DAINIK NATION BUREAU Three senior Congress MLAs resigned from Punjab Vidhan Sabha committees today upset at being “ignored” in the state Cabinet expansion which took place last month. Former minister Rakesh Pandey, MLA from Ludhiana (North), Randeep Singh Nabha, legislator from Amloh, and Amrik Singh Dhillon, MLA from Samrala, tendered their resignations from the panels as a mark of protest. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At the initiative of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, the newly constructed Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium at Raipur (Dehradun) will play host to a T-20 cricket match series to be played between minnows Afghanistan and Bangladesh from June 3. This was disclosed by the state sports minister Arvind Pandey while interacting with media on Monday. The cricket ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to expel senior leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram from the party, alleging that he and his family have stashed money abroad. “Chidambaram did not give the Enforcement Directorate information about 15 bank accounts in foreign countries where the former finance minister and his ...

Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) ICSE 10th results have been announced. The result was released at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Students who have given these examinations can view their results on the board’s official website at cisce.org. The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) conducted the ICSE Examination from 26 February-28 March 2018. According to ...

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today underwent a successful kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), an official at the premier health institute said. Both the donor and the recipient are stable and recovering well, the official said. Jaitley, 65, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday and taken to the operation theatre at 8 am ...

More than 60 people were killed on Sunday across the country as rain, thunderstorms hit various states throwing life out of gear and leaving behind a trail of destruction. Deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi-NCR. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued severe weather warnings for the next 72 hours for all regions between Kashmir ...

E-rickshaw tyres will attract GST at the highest slab of 28 per cent as they are registered as ‘motor vehicles’ under the Motor Vehicle Act, according to the order of the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR). The Maharastra-bench of the AAR passed the order on an application filed by tyre-maker Ceat Ltd, seeking to clarify whether e-rickshaw can be classified ...

BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa yesterday said he will “give it in writing that the saffron party would win the Karnataka Assembly elections with an absolute majority and get 125 to 130 seats. He claimed that there is a strong wave in BJP’s favour. “I have been in Karnataka politics for long… I will give it in writing. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The service voters would cast votes through the electronically transmitted postal ballot papers (ETPBP) during the upcoming Tharali Assembly by-election in Chamoli district slated on May 28. To ensure that the service voters cast votes in the by-poll, ETPBPs would be sent to 3277 service voters in time which they would open by the e-pin passwords. The ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Unfazed by the stern warning of the District Magistrate, Dehradun, the sanitation workers continued with their strike for the sixth day on Saturday. Due to this Capital grappling with the rising mound of stinking garbage found on the gasping roads. The agitators said that they would not buckle under the administrative pressure and would continue with the ...