Новости за 18.10.2015

Taiwan's pro-China ruling party has replaced its presidential candidate.

For the $2 he spent to buy three old photographs, Randy Guijarro may have hit the mother lode. Among them was a tintype purported to be of Wild West gunslinger Billy the Kid, now valued at $5 million.

Young men who want to play a bigger role in child care than their dads did are now getting a chance to do so.

Former DCW chairperson Barkha Shukla Singh took charge as president of the women's wing of Delhi Congress on Saturday.

It is a rarity indeed to get to see first-hand some of the earliest coins of India, silver Mudras originating bet sixthfifth to second cen ween sixthfifth to second century BCE.

Walking blindfolded along with visually impaired school children, celebrity painter Jatin Das will lead the `Walk in the Dark“ to eradicate “preventable“ blindness in the Daryaganj neighbourhood at 8am on Sunday.

There's a picture of a spacious flat doing the rounds on Parsi Whatsapp gro ups. The floor is lined with gold bars, stashes of 1000-rupee notes and silver trays.

Mumbaikars continued to reel under the heat for yet another day. On Saturday, while the maximum temperatures recorded were less compared to Friday's 38.6 degrees Celsius, they were 4.1 degrees above normal.

Commuters staged a rail roko for 30 minutes at Kandivali station to protest against the alleged delay in giving medical aid to a commuter who had fallen from the foot board of a Churchgatebound fast local on Saturday afternoon.

Telecom operators in Mumbai have once again failed to keep the call drop rate below the prescribed cap. While the accepted level is below 2% of the total calls made and received, the city witnessed a call drop rate ranging from 2.6% to as high as 5.5%.

On Saturday , the Don Bosco College campus at Kurla wore a deserted look as students, staff and teachers were attending the funerals of its students who died in the fire at Hotel City Kinara.

Bokaro: A temple in a village in Kasmar block here bars women devotees from entering the premises after the Goddess “expressed her dislike”.

Top Delhi Police officer Deepak Mishra's reported comments on rape in the wake of the incidents involving two minors on Saturday elicited sharp response from the AAP government with CM Arvind Kejriwal terming it “shameful".

Rolling out freebies to its domestic flyers and business class passengers, national carrier Air India on Saturday offered four schemes, including 25 per cent flat discount to women travellers, due to high air travel demand during the festive season.

In a veiled attack on Patidars seeking OBC quota for better educational prospects and government jobs, Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel on Saturday said those protesting for reservation want only white collar jobs and nobody wants to work as a constable or at lower levels.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today reiterated the government's commitment to bring in a "reasonable and globally-competitive tax regime" through reduction in corporate tax rate to 25 per cent over the next four years.

Three persons, including a woman, were murdered in separate incidents in the city since Friday evening.

Due to ongoing metro rail pillar construction work between Nims hospital and Punjagutta Masjid from October 20 to 25, the Hyderabad police in an official release requested commuters to use alternative routes, especially during peak hours.

The 482-acre Fox Sagar Lake in north Hyderabad will be taken up for cleaning and conservation by multiple institutions.

With the menace of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) look-alike websites popping up on the internet and duping gullible persons, representatives of the central bank held a meeting with the Telangana police recently to rein in the fraudsters.

A 19-year-old girl alleged that she was raped by two men, including her brother-in-law, at DBR Mills, Lower Tank Bund on Friday.

The AP government has decided to acquire 857 acres of land for expansion of Rajahmundry airport to match international standards.