Новости за 16.12.2015

The government on Wednesday approved allotment of coal blocks to public sector entities for commercial mining, taking the industry a step closer to complete deregulation and allowing private entry.

While many parts of the country are in the grip of extreme weather events since the past few years, Mangaluru too seems to have caught the trend.

US President Barack Obama today spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanking him for his leadership, saying India played a "critical role" at the climate change summit in Paris which ensured the event was a "historic success."

US President Barack Obama today spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanking him for his leadership, saying India played a "critical role" at the climate change summit in Paris which ensured the event was a "historic success."

Flagship refiner-retailer IndianOil is targetting smaller airports and airfields with low-cost service to expand its jet refuelling business as it faces increasing competition from private players at major airports.

Putting an end to the Centre's monopoly over mining and sale of coal, the government today approved allotment of coal blocks to PSUs for sale of the fossil fuel mainly to medium, small and cottage industries.

Traders under the banner of Mahanagar Udyog Vyapar Mandal (MUVM) today protested at Ghanta Ghar on GT Road here over the proposed Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill and demanded amendments in it.

Springboard, an edtech company formerly known as SlideRule, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from a clutch of investors including LinkedIn co founder Allen Blue and Inmobi founders Naveen Tewari and Amit Gupta.

Belgian Malinois breed of dog that participated in the search and assault operation of Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad in Pakistan is all set to join Rajasthan police.

Police on Wednesday said that the couple who were found dead in the washroom of their flat in Sarfabad village was live-in partners and they were not married.

Nearly four years after the land acquisition row broke out in the Noida-Extension-Greater Noida area (now Greater Noida-West) Noida Authority is once again getting ready to collect Rs 1,800 crore from its allottees.

The country's most sought after election strategist Prashant Kishor's feats in steering Narendra Modi and then Nitish Kumar to unquestionable election victories do not seem to impress much the country's one of the longest serving chief ministers, Tarun Gogoi.

Iran Embassy on Wednesday expressed the desire to increase the number of Iranian research scholars at Panjab University (PU).

An Air India technician dies a tragic death at the Mumbai airport after being sucked into the engine of a parked aircraft on Wednesday evening. The mishap reportedly happened during the pushback of flight AI 619. An investigation was ordered into the incident immediately.

Bapi Ghosh, the BJP councilor who on Monday made headlines after becoming the first ever chairman of the municipal accounts committee from the ruling party spent his first day at office in the KMC headquarters.

The government today approved a proposal for inclusion of certain castes, including Sais, Aheria and Peruvannan, in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC) in five states. The proposal also seeks some changes in the Central List of Other Backward Classes.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) welcomes the landmark judgment from the Chief Justice bench of the Supreme Court of India that has stopped registration of all luxury diesel cars and SUVs with engine size of 2,000 cc in the entire national capital region of Delhi until March 2016; doubled environment compensation charge on all trucks entering Delhi; barred entry of pre-2005 trucks; and mandated all taxis in the NCR to run on CNG.

To increase the number of chicks of Pheasants, the Kanpur zoo administration has decided to import an automatic egg incubator. The decision had to be taken as pheasants do not usually sit on their eggs in captivity when kept in zoo.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation health clinics are running out of medicines.

Delhi government today served notices to eight major construction projects, including one of the Airport Authority of India, for flouting dust pollution norms on a day it officially discussed the IIT-Kanpur report for the first time.

Bearys Global Research Triangle (BGRT), Whitefield, Bengaluru has been adjudged the smartest office building at the ‘Times of India and Honeywell Smart Building Awards 2015’ based on combined evaluation criteria green, safe and productive.

The National Green Tribunal, on Wednesday has asked the Noida authority to provide a list of all those builders with projects within 10 kilometers of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, to whom completion certificates have been issued.

The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved signing of a 'Consortium Agreement' by the India's Earth System Science Organization-Ministry of Earth Sciences (ESSO-MoES) with the three other premier international meteorological organizations for the seamless prediction of weather and climate.