DAINIK NATION BUREAU -To mark the National Sports Day on Tuesday, the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat flagged off the rally ‘Run for Uttarakhand’ at Gandhi Park. Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that the day being observed to honour the hockey legend  Dhyan Chand on his birth anniversary, he was happy to see both the youngsters and the elderly ...

A Hisar court today acquitted self-styled godman Rampal in connection with two criminal cases registered against him, citing lack of evidence. Judicial Magistrate, Hisar, Mukesh Kumar pronounced the verdict, acquitting Rampal, head of Satlok Ashram, Barwala and his followers here. On August 24, the judge had deferred the date of hearing to August 29 after the police cited tension in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As part of the BJP central leadership’s strategy to use the ‘misdeeds’ of the former Congress regimes with particular stress on the purported excess committed during the Internal Emergency, the state party leadership has decided to   felicitate those who were detained from the state during that time of the Internal Emergency  under  the Maintenance of Internal Security ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU To make the cities of the state cleaner in tune with the Swachchh Bharat Mission of the Central government, the state government has decided to slap a penalty ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 5,000 on those to be found spitting or urinating on the roads within the municipal boundaries of the cities from September 1. Besides, the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The real estate companies which are yet to get  registered under real estate regulation act (RERA) due to some reasons has been given another chance to get registered with reduced penalty for the next 60 days.   Interacting with media person here in Dehradun on Tuesday  the state urban development minister Madan Kaushik said that as per ...

Eighteen years after he raped two of his female disciples, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday sentenced to 20 years jail for rape and criminal intimidation and fined Rs 30 lakh. The rapist sect chief has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in each of the two cases of rape. Both the sentences will run ...

Six coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto express derailed near Maharashtra’s Asangaon early on Tuesday, a senior Railway official said No passenger was reported to be injured in the incident, Sunil Udasi, chief PRO of the Central Railway, said The accident took place around 6:35 AM near the Asangaon railway station. Six coaches of the train jumped the tracks, another railway ...

Three participants in the Mountain Marathon, a 21-km event held in Nainital on Sunday morning, were attacked and bitten by stray dogs and monkeys as horrified onlookers looked on. Arun Adhikari, a resident of Almora and Lakshman Singh, a Nainital resident who were chased and bitten by dogs as they were running in the Ayarpatta area, told reporters, “A pack ...

Talking tough, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that violence in the name of faith of any kind won’t be tolerated and the guilty would be punished in yesterday’s radio program Mann ki Baat, in a clear reference to the mayhem caused by the followers of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. He said nobody has the right to take the ...

PV Sindhu’s gallant effort to become India’s first ever World Champion ended in a heart- wrenching defeat against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in an epic final, here today. In the longest match of the tournament, which tested the physical and mental strength of both the players, Sindhu lost 19-21 22-20 20-22 after battling hard for one hour and 49 minutes. Their ...