Новости за 21.04.2016

The popular search engine giant Google celebrated Earth Day with a range of colourful animated doodles.

In a major development, seven jihadis affiliated to Bangladesh-based terrorist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested from Assam's Chirang district.

Ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress over corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday batted for development, terming it the solution to all problems.

Sindhu will now face Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand in the quaterfinals.

Following protests by JNU students over denial of fellowships and degree for their alleged involvement in the controversial Afzal Guru event, the varsity administration on Thursday issued orders to the concerned departments to release the same.

The results for Telangana Intermedia exams are likely to be declared on Friday.

Torrid heat wave conditions continued in Odisha as nine places recorded temperature above 45 degrees Celsius while the toll due to sunstroke has touched 66, officials said.

Authorities in Uttar Pradesh have allegedly refused to make official marriage of a Hindu man and a Muslim woman in Dadri town, as per a media report.

The crime branch of city police on Thursday brought Alamzeb Afridi, an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative and a key accused of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, here through a transfer warrant from Bengaluru.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that transgender people should be able to use whichever bathroom they choose, voicing opposition to part of a far-reaching North Carolina law that critics says is discriminatory.

The Election Commission announced on Thursday that it has set up a special control room, over and above the normal control room that has already been functioning, to monitor the election process in West Bengal.

Ujjain is geared up to host Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious congregation of Hindus, from Friday during which over five crore people including seers are expected to visit the holy city, with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan saying it will be a "Green Simhastha".

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday condoled the murder of Chikku Robert, an Indian national from Kerala working as a nurse in Oman.

The Election Commission on Thursday postponed by-poll to the Anantnag assembly seatafter the Mehbooba Mufti-led Jammu and Kashmir Government raised concerns over the law and order situation.

Unbeaten for the first three games, the new team from Rajkot crash landed at their own den after suffering a 10-wicket defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Hyderabad openers chased down the target with 31 balls remaining.

Naxaliites have threatened to blow up Gaya Junction railway station in Bihar, report claimed on Thursday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday criticised the Modi government after Uttarakhand High Court quashed the order of that had put the state under President's Rule.

After Uttarakhand High Court set aside Centre`s decision of imposing President`s Rule in the state, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying people of the country are watching him.

At least 41 militants were killed and 23 others injured in clashes with security forces and government airstrikes in the last 24 hours, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

Volkswagen reached an agreement Thursday with US regulators to offer US owners of some 480,000 illegally polluting diesel cars options of "substantial compensation" and to fix the cars, or to buy them back

Accused by the ruling AAP of purposefully setting fire to a landfill, the BJP on Thursday hit back at the AAP government saying that its odd-even scheme has failed and thus they are doing politics to "mislead people".

Dissatisfied by his reply to the show-cause notice, the Election Commission on Thursday ordered a police case against Trinamool Congress candidate Abdur Rezzak Mollah over his "objectionable" remarks about BJP's actress-turned-poll nominee Roopa Ganguly.

At least 25 Al-Shabaab militants were killed in heavy fighting between the militant group and Somalia National Army (SNA), an official said on Thursday.

Filing of nominations for the May 16 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry would begin from Friday.