Новости за 29.09.2016

Russia on Thursday raised questions after Bulgaria formally presented its European budget commissioner Kristalina Georgieva as its candidate to be the next UN secretary-general, diplomats said.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that America`s alliance with the Philippines was "ironclad," despite that country`s president vowing a day earlier to end joint military exercises.

State minister Partha Chatterjee said they were never against industries, but against having industries on a multi-crop land.

India, on the intervening night of September 28 and 29, carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said the government was preparing to extend the state of emergency for another three months, a media reported.

US Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this week called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and conveyed his condolences for those killed in the Uri terror attack and "offered full cooperation", sources said on Thursday.

Indian Army on Thursday rejected as "false and baseless" reports in a section of Pakistani media that eight Indian soldiers were killed and one captured by Pakistani military in retaliatory fire.

A meeting here on Thursday between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Cauvery water sharing issue remained inconclusive as both states refused to budge from their respective stands on the issue.

Security has been tightened in Rajasthan along the country's border with Pakistan after India's surgical strikes across the Line of Control, official sources said on Thursday.

A revolt seems to be brewing in the Janata Dal-United with several of its state units opposing re-election of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as its national president and demanding proper organisational polls for election of the next party president, informed sources said.

Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC on Thursday launched their squad ahead of the third edition of the League.

After making his international debut in 1996, Afridi established himself as one of the biggest match-winners for Pakistan.

As reports about the Indian Army carrying out successful surgical strikes in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Wednesday night came out earlier in the day, some companies were quick to announce special discounts and offers.

The report found there had been 801 recorded seizures of tigers and tiger products across Asia since 2000.

Players have been split into Test and one-day groups in the new central contract system.

He also took time to explain that state associations and the BCCI function in different ways.

Pakistani stock markets on Thursday nosedived following reports that India carried out surgical strikes against terror bases across the LoC.

A packed commuter train ploughed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring over 100, many of them critically.

Laxman also felt that Kohli has had a huge influence on the way K L Rahul bats of late in the shortest format of the game.

Passenger train (number 78408) hit the good train (BCN-DANKUNI) from behind in Odisha.

Annu, who won a bronze in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, threw the javelin to a distance of 60.01m to erase her own earlier national mark.

The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species has already listed the rusty patched bumble bee as endangered.

Chasing West Indies' 310, Pakistani innings was reduced to 4-1 inside the fourth over.

In a passenger-friendly move, the railways Thursday announced a facility of transfer of berths, which remain vacant at the train-originating station after preparation of second chart, to the next and subsequent stations to be alloted to wait-listed passengers there.

A defiant liquor baron Vijaya Mallya on Thursday asserted that he would get judicial relief soon from criminal charges filed against him by a consortium of banks for defaulting on loans his defunct airline raised.