DAINIK NATION BUREAU  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat applauded Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar efforts for popularizing Yoga and Ayurveda among the masses. He spoke on the need of popularizing Yoga and Ayurveda around the globe, so that India leads the world in these two fields. He expressed these views after inaugurating newly constructed Ayurveda Bhawan at Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar on Tuesday. ...

 DAINIK NATION BUREAU Tripura BJP president and newly-elected MLA Biplab Kumar Deb was today unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party in the state, Union minister Nitin Gadkari announced. Deb, whose name was proposed by party MLA Sudip Roy Burman in the meeting, will be the new chief minister of Tripura, Gadkari said. BJP’s poll ally, the Indigenous People’s ...

Tech giant Microsoft today said it has inked its first renewable energy deal in India for powering its new facility in Bengaluru. The agreement will see Microsoft purchase 3 megawatts of solar-powered electricity from Atria Power for its new office building in Bengaluru, meeting 80 per cent of the projected electricity needs at the facility, Microsoft said in a statement. ...

The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has approached other lenders which have exposure to the firms promoted by scam-tainted Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi to help in the agency’s probe into the over Rs 12,000-crore PNB scam. The SFIO is said to have asked senior executives from the 31 banks who have done business dealings with the firms promoted by ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has called for the need to provide latest Information Technology (IT) to the remote areas of the state. There was a need to prepare Data Base Centres and to establish Common Service Centres (CSC) at Gram Panchyat level and use of Ballon technique in the state. He instructed government officials to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As date of Rajya Sabha election is inching closer then candidates’ heart beat have also increased in manifold. Meanwhile two names i.e. state BJP President Ajay Bhatt and former chief minister vijay Bahuguna are running in the air of state politics. Although the card is either with BJP national president Amit Shah or PM Narendra Modi only.  ...

The NGT has reinforced its ban on mining along the banks of Ganga in Haridwar while expressing “anguish” that despite the tribunal’s orders the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF) gave environmental clearances to the Uttarakhand forest development corporation (UFDC) to continue mining in the region. The NGT said that mining licenses have to be restrained until ...

Guillermo del Toro’s inter-species fantasy drama “The Shape of Water” today won the Best Picture Oscar. The film also helped del Toro win his maiden Oscar in the directing category. The lyrical drama about a mute cleaning lady’s unique bond with a humanoid amphibian, who is a classified government secret, led the 90th Academy Awards, with 13 nominations. With Sally ...

The Lok Sabha today was adjourned till noon following vociferous protests by Opposition members over the Punjab National Bank fraud and other issues while those from NDA ally TDP continued to raise their demand for a special package to Andhra Pradesh. Soon after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made obituary references, members from the Congress, TRS and other parties as well as ...

The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear a fresh plea from Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, seeking quashing of the Enforcement Directorate’s summons against him in the INX Media case. In his fresh writ petition, Karti Chidambaram has challenged the summons on the ground that the ED has no jurisdiction to issue such notices based on the ...