A heavily armed young man barged into his former high school about an hour northwest of Miami on Wednesday, opening fire on terrified students and teachers and leaving a death toll of 17 that could rise even higher, the authorities said. Students huddled in horror in their classrooms, with some of them training their cellphones on the carnage, capturing sprawled ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU How did two employees try to fool a stodgy bank in the largest diamond house fraud that surfaced on Valentine’s Day, when thousands of pearls and gems change hands across the world? In raising funds and moving money out of Punjab National Bank, the two employees of the state-owned lender directly used SWIFT — the global financial ...

The Uttarakhand government has taken a decision to regularise 2.41 crore sqm of nazul land (government land given on lease), which would provide ownership rights to those who have been legally or illegally staying on such land. Usually, such land is given on 90-year or 30-year lease. The new policy was approved by the state cabinet at a meeting, chaired ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU NITI Aayog has alerted the government that Himalayan states will soon face an acute water shortage as more than half of the perennial springs have “already dried up or have become seasonal”. To save millions living in the region, it has asked the Centre to implement a “spring-shed management” scheme. The Aayog in its report, “Inventory and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least three more Indian banks – two from the public sector and one private – are likely to have been caught in the Rs 11,000-crore fraud that hit the Punjab National Bank on Wednesday. Union Bank of India, Allahabad Bank and Axis Bank are  said to have offered credit based on letters of undertaking (LOUs) issued by ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The CPN-UML today picked party chairman KP Sharma Oli as the next Prime Minister of Nepal, a senior leader of the party said, over two months after the successful conclusion of historic parliamentary polls. Oli, 65, served as the Prime Minister from October 11, 2015, to August 3, 2016. He is known for his pro-China stance. A ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU No GST will be charged on the cost of food served to patients by hospitals as advised by doctors, the government has said. However, patients not admitted will have to pay tax on the total value of food served by the hospital. In a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs), the Revenue Department also clarified that no ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A delegation of Uttarakhand Congress led by state PCC ppresident Pritam Singh met Governor KK Paul today accusing the state government of neglecting the issues concerning the people of the state. While submitting a memorandum to the Governor at Raj Bhawan, the Congress delegation alleged that congress MLAs are being sidelined by the incumbent government. Citing an ...

A huge public rally paid tribute to Rakesh Chandra Raturi martyred in the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The family and close ones paid their homage to the braveheart soldier who lost his life while protecting the nation. The terrorists had attacked three days in Sunjwan in Jammu and Kashmir. During this, Havaldar Rakesh Raturi (44) seriously injured ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has said that the health outcomes cannot be achieved by the government institutions alone and the private sector health facilities have to supplement governmental efforts. He expressed these views after inaugurating the State-of-the-art Rainbow Children’s Hospital, here in Delhi on Wednesday. He said that the childhood malnutrition continues to ...