DAINIK NATION BUREAU The first edition of the two- day-long Dehradun Literature Fest will be held at Dehradun ONGC Officer’s Club from February 17 in course of which some of the finest and highly acclaimed Indian performers, writers, theatre personalities, business leaders and visual artistes would turn up. Over the two days, 15 panel discussions on issues ranging from gender equality and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The body of Martyre soldier Dharmendra Shah, who martyred while fighting terrorists at Bandipora in J&K recently, was cremated at his village of Pateliya in Kaladhungi with full military honours on Thursday. The martyr’s body was transport by helicopter from Bareilly  to Kotabagh from where his body draped in the nation tri-colour was handed over to his ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Dehradun Election officer (DEO) Ravinath Raman inspected strong room housed at Maharana Pratap Sports College in Raipur where the electronic voting machines (EVMs) are being kept after polling was over on Wednesday. He stressed on fool-proof security at the strong room to stop any possibility of tampering with the machines. The counting would be taken up on March 11 morning. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true that despite strong campaigning by the political parties and election commission polling percentage have gone down with the last assembly election. During assembly election-2012 voters were around 70 lakh and polling percentage was 67.22 percent. As per the figures rolled out by the   election commission, there is a very marginal increase as compared to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU State Meteorological department has forecast light rain/snow at a few places in Uttarakhand from February 19 for a couple of days. Things were dry across the state on Thursday. While the minimum temperatures remained normal in the plains and markedly above normal in the hills of the state. The lowest minimum temperature 4.9°C was recorded at Munsiyari on Thursday.   The meteorological ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A day after the polling, the candidates of various political parties, engaged in tough electioneering for nearly a month are now feeling relaxed. Some of them spent time with their family while some were busy in assessing the voters turnout with their party workers. The BJP candidate from Vikasnagar, Munna Singh Chauhan, locked in a fierce fight with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   The CBSE  has withheld the admit cards of more than 800 private students in the Dehradun region becasue they failed to deposit exmaination fee within stipulated time. These students were scheduled to sit in this year’s board examinations. The admit cards of these students would be released only after the students concerned deposit the due fees. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Ahead of a crucial Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council meeting scheduled on Feb 18, several leading public health groups have intensified their bid to increase tax burden on all tobacco products. These groups have appealed the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that all tobacco products especially bidis, are placed in the demerit good category at the 28 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress is confident of winning about 46 seats out of 70 assembly constituencies in the state. The state PCC president Kishore Upadhyay in the presence of chief minister Harish Rawat claimed while addressing the media here in Dehradun on Thursday. CM Rawat opined that the volume of money-power seen being used in the Assembly election 2017 was ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Despite operation smile, which was launched to reunite th missing children with their families, 92 children gone missing from the holy city in last few months but police seems clueless. Although they have been saying that their work would get momentum now because they have been eased from election duty. As per the statics SSP, Haridwar  56 girls ...