Новости за 31.12.2015

Probing money laundering in one of the biggest Ponzi scandals ever, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted raids in the alleged Rs 60,000-crore scam by Pearls Group.

No signs of the recent deluge can be seen on the route leading from Poes Garden to the AIADMK council meet venue in Thiruvanmiyur. Gleaming, smooth new roads, laid just for the meet, await the chief minister on Thursday.

Clearing the hurdle for the AIADMK's gen eral council meeting to be held at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Centre (SRMC) premises at Thiruvanmiyur on Thursday , the Madras high court dismissed two PILs against the event.

A woman Nationalist Congress Party worker on Tuesday allegedly slapped a senior municipal official from Ulhasnagar for “not promoting her brother-in- law”. The act has been caught on cameras installed at the municipal office.

Probing money laundering in one of the biggest Ponzi scandals ever, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted raids in the alleged Rs 60,000-crore scam by Pearls Group.

Any big political event in the city and the traffic comes to a standstill. Apart from the daily travails, the common man on the street has to bear the brunt of the traffic chaos.

nticipation has been high in the run-up to the AI ADMK's general council and executive committee meetings in the city today as chief minister and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa is expected to spell out her party's election strategy ahead of the assembly election.

Union Minister Mahesh Sharma has said that his government is committed to building the Ram Temple at Ayodhya but would wait for the Supreme Court verdict or arrive at a “mutual understanding” on constructing the temple.

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that Geeta, the speech and hearing impaired woman, was happy in India and also highlighted the government's efforts to trace her parents. Swaraj visited the woman, brought from Pakistan in October this year, in Indore on Tuesday.

Intending to establish India as a world class bio-manufacturing hub, the Centre on Wednesday unveiled the country’s National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 that would work to turn this sector into a $100 billion industry by 2025 with focus in areas of healthcare, food and nutrition, clean energy and education.

Centre Issues Notification For Reclamation

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has extended the last date of filling the online forms of Joint Entrance Exam JEE-Main-2016 to January 11. Even the attempts for taking the JEE have been increased; candidates can now take a shot at this entrance test thrice, instead of twice.

BJP vice president Vinay Sahasrabuddhe was the eye of a controversy on Wednesday when Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Congress’s Manish Tiwari jumped on a purported remark by him to take swipe at BJP.

Continuing its dominance in elections across the state, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Wednesday bagged four out of six seats in the polls held for legislative council for local authorities constituencies.

He accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on his Dandi March and later spent several days with him in a prison in Cuttack. In 2007, he was conferred with the Padma Bhushan for his fight against the British in the freedom movement.

In an impressive show, the Congress on Wednesday bagged 13 of the 25 Karnataka legislative council seats for which elections were held on December 27. The BJP had to settle for a single-digit victory tally of six. The JD(S) won four seats and independents, two.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen tore into the Left Front on Wednesday, saying the 34-year communist rule had a major role in destroying industry in Bengal.

The investigation into the gangrape of a Dum Dum teenager in a military coach of Amritsar Express has run into a speed bump.

Terming the Tri namool government an ex tension of the previous Left Front's 34-year “misrule“ BJP national secretary Sidd harth Nath Singh on Wed nesday questioned its deve lopment claims. He alleged that Bengal was only witnes sing growth in the 'bomb-ma king' and `syndicates' run by Trinamool supporters.

Two workers at the Duncan-owned Demdima tea estate, Bulu Bhagat and Shyamlal Kerketta, died on Wednesday . The deaths and chief minister Mamata Banerjee's subsequent remark have sparked agitation among estate workers.

Caught between its two major party contingents -Bengal and Kerala -the CPM politburo has left it to the state committees to take the call on CPM's alliance with Congress in the 2016 assembly polls.

Communists don't make progress by merely adopting resolutions. This was the general feeling among delegates present in the CPM's four-day organizational plenum on Wednesday afternoon.They wanted the party politburo to do some introspection over its activities before setting guidelines for the party's primary unit.

Communists don't make progress by merely adopting resolutions. This was the general feeling among delegates present in the CPM's four-day organizational plenum on Wednesday afternoon.They wanted the party politburo to do some introspection over its activities before setting guidelines for the party's primary unit.

The factional feud between Sonamukhi MLA Dipali Saha and local Trinamool-run municipality chairman Surajit Mukhopadhyay came to the fore on Wednesday when the chairman led a 150-strong crowd to gherao Sonamukhi police station demanding arrest of culprits who allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman and two of her woman relatives.

A crowd sourced public rally of lakhs of voluntary participants is as much a spectacle as it is politically reassuring, especially when the party has nothing to celebrate and only its anxieties to air.