A 22-year-old engineering student from Kerala, attempting an extreme motorcycle riding challenge, was killed on Wednesday when his bike crashed into a lorry in neighbouring Karnataka. Midhun Khosh, a final year student of the Nehru Engineering College at Pambady in Kerala’s Palakkad district, was attempting what is known as a saddle sore challenge, where the aim is to ride a ...

A trap team of vigilance department’s sleuths on Thursday arrested a junior engineer of state power department for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a contractor in lieu of clearing his bills. The accused engineer, Subodh Negi, who was posted at Chilkiya sub-station in Ramnagar area of Nainital district was caught red handed by the vigilance team ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As we know that people are struggling hard to get cash from bank and ATM. Even Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has acknowledged this crisis but RBI says that they have pumped more currency to cope up with this temporary crisis. During investigation it has revealed that banking policy, which has been framed by the bank as per ...

Tarun Vijay DAINIK NATION BUREAU Its difficult to believe Sunny Gupta is no more. He was an inseparable part of our world view and whenever we thought of anything about Uttarakhand, Himalaya’s development and education, he was there- with invaluable suggestions and help. His virtuous father , Ved Prakash Gupta belongs to a genre who believes in spreading the ancient ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has conferred Special Mention Certificate for Film Friendly Environment to Uttarakhand under the “Most Film Friendly State Award 2017” on Thursday. The jury of Producers/ Directors have given this award to Uttarakhand for trying to prepare a conducive environment for film shooting. The jury has praised the efforts of Uttarakhand ...

Entities having sufficient networth and the ability to run Air India (AI) can bid for 76 per cent stake in the national carrier, DIPAM Secretary Neeraj Gupta said today. Prodding venture capital funds to participate in the PSU disinvestment programme, Gupta said such funds may tie up with domestic companies to bid for state-run assets. “Even in Air India, we ...

The third generation BMW X3 has finally been launched in India with prices starting at ₹ 49.99 lakh for the xDrive 20d Expedition and ₹ 56.70 lakh for the xDrive 20d Luxury Line (all prices, ex-showroom). BMW has already started the manufacturing/assembling the new-gen X3 at its Chennai plant, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. The X3 is one of ...

The Reserve Bank of India has placed curbs on the business activities of Mumbai-based City Co-operative Bank and also said that customers of the cooperative bank will not be allowed to withdraw more than Rs. 1,000 per deposit account. In a statement released on April 18, the RBI said that it has “placed The City Co-operative Bank Ltd, Mumbai under ...

The Supreme Court today dismissed a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Loya had allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU To ensure fullproof security to the wildlife, Corbett Tiger Reserve has procured an all-terrain vehicle. This will help patrolling on undulated terrain, rivulets and other narrow areas that are usually out of reach of foot patrol and will help strengthen security mechanism in Corbett. Having one of the highest tiger density areas of the country, Corbett in ...