Новости за 01.01.2016

BJP MP and former cricketer Kirti Azad is giving as good as he gets from the BJP, slapping a point by point rebuttal to the party's show cause notice asking him why he should not be expelled. Azad is now taking the line that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley cannot seek “the shield of party discipline” in this matter.

A driver was shot and wounded on Friday as he drove a car at four soldiers guarding a mosque in southeastern France, local authorities said, as the country remained on high alert after the November 13 Paris attacks.

Overflowing rivers receded in Missouri and Illinois on Friday after flooding swamped communities and forced towns to evacuate, but forecasters warned rain-swollen waterways could menace Southern states downstream. Rare winter floods have killed at least 28 people in the U.S. Midwest since last weekend, most of them when they drove into flooded areas after days of downpours

Investigators in Dubai were working Friday to determine the cause of a spectacular fire that engulfed a 63-storey luxury hotel on New Year's Eve three hours before midnight.

BEIJING The religious atmosphere in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang became markedly less radical last year and the government was broadly successful in maintaining stability, the top official there was quoted as saying on Friday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday sent out a stern message to senior bureaucrats, saying IAS officers who had issues working with his government were welcome to join the central government.

MUNICH The police presence at train stations in Munich has been reduced and there are no concrete indications that a militant attack could take place in the coming hours or days, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Friday.

BEIJING China has created three new military units and will update equipment as well as modernising its command structure, state media said on Friday, as part of a major overhaul of the armed forces announced by President Xi Jinping in November. Xi's push to reform the military coincides with China becoming more assertive in its territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas

ISTANBUL The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler's Germany had been misinterpreted and that he had not suggested it was an example of an effective presidential system.

AMSTERDAM Dutch police said they arrested a 29-year-old British man at gunpoint at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Friday after he shouted several times that he had a bomb. The man, whose identity is not being released in accordance with Dutch privacy laws, did not have a bomb, said spokesman Eric Vermeulen of the Dutch Royal Marechaussee, or border police. Vermeulen said the man is being interrogated to see what his motivation was

On Friday, the government announced the formation of a committee headed by eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal to recommend a holistic framework for the country's film censor board.

At various Metro rail stations, people were found rushing to board a train as they failed to have a right calculation of their timings; especially those who used to come by car and park it before boarding a metro.

Soon after the final whistle was blown, many FC Goa substitute players and officials led by Rajesh Malgi, equipment manger of FC Goa, rushed to the referee, surrounded him and tried to intimidate.

Sri Lanka have started a probe following a complaint lodged by both Perera and Herath that they were approached by bookies to underperform

MUNICH Germany received a tip hours before midnight that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning New Year attacks in Munich but police could not find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the city's police chief said on Friday.

Before the ban Amir was regarded as the hottest property in international cricket, having taken 51 wickets in 14 Tests and 25 in 15 one-day internationals.

Former South African captain Graeme Smith linked up with the South African team as an adviser on Friday ahead of the second Test against England which starts at Newlands on Saturday.

A division bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday stayed the order of its single Bench, which had directed the state government to hoist the State flag at par with the National Flag.

Ashok Khemka who had cancelled the mutation of a land deal between a firm owned by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and realty major DLF, was among six officers on Friday promoted to the rank of Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary.

There is no intolerance in India, says Pakistan-born singer Adnan Sami after becoming an Indian citizen

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hopeful that following the thaw in India and Pakistan relations a breakthrough will come soon in the restoration of bilateral cricket ties with a short series in England likely to open doors in 2016.

Germany shut down two train stations in Munich about an hour before midnight on Thursday following a tip from the intelligence service of a friendly country that the Islamic State (IS) militant group was planning a suicide bomb attack.

Mr Kejriwal is odd. And the BJP in Delhi is constantly getting even. That is the capital’s genuine number plate. Lt. Governor Jung has a flag and a siren and the Ashoka Lions to protect him.

No, Delhi wasn't following a draconian or a Talibani law; it was rediscovering togetherness, bonding over a new initiative that gives everybody a shot at a better environment.

The trial period of the odd-even scheme of the Delhi government began at 8 am on Friday.