Новости за 13.08.2015

A Delhi court is likely to hear the protest petition filed against CBI’s closure report giving clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his alleged role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case on Friday.

With the brief monsoon session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature starting on Friday, opposition parties are bracing themselves to corner the Samajwadi Party government on all burning issues including law and order and suspended Noida chief engineer Yadav Singh case.

Amid Opposition attack over non-realisation of the promise of special status to Andhra Pradesh made during bifurcation of the state, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday said the Centre needs to help the residuary state liberally.

NIA Chief Sharad Kumar said on Thursday that the alleged Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naved Yakub, who along with his accomplice Noman alias Momin had ambushed a BSF contingent in Udhampur, was of Pakistani origin.

Climate change will be high on the agenda of talks at the second Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) on August 21 in Jaipur, being attended by all the 14 nations.

Think you are very smart? You may be browsing the Internet too much! Actively searching the Internet inflates our sense of the knowledge we actually possess, a new study has claimed.

Organisations including the World Bank and the Second Administrative Reform Commission have suggested measures like increasing water tariffs in urban areas for sustainable development and management of groundwater in the country, the Parliament was informed Thursday.

In an indication of growing closeness between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, the AAP government will facilitate the latter at a function likely to be held on August 19 in the national capital.

Over a hundred devotees on Thursday participated in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness' (ISKCON) celebrations to commemorate its 50th anniversary.

Maintenance work triggered an alarm that shut down a fifth Belgian nuclear reactor on Thursday, leaving only two working in the country but posing no danger to the public, the operator said.

Government Thursday said that over 1.84 lakh hectare of forest land was diverted for non-forest use in 7716 cases in past five years.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express concern about a visit to Moscow by the commander of Iran`s covert revolutionary forces, a senior State Department official said.

Facebook cancelled an Indian-origin student`s internship after he exposed a serious privacy flaw in the social media giant`s messenger service, a media report said.

A lawyer on Thursday filed a complaint with the Airport police station here, alleging that the controversial 'godwoman' Radhe Maa had carried a trishul (trident) with her at an airport and on a flight during her recent travels.

Just under eight months into the year, humanity has already consumed its annual allotment of renewable resources, a thinktank that tracks mankind's impact on Earth said Thursday.

More than 50 predominantly polluting units have been identified in Ghaziabad against which "priority" action will be taken, the Environment Ministry Thursday said.

The National Green Tribunal has directed concerned persons associated with 38 nurseries to appear before it after they allegedly refused to accept notice issued to them for causing pollution on the floodplains of river Yamuna here.

A 24-year-old worker was killed after a robotic arm of a machine pierced him at an auto ancillary factory in Manesar near here, police said.

Nick Kyrgios was on Thursday fined a so-far undisclosed amount for a crude remark he made on court to opponent Stan Wawrinka at the Montreal Masters, the ATP announced.

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman on Thursday backed Oriol Romeu to prove his worth in the Premier League after the Spanish midfielder signed from Chelsea on a three-year contract.

Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Thursday said it has increased the Direct Message (DM) limit to 10,000 characters from the existing 140, enabling the users to send longer private messages to friends.

The Narendra Modi government`s ambitious plan to rejuvenate the holy river Ganga is set to get Israel as a partner.

Boko Haram Islamists killed 10 people, including two soldiers, during a raid in northern Cameroon, security sources said Thursday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express "grave concern" about increased separatist attacks in Ukraine, a senior State Department official said.