DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Minister of Women Welfare and Child Development Rekha Arya has commended the central governments’ move through an ordinance to provide for harsher punishment under POCSO Act. She said that this step was commendable and hoped that after the implementation of this ordinance, the persons convicted in the cases of raping girls up to age of 12 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has stressed upon the need for public awareness regarding water conservation. He said that  to avoid water shortages in future, we have to practice water harvesting and think in the direction of water corpus. Releasing a booklet on rainwater conservation and ground water recharge brought out by State Planning Commission, Chief Minister ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister, Narendra Modi took stock of reconstruction work done at Kedarnath through a drone camera. Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh apprised him about progress of reconstruction and development works being done at Kedarnath through video conferencing on Wednesday. PM applauded the efforts of state government for its impeccable efforts to give divine and grand look ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice- President M. Venkaiah Naidu, those states which are doing good work in conserving forest should be given its benefits and rewarded with incentives. To preserve forests, the local people, panchayats and local bodies should be made sensitive and they be given ‘operational rights’. This will give encourage to the states and the people to increase ...

Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has finally announced the prices for the new Toyota Yaris at an introductory price of ₹ 8.75 lakh for the base variant, while the range topping variant goes up to ₹ 14.07 lakh (both prices ex-showroom, India). While the deliveries will start in May, 2018, Toyota has officially commenced to take bookings of the new Toyota ...

Microsoft Corp is not auditing how its partner KPMG cracks down on illegal use of Microsoft software in India, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. The denial comes after a prior claim made by an executive of the U.S. technology giant following a client complaint in March. Microsoft runs a global “software asset management” (SAM) programme under ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Anning Morang of SelaQui International School won the 3rd All India Golf Championship under 18 years age category conducted at the SelaQui Golf course. Harsh Pegwal of Sri Guru Nanak public School was the runner up. In the under 10 year’s category, Samridhi Thakur of St. Patrick School won the event. Dhruv Kesar of Shriram School was the runner up. In his address, Headmaster, Sharfuddin said that SelaQui is ...

A Loan Agreement for IBRD credit of US$ 125 (equivalent) for the “Innovate in India for Inclusiveness Project” was signed with the World Bank on 24th April, 2018 in New Delhi. The Loan Agreement was signed by Mr. Sameer Kumar Khare, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs on behalf of Government of India and Mr. Hisham Abdo, Acting Country Director, ...

Prices for energy commodities like oil, natural gas and coal are expected to jump by a whopping 20 per cent this year, the World Bank has said in a report. The increase in energy prices is expected to have adverse impact on India, given that the country is heavily dependent on import of major energy commodities. The latest World Bank ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice- President M. Venkaiah Naidu, those states which are doing good work in conserving forest should be given its benefits and rewarded with incentives. To preserve forests, the local people, panchayats and local bodies should be made sensitive and they be given ‘operational rights’. This will give encourage to the states and the people to increase ...