A 14-year-old girl ended her life after authorities at the private school where she studied allegedly didn’t allow her to attend classes for not paying the fees, police said. The girl, a Class IX student, allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her house in Malkajgiri area on Thursday evening. She was feeling humiliated after she was asked to ...

Rival captains, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis, both scored superb centuries but in the end India coasted to a comfortable six-wicket victory with nearly 5 overs to spare in the opening ODI at Kingsmead on Thursday. Chasing 270 to win, Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane (79) put on 189 runs for the third wicket as India got to the target ...

The much-awaited Dehradun-Pantnagar air services will start from the last week of February. The Union civil aviation ministry has selected Deccan Aviation for the fixed wing service between the two prominent cities of the Himalayan state. Whereas Heritage Aviation would operate flights from Pithoragarh for Dehradun, Delhi and Pantnagar. Besides, soon 20 more helicopter services would be soon introduced in ...

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,500 crore for three years to promote organic farming in state. The amount was sanctioned by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh when Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met him in New Delhi yesterday. This was in keeping with PM Narendra Modi’s vision of developing Uttarakhand as an organic state, which he spelt out during ...

A 12-hour bandh called by the Core Committee of Nagaland Tribal Hohos and Civil Organisations (CCNTHCO) began in parts of Nagaland today amidst tight security. The bandh has been called against an official notification for the February 27 Assembly poll despite a general appeal for solution of the Naga political problem before the elections. While the bandh was being peacefully ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Motivated by the success of various schemes to check black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that the government will continue to take more such initiatives in the future to deal with the menace. Presenting the Union Budget 2018-19, he said that an excess amount of about Rs 90,000 crore was collected by the government in ...

 DAINIK NATION BUREAU The salaries of the President and the Vice President have been increased to Rs 5 lakh and Rs 4 lakh per month respectively, in a rectification of an anomaly. Announcing the hike in their salaries in his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the emoluments of the President, the Vice President and the Governors were last ...

The Uttarakhand School Education Council will conduct high school and intermediate examinations in the state from March 5 to 24. Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh has asked Garhwal and Kumaon Commissioners to provide adequate security to managers and invigilators of examination centres to help them stop students from using unfair means in the exam, saying guardians of students create chaos ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said India is expected to register a growth rate of 7.2-7.5 per cent in the second half of the current fiscal and is on way to becoming the 5th largest economy of the world. While unveiling the Budget 2018-19, he said, India has grown on an average of 7.5 per cent ...

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Group Captain has been arrested for allegedly spying and sharing crucial information with a woman on WhatsApp and Facebook. The accused was posted with Air Headquarters in New Delhi. The spying was unearthed during counter-intelligence surveillance conducted by the IAF’S Central Security and Investigation team. “The IAF Central Security and Investigation team discovered that the ...