Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior off-spinner R Ashwin found themselves relegated from the top-paid bracket with the BCCI today introducing an A+ category in the central contracts for which only five players, including skipper Virat Kohli, were picked. The batting troika of Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Shikhar Dhawan along with pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah were ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand government has given its approval for withdrawing the personal security extended to the South African businessmen Atul Gupta and Ajay Gupta during their stay in Dehradun. The Department of Home affairs said that the order is expected to be released in a day or two. Significantly, the Gupta brothers Atul and Ajay are eligible for ...

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in association with the Government of Uttar Pradesh, is organizing a Women’s Convention – called Swachh Shakti 2018 – tomorrow, on International Women’s Day, at Lucknow. 8000 women sarpanches, 3000 women Swachhagrahis, 2000 mahilasamakhyas from Uttar Pradesh and women sarpanches from across the country have been invited to recognize their outstanding contribution towards ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018 for introduction in the Parliament. It is a part of the efforts of the Government to encourage institutional arbitration for settlement of disputes and make India a centre of robust Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism. Benefits: The Amendments in the Act ...

Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Farooq Takla, wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was arrested here today by the CBI after he arrived from Dubai, the agency’s spokesperson said. Incidentally, just a couple of days ago media reports had surfaced that Dawood was keen to return to India. Mustak Mohammad Miya alias Farooq Takla, was ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Virtually putting the Modi government on notice, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today demanded that the Centre honour the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 and come out with a clear stand on the state’s demands in the next two-three days. At the same time, he admitted for the first time that the 14th Finance Commission had ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In another first for women, 25-year-old Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the border guarding force, ITBP. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force is the last of the CAPFs to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first allowed it to enroll them in 2016. Prakriti, who goes by a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to solve economic offences across the state,Economic Offences Wing would work under Special Task Force (STF). An FIR would be lodged against fake banking companies in the state. This was said by the state chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh while chairing state level coordination committee of RBI in secretariat on Wednesday. He has said ...

Karnataka lokayukta Vishwanath Shetty was injured when a complainant stabbed him in his Bengaluru office on Wednesday, police said. Shetty was out of danger and the accused, Tejaraj Sharma, had been arrested, Karnataka home minister Ramalinga Reddy said. According to reports, Justice Shetty was stabbed at least three times by the attacker, identified as Tejas Sharma, while he was hearing ...

Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon has disputed allegations that she shot an advertisement inside a no-camera zone at Bhubaneswar’s Sri Lingaraj Temple. Tandon’s clarification followed Lingaraj Temple authorities lodging an FIR against her. The complaint alleged that she had shot an advertisement in the ‘No Camera Zone’ inside the premises of the 11th century lord Shiva shrine, which is protected by ...