Новости за 18.06.2015

Ranchi: The second phase of ‘Operation Smile’ will begin on July 1. Unlike the first phase which lasted for only 10 days, the second phase will continue for a month, ending July 31, said CID officials.

Ranchi: With human-animal conflicts becoming a frequent affair in the capital, the state forest department is raising a rapid response unit to minimize collateral damage.

Al-Qaida militants in Yemen killed two men accused of spying for the US and hung their bodies off a bridge on Wednesday, a day after the jihadi group announced the death of its leader in an American drone strike.

Bokaro: Officers of CBI’s anti-corruption bureau conducted raids in the houses of two senior officials of Bokaro Steel Limited (BSL) at Sector-IV of the township in connection with fraudulent recruitment allegedly made by the company in Bokaro on Wednesday.

The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma el-Sayed, an activist with one of Egypt's secular opposition groups, come with them.

Islamic State said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province.

Sixty years ago this month, an affair between the great Italian film director, Roberto Rossellini, then married to Ingrid Bergman, and a young Bengali woman, Sonali Dasgupta, wife of the filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, made headlines in the yellow press in India and in Britain and America.

In a bizarre incident, a 49-year-old Spanish man died after he was mistakenly served undiluted detergent instead of white wine at a bar.

It’s a case of two down: the aisle. A crossword-loving lawyer hid a marriage proposal in The Times newspaper’s daily puzzle.

Pakistan’s ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in new controversial account of the al-Qaida chief's death.

India has emerged as Britain’s third biggest job creator in 2014 as the country saw a 65% increase in foreign direct investments (FDI) from here. India helped create 9,350 jobs in UK in 2014 — second only to the US (36,778 jobs) and Germany (9,727 jobs).

As part of the new ecotourism policy to be tabled before the Gujarat high court before June 24, the forest department has decided to put a ban on commercial establishments from getting home stay approval within the periphery of the Sasan Gir sanctuary especially in the eco-sensitive zones.

A day after Sikhs there voiced their discontent, the Canadian government withdrew "the explosive trace detection" turban screening procedure at the airports there.

During Ramzan, observant Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset for the entire month. A single sip of water or a puff of a cigarette is considered enough to invalidate the fast.

A single judge fast-track court exclusively dealing with cases of illegal constructions and offences registered under the MRTP law in the Thane corporation limits is scheduled to be functional soon here.