Новости за 24.08.2015

Pakistan government has achieved major successes against militants who are now unable to operate from the country, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar claimed today.

Bengaluru, Aug 25 (IANS) Counting of votes polled on Saturday to elect representatives of the Bengaluru civic corporation will be held on Tuesday amid tight security, an official said.

Members of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Monday entered into the premises of Central Railway (CR) and admonished a woman employee over her alleged demand to an RTI applicant to submit his application for seeking information in either Hindi or English.

New Delhi: A cab driver was arrested today for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl whom he used to drop home after school in south-west Delhi's Dwarka area.

Google has been testing a new Maps app feature that will detect when photos are taken at restaurants and other places that serve food and suggests attaching them to the establishment's location.

The twin cubs born to the Smithsonian National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang were said on Monday to be "doing well" after a night that had zoo keepers on edge.

The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Monday directed the state health department to submit an inquiry report into the death of 21 infants in four days in a hospital in Cuttack.

The Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavlamban Mission (VNSSM), set up by the Maharashtra government, proposes to provide new crop loans to all farmers in 14 districts in a bid to arrest suicides, its chairman said on Monday.

At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters demanding a separate state in the proposed new Constitution on Monday attacked police with axes, spears and bricks in a western Nepal district bordering India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the loss of lives in a train accident in Andhra Pradesh`s Anantapur district on Monday.

A court on Monday charged 10 people and issued arrest warrants against three fugitives in the brutal killing of a 13-year-old Bangladeshi boy that triggered a nationwide outrage after a video of him being traumatised went viral.

In an apparent swipe at Pakistan, a senior foreign ministry official on Monday said here that some small countries were scuttling New Delhi's efforts to improve the economic cooperation among the members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

A rare mass trial of 41 radical Islamists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with "terrorists" opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates, official media reported.

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen fired rockets into a residential district of Taez, killing 14 civilians, mostly women and children, officials said Monday, as battles raged for control of the key city.

Greece's coastguard on Monday said it had recovered the bodies of two migrants who drowned when their boat sank near the island of Lesbos, and was seeking five more who were missing.

Delhi Police on Monday submitted a detailed status report to the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) in connection with the assault on AAP legislator Alka Lamba.

Vice Admiral AR Karve on Monday took over as the Chief of Personnel at the Naval Headquarters here.

A special "digital" version of epic 'Ramcharitmanas' prepared by All India Radio (AIR) will be released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 31.

A rare mass trial of 41 radical Islamists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with "terrorists" opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates, official media reported.

The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organisation said on Monday at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting what organisers called the "barbaric treatment."

US President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran seems to be picking up the momentum it needs to survive fierce opposition in Congress from its Republican opponents With Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid now on board.

Pakistani security forces have killed 1,114 terrorists since the launch of an anti-terror campaign following the deadly December 16 attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Monday.

The final death toll from a jet crash at a British airshow could rise to 20, police said Monday as an operation began to recover the plane wreckage.