DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has instructed all the District Magistrates to take effective steps to prevent the forest fire incidents. To review the incidents of forest fire, Chief Minister took a meeting of the Forest Department officials, in which all the District Magistrates were connected through video conferencing, at secretariat on Wednesday. Taking to task the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat reviewed the departmental works, under the priority schemes of the union government, being undertaken by the Medical Health, Family Welfare, Women’s Empowerment & Child Welfare Department at secretariat here on Wednesday. Special efforts are required to maintain a balance in the sex ratio in the state. He directed all the District Magistrates ...

Gold rallied by Rs 120 to Rs 32,000 per ten gram on increased buying by local jewellers amid strong overseas trend. Silver also strengthened by Rs 300 to Rs 41,400 per kg due to increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Traders said increased buying by local jewellers to meet retailers’ demand at domestic spot market and a depreciating ...

A joint U.S./German space mission to track the continuous movement of water and other changes in Earth’s mass on and beneath the planet’s surface successfully launched at 12:47 p.m. PDT Tuesday from the California coast. The twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), a joint NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) mission, lifted off on a ...

At least four civilians, including a woman, were on Wednesday killed and nine others were injured in heavy shelling and firing by Pakistani Rangers on civilians areas along IB in Kathua-Jammu sectors. Today is the 9th day of continuous firing and shelling by Pakistani Rangers along the IB and LoC in Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts. A senior police officer ...

A lawyer had to knock the doors of the Supreme Court to seek a direction to his client, the Rajasthan government, to clear his bills totalling Rs 48 lakh pending since 1994. A bench of Justics N V Ramana and S Abdul Nazeer came to his aid and directed the state government to pay Rs 48.01 lakh to lawyer Aruneshwar ...