Новости за 23.01.2020

Uddhav Thackeray has decided to visit Ayodhya in March to mark the completion of 100 days of his government. BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi welcomed Thackeray’s decision and asked if Sena would take Congress along on the visit. Sena MP Sanjay Raut added to the discomfiture of Sena’s allies by tweeting that it wanted its alliance partners to accompany them.

Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann struck a late double to help them come from behind to beat Spanish third-tier side UD Ibiza 2-1 and avoid an embarrassing Copa del Rey last-32 exit on Wednesday.

Shehnaz Gill and Sidharth Shukla, who were once inseparable are now at loggerheads with each other in Bigg Boss 13. After Sidharth Shukla saved Arti Singh from nominations, Shehnaz has been disturbed and hurt with it.

Tottenham Hotspur returned to winning ways in the Premier League but hardly issued a statement of intent as they laboured to a 2-1 victory over bottom club Norwich City on Wednesday.

With just a month to go for the Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, India's star batter Smriti Mandhana knows that all eyes will be on her and her team. She's not afraid though, saying her team is well prepared for the tournament.

Deepika Kumari ​​​has topped the three-stage trials and made it to the Indian team, but the Jharkhand archer's mind is still on her game and performance. "The mind is never at peace. It keeps thinking about archery," she says.

At a time when the entire country is debating the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the chief priest of Chilkur Balaji temple, CS Rangarajan, has sought citizenship for the presiding deity.

Two women mistaken by the public for people conducting surveys for the CAA and NRC were attacked in Rajasthan and West Bengal on Wednesday. In Kota, the woman attacked was a surveyor collecting data for 2019 Census. The police arrested the attacker. In Bengal, the woman attacked was surveying for Google India and Tata Trusts' digital literacy initiative.

Cristiano Ronaldo extended his scoring streak as Juventus eased past Roma 3-1 to advance to the Italian Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.

The previously unknown coronavirus strain is believed to have emerged late last year from illegally traded wildlife at an animal market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Cases have been detected as far away as the United States, stoking fears the virus is already spreading worldwide.

"Virat is an absolutely terrific player. His numbers just speak for themselves. I think he's an incredible player in all three formats..He's already broken plenty of them and I see him breaking many more...He has the hunger for runs and doesn't stop...Hopefully, he can stop getting them against Australia, that'll be nice," said Steve Smith during an interview.

The T20 World Cup is just 10 months away and Australian batting superstar Steve Smith will like the home team to lift the trophy. Yet, Smith feels that one man stands between Australia and the trophy is Virat Kohli.

Troubled Manchester United crashed to a third defeat in their last four Premier League games as Burnley powered to a surprise 2-0 win at Old Trafford on Wednesday.

Sidharth’s strong statement – If you can’t be loyal to your parents, you can’t be loyal to anyone else, hasn’t gone down well with Shehnaz Shukla.

In an open house organised by the student body at IIT-Bombay, director Subhasis Chaudhuri said the institute must be free of any kind of political endorsement and students could express their “individual” views on political issues outside the campus. These opinions should be made in their individual capacity and not be attributed to the institute.

Pakistan has “limited options” to respond to India’s decision to abrogate Article 370 on Jammu & Kashmir, US Congress’s research arm, the Congressional Research Service, has said. "It can only hope to gain from self-inflicted damage caused by New Delhi’s policies in Kashmir and on the citizenship law," in a report, the CRS said.

BJP’s Model Town candidate Kapil Mishra compared the Delhi assembly elections with the India-Pakistan dichotomy, drawing strong reactions from Congress and AAP. Mishra, in a tweet, likened the February 8 poll contest with a “muqabla” between India and Pak. He said “mini-Pakistans” had been created and that Shaheen Bagh was being replicated all over the capital.

The government is expected to allow direct listing of Indian companies abroad as part of a plan to allow them access a larger pool of capital and enable the move towards fuller capital account convertibility. An assessment suggests that 12-15 companies may opt for it over the next 3-4 years. Currently, Indian companies go for the depository receipts route to tap investors globally.

India has slipped 10 places to 51st position among 167 countries on the Democracy Index, a global ranking of the “most and least” democratic countries prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit. ​​​The report attributed India’s downtrend to the abrogation of J&K’s special status, suspension of internet in the newly formed UT and protests over CAA and NRC.

Claiming to have unearthed a major land scam in Amaravati, the Andhra Pradesh police has revealed that some of the poorest people in the state have been shown as owners of lands running into crores. According to an investigation by CID, 797 white ration card-holders, each with a monthly income of less than Rs 5,000, bought lands worth Rs 220 crore in Amaravati in 2014 and 2015.