Новости за 15.10.2015

Aware of the possibility of violent clashes between minority sects during Muharram, Lucknow administration has gone high-tech to counter them. With the help of two high-end drones, the administration has issued notices to owners of two dozen multi-storey houses in congested parts of Old City in the past 48 hours. The violators had stocked stones and empty bottles on their terraces.

If the civic body has its way, it will soon zero in on “professional” complainants. BMC officials have in the last few months, reportedly, come across hundreds of complaints being filed by people only to take out their personal vendetta or to extract some kind of monetary benefit from the party against whom they have complained.

If the civic body has its way, it will soon zero in on “professional” complainants. BMC officials have in the last few months, reportedly, come across hundreds of complaints being filed by people only to take out their personal vendetta or to extract some kind of monetary benefit from the party against whom they have complained.

Fumbling with words that rhyme with ‘unity’ and setting them to the rhyme and meter of Urdu poetry, 28-year old Afsar Dabeeri, grandson of Mirza Dabeer (1803-1875) drew inspiration in his grandfather's room, which is now the latter’s mausoleum.

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have come out with a circular of dos and don’ts following an escalation in cases of women registered on marriage portals falling prey to Nigerian scamsters.

The Mumbai police have come out with a circular of dos and don’ts following an escalation in cases of women registered on marriage portals falling prey to Nigerian scamsters.

MUMBAI: A series of tributes is planned for Smita Patil’s 60th birth anniversary this Saturday.

MUMBAI: A series of tributes is planned for Smita Patil’s 60th birth anniversary this Saturday.

For the last 26 years Prashant Shekhar (40) has been an active part of anjuman (group of people who recites religious prose commonly called nauha) near his locality and pays gratitude to martyrs of Karbala. Considering it a sacred month, Shekhar said, “I venerate Imam Husain and his sacrifice like any other Muslim. I make sure I attend majlis (religious gathering) and observe Muharram for two months and eight days. I arrange majlis at imambara Jhaulal in Thakurganj and avoid vibrant colour clothes during Muharram,” he added.

The daily routine of a majority of urban Indians—driving over bad roads, sitting hunched over workstations or fiddling with their smartphones for hours—seems to be fuelling an epidemic of spine-related problems.

The daily routine of a majority of urban Indians—driving over bad roads, sitting hunched over workstations or fiddling with their smartphones for hours—seems to be fuelling an epidemic of spine-related problems.

The daily routine of a majority of urban Indians—driving over bad roads, sitting hunched over workstations or fiddling with their smartphones for hours—seems to be fuelling an epidemic of spine-related problems.

For around 15 minutes, 70-year old K K Bali had his gaze fixed to a banner hung across the Husainabad road that stretches between the magnificent Bara and Chhota Imambaras during Muharram last year. His old eyes welling up with tears, Bali took out a notebook and copied down the words.

Joint commissioner of police (Law & Order) Deven Bharti has asked the zonal DCP to submit a report in the incident of a rape survivor being manhandled by woman constables of Juhu police station on July 27.

Help is at hand in the form of multi-specialty healthcare group Medanta which will pitch in to make UP a TB-free state. Group MD Dr Naresh Trehan said on Thursday that the decision was taken during a meeting after Medanta Awadh’s foundation stone-laying ceremony.

While holy city Varanasi is simmering over immersion row, neighbouring Allahabad has set an example. The Sangam city will see no immersion of goddess Durga idols in the Ganga and Yamuna after the nine-day festival.

Governor Ram Naik is reportedly miffed with the APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, of which he is the chancellor, for not inviting him to a function on Thursday to mark the 84th birth anniversary of the former President.

Governor Ram Naik is reportedly miffed with the APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, of which he is the chancellor, for not inviting him to a function on Thursday to mark the 84th birth anniversary of the former President.

It was a day four architecture students wouldn’t forget in a hurry. On Thursday, the chief minister laid the foundation stone of Kalam memorial at the new campus of the university named after the former president. With that, these four students of faculty of architecture etched their names in the annals of the university.

In a major relief to thousands of tourists and pilgrims taking road trip to Kumaon hills, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will inaugurate a 54-km four-lane road linking Bareilly to Baheri near the Uttarakhand border.

To register their protest against Varanasi MLA Ajay Rai’s alleged incarceration at the hands of the Centre and state governments, Congress party leaders will march from the UP Congress Committee office to meet governor Ram Naik at his Raj Bhawan home, on October 20.

To register their protest against Varanasi MLA Ajay Rai’s alleged incarceration at the hands of the Centre and state governments, Congress party leaders will march from the UP Congress Committee office to meet governor Ram Naik at his Raj Bhawan home, on October 20.

Setting rumour mills spinning once again over his return to the Samajwadi Party fold, former SP leader Amar Singh made another public appearance at a SP function on Thursday afternoon.

In a major development, UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on managing director of a distribution company under UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) for not being able to follow its orders to curtail line losses in east UP districts.

Heavier the traffic, brighter the road. A model created by an engineering graduate of a city institute proposes to convert mechanical energy of vehicles passing over speed breakers into electrical energy that could illuminate street lights for about a kilometre.