Новости за 14.08.2015

United Nations officials are facing pressure to revisit their unpaid internship policy after an intern who had been living in a tent near Lake Geneva resigned and called for “interns all over the world” to unite in a fight for their rights.

Kurdish authorities in Iraq said on Friday they believe their Peshmerga forces have been attacked with chemical weapons, possibly chlorine gas, by Islamic State militants.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the US government if he becomes President.

China on Friday defended the fire fighters who initially hosed water on a blaze in a warehouse storing volatile chemicals, a response experts said could have contributed to two huge blasts that killed 56 people, leaving 720 injured.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced the widest rebellion yet from his leftist lawmakers as parliament approved a new bailout programme on Friday, forcing him to consider a confidence vote that could pave the way for early elections.

City police on Friday arrested Homi Maratha, a resident of Ambavadi, for creating a fake Gujarat high court order by forging the signature of the then judge, Justice HK Rathod. Crime branch officials said Homi’s father, Navinchandra Maratha, who is a suspended advocate, is also an accused in the same case.

A 45-year-old woman from Aravalli district died of swine flu at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Friday.

Devotees of the city will offer two truckloads of Bili leaves (Belpatra) daily to Lord Shiva during the month of Shravan which begins from Saturday. Shiva temples across the city have been decked up for devotees who throng in huge numbers during this holy month.

Kishansinh Dodiya, a retired bank official, has lodged a complaint with the cyber cell of city crime branch that a group of conmen had cheated him of Rs 51.89 lakh. The conmen, posing as bank officials, had called Dodiya claiming that they would be giving him a monthly pension of Rs 5,000 and a life insurance cover.

Gujarat high court on Friday directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to install, within two months, speed regulators on all buses plying in the dedicated Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) corridor so that their speed can be restricted to 50 km per hour.

A top state government official on Friday said that Gujarat is losing out on investments and projects in the industrial sector to other states like Maharashtra because of land management problems and costly power.

As the nation celebrates the 69th Independence Day on Saturday, police across the state have been put on high alert following inputs from the central intelligence bureau (IB) on likely terror attacks.

A man in his late twenties shot himself with a pistol belonging to his employer on Thursday night at a warehouse in Changodar. Police have registered a case of accidental death and have started investigation.

As if the threat of a huge rally on August 25 was not enough, Patidar leaders have now threatened to take out a 19-km bike rally, running through constituencies of several top BJP leaders on August 16.

The state government has formally invited for talks on August 17, leaders of the Patidar (Patels) and Brahmin communities agitating for OBC status and reservations.

After nearly a fortnight, fresh spells of rain — accompanied by lightning and thunder — swooped down on the city on Friday. With fresh inflow of water coming into the Sabarmati River, the city administration opened eight gates of the Vasna barrage.

Our destination on day four Clean & ClearTM Ahmedabad Times Fresh Face 2015 was a campus full of enthusiastic youngsters from Shanti Business School (SBS).

It was all about good music and catching up with friends, when Raasta, which recently celebrated its first anniversary at Cyber Hub.

CM Nitish Kumar on Friday called upon the members of Pan-Swasi-Chaupal -Bunkar community, who were recently included in the list of Scheduled Caste (SC) by the state government, to educate their children at least up to Clas XII to get the benefits of being SC.

A former Welsh town councillor who was suffering from terminal cancer has ended his life with the help of Swiss assisted suicide centre Dignitas with his last wish being that UK legalises assisted dying.