Новости за 21.06.2016

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has retained the departments of Finance and Information as he allocated portfolios on Tuesday following the major ministry reshuffle that has set off discontent within the ruling party.

Diversified major ITC on Tuesday announced that Y C Deveshwar will quit in February as Executive Chairman and CEO, posts he held for 20 years, and become a non-executive chairman.

Pope Francis has gone beyond his predecessors and traditional Catholic teaching in saying there is simply no justification for the death penalty today.

The International Olympic Committee will call for a special summit on doping to be convened next year as part of its effort to purge drug cheats from sport.

Baku: Commonwealth Games silver-medallist L Devendro Singh (49kg) stormed into the semi-finals, while Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Sumit Sangwan (81kg) entered the quarters to be just one win away from clinching Olympic berths at the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) World Qualifying Tournament on Tuesday. Fourth seed Devendro, who hammered South Africa's Bandla Sibusiso 3-0 in […]

The apex court said such women enter matrimonial homes with a "hope of leading a long and blissful married life, but this hope, invariably, does not last long, nor their life".

CBI on Tuesday questioned Nidhi Tawde, wife of arrested Hindu Janajagruti Samiti member Virendra Tawde, in connection with Narendra Dabholkar murder case.

Photos of the political worker hunting lions, giraffes and zebras went viral, as did his statement that giraffe meat was the tastiest he had eaten.

The fact that Rajnath Singh drove 20 km from his office to make his presence felt at the dharna site has important bearings. Singh is not just one of the senior most leaders in the BJP, but the former party president

An Indian-origin air pollution expert has found an emerging risk to the environment from wood burning stoves in pizza restaurants.

The BSF on Tuesday said it has made some very "solid" arrangements to foil infiltration bids from across the Indo-Pak border and deployed smart gadgets and troops to check such attempts.

Maharashtra government on Tuesday informed the Bombay High Court that it has undertaken a series of measures to provide security to doctors in hospitals

CPI leader D Raja said Swamy should criticise the NDA government at the Centre instead of targeting Rajan as all the economic decisions are taken by it.

England's ODI captain Eoin Morgan has played down the need for a new world league in the shorter format of the game, saying the World Cup and Champions Trophy remain appealing enough to attract audiences

Mandeep Singh says he spent a sleepless night before the 2nd India-Zimbabwe T20I owing to pressure, which vanished the moment he stepped on to the field.

students are shunning newspapers and books and consider social media as the best platform to find latest happenings, trends and news, says a survey.

The Acting Nepali Ambassador in Islamabad Tirtha Raj Aryal has reached Kabul to initiate the process to send home the mortal remains of the Nepali nationals

Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic, Croatia's array of midfield talent provide a mirror image to Europan champions Spain's army of midfield maestros.

Vijay Sampla, the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, called the study conducted by Aiims an exaggerated assessment of Punjab's drug problem

A special vigilance court in Patna dismissed the interim bail pleas of BSEB former chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh and his wife Usha Sinha.

Ola, which has around 3.5 lakh taxis in its technology platform has a presence in 102 cities. It has been trying to match its steps with Uber.

New Delhi: Britain's exit from the European Union will have a negative impact on the USD 108-billion Indian IT sector in the short term, industry body Nasscom said. However, it said the exact nature and extent of the impact - if ‘Brexit’ happens - will emerge over a longer period of two years or more. […]

Salman Khan isn't really the issue. Rape culture is.

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Gareth Bale scored in his third straight game at Euro 2016, to guide Wales to a 3-0 win over Russia. He later revelled at finishing ahead of bitter rivals England to top Group B

Maria Sharapova's lawyer has blasted WADA chief Craig Reedie for making remarks about her at a conference and said the tennis player was owed an apology.