DAINIK NATION BUREAU A delegation of Uttarakhand Congress led by state PCC ppresident Pritam Singh met Governor KK Paul today accusing the state government of neglecting the issues concerning the people of the state. While submitting a memorandum to the Governor at Raj Bhawan, the Congress delegation alleged that congress MLAs are being sidelined by the incumbent government. Citing an ...

A huge public rally paid tribute to Rakesh Chandra Raturi martyred in the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The family and close ones paid their homage to the braveheart soldier who lost his life while protecting the nation. The terrorists had attacked three days in Sunjwan in Jammu and Kashmir. During this, Havaldar Rakesh Raturi (44) seriously injured ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has said that the health outcomes cannot be achieved by the government institutions alone and the private sector health facilities have to supplement governmental efforts. He expressed these views after inaugurating the State-of-the-art Rainbow Children’s Hospital, here in Delhi on Wednesday. He said that the childhood malnutrition continues to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Dehradun is most polluted among five most ecologically sensitive cities in India. Dehradun’s air quality is worse than in the cities of NCR and other major cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru, said the founder of the think tank Gati Foundation, Anoop Nautiyal. Nautiyal said that in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on December 15 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has emphasised the need to see grain production, dairy farming, animal husbandry and fisheries, poultry, horticulture and sericulture as part of a composite approach to modern agriculture. There is also need to encourage the food processing industry to give farmers a better price and a better deal for their produce. He ...

While Cape Town in South Africa is being touted as the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of water, Bengaluru is not far behind. Bengaluru is second in a list of 11 cities that are facing the imminent threat of running out of water based on an UN-backed study, published by the ...

India’s top gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been forced out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games owing to the career-threatening knee injury she picked up last year, her coach Bisweshwar Nandi said today. “She is not yet ready for a tournament like the Commonwealth Games. So, the target is to make her fully ready for the Asian Games (August 18-September 2),” Nandi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Trivendra Singh Rawat led Uttarakhand government has approved new Nazul land policy. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting on wednesday.  With this decision, the land can become free-hold by depositing some charges and government is expecting income of around Rs 2000 crore in near future. There was no official briefing made in view of upcoming budget ...

Pakistan is developing new types of nuclear weapons, including short-range tactical ones, that bring more risks to the region, America’s intelligence chief warned today. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ remarks came days after a group of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists struck the Sunjuwan Military Camp in Jammu on Saturday, killing seven people including six soldiers. Pakistan is developing new types ...

Punjab National Bank, the second largest public sector bank in India, has detected a $1.8 billion fraud in one of its branches here, the bank said in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges on Wednesday. “The bank has detected some fraudulent and unauthorised transactions (messages) in one of its branch in Mumbai for the benefit of a few select ...