Новости за 17.10.2016

Diwali is likely to sparkle a little less for firecracker sellers this year.The number of traders who have applied for a licence to set up firecracker shops in the city has fallen by around 16%.

A 19-year-old student of an arts and science college committed suicide at Peelamedu in the city on Monday .Police said the deceased may have taken the extreme step due to depression.

The absence of rules governing distance education has brought the admission into these courses to a standstill.

A group of transgenders on Monday thanked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for coming out with schemes for their benefit and upliftment.

Chennai/ Last week, the American International School of Medicine (AISM) called for applications from students aspiring to be doctors.

A 30-year-old man was murdered outside a mill on Palladam Road at Mahalingapuram in Pollachi on Monday morning.Police officials said S Nagaraj, a painter by profession, was walking on Palladam Road.

The state government formed a three-member committee to probe the fire mishap at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, a private medical college and hospital that killed at least 22 people on Monday evening.

The city police on Monday arrested five persons in connection with the sensational dacoity reported at Kateel temple’s priest’s house.

Sonal Shah, the first Indian-American appointed to the presidential transition team of Barack Obama had written that the "frenzy" ethnic Indian press accused her of Hindu fundamentalism in 2008 to discredit him and having her quit, according to data released by WikiLeaks.

A major fire broke out in SUM hospital, a leading private healthcare institute, here on Monday evening, triggering panic among patients and attendants. A patient was feared dead and several others suffered suffocation-related injuries, police sources said.

Priti Patel also pointed to the Great Repeal Bill that will see the UK government renegotiate the terms of the European Communities Act, saying her party is "focussing on aspects of EU law that simply do not work for Britain".

The state government had published a tender to buy 33 lakh mosquito nets in 2014 as part of its fight against diseases spread by mosquito. Though these could have been important tool to prevent spread of Japanese encephalitis that killed 57 people so far, the nets continue to elude Odisha for past two years.