The fitness challenge given by Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli has been accepted by PM Modi. But after this Congress President Rahul Gandhi issued his own challenge to PM. Rahul Gandhi tweeted a challenge to PM Modi asking the PM to reduce the price of petrol and diesel. Dear PM, Glad to see you accept the @imVkohli fitness challenge. ...

Kareena Kapoor has said she believes in the idea of equality but would not call herself a “feminist”. When asked what her idea of feminism was, the 37-year-old actor said she considers herself a human being first. “I believe in equality. I am not a feminist, I am a woman. And above all I am a human being. I am ...

Skipper Ajinkya Rahane’s slow batting cost Rajasthan dearly as two-time champions Kolkata comfortably beat them by 25 runs in the Eliminator to set-up the IPL Qualifier-II clash with Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday. On a day when KKR star spinner Sunil Narine was expensive and was wicket-less, the likes of Piyush Chawla, Prasidh Krishna and Kuldeep Yadav stepped up to restrict ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has instructed all the District Magistrates to take effective steps to prevent the forest fire incidents. To review the incidents of forest fire, Chief Minister took a meeting of the Forest Department officials, in which all the District Magistrates were connected through video conferencing, at secretariat on Wednesday. Taking to task the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat reviewed the departmental works, under the priority schemes of the union government, being undertaken by the Medical Health, Family Welfare, Women’s Empowerment & Child Welfare Department at secretariat here on Wednesday. Special efforts are required to maintain a balance in the sex ratio in the state. He directed all the District Magistrates ...

Gold rallied by Rs 120 to Rs 32,000 per ten gram on increased buying by local jewellers amid strong overseas trend. Silver also strengthened by Rs 300 to Rs 41,400 per kg due to increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Traders said increased buying by local jewellers to meet retailers’ demand at domestic spot market and a depreciating ...

A joint U.S./German space mission to track the continuous movement of water and other changes in Earth’s mass on and beneath the planet’s surface successfully launched at 12:47 p.m. PDT Tuesday from the California coast. The twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), a joint NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) mission, lifted off on a ...

At least four civilians, including a woman, were on Wednesday killed and nine others were injured in heavy shelling and firing by Pakistani Rangers on civilians areas along IB in Kathua-Jammu sectors. Today is the 9th day of continuous firing and shelling by Pakistani Rangers along the IB and LoC in Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts. A senior police officer ...

A lawyer had to knock the doors of the Supreme Court to seek a direction to his client, the Rajasthan government, to clear his bills totalling Rs 48 lakh pending since 1994. A bench of Justics N V Ramana and S Abdul Nazeer came to his aid and directed the state government to pay Rs 48.01 lakh to lawyer Aruneshwar ...

From the last one week, the sun has turned up the heat. On Monday, the maximum temperature of Dehradun reached 40 degrees Celsius. According to the Meteorological Department, for the next three to four days, the severe heat  will take a hard test of the people. The Meteorological Center has issued a warning saying that in some parts of Uttarakhand, ...