DAINIK NATION BUREAU A bureaucrat  who along with the chief secretary S Ramaswami interacted with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing regarding the progress of  PRGATI (pro- active governance and timely implementation) alleged that  National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) kept misinforming the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) over the possession of land meant for constructing  a 36 km ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Backtracking his own statement, BJP MP  Sakshi Maharaj said on Wednesday that Gurmeet Ram Rahim was not a saint and that he was a householder. Earlier theBJP leader had defended the Dera Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim of Sirsa who is behind bars after proven rapist by the CBI court, Haryana. As we know that CBI court has pronounced 20 ...

  DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand governor Dr KK Paul reviewed the disaster management measures in place in the state. He also reviewed the training programmes for officers in this regard. He obtained information about the losses in the recent tragedy that occurred due to disaster in Malpa in Pithoragarh and also about the current status there.   The governor said ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In yet another development for the state industrial development corporation of Uttarakhand Lt, German Ambassador to India Martin Ney visited Haridwar along with his wife Dr Med Gabriele Ney on Wednesday. The couple visited the industrial park in SIDCUL and a yarn factory. He is on a four day visit to the state of Uttarakhand. On his first ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has inaugurated the Women Branch of District Cooperative Bank Ltd at Banjarawala on Wednesday. At this time visibly excited CM said that it was a matter of happiness that this bank was operated by women only. It will have good results. The future of cooperatives is bright. The CM said that today ...

As much as 99 per cent of the junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes have returned to the banking system, RBI said today, prompting opposition to question the efficacy of the government’s unprecedented note ban decision to curb black money and corruption. The Reserve Bank, which has so far shied away from disclosing the actual number of junked currency ...

In the first-of-its-kind success, the creation and maintenance of sewage treatment infrastructure under Hybrid Annuity based PPP model has taken off, with NMCG awarding work to private sector for construction and maintenance of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in two major cities in Ganga river basin – Varanasi and Haridwar. While the work to construct, operate and maintain a 50 MLD ...

State-owned telecom firm BSNL will set up 1 lakh wi-fi spots across India by March 2019, Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava said today. “We have plans to set up 1 lakh wi-fi by March 2019, which include 25,000 for rural areas. The USOF (Universal Service Obligation Fund) will provide financial support for rural wi-fi hotspots,” Shrivastava told reporters on ...

The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded a compensation of Rs 75.26 lakh to the kin of a jeweller who was killed in a road accident in November 2010. MACT-Alibaug member VM Mohite in his recent order directed the two respondents — the owner of the car Amit Devkar from Ahmedabad and the insurer Royal Sundaram Alliance Ins. Co. ...

Life in Mumbai- the city that never sleeps came to a screeching halt due to incessant rains today. Today’s were rains reminiscent to the one that submerged the low lying areas of the city in 2005. People’s woes were compounded by the high tide that prevented natural drainage of water into the sea. Meteorological department sources said Mumbai recorded copious ...