An expert team of IAF mountaineers had successfully scaled highest peaks of six different continents earlier and had recently embarked upon its culminating expedition to Mt Vinson in Antarctica to complete Mission Seven Summits. A five member team led by Gp Capt RC Tripathi VM(G) was flagged off by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa PVSM AVSM YSM VM ADC, Chief ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A team of Health Department raided Tyagi Diagnostic Centre at Araghar and busted a gang involved in sex determination of unborn babies on Thursday. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun Dr YS Thapliyal said that an FIR against Dr Tyagi would be lodged by the department. A team comprising enforcing officials of Pre Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand Madrassa Education Board (UMEB) has decided to include Sanskrit and Computer Science as optional subjects in madrassas all over the state by the next academic session. At present, madrassas in the state offer Maths, Science, Ayush and Social Science as optional subjects. A six-member lower committee of the board yesterday cleared the proposal for inclusion ...

Government has transferred 21 officers of State Civil Service (PCS). Girish Chandra Hunvant will be the new chief development officer of Chamoli while Manuj Goyal has been given the responsibility of City Magistrate of Dehradun. Following the green flag of Chief Minister Trivendra Rawat on Wednesday, the Department of Personnel has ordered this. Vinod Giri Goswami was made Chamoli’s CDO ...

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Rajasthan police today arrested three government officials for accepting bribes in separate cases, a top official said. “An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) posted in Banswara, a food inspector in Rajsamand, and a junior clerk posted in Jhunjhunu district were arrested by the teams,” ACB’s director general Alok Tripathi said. In Banswara, ASI Mohan Kumar Ninama posted ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to address privacy concerns, the UIDAI has introduced a new concept of ‘Virtual ID’ on wednesday. In which which Aadhaar-card holder can generate from its website and give for various purposes, including SIM verification, instead of sharing the actual 12-digit biometric ID. This will give the users the option of not sharing their Aadhaar ...

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board examinations are going to be held in March. These examinations will start from March 5, which will run till April. CBSE Board Announces Program of Classes Intermediate and Higher School Examinations Examinations for both classes will begin in morning shift from 10:30 in the morning. The first paper of class 12 will be ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Despite India witnessing fast-pace development for decades, the crime against women keeps continuing unabated. This sombre contrast between two realities in India has formed the theme of the two-day national seminar on the status of women after independence held at Chief Minister’s camp office in Dehradun on Wednesday. The Gujarat State women commission chairperson Leela Ankoliya said ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In major changes liberalising foreign direct investment in key sectors, the Union Cabinet has approved 100 per cent foreign investment in single brand retail trading (SBRT) and construction development and decided to open up Air India for FDI up to 49 per cent. Besides, the government also decided that foreign institution investors and portfolio investors be allowed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Attacking on the Congress party for politicising the unfortunate death of transporter Prakash Pande, State BJP president Ajay Bhatt has said Congress and its leaders gave become insensitive and doing politics over death. In a statement, the BJP leader said that the entire sequence of events leading to the death of Pandey has left many questions which ...