Новости за 17.05.2017

By Julia Fioretti | BRUSSELS BRUSSELS U.S. and European Union officials will meet next week in Washington D.C. for more talks about risks to air travel, but no extension of a cabin ban on large electronics devices was announced after the two sides met in Brussels on Wednesday.

By Babak Dehghanpisheh | BEIRUT BEIRUT President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday urged Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and the Basij militia under its control not to meddle in Friday's presidential election, in a rare warning that underscored rising political tensions.The Guards, who oversee an economic empire worth billions of dollars, are seldom criticised in public, but the pragmatist Rouhani is locked in an unexpectedly tight race against hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who is believed to have their support."We just have one request... Читать дальше...

By Jan Harvey (World Gold Council corrects number of BIS-accredited refineries to 10 from three or four)By Jan HarveyLONDON Indian gold imports will drop back sharply after jumping in the first quarter, the World Gold Council said on Wednesday as the launch of a new tax regime and restrictions on refiners' ability to import gold dore take their toll.Full-year imports will be little changed from 2016's 524 tonnes, gold industry-funded WGC's managing director for India Somasundaram PR said.

Football crazy fans of Kolkata have once again lived up to their reputation as tickets of Fifa U- 17 World Cup matches, to be held at the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata, were "sold out" in less than 12 hours.

Catch the live updates of the IPL 2017 eliminator, with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) taking on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

MANILA The Philippine government has told the European Union it will no longer accept development aid from the bloc, putting at risk programmes to assist poor and conflict-hit regions in the country's south, Europe's ambassador said on Wednesday.Ambassador Franz Jessen said the decision to cut aid from the EU, a strong critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's drugs war, would mean the loss of about 250 million Euros ($278.73 million) worth of grants mostly allocated to Muslim communities.Manila's... Читать дальше...

By Julia Love Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Wednesday it would make its digital assistant available on Apple Inc’s iPhone, opening up the tool to a key high-end segment of the technology market.Speaking at an annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted the company's progress with the Google Assistant. The Assistant debuted last year on Google’s own hardware, and the company has gradually extended the tool to devices from other manufacturers running on its Android operating system. Читать дальше...

The Syrian opposition is seeking an extension of the current round of UN-hosted peace talks underway in Geneva.

Triple talaq is neither integral to Islam nor a "majority versus minority" issue but rather an "intra-community tussle" between Muslim men and deprived women, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court.

By Ingrid Melander and Michel Rose | PARIS PARIS France's centrist President Emmanuel Macron gave ministerial jobs to conservatives, socialists and newcomers to politics on Wednesday, appointing an unprecedented all-stripes cabinet to bridge traditional divides and broaden his support.Macron's government is a direct challenge to established parties, whose diehards criticised the appointments ahead of mid-June parliamentary elections that will be key to the new president's capacity to carry out... Читать дальше...

More than 700 Gujarati families live in Mattancherry today. The dwindling business is forcing traders to either sell their shops and convert them into other businesses.

Egypt is targeting travellers from big cities in India and but will slowly penetrate to Tier II and III cities

Union minister Anil Dave on Wednesday met a six-member delegation representing those protesting against the approval given for commercial use of genetically modified mustard by the crop regulator.

Arjun Maini in an exclusive interview talks about his maiden win, what it means for his future and if he will ever be teammates with his brother and budding racer, Kush.

Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody on Tuesday said Kolkata Knight Riders' recent slump in form would not have any bearing on the eliminator on Wednesday as they have enough experience of playing in the knockouts.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard the arguments made by India and Pakistan on Monday over the fate of Kulbhushan Jadhav.

The Mecca for world cinema begins as the week long 2017 Cannes Film Festival kicks in.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) said on Wednesday that it was ready to submit its opinion on the abolition of triple talaq if the Supreme Court asked for it.

Arnab Goswami, who parted ways with Times Now in November, is found to be rehashing content he did when in charge of his former employers

Sexual harassment incidents committed against men (with the perpetrator being a woman) such as the Vijay Nair case are increasingly being reported and make one wonder whether we need gender neutral sexual harassment laws in India

The IMD, which has predicted a normal rainfall this year, said the Southwest Monsoon has advanced over the Andaman Sea.

The saffron bandwagon under Narendra Modi is seen merrily galloping towards its 2019 target, and anti-BJP forces appear to be in a state of disarray

IT professionals should be able to shift and guide their dreams to the new reality, say experts

A US House Committee has requested the FBI to provide all documents that its former director James Comey had on president Donald Trump, a media report said.

Currently, Airtel and India Post are the only players that have started Payments Bank operations.