A 32-year-old woman was stabbed nearly a dozen times in South Delhi on Wednesday evening, allegedly over Rs. 5 lakh she had given to a friend. She was rushed to the Apollo Hospital in Jasola, where she is currently in critical condition. The woman, Neetu Sharma, was seen on a two-wheeler with a friend before she was discovered lying in ...

Police in Uttar Pradesh today registered an FIR against ruling BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in connection with the alleged gangrape of a minor girl in Unnao, hours after the government said it would hand over investigation into the case to the CBI. Till the premier investigating agency takes over, the local police will continue with the probe, Principal Secretary ...

Proper implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India can be worked upon and is not an “unfixable problem”, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has said, reiterating that demonetisation was “not a well-planned, well thought-out” move. With the Modi government bringing in ambitious reforms like GST and demonetisation, Rajan said it would be good if such measures were ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s navigation satellite INRSS-1I was today launched by PSLV-C41 from the spaceport here and successfully placed in the designated orbit. PSLV-C41/IRNSS-1I Mission blasted off at 4.04 am from the first launchpad at the Sathish Dhawan Space Centre. It was a normal lift-off, ISRO officials said. The workhorse, PSLV, injected the satellite into orbit 19 minutes after ...

An eight-year-old girl was gang-raped repeatedly inside a village temple, kept sedated for hours, and raped again just before being killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua by six men, including one who had been “invited” to come all the way from Meerut to “satisfy his lust”, the police have told a court. The child, held captive for a week in ...

audi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, on Wednesday announced a $44-billion deal to build a giant refinery complex in India with three Indian firms. The refinery at Ratnagiri on the west coast will handle up to 1.2 million barrels of oil a day, the Saudi company said in a statement after signing a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The seven BJP MPs from Delhi, including the party’s state unit president Manoj Tiwari, will observe a fast tomorrow as part of the party’s protest over the recent washout of the Budget session of Parliament. Tiwari, however, will continue his fast as an indefinite hunger strike against the Delhi government’s alleged “partiality” over developmental works. The Delhi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Untimely rain has destroyed the standing crop and crops which were stored for dry, and weather department has forecasted that more rain would occur in coming days. The wet spell would continue for some more days as a fresh western disturbance is approaching the Western Himalayan region which would trigger rain from April 14. Metereological department Director ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that to mitigate the problem of forest fires, social participation and awareness was needed. School children should develop affinity and responsibility towards forests. Saving forests should be developed as a civic sense among the school children and Forest officials should go to schools and take classes on discussing the importance ...

An Army jawan was killed during a gunbattle with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district and two civilians, including a teenager, died in clashes between locals and security forces that followed, officials said. Local residents started pelting security personnel with stones, leading to clashes in which around 20 civilians were also injured, they said. Security forces had launched a ...