Social activist Anna Hazare will be on a two-day visit to Uttarakhand from February 13. He will be addressing rallies in Srinagar and Tehri. State coordinator of the anti-corruption movement Bhopal Singh Choudhury said Anna would arrive in Dehradun on February 13. He will leave for Srinagar the same day and address a rally there on February 14. He will ...

A local court has issued a notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with a case filed against him for his bribery remarks made during Goa Legislative Assembly elections held last year. Judicial Magistrate First Class at Mapusa town, nine kms from here, issued the notice to the AAP leader yesterday and fixed the next hearing on February ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit the UAE later this week which authorities and business leaders say signifies the special importance India attaches to its ties with the oil-rich nation and will help in furthering cooperation in diplomatic, economic and security issues. Modi will be in the UAE on February 10 and 11 and will address the sixth ...

An oil tanker with 22 Indians on board has gone missing in the piracy-plagued waters off the Benin coast in the Gulf of Guinea near West Africa, the Directorate General of Shipping said today. No contact has been established with the vessel so far and there have been no reports of a ransom call, it said. “The region has a history ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU After a call from Union Minister Rajnath Singh, the disgruntled Telugu Desam Party (TDP) of Chandrababu Naidu has decided that TDP will not snap ties with the BJP led NDA. A final call will be taken if the government fails to announce any provision for Andhra Pradesh during the budget session, said party leader Ram Mohan Naidu. ...

AFP DAINIK NATION BUREAU With China facing a massive gender gap and a greying population, a company wants to hook up lonely men and retirees with a new kind of companion: “Smart” sex dolls that can talk, play music and turn on dishwashers. Rows of voluptuous silicon bodies hang in the warehouse of EXDOLL, a firm based in the north-eastern ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand, where man animal conflict has become routine affairs, state government is planning to increase the ex-gratia and other compensation amount, which is being provided to wildlife attack victims, by 70 to 100 percent shortly. The wildlife authorities have proposed a hike in the ex-gratia amount by Rs two lakh i.e. Rs five lakh from Rs three ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A wide variety of energy drinks have become available for consumers over the years promising to make people feel rejuvenated. But these products may also have disastrous side effects if one goes overboard. A man almost lost his life to brain haemorrhage as he drank 25 cans of energy drinks in just six hours. He was diagnosed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that Union Budget 2018 is dedicated to middle class. In this budget, people will get the benefit of the world’s largest health insurance scheme. He said this after dedicating and laid the foundation stone of 33 projects worth Rs 15 crores at Tapkeshwar Temple Premises on Sunday. The CM also approved the construction ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Information and Broadcasting ministry is considering expansion of Doordarshan’s round-the-clock news broadcast to around 100 countries with a view to reach out to the diaspora and put across India’s perspective on domestic and international issues, a senior official said Currently, DD India primarily produces various cultural and general entertainment programmes for broadcast in overseas countries. It ...