DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court on Thursday asked a Gujarat trial court not to proceed till April 12 with the criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah against the news portal The Wire and its journalists. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked Jay Shah and others, who have filed the complaint ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A 21-year- old youth  who was a student of  DAV (PG) College was killed,  while a girl was seriously injured when the scooty they were on rammed into a  pole alongside a road in IT Park campus in Dehradun on Thursday. Eyewitness said that  the deceased lost balance as the scooty was moving in high speed. Both  ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A 40-year-old tusker was rescued by the Forest Department team in the wee hours of Thursday. The forest officials said the male elephant which got stuck in the mainstream Chilla barrage was struggling to come out of the river when they reached the spot. It was rescued through an operation that lasted for over two hours, they ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A plea seeking protection and restoration of natural springs like Gaurikund in Uttarakhand today prompted the National Green Tribunal to ask the Centre, the state government and others to respond to it. A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Ministry of Water Resources, Uttarakhand government, Central Ground Water Authority, National Biodiversity Authority and ...

For the senior district and under-19 team championship organized by the Uttaranchal Cricket Association, the players will be selected after the trial in Srinagar on March 18. The championship will be held in Dehradun in the month of April. For this, the team of Pauri district will be selected. Selected players will get the opportunity to play the championship. Kulvir ...

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s health is fine but he has taken a week’s break from the shooting of his film Thugs of Hindostan. Big B has taken the break on the advice of his doctors. Talking about Amitabh’s health, his wife and MP Jaya Bachchan has said that there was pain in his waist and shoulder. But right now he is ...

The state cabinet on Monday fixed the excise revenue target for the next financial year at Rs 2,550 crore. For the current year, the target was Rs 2,310 crore which incidentally excise officials are struggling to achieve. According to many observers, the setting up of higher targets for the next year belies the claims made by the Trivendra Singh Rawat ...

A 21-year-old student of IIT-Roorkee committed suicide in his hostel room by hanging himself from the ceiling fan on Wednesday. Circle officer Roorkee, Swapn Kishore Singh, said, “The deceased has been identified as Abhijit Singh Bansiya, a third year BTech student from Surat, Gujarat. The family members have been informed about the incident and they are on the way to ...

The CBSE Class 12 Accountancy exam’s question paper was leaked this morning via instant messaging app WhatsApp.The question paper reportedly matches set II of the CBSE’s Accountancy question paper. Meanwhile, CBSE said an expert committee will investigate how the leak occurred. Delhi’s Education Minister Manish Sisodia has confirmed that the paper which was being circulated since the evening on social ...

As many as 17 child labourers, all hailing from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states have been rescued at Secunderabad Railway station here, officials said today. Based on a tip-off that over 150 children were being brought to Hyderabad in a passenger train, teams from departments of Labour, Women and Child Welfare, Police and NGOs carried out searches in all ...