court officials said, highlighting rivalries between army and politicians there.

Astronomers have found what may be the largest feature in the known universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts and hence galaxies - five billion light years across.

A week after banning the #goddess, photo-sharing app Instagram has now prohibited the popular #EDM, a common abbreviation for electronic dance music because users apparently violated "guidelines around nudity", a media report said.

A hand-held waste-water filtration technology that promises zero wastage, developed by researchers at the IISc in Bengaluru, has won the Google startup festival at Zurich, Switzerland, a scientist said on Wednesday.

Members of the Patel (Patidar) community on Wednesday held a mega rally in the city and submitted a memorandum to the District Collector seeking reservation in education and government jobs due to what they claimed was their "deteriorating" financial and social status in Gujarat.

RTI activist Ravi Barhate on Wednesday alleged that NCP legislator Jitendra Awhad had purchased tribal land at Yeoor in adjoining Thane in 2006 and made an illegal construction on the plot, a charge denied by the latter.

A 31-year old man attempted self-immolation near the tahsildhar office here on Wednesday, upset over alleged foul language used by revenue officials when he approached them pleading for change of ration shop, police said.

A 52-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide after he was unable to repay loan taken for agricultural yields, police said on Wednesday.

Delhi government's 'City First Forest Programme', as part of which 12 lakh saplings would be planted across the national capital, will focus more on increasing green cover in the major urban centres rather than the outer areas.

To promote science among school and college students, city-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), has planned for setting up a 'science park' at its Narayanguda premises here.

The Delhi High Court today rapped the city government for the failure of its forest department to give details of the amount of wood consumed in crematoriums in the national capital and the number of trees that have been cut which were then supplied to them.

Director General (DG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Prakash Mishra on Wednesday visited the Maoist-hit Balangir district in Odisha.

Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday alleged it was not only the BJP ministers who were feeling "suffocated" in the current government, but even most of the Akali ministers as well, since power had been "concentrated" within the Badal family.

India is rushing relief supplies, including 10,000 packets of noodles, to Myanmar which was hit by massive floods.

Various academicians and students from different universities across the country on Wednesday passed a resolution at an "Education Parliament" against certain reforms in higher education such as CBCS and Central Universities Bill being rolled out by the government.

An alumni group of St Stephen's college on Wednesday wrote to the UGC questioning the veracity of principal Valson Thampu's statement that the commission has expressed solidarity with him.

Ahead of NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan, Congress on Wednesday charged the NDA government with being "soft" on terror and reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his assertion as an opposition leader that talks should not be held with Islamabad in the shadow of gunshots.

A draft bill on a Charter of Women`s Rights has been prepared to give additional powers to the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), the Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) said on Wednesday.

Locals have recovered the remains of another 17 people who were killed in Nepal's Langtang trekking region in April when an earthquake triggered a massive avalanche, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The prime accused in the July 8 shootout at a city bar, in which one bystander was killed and two others injured, was allegedly attacked by his cell inmates at Alipore Central Jail, police said on Wednesday.

About 500 protesters demanding Nepal be declared a Hindu state in the new Constitution have clashed with police in the capital.

Spain's ruling Popular Party has extended its lead in voting intentions ahead of a year-end General Election, while support for new anti-austerity party Podemos has fallen, a poll showed on Wednesday.