Senior MLA Harbans Kapur has been appointed as protem speaker of fourth assembly by the cabinet. Now governor would administer him oath of his office on Monday afternoon and later he will administer oath to each member of the house in Vidhan Sabha on March 23.

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Apparently acting on the dictum dished out by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a recent    BJP parliamentary party meeting in Delhi – ‘ Na Baithunga Na Baithne Dunga’ (neither will  I sit nor will I allow you to sit)-, the newly appointed chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat  conducted the first cabinet meeting at the secretariat  soon ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A sea of humanity descending in the city on way to the Parade Ground to witness the swearing- in of the new government, huge traffic jams were seen on the city roads on Saturday. Though police had drafted a traffic plan to spare the commuters inconvenience on the roads it seemed to have come to no avail ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In view of thousands of people being expected to attend the Nagar Parikarma  as part of the ongoing Jhanda Mela on March 19, Dehradun police have drafted a traffic plan  to keep traffic smooth on the roads. Dehradun senior superintendent of police (SSP) Sweety Aggarwal said that the routes of the city buses and the Vikrams have been diverted. Traffic will ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With nine MLAs being inducted in the Trivendra Singh Rawat ministry, seven are   those who have made it to the Assembly several times.  Two fresh faces in the Assembly are Satpal Maharaj   and Dhan Singh Rawat. Maharaj had a stint as a minister of state for Railways. Besides, he is supposed to have played an instrumental role ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Trivendra Singh Rawat as the chief minister, seven as cabinet ministers and two as ministers of state were sworn in at Parade Ground in Dehradun on Saturday in the presence of the Prime Minsiter Narnedra Modi. The high-pitched poll-drama dragging for over a month climaxed as the Governor Dr KK Paul administered the oath of office and secrecy to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Meteorological centre has forecast light rain/snow at isolated places, especially in the higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Sunday. Light rainfall/snow has been reported from the higher mountainous reaches like Kedarnath and Uttarkashi over the past 24 hours, said Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh.   Met department further said that the maximum temperatures were below the normal to ...