DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to fulfill one of the poll promises that BJP would make Gairsain as summer capital of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat led uttarakhand government has decided to convene this year’s budget session at Gairsain. Even governor would make his speech in newly constructed vidhan sabha at Gairsain. this would be first time in the state ...

Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists on Tuesday 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 terrorist from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, managed to escape with the assailants, police officials said. The ...

Veteran actor Anupam Kher today said his Twitter account has been hacked. The 62-year-old actor, who is currently in Los Angeles, said he got to know about the breach from his friends in India and has alerted the microblogging site about the incident. “My Twitter account has been hacked. Just got few calls from friends in India about it. I ...

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 the apex court is not a “garbage collector”. The top court declined to take the affidavit on record and said the government cannot dump “junk” before it. “What are you trying to do? ...

India today successfully test-fired its short-range nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-1 with a strike range of over 700 km from a test range off the Odisha coast, Defence sources said. The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was launched as a part of a periodic training activity by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army to consolidate operational readiness, they said. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Doon Medical College today organised a cancer awareness workshop in association with Sahyog Kendra, Raipur. Dr KK Tamta, CMS, Dr Navneet Jain, cancer surgeon, and Dr Manashi Ghosh, radiotherapist, dispelled the myths and fears of cancer. Dr Jain said the maximum cases were of breast cancer. Ravi Kant Sharma, president Sahyog Kendra, explained how yoga could help ...

In another first, Indian Railways have introduced new General Conditions or Contracts (GCC) for Services to define the terms & conditions for contractors engaged in service contracts for non-operational areas such as Housekeeping, Facilities Management, Consultancy etc., as distinct from Works. Under the leadership of Union Minister of Railways & Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal the Ministry of Railways is committed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat participated in a workshop jointly organized by State Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Uttarakhand here in Dehradun on Monday. The CM expressed hope that after organizing this workshop, a good policy will be prepared for child rights and child protection. The state will get good results in future. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The number of transgressions by the Chinese Army into the Indian territory rose to 426 in 2017 from the 273 in 2016, the government said in parliament on Monday. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said the transgressions have occurred due to the differing perception of the two ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A lawyer’s remark that ‘nari narak ka dwar hai’ (women are the gateway to hell) today drew the ire of the Delhi High Court which warned him of stern action. The statement was made by the lawyer who was representing a Delhi-based ashram of Virender Dev Dixit, facing a CBI probe for allegedly confining women and girls. ...