Новости за 02.11.2015

Aditi Goel/ With the country's most celebrated festival inching closer, city residents are getting hooked to a new range of smartphone apps.

Aditi Goel | A mother of two, Harmann Kaur (30) has an infectious smile, but that is not the only thing that describes this head-turner.She is a woman with steel-like determination.

Taking inspiration from writers and intellectuals across the nation, who are returning awards to protest against rising intolerance, Rajyotsava award winners in Dakshina Kannada district have decided to return their honours to oppose the Yettinahole project and save the Nethravathi.

Madhesi protesters have claimed they were lathicharged by the Nepal police on Monday for blocking a bridge at the Indo-Nepal Border near Bihar's Raxaul town.

It details all of Isis’s cruelty, but places it in the context of a very bloody history.

Ahead of civic body polls the Congress has managed to poach about 500 Patels from Jeetpur village of Bayad Taluka in Aravalli on Saturday.

Is the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) going soft on Hanjar Biotech Energy Pvt Ltd, the company that drew severe flak from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune, for mishandling solid waste?

Nearly 120 cumin bags (each bag containing 60kg) worth Rs 10.80 lakh were stolen from the godown in Unjha town on Saturday night.

Nearly 3,650 people gathered at Race Course early at6:30 am on Sunday to participate in a marathon held by Jamaat e Islami Hind. Every participant took an oath against the usage of alcohol, drugs and sexual violence against women.

A cook from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore city, was arrested for attempting to murder another cook over a previous enmity on Saturday.

An ex-service man and his accomplice were arrested from a reserve forest while attempting to poach wild boars on Saturday near Anaikatti which falls under the Periyanaickenpalayam forest range. The forest officials have seized two licensed guns from them and are intensifying the patrolling in the areas.

A squabble over 4.5kg of beef has cost two lives in the city. The deceased have been identified as M Moideen Basha, 34, of Thirumal Street at Marakkadai and his friend M Habib Mohamed, 23, a medical representative. Moideen Basha was running a beef shop at Marakkadai.

Though the morning dawned cloudy and gray, children and elders came out undeterred to have their share of fun on the 13th week of Happy Streets.

With the monsoon gaining pace with widespread downpour on Sunday, the district was thrown out of gear. There was minor landslide along the railway tracks near Kallar in Mettupalayam. A huge tree was uprooted and fell on the track, bringing operation of Nilgiri Mountain Railway from Mettupalayam to Ooty to a halt for two hours. Sources said the landslide occurred even as the train, carrying about 200 passengers, reached the Kallar station. Later, railway authorities sent a team to clear the track.

Determined not to let its early bird rivals get a headstart in cyber space, AIADMK has launched the second leg of its online campaign to take forward the party’s Mission 234 – a reference to the 234 assembly seats in the state.

Australia's pro-republic Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday scrapped knights and dames from the nation's honours system, less than a year after a furore sparked by the award of a knighthood to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband.

After the controller of examinations and the section assistant of the Bharathiar University obtained a stay order on their suspension for their alleged involvement in selling used answer sheets, an office assistant, who is the third accused, has also obtained a stay on his suspension. According to university sources, he is likely to join office on Monday.

Locals in Kunduz fear that insurgents could return and will not face effective opposition.

Dressing your child as the Pope seems to be a very reliable way of delighting world leaders – with the real Pope bursting into laughter on meeting a baby version of himself earlier this year.

Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party swept to an unexpected victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Tayyip Erdogan but may sharpen deep social divisions.

The battle lines have been drawn for the Warangal Lok Sabha polls with the main parties announcing their candidates, but what analysts are keenly watching is the supposed rivalry between the two young faces of the TRS ­ irrigation minister T Harish Rao and IT minister K Taraka Rama Rao.

Telangana prison department persuades corporate firms to provide jobs to released prisoners