Новости за 26.12.2015

BJP has rejected as “childish” Congress’s allegation that PM’s Christmaas meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif was arranged by a businessman, and has praised Narendra Modi’s dramatic touchdown as a “ transformative moment” in the subcontinent.

Open Secunderabad Cantonment Roads (OSCAR), a city-based social media group fighting against closure of some roads in the Cantonment area, has taken up a postcard campaign to highlight the woes of lakhs of citizens affected by the Army's decision.

Only a week away from the commencement of the new semester at Silicon Valley University and Northwestern Polytechnic University, the fate of hundreds of students from the city still remains uncertain.

With people turning up in lakhs to witness the Ayuta Maha Chandi Yagam on its penultimate day in Erravelli village, the organizers on Saturday created additional queue facilities.

As part of the initiative to address water crisis on the campus, the students union of University of Hyderabad (UoH) developed a website to report water leakages.

Days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would be taking a two-month paternity leave, the social media giant revised its parental policies to cover four months of paid leave for its full-time employees.

'Virtual labs', a first-of-its-kind pilot project launched by the Union ministry of human resource development in July to allow experiments in the virtual space using virtual instruments, will now be expanded to cover 230 colleges across Telangana.

Incidents of several students being deported or grounded at airports for having enrolled in 'under-scanner' US varsities do not seem to have deterred many city-based students from still craving that foreign degree, which they hope would make their CVs 'stand out'. But is that always the case?

The Indian police, led by the force in Telangana, have adopted a 'pragmatic' approach towards youth, influenced by the dreaded terrorist organisation IS.

Disaster diplomacy is the new buzzword in the Narendra Modi-led government which is closely working with Pakistan along with six other member-countries of Saarc in raising a common disaster response force, on the lines of UN peace keeping force, for specialized response to natural and man-made disasters.

Disaster diplomacy is the new buzzword in the Narendra Modi-led government which is closely working with Pakistan along with six other member-countries of Saarc in raising a common disaster response force, on the lines of UN peace keeping force, for specialized response to natural and man-made disasters.

Except the odd encounter with the PCR vehicle tamely parked at road corners, it’s hard to come across a policeman in Indirapuram. Not at intersections where cars routinely get into a tangle, or roads gobbled up half by illegal parking, or swathes of dark roads that its residents must negotiate every day to run errands.

The ninth edition of Sunburn Goa - one of the world’s premier electronic dance music (EDM) festivals - will kick off in Vagator on Sunday. This year will mark the first time the Goa government, through the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC), officially associates itself with the festival. In another first, Sunburn Goa 2015 will be held for four days instead of the earlier three, with the EDM’s organizers expressing happiness over the ‘strategic partnership’ with the GTDC.

The Lahore Declaration of 1999, scripted by Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, unravelled with the Pakistan Army’s Kargil adventurism months later.

The Lahore Declaration of 1999, scripted by Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, unravelled with the Pakistan Army’s Kargil adventurism months later.

While the tourist inflow this festive season has soared, the numbers are likely to rise further on New Year’s Eve next week. But the benefits of this increase appear to have failed to trickle to smaller hotels and guesthouses. Lesser known tourist spots, which normally do good business during the tourist season, are also likely to feel the heat with fewer tourists arriving.

Eleven Goa students have cleared the Indian association of physics teachers (IAPT) examination held recently and are now eligible to attempt the Indian national olympiad (INO) examination in the different subjects. If the students clear the INO examination, they will be able to participate in the international olympiad. All eleven students who have cleared the IAPT exam, study at the Mushtifund Aryaan Higher Secondary School, Panaji.

Of what significance would a meeting of Indian and Pakistani prime ministers be that did not discuss Kashmir, Hurriyat or cricket?

At a time when Konkani is still fighting for its rightful place in the global literary scene, finding an adept linguist in the language can be as rare as snowfall in Goa. What can be even more challenging is to find one willing to freely share this precious expertise. It comes as little surprise, then, that the late Konkani linguist Madhavi Sardesai is so popular.

After the harvest season, the feast of Our Lady of Rosary in Navelim attracted not only the devout and their families to the fair that surrounded the church, but also many herds of cattle that were traded by their owners leading to this traditional fair to earn the sobriquet of Gorvanchi fer (cattle fair).

A drab dark green uniform, grizzled look, fluent English and fiery rhetoric, that is Christopher Fonseca for you. For the workers, he is a beacon of hope; for the government, an inconvenient voice; for corporate strategists, a drag on the bottom-line. As a trade union leader, a politician and a communist, Christopher Fonseca is well known in Goa and earns the respect, often grudgingly, of his peers and opponents.

Pooja* loved rain till early this month. Now she wakes up in the dead of the night frightened. “Is it raining,” she would ask her parents.

After a crackdown in the party with the sacking of five ministers on charges of incompetence in October, the Samajwadi Party went through another round of purgation when it dismissed three leaders for anti-party activity during the recent panchayat elections.

Parsi priests often approach actor Boman Irani and ask him to do something about the community’s dwindling numbers. “Uh su karu? (What should I do?),” he asks perplexed. “I can’t go on people’s honeymoons and supervise, can I?” At the Iranshah Udvada Utsav, the narrative of the Parsis’ dwindling numbers provided such moments of hilarity, while exposing the rift between orthodox and liberal sections of the community. Irani, who was the Utsav’s chief guest on Saturday, elicited chuckles as he said... Читать дальше...

There was everything that is characteristic of the opening of Saifai Mahotsav—the 17-day annual fiesta at Etawah—the native village of the Yadavs, with one exception. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was conspicuous by his absence. Other rituals, nevertheless were in place, as also a mix of cultural programmes.Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was conspicuous by his absence at the inaugural session of the Saifai Mahotsav, the 17-day-long annual family fiesta at the Yadavs’ native village in Etawah.