Новости за 09.12.2015

Though India has a plethora of historic monuments, the country does not have a special legislation to protect its heritage structures even 38 years after it became signatory to Unesco's world heritage convention, the Madras high court has observed.

As Chennai recovers from the crisis, corporates across industries have come forward to help rehabilitate the city.

Waterlogged construction fields on the one side, cancelled trains on the other — thousands of migrant workers in the city are in a spot.

A woman and her two daughters drowned after their car plunged into a roadside pond brimming over with rainwater in Thiruvanmiyur at 1am on Wednesday.

Sridhar’s Nissan Sunny was flooded and is now grounded. He has to move it to Nissan’s authorized workshop in Ambattur from Nandanam and is waiting for nearly 5 days. Vehicle towing services are in demand as the several thousand cars that are affected due to flooding in Chennai last week are waiting to be towed.

If you thought bank lockers are safe, think again. A State Bank Of India customer (name withheld) was in peril when he had to go with a hairdryer to the Ashok Nagar branch to check on his locker.

MNS president Raj Thackeray has alleged that the Centre’s ‘Smart City’ project would in no way help improve living conditions in Mumbai.

MNS president Raj Thackeray has alleged that the Centre’s ‘Smart City’ project would in no way help improve living conditions in Mumbai.

Two witnesses in the German Bakery bomb blast case claimed on Wednesday before the Bombay high court that they were forced and tutored to testify against lone convict Himayat Baig.

Thirty-seven Congress members were named in the Rajya Sabha bulletin on Wednesday for “gross disorderly conduction in violation of rules and etiquette” in the House on Tuesday.

It started with “We are all Americans” after 9/11. Then it was applied to Paris after the terror attacks. Now, on a smaller scale, the world seems to be identifying with Chennai as an example of what awaits nations because of global warming.

Just as the climate conference presidency was about to release the first review of the draft Paris agreement, US secretary of state John Kerry kicked off hectic parleys outside the negotiation rooms by first meeting India’s environment minister Prakash Javadekar late on Tuesday night.

A day after the visit of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s visit, the in-fighting in Tamil Nadu Congress Committee has intensified, with TNCC chief E V K S Elangovan expelling Mahila Congress vice-president Shanti Sreeni and its press coordinator Raviraj for allegedly creating a ruckus at Chennai airport after Rahul’s departure.

December is winter in many parts of the world while in Australia it is summer. It is only in Tamil Nadu where the north-east monsoon season extends from October to December each year.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday said it has "come to conclusion that the prosecution has failed to bring material on record to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant (Salman Khan) was driving and under the influence of alcohol, also, whether the accident occurred due to bursting (of tyre) prior to the incident or tyre burst after the incident ..."

As the rich countries of the West lock horns with the developing world at Paris on the question of who will cut how much carbon emissions, a new study by Oxfam shows the jaw dropping chasm between emissions of the two sides.

While the nights have been pleasant, except for the first two days of December, there has been no relief during the day after a rather hot November, as mercury has been stuck on 35-plus degrees Celsius for almost a week.

As part of the broader agreement signed between The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and National Stock Exchange, both players will explore the possibility of setting up a trading platform in GIFT City, Gandhinagar.

It’s been a month since over 350 wall tile-making units in India’s largest ceramic cluster in Morbi downed its shutters – perhaps the first such occasion when manufacturers preferred a shutdown over losses. As most of them plan to restart units this week, there is little to look forward to thanks to dwindling demand and stiff competition from China.

Climate negotiators released a new, shorter draft of an international accord to fight global warming on Wednesday, which still left many key issues unresolved just two days before the high-stakes talks in Paris are scheduled to end.

A 47-year-old woman from Dombivli blamed an assistant police inspector (API) of harassing and abusing her when she had gone to lodge a case against four people, who forcefully entered her home and allegedly threatened her with a revolver over a money dispute.

The city’s fire brigade has a special problem that their counterparts in other Indian metros don’t face–slums on hill slopes.

Doctors in the armed forces seem to be getting increasingly frustrated with the defence ministry’s stalling strategy on deciding their fate on equal promotion.

Central Railway has begun its crackdown on trespassing in right earnest to curb accidents on tracks.

A question submitted by Congress MLCs asking BJP to clarify its stand on statehood for Vidarbha was replaced by another question under their name