Новости за 19.01.2017

The BJP's top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Amit Shah, on Thursday met here to finalise second list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Tamil Nadu is all set for a shutdown on Friday.

China had said on January 16 that admission of non-NPT signatories in NSG could not be a "farewell gift" for countries to give to each other.

US Ambassador to India Richard Verma, who is of Indian origin, will quit before President-elect Donald Trump assumes charge.

Twelve minor school children and their bus driver were killed when their vehicle collided with a lorry amid dense fog on Aliganj-Paliyali road near Etah.

India won the match to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

The Gambia`s new president, Adama Barrow, took the oath of office in the country`s embassy in Senegal on Thursday and immediately called on the security forces to "demonstrate their loyalty" in his standoff with defeated leader Yahya Jammeh.

The duration of the eclipse was so long that had we done nothing, the Mangalyaan's battery capacity would have got exhausted due to lack of sun rays. No effect of the eclipse was felt on Mangalyaan yesterday.

As leaders and economists debated the future of globalisation at WEF, the emerging narrative shifted to growth booster from Asia for the global economy amid darkening prospects for trade worldwide.

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) former chairman Nandan Nilekani today said with new digital payment systems like BHIM and UPI in place, around 15-20 per cent of the country's personal consumption expenditure will become digital in next one year from the current level of 5 per cent.

Tehran's mayor said more than 20 firefighters had been killed when the city's oldest high-rise collapsed following a fire on Friday.

In his parting message before Donald Trump takes over, President Barack Obama today assured Americans that "we're going to be OK" but vowed to protect US' "core values" and speak up against issues like discrimination, muzzling of press freedom and rounding up of young immigrants.

The seven-phase UP Elections will start on February 11.

The Psyche mission, targeted to launch in October of 2023, will explore 16 Psyche, a giant metal asteroid about three times farther away from the Sun than is the Earth.

Dhoni, from the non-striker's end, suggested Yuvraj take the review.

A huge avalanche swallowed up a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the area, burying up to 30 people under tonnes of snow and debris, officials said on Thursday.

Bindra won the country`s first individual gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

United regained first place in the Money League with a record revenue of 689 million euros.

With Istomin inspired, the defending champion sent down 72 unforced errors as he lost 7-6 (10/8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 in the second round.

Chennai/New Delhi: Protests demanding jallikattu swelled on the streets of Tamil Nadu on Thursday after agitators rejected statements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.

Nair become only the second Indian player after Sehwag to score a triple ton in Tests.

Under Patel's tutelage, India won the rights to host its first FIFA World Cup, the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 and had hosted the AFC U-16 Championship last September.

The NIA is looking into the claims of three arrested persons in Bihar that the derailment of Indore-Patna Express was carried out at the behest of Pakistan's ISI.

Punjab Captain and 2016 Olympics Gold medalist Vladimir Khinchegashvili avenged his group stage defeat to Sandeep Tomar by getting the better of the Indian 0-3 in men's 57kg and gave Punjab their first points of the evening.

Both Yuvraj and Dhoni smashed sublime hundreds to help India post 381 for six after being 25 for three in the fifth over.