Новости за 21.08.2015

Part of the Sports Ministry's Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme, world number one shuttler Saina Nehwal and star discus thrower Vikas Gowda have been sanctioned financial assistance for hiring their respective coaches and cover some other training-related expenses ahead of next year's Olympics.

Manjhi - The Mountain Man looks strangely plastic. Nothing seems authentic in it.

Live updates from Day 2 of 2nd Test in Colombo between India and Sri Lanka

Alcohol consumption by young women may result in unexpected, unintended and unsafe sexual encounters, says a study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

A deal signed in June 2014, is now set to fructify with Russia sending Pakistan a draft contract on the delivery of four Mil Mi-35M (Hind E) helicopters for an undisclosed fee. But what does this mean for India?

The broader market saw losers outnumbering gainers with 1,805 stocks declining against 1,010 advances on BSE.

The midnight police crackdown on the FTII campus late on Tuesday night has brought together students of almost all the existing batches along with alumni. But the major bone of contention remains the 2008 batch.

Following his third place finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix in July, Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo said he is aiming for a top-3 finish at the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.

The end goal is to empower researchers and doctors to help patients receive a diagnosis based on their genome and potentially arm clinicians with the data needed for a targeted treatment plan.

RealmPictures created a "live action first person shooter" and "invited unsuspecting people online to take control".

Rumors that a black teenager killed by St. Louis police was only 13 years old helped stoke angry clashes between police and protesters, a city alderman said on Thursday, and police said they were ready should protests flare anew.City streets were largely calm a day after Wednesday's fatal shooting during a house search triggered the protests, but St

WASHINGTON Teams working on plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have been visiting detention facilities in the United States to identify sites where war prisoners could be held long term, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday.

BERLIN Germany and France will press the European Union to move faster and with more unity to deal with the worsening refugee crisis, amid complaints from Germany that it is shouldering too big a burden. Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will meet in Berlin on Monday to discuss how to speed up relief for thousands of migrants, many of whom risk dangerous sea voyages to reach southern Europe before making their way across the continent

The S&P 500 hit a more than six-month low on Thursday, closing in negative territory for the year, on concern a deceleration in the Chinese economy would translate into slower global growth. Consumer stocks led the decline on Wall Street with Disney down 6 percent after a brokerage downgrade, while Apple fell 2 percent after a report that overall smartphone sales in China fell in the second quarter

ADEN A bomb next to the governor's office in the Yemeni city of Aden killed four people on Thursday, witnesses said, and the European Union urged parties to avoid hitting civilian infrastructure after Saudi-led air strikes on Hodeida port. No one claimed responsibility for the blast in the main southern port city of Aden, which is controlled by forces allied with exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, after they drove the Houthis out last month. An official said the governor was present but unhurt. Читать дальше...

BEIJING/WELLINGTON At the upmarket Black Swan bakery in Beijing, where well-heeled customers browse rooms of glass cases displaying elaborate layered western-style cakes, Jin Yuchen is buying a birthday cake for his mother. Jin is one of a rapidly growing number of Chinese consumers with a taste for non-traditional foods such as rich cakes and pizza that is fuelling demand for imported cheese

Hewlett-Packard Co ( HPQ.N ) reported a fall in revenue for the fourth straight quarter, hurt by weak PC sales and lower demand from corporate customers for its services.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT Rockets hit an Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday and Israel struck back in the Syrian Golan Heights, saying the rare salvo had been launched there by an Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group. The group, Islamic Jihad, denied the Israeli allegation.

NEW YORK U.S. cotton production will fall to 2.8 million tonnes in the 2015/16 crop year, industry analysts at Cotton Outlook (Cotlook) said in a report on Thursday, just one week after a bullish U.S.

SINGAPORE China's recent stock market pain is proving to be India's gain, with share prices in the south Asian nation reviving as investors who cut their holdings earlier this year switch out of Chinese equity markets and back into India's. India's Sensex .BSESN , which fell as the Shanghai Composite index .SSEC climbed between January and China's stock market rout in June, has reversed course and moved in the opposite direction to the Chinese benchmark since