Новости за 24.09.2015

Facebook.com was up for most users, except in some parts of western Europe, nearly four hours after an outage was first observed.

Apple Inc said the WeChat messaging app and car-hailing app DiDi Taxi were among the 25 most popular apps that were found to be infected with malicious software, the first-ever large-scale attack on its App Store.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday was informed by the city government that Rs.60 crore has been released to the three municipal corporations for sanitation programmes to deal with the dengue outbreak.

The ongoing Patel quota stir in Gujarat on Thursday prompted the state government to announce a package for the economically backward category (EBC) irrespective of caste including scholarship for students and age limit relaxation for its jobs.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik and Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were put under house arrest here on Thursday to prevent them from leading rallies on the occasion of Eid on Friday.

Up in arms over reports of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy being offered the JNU VC post, the student community of the varsity have threatened to "resist any attempts with all its mights" to saffronise the campus, terming the BJP leader as a "regressive figure".

Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar Thursday announced establishment of the Mangrove and Marine Biodiversity Conservation Foundation here.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is inviting people to post questions for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a townhall meeting that he will be hosting on Sunday at the company headquarters.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar Thursday said that India will put across its stand on climate change 'eloquenly' on all available forums, ahead of his visit to US to participate in Paris Business Dialogue and Major Economies Forum.

Controversial AAP MLA Somnath Bharti, evading arrest for the third consecutive day in a domestic violence and attempt to murder case lodged by his wife, is behaving like a "professional criminal", Delhi Police said on Thursday.

Britons who leave food in their gardens for birds have helped change migration patterns, with one species now heading to the UK for the winter rather than to sunny Spain, researchers said Thursday.

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Facebook Inc`s social media website was inaccessible on Thursday afternoon, but it remained unclear whether the glitch affected all or some users.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in the United States.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured stunning images of remnants of a massive star, the Veil Nebula.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said the state government has decided to recruit teachers strictly based on their merits.

Muslim religious leaders in India reacted with grief and shock over the stampede near Mina in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Some felt it was time the Saudi authorities limited the number of pilgrims visiting the country for Haj.

A strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.9 struck off Irian Jaya in Indonesia on Thursday at a depth of 39.9 miles (64 km), the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Acting swiftly, HRD Ministry on Thursday approached the Law Ministry to seek legal opinion on the sacking of Visva Bharati Vice Chancellor Sushanta Duttagupta.

Activists of the youth wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) burnt the effigy of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here on Thursday to protest against his recent statement, that a new committee must be constituted to reconsider the job reservation quota issue.

Jammu and Kashmir will have to celebrate Eid-ul Zuha festival without Internet services, with the state government ordering termination of data services from tomorrow morning till Saturday night, as it apprehends misuse by anti-social elements to create communal tension.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin will meet US leader Barack Obama during his visit to the UN in New York on Monday, as the US frets about a military buildup by Moscow in Syria.

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal on Thursday welcomed reports that CCTV cameras were being installed in train coaches to ensure women's security, but said the Centre should use funds from the budget amount allocated to Railways and not from the Nirbhaya Fund.

Indo-Swiss tennis combine of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis comfortably entered the women's doubles semi-finals with a straight sets victory at the $250,000 Guangzhou Open here on Thursday.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said he will write to the president, prime minister and the union home ministry about Governor P.B. Acharya, who he said was behaving like an "RSS and BJP activist" rather than the constitutional head of a state.