DAINIK NATION BUREAU No ban has been imposed on the entry of media persons in the Secretariat premises. Till date, they are visiting Secretariat as earlier for collecting the news. Since December 27, there has been no example of media persons being stopped from enterting  the Secretariat . The order being qouted was only to keep cabinet agenda confidential as ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Army Day is celebrated on 15 January every year in recognition of Field Marshal KM Cariappa’s taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander, in 1948. On the occasion of Army Day, in a bid to reach out and energise the civil society, deepen a sense of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand High Court has suggested that the state government bring in a law which imposes death penalty for raping minors, so that it acts as a strong deterrent against such offences. A Division Bench of Justices Rajiv Sharma and Alok Singh yesterday made the observation, while upholding the death sentence of a man, who was convicted ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, flagged off the 35-member adventure tourists team for Badrinath on Saturday at CM Camp Office. This team, which has left for the purpose of promoting winter tourism in the state, includes 4 women with 15 bikes and 05 cars; the team has adventure tourists from Gujarat, Delhi, Karnataka, Haryana, Chandigarh and Tamilnadu, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Trivendra Singh Rawat led Uttarakhand govenrment has categorically instructed Madarsas to put up the Prime Minister Narendra Modi photographs. He has also warned them not to oppose the government order. Terming the resistance by the madrasa authorities unjustified, Rawat said, “There has been a practice to display the pictures of Prime Minister. They should come out of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat was shown a presentation related making and use of Shivnsh compost by the Hans Foundation at CM House on Saturday. The officers of the Agriculture and Horticulture Department were given detailed information about the compost so that method for making this fertilizer can be passed to the farmers. CM Rawat said that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A person, whose business got haywire due to demonetisation and GST, has visited janta darbar after consuming poison at state BJP head office on Saturday. The Janta Darbar was being led by state agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal. Prakash Pandey, who is a transporter, alleged that he has been running here and there to seek solution of their ...

Patanjali Yogpeeth’s 23rd Foundation Day of Haridwar was celebrated with delight in the newly constructed auditorium located in Patanjali Yogpeeth Campus. The program was launched with Deep Prajavalan (lighting of the diya). Baba Ramdev said that, “Patanjali has done an important work to restore the ancient Ved Yoga and Ayurveda techniques the world over.” He said that Patanjali has done ...

Cold conditions gripped Uttarakhand with temperatures remaining below normal in the plains and normal in the hills, and the mercury is set to dip further in the coming days. The Met office on Friday issued a forecast claiming that cold conditions are likely to prevail at isolated places in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts of the state during the ...

State-owned Air India has tied up with UAE-based First Abu Dhabi Bank as well as Standard Chartered Bank and Mashreq Bank to avail short-term loans for acquiring three Boeing 777 aircraft, Union minister Jayant Singh said on Thursday. Two of the aircraft are to be used for ferrying VVIPs, the minister of state for civil aviation said in a written ...