The Supreme Court on Monday decided to review the contentious Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, five years after its two-judge bench set aside a Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising homosexuality. A three-judge bench of Supreme Court, headed by CJI, said it would reconsider and examine the Constitutional validity of Section 377. The SC today also issued a notice ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to give filip to the tourism state government is going to organise internation yoga day in between March 1-7 this year. Even state to organise music composer Beatles, who had come to uttarakhand 50 years ago and stayed here by practising yoga, during this period. This was disclosed by the state tourism minister Satpal ...

The Central Government notified the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 (Amendment Act) on 3rd January, 2018. The provisions of this Amendment Act shall come into force on the date or dates as the Central Government may appoint by notification(s) in the Official Gazette. A few provisions in the Amendment Act have important bearing on the working of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy ...

The electoral bonds mechanism is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system and the government is open to suggestions to further cleanse political funding, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday. In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expenditures in cash. The sources ...

ARUN JAITLEY UNION FINANCE MINSITER DAINIK NATION BUREAU “India is the largest democracy in the world.  However, despite strengthening various institutions for the last seven decades, India has not been able to evolve a transparent political funding system.  Elections and political parties are a fundamental feature of Parliamentary democracy.  Elections cost money.  The round the year functioning of the political ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Finance Ministry data has revealed that more than 1,400 entities account for bad loans of Rs 100 crore or more in 21 public sector banks (PSBs). Increasing NPAs have curtailed the lending capacity of state-owned banks. In State Bank of IndiaBSE -0.60 % (SBI) alone, 265 accounts had bad loans of more than Rs 100 crore each, worth ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A police case has been filed against The Tribune journalist who exposed how people could illegally access demographic data of individuals from UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers. The complaint, which also names people who sold unauthorised access details to the journalist, was filed within days of the news report. The report had renewed privacy concerns ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Prakash Pandey’s attempt to commit suicide by consuming poison at janta darbar, has deeply shocked the BJP while it has given an opportunity to congress to condemn state government. Pandey blamed he has been committing suicide due to demonetisation and GST. Meanwhile CM Trivendra Singh Rawat visited to the hospital, where he has been admitted and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Auli will be developed as Tourism Destination under the master plan and all efforts will be made to add all necessary arrangements for the purpose of organizing winter sports in Auli in the future. The International Skiing Race to be organized from January 15-21 in Auli. Uttarakhand has got an opportunity to compete in the international level of  FIS ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A pregnant woman become victime of terminally ill health system of the state on Sunday. A 20-two-year old Vandana, wife of Hemraj, was expecting her first baby. The hapless family resides at Niranjanpur area and her husband Hemraj works as a sales man. On January 5, Vandana in her ninth month of pregnancy was taken to the ...