DAINIK NATION BUREAU Room to Read has reached significant milestone in its Girls education program, which was celebrated this week during a visit of board members and investors to the organization’s work in Uttarakhand, India. To date, across Asia and Africa, Room to Read has impacted 20,000 communities through its Literacy Program and supported 50,000 girls through its Girls’ Education Program. This milestone highlighted at symbolic ceremonies led by ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the people inconvenience in getting attested their document from gazetted officer before submitting application form of state employment exchange, chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh has said no more attested document would be required there.  Instead of gazetted officer attested copy candidate can submit self attested certificate at employment exchange office. In this regard he ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Rapists, who had raped their sister’s 10 year old daughter, were sentenced to life imprisonment till their death by a court today. With this order court has sent message that no more leniency to rape accused. The two rapist, among whom the younger one impregnated the girl, have been asked to pay a fine of Rs 3.05 ...

India today repatriated to Pakistan nine fishermen and four civilian prisoners along with a child, the external affairs ministry said. On its part, Pakistan issued visas to over 2,600 Sikh pilgrims to attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev from today till November 11, a Pakistan High Commission release said here. All the prisoners crossed over to Pakistan ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following on the appeal of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to double the farmers income by 2022, Uttarakhand government is going to launch Agriculture loan upto Rs one lakh @ two percent interest to their farmers by November 9. This was disclosed by the State Minister Dr Dhan Singh Rawat here in vidhan sabha today. In which ...

Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat late on Tuesday ordered a vigilance probe into the alleged “wrongdoings” of a MDDA supervisor. The CM office has recently received complaints regarding the involvement of the MDDA official in property dealings. Sources in the CMO said that the officer with help from others carried on with his “wrong” doings related in property transactions. However, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU UPES is going to organize two days long conference on ‘Agro supply chain’ at their premises on Nov 3-4. Sharing the objectives of this event, Associate Dean Dr Neeraj Anand said “The conference not only intends to provide an interdisciplinary forum to policy planners, regulators, professionals, academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants & administrators for debate, discussion, and dissemination ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear tomorrow a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act. The matter was mentioned before a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar and the counsel representing the petitioner sought an urgent hearing, saying similar pleas were already listed for hearing before the apex court tomorrow. Karnataka-based Mathew Thomas has moved the top ...

A 27-year-old woman was burnt alive allegedly by her brother-in-law at a village here after she resisted his attempt to rape her, the police said today. The incident took place last night when Neelam, a widow, was alone at her house in Labhari, they said, adding that she died on the spot. The police said that the woman’s father has ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least 20 people died and dozens were burned as a boiler exploded Wednesday afternoon in the newest power generating unit at a state-run NTPC plant in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. The number of dead and injured may rise as many are believed to be trapped inside the unit. Many of the injured have suffered severe burns. ...