Новости за 10.08.2015

Hitting out at BJP over the execution of 1993 blasts case convict Yakub Memon, MNS president Raj Thackeray today alleged that the BJP-led governments at the Centre and state wanted "riots to break out in the country".

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has blasted his long-time friend, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, over his tweets, that were perceived as being in favour of Yakub Memon (some of which were withdrawn later), ahead of the execution.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will now use his charisma to protect tigers. The 72-year-old actor has accepted the Maharashtra government's invitation to become a brand ambassador for its ambitious Tiger Conservation projects, Finance and Forests Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said here on Monday.

Online purchases made through mobile phones are steadily increasing in India and are likely to touch $40 million in 2016 from the current $30 million, indicates a new joint study by Assocham and Grant Thornton.

Progress slashing unhealthy ozone in the western United States has been largely undone by pollution wafting across the Pacific from China, according to a study published today.

Astronomers have discovered a giant protogalaxy 10 billion light-years away, and found that it is about four times larger in diameter than our Milky Way.

The indigenous Titanium Sponge Plant at Chavara in Kerala has been fully commissioned and has started commercial production required for space applications, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Monday.

Automobile service stations operating in the capital and discharging toxic pollutants like grease and oil into the Yamuna have come under the radar of the National Green Tribunal which has sought a status report on their functioning.

The West Bengal government has sounded an alert at airports, railway stations and other vital installations and buildings following intelligence inputs that terrorist groups were trying to create disturbance before Independence Day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.

A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack.

At least 800 candidates from mainstream political parties, independents and rebels have filed nominations for the August 22 city corporation elections.

The Rajasthan High Court on Monday banned 'Santhara' or a religious fast to death practised by followers of Jainism, declaring it unconstitutional.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accused Pakistan on Monday of sending "messages of war" and harbouring bomb-making camps, after a wave of devastating blasts in Kabul killed at least 56 people.

A hunt has been launched for a businessman who is alleged to have paid money to Mohammad Naved Yakub, a Pakistani militant who was caught alive last week after the Udhampur terror strike in which two BSF personnel were killed.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday registered a preliminary enquiry into mysterious death of Madhya Pradesh Governor's son Shailesh Yadav, a suspect in Vyapam scam.

The Pentagon is drawing fire for new legal guidelines that liken war correspondents to spies and says that in some instances they can be treated as "unprivileged belligerents."

A 40-year-old man, accused of raping a two-year-old girl, was beaten to death at Amalsad village in Navsari district of Gujarat on Monday.

The video of a girl who took on the man who eve-teased her in a bus in Delhi and thrashed her left and right has gonee viral.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday  said she will demand adequate funds from the Centre for post-flood reconstruction work in her state, where loss of property has been estimated at about Rs 30,000 crore.

Stepping up its demand for arrest of an IPS officer, the BJP on Monday staged dharna in front of police stations across Odisha while the Congress held demonstration at Kendrapara alleging police excess during recent agitation in the district for arrest of self-styled 'godman' Sarathi Baba.

A magistrate's court here on Monday allowed police to add charges under three forgery-related sections of IPC to the complaint against social activist Teesta Setalwad and her husband Javed Anand in the Gulberg Society fund embezzlement case.

English Premier League side West Bromwich Albion said Monday they had signed striker Salomon Rondon for a club-record deal "worth around £12 million ($19 million, 17 million euros)".