DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat signed a five-point letter of Intent with the  I Made Mangku Pastika, Governor of Bali, Indonesia at his official residence at Dehradun on Monday. Bali and Uttarakhand will support each other in the fields of tourism, culture, E-governance, human resource, capacity building, environment and health. CM Rawat said that with the cooperation ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Minister of state for higher education and cooperative Dr Dhan Singh Rawat, who has been known for having good affiliation with party high command, has to run away from his assembly constituency because of public anger on Monday. Although minister himself expressed unawareness about the cause of unruly scene but assured that he would try to interact ...

Petrol price on Monday hit Rs 74.50 a litre – the highest level under the BJP-led government, while diesel rates touched a record high of Rs 65.75, renewing calls for cut in excise duty to ease burden on consumers. Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 10 paise, according to an Indian oil price notification. State-owned oil firms have been ...

The Uttarakhand government will grant Rs five crore each to the District Magistrates before rains to deal with any emergency during a disaster, an official said. CM Trivendra Singh Rawat issued instructions to this effect while chairing a meeting of the state disaster management authority here. Rawat said local people should be trained to deal with disasters, and relief and ...

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of the Centre, the RBI and the GST Council on a plea challenging a circular which prohibits banks and financial institutions from providing any service in relation to virtual currencies such as ‘crypto-currencies’. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla issued notice to the Ministry of Finance, the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will hold a summit meeting in China’s Wuhan city from April 27 to 28 to improve bilateral relations, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced here today. Prime Minister Modi will be visiting the central Chinese city at the invitation of President Xi, Wang said at a joint media event with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A group of 50 alumni from the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country have quit their jobs to form a political party to fight for the rights of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The group, which is waiting for an approval from the Election Commission, has named their outfit Bahujan Azad ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a stinging rebuke again today to party motormouths, who have covered a wide range of subjects from terror and rape to Mahabharata and Darwin’s theory over the last six months. In a video-conference with lawmakers across the country, PM Modi ripped into the leaders, reminding them that this was affecting their image ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The pilot commanding the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that hit severe air turbulence between Amritsar and New Delhi on Thursday reportedly had “never seen anything like this ever”. The incident has been described as a “freak kind of severe turbulence”. Three passengers were injured when flight AI-462, a 6-year-old Boeing 787, one of the most modern ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Petrol price surged to hit a new 55-month high on Sunday as it touched a high of Rs. 74.40 a litre in New Delhi, while diesel price hit new all-time high of Rs. 65.65 in the national capital. The state-owned oil firms raised petrol and diesel rates by 19 paise per litre each in Delhi. The last ...