Новости за 26.08.2015

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fl. (Reuters) - Sea levels worldwide rose an average of nearly 3 inches (8 cm) since 1992, the result of warming waters and melting ice, a panel of NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

A 68-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death with a blunt object after being robbed of cash and jewellery at her residence in central Delhi's Paharganj area on Wednesday.

The gang war inside a moving prison van which claimed the lives two inmates took a new twist with Delhi Police and Tihar authorities on Wednesday trying to pass the buck at each other.

Four persons were killed, 45 injured and one rendered permanently disabled in separate incidents of attacks by wild animals from April 11 to July 31 in Himachal Pradesh, state Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmauri informed the Assembly during Question Hour on Wednesday.

Nepal's top court has ordered a halt to commercial surrogacy services in the Himalayan nation until it rules on the legality of the practice, an official said Wednesday.

The success of Delhi Metro Rail project is likely to be the model for cleaning up the Yamuna river in the national capital, where the central and Delhi governments would join hands to make the polluted river into a hub of tourism and navigation, and provide clean drinking to the residents.

Top PPP leader and close aide of former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari was allegedly picked up and taken to an unknown location by intelligence officials here on Wednesday, provoking criticism from his party.

Security has been tightened along the porous Indo-Nepal border in western Nepal even as an Indian national was among 11 persons arrested on Wednesday following violent protests against the proposed new Constitution which have killed 11 people including seven policemen.

t least 48 religious seminaries in Pakistan's southern Sindh province have been found to have links with terrorists and banned outfits, police said on Wednesday.

India and Germany, both aspirants of a permanent seat in the Security Council, on Wednesday hoped that there will be a strong momentum for "text-based" negotiations which can lead to a positive outcome in the reform of the UN ahead of its 70th anniversary.

Maharashtra is the only state in the country which has taken the initiative to insure farmers individually and assessed their losses at the village as well as the personal level, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Wednesday.

High alert was sounded along the Indo-Nepal border here due to the unrest in Nepal, in which 11 persons including an Indian national were killed.

Two days after a minor girl was 'gangraped' inside a moving bus in Assam, a 12-year-old was allegedly gangraped by a group of four youths in Barpeta district in the state, police said on Wednesday.

Warning that the Census data based on religion could create a communal tension, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Wednesday said that certain people may be planning to do "something big over 2 or 3 points", referring to the population of certain communities.

Five people were killed when Patna-Islampur passenger train ran over them at Rajendra Nagar Terminal in Bihar, reports claimed on Wednesday.

In more trouble for suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, UP Lokayukta has recommended registration of an FIR and an inquiry against him by "any agency", including CBI, in disproportionate assets case.

An unidentified body of a 40-year-old woman was today found from Behta Hajipur Railway station here.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal will share the dias at a function here tomorrow, an event considered important to boost Kumar's chances in the coming assembly polls in the state.

Paras Goldy and Pradeep Bhola, both lead members of the Neetu Dabodia gang, had dodged death once each while in custody before meeting their fates in yesterday's gang war inside a moving prison van, the police said today.

Scotland Yard is trying out a new scheme of recruiting convicted terrorists to counter Islamic State (IS) terror propaganda in the United Kingdom.