Новости за 27.08.2015

Who knows better about the ill effects of alcohol than a heavy drunkard?

A southern California man who picked up a rattlesnake to pose for a photograph was badly hurt when the reptile bit him on the hand, a Los Angeles television station reported.

Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report on Thursday delving into a major part of its inquiry into possible military dimensions to Tehran's past atomic activity.

Britain's former foreign secretary who first announced UK's plans to erect the Mahatma Gandhi statue at London's iconic Parliament Square during his visit to India last year, has been rewarded for his loyalty.

A Chinese company has achieved the dubious feat of faking a branch of Goldman Sachs using its logo, and presenting itself in the manner the U.S. bank writes its name in Mandarin.

With up to a million ethnic minority votes believed to have swung the recent general elections in UK in the Conservative Party's favour, putting David Cameron back into 10 Downing Street, the Party and the PM has decided to reward close Indian origin loyalists.

Nearly 1 in every 3 children in UK was born to foreign mothers in 2014. A decade earlier, only one in six new mothers were born abroad.

Mississippi State University said on Twitter today it had a suspect in custody after an active shooter was reported on campus.

Will Brexit become a reality? NBD (no big deal), says most Britons.

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed two Iraqi generals on Thursday in the key battleground province of Anbar, as the jihadists made gains in northern Syria.

Italy's government said on Thursday it would put Rome city hall under close supervision following allegations it had fallen under the sway of organized crime, but allowed the beleaguered mayor to stay in office.

Delhi Power minister Satyendra Jain on Thursday said that the state will produce 2,000 MW electricity by 2025 through solar power generation.

The autonomous regions' higher people's court on Thursday said that the 45 were tried in 10 cases in courts in Yili, Aksu, Hotan, Kashgar and Karamay recently.

In a memorandum submitted to the DC, activists demanded action against officials who withdrew government money without implementing the scheme properly.

A 22-year-old youth employed at an underground Metro site was killed after the hook of a crane smashed his head.This happened on KR Road, off City Market, on Wednesday morning.

Deputy commissioner D Randeep has given instructions to form seven teams to conduct a scientific survey to ascertain agriculture and horticulture crop loss due to below-par rain this monsoon.

Members of the Bhrastachar Nirmulan Pariwar Belgaum (BNPB) staged a protest on the premises of the DC's office here on Tuesday against a decision by the forest department to chop 500 aged trees in Vaccine Depot area.

This year's Women's Literary Meet scheduled to be held over the weekend in Belagavi will be a low-key affair in view of farmer suicides and drought.

In Navalgund, protesters took out mock funeral processions carrying effigies of PM Narendra Modi and CM Siddaramaiah.

Governor Vajubhai Vala visited the Karnataka Institute of DNA Research Centre on Karnatak University campus on Wednesday. Vice-chancellor Pramod Gai briefed the governor about the functioning and performance of the centre.

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Three persons including two women died while more than two dozen others suffered injuries, few critically, when an overspeeding private high-end Volvo AC bus lost control and turned turtle in Sikandara area of Kanpur Dehat during the wee hours of Thursday.