DAINIK NATION BUREAU Acting legend Shashi Kapoor died in Mumbai’s Kokilaben Ambani Hospital on Monday. He was 79. His nephew, actor Randhir Kapoor, disclosed to media that Shashi Kapoor, who had been in a wheelchair for years, had been suffering from a kidney ailment and had been undergoing dialysis. “Yes he has passed away. He had kidney problem since several ...

The Madhya Pradesh assembly on Monday unanimously passed a bill that will see rapists of girls 12 years or below being hanged till death. The move comes after the Shivraj Singh Chouhan Cabinet approved the bill last week. Called Dand Vidhi (Madhya Pradesh Sanshodhan) Vidheyak, 2017, the bill will be sent to the Centre and will need the assent of ...

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, out on a 650,000-pound bail bond following his arrest by Scotland Yard over fraud and money laundering charges, will return to Westminster Magistrates’ Court here today as his extradition trial begins. The 61-year-old businessman, who has been in self-imposed exile in the UK since March 2016 when he left India, is wanted in India on charges ...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan paid his tributes to MP-veteran actor Vinod Khanna, saying the untimely death of a friend is a “painful” experience. The 75-year-old star remembered Khanna in his blog, after he paid homage to him at last night’s Star Screen Awards here. “Remembering a friend that has left us before time is painful and most sad… Our condolences and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today likened the imminent elevation of Rahul Gandhi to dynastic succession of Mughal rulers, and castigated the Congress for abandoning “public modesty” by deciding to make a person, who is out on bail in a graft case, its president. The prime minister also targeted the Congress over corruption during its rule, and spoke about the clean ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The much awaited Accoutrement Ceremony (after the allotment of Arms and Services to Gentlemen Cadets) for Autumn term 2017 concludes at the Vikram Batra Mess in the Indian Military Academy on today. In which GCs from 141 Regular Course, 124 Technical Graduate Course and 25A University Entry Scheme were welcomed by their respective regiments and services. The ceremony ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Governor Dr KK Paul has stressed the need for focusing more on creating widespread awareness against the use of tobacco in Uttarakhand. The would have to be told about the harm tobacco would cause to them. He expressed these view after releasing the Uttarakhand Youth Tobacco Survey-2016  done by the World Lung Foundation in a function at ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that stigmatization and discrimination cannot be tolerated by any civilized society and people with disabilities have every right to live with dignity. He was addressing the gathering after launching Deen Dayal Divyangjan Sahajya Scheme to coincide with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, in Guwahati, Assam. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday filed his nomination papers for the post of party chief at its headquarters amid cheers by party leaders and workers. Gandhi signed a set of nominations in the presence of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, senior party leaders Kamal Nath, Motilal Vora, Sheila Dikshit, Ahmed Patel and Ashok Gehlot. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU More than 30 hours have passed but still police is clueless about the criminals, who had assaulted a security guard at IDBI bank ATM with a hammer at Saharanpur Chowk to steal cash from the ATM on Saturday night. When they failed to get cash then they destroyed the CCTV lense too before leaving the venue. Till ...