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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two persons were killed and a boy injured by a tiger in the Ramnagar area of the Corbett tiger landscape on Thursday morning. The forest department personnel reached the site of the incident after some effort were successful in immobilising and caging the male tiger aged about five years. As per the information received, Muradabad (Uttar Pradesh) ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership keeping all in suspense on its chief minister pick for Uttarakhand, the stage is set for the swearing in of the new ministry on March 18 at Parade Ground in Dehradun to be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Informing about the swearing in, the state additional director general of police (law ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Despite five days  passed since the result was declared, the Bharatiya Janata Party is yet to zero in on who would be the chief minister with at least three names – Prakash Pant, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Satpal Maharaj-doing the rounds as the front –runners in the  race. However, it is clear that the party high command ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Devotees from different parts of the country and abroad have started congregating in Dehradun to attend the famous Jhanda fair. The fair would commence on Friday when Jhanda ji (flag) would be hoisted at historic Darbar Sahib. On Wednesday, Sangat (devotees) mainly from the states of Punjab, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan descended at Darbar Sahib. After ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Pauri Police have detained on Tuesday a former IAS officer of Bihar cadre Krishan Bihari and his son Nikhel Priyadarshi. The duo-the son was an accused of an attempted rape case involving a   daughter of a former minister of Bihar and the father allegedly threatened the survivor of consequences -had been absconding since the special judge court, SC/ST Patna, issued an unbailable ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The state chief electoral officer (CEO) Radha Raturi who had a tough time during the high-strung electioneering, dealing with strings of complaints lodged by the Bharatiya Janata Party, alleging violation of the model code of conduct against the   Harish Rawat government, has expressed her desire to quit. It is learnt that she has shot off a letter ...

Another spell of western disturbances, now moving towards Uttarakhand, would bring in its wake light rain in the plains and snowfall in the hills for two days, starting from March 16. Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that very light to light rain/snow has been forecast at isolated places especially in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on March 16 and March 17. The weather is ...

By winning 56 out of 69 declared result state BJP is under pressure because of lots of heavyweight has won the assembly election so selection of MLA for cabinet would not be easy task for the new chief minister. To elect the leader of the house party called BJP legislature party meeting here in Dehradun and also designated two members ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The defeat of outgoing Chief Minister Harish Rawat from two assembly constituencies (Haridwar rural and Kichha)  in the recently concluded Vidhan Sabha elections has shown that the people of state have a knack of dishing out electoral reverses to the sitting Chief Ministers. Interestingly the defeat of the Chief Ministers also ensured that their respective parties failed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On the invitation of Yoga guru Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, the union Finance minister had come to Haridwar to inaugurate Niramayam facility. It was his first visit to Yog Gram said the minister. After inauguration, at 1.50 pm on Sunday the union minister flew from Yog Gram to visit Patanjali food park in Padartha village in ...