Lanco Infratech Limited which was building Vyong phata hydro power project (76 MW) in Vyong village of Rudraprayag district has closed down the project for incurring losses, especially after a large part of its barrage got washed away in 2013 deluge. Villagers who had been opposing this project and another Singoli Bhatwadi (99MW) in the vicinity since 2001 and were ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked the Congress for creation of Telangana with only political considerations saying people are suffering because of the decision. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM said Partition was the result of Congress’s wrong policies. Modi said: “Not a single day has passed when the country has not suffered due to poison sowed by ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress Leader Mallikarjun Kharge was stunned today in when a TDP MP in the Lok Sabha accused him of “beating” him while he was tapping his shoulder asking him to move aside. While Kharge was speaking on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, the TDP members, along with those from YSR Congress Party, were in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Amid tension between allies BJP and TDP, political debates are on about how far Chandrababu Naidu would go in his mind-game as his reflexes are likely to be dictated by countermoves of turf rival Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress. Many politicians feel Naidu — known for hard bargaining with the Centre during the two United Front and Vajpayee ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Lashkar-e-Taiba militants today staged a daring attack outside a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to free a Pakistani terrorist from custody, killing a policeman and critically injuring another, police said. Naveed Jutt, the LeT militant from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, managed to escape with the assailants, police officials ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU More than 6,000 migratory birds are staying at Asan wetland in Uttarakhand. It has revealed in latest bird count at Asan bringing cheers among bird watcher community. The bird count figures are quite encouraging taking into account a downslide witnessed in the strength of migratory birds at Asan in the recent years. Last winter (2017) only 4,500 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Delhi High Court today upheld the conviction of seven Uttarakhand policemen for the infamous Ranbir Singh fake encounter that took place in Dehradun in 2009. At the same time, the high court set aside the conviction and life term of 11 other policemen who were also held guilty in the fake encounter case. A special CBI ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the centre for filing an 845-page affidavit containing incomplete information about solid waste management across the country and said that the Supreme Court of India is not a “garbage collector”. The apex court declined to take the affidavit on record and said that the government cannot dump “junk” before ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that 400 security personnel were killed fighting militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and Left-Wing extremists in Naxal-affected areas in the past three years, while 111 persons were killed in 822 communal incidents in the country in 2017 with UP registering the highest number of such incidents. Responding to a ...

With a special investigating team (SIT) already examining the Rs 300 crore scam in the NH-74 land acquisition and compensation process another central agency, enforcement directorate (ED), on Sunday joined the investigation process. The ED is all set to register cases under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on FIR filed by SIT which also ...