In what may come as a major setback for government employees, a finance ministry source has hinted that there is no scope for a change in minimum basic pay from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000. This source, while referring to a Department of Personnel Training letter that said that fitment factor and minimum pay didn’t come under the National Anomaly ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true, school bus first aid box carry vaseline instead of dettol and cotton. This has been revealed during the surprise inspection of Haridwar DM Deepak Rawat in haridwar on Friday. When he opened the shabby first aid box then he lost his cool because it was having ash tray, old clothes and Vaseline. Taking cognizance ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU To review the ongoing preparation for upcoming winter session of uttarakhanad vidhan sabha, which is schedule to begin by December 7, speaker and parliamentary affairs minister Prakash Pant visited to Bharadisain today. speaker reminded the officials that as session is being organised in winter so make fullproof arrangement to deal with cold especially snow fall. during review ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least three people were dead and nine left injured after thirteen coaches of the Vasco Da Gama-Patna express jumped the rails near Manikpur railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday Confirming the casualties, Chitrakoot SP Pratap Gopendra Singh said a father-son duo from Bettiah district of Bihar died on the spot ...

The Winter Session of Parliament will commence from December 15, a day after the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, and conclude on January 5. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh today met in New Delhi to decide the dates of the Winter Session. The CCPA recommended that the session be held ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The BJP may be facing the toughest challenge in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home turf  Gujarat, but Christopher Wood, author of the Greed and Fear Report, is putting all his money on a BJP victory for the sixth consecutive term. As Gujarat is schedule to face poll in two phases i.e. December 9 and December 14. ...

Delhi Metro lost over three lakh commuters a day after a steep fare hike came into effect on October 10, an RTI query has revealed. The metro’s daily average ridership came down to 24.2 lakh in October from 27.4 lakh in September, translating to a fall of around 11 per cent. The Blue Line, considered the metro’s busiest, lost over ...

Actor Varun Dhawan today drew the ire of Mumbai Police after a daily carried his picture showing him clicking a selfie with a fan from his car while stuck in traffic. Mumbai Police, through its official Twitter handle, said it is issuing a challan to “Judwaa 2” actor and warned him against repeating the offence. “Varun Dhawan these adventures surely ...

The finance ministry today said there is no proposal to withdraw the bank cheque book facility as part of exercise to promote digital transaction. The clarification comes in the backdrop of reports in a certain section of media that there is a possibility that the central government may withdraw bank cheque book facility in the near future, with an intent ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Ministry of Home Affairs through National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) will conduct a multi-State mega mock exercise on tsunami preparedness on fridayw. The exercise will be simultaneously conducted in 31 coastal districts across four States – West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu – and ...