Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, Election Commissioners Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa today launched the online RTI Portal of Election Commission of India. The online portal will facilitate applicants seeking information under the Right to Information Act. The portal can be accessed by general public on the Home Page of the Commission’s website `eci.nic.in’ by clicking on `Online RTI’. There ...

Union oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan has voiced optimism that petroleum products will be brought under the GST purview that will help in checking volatility in fuel prices. “In the long run, petroleum products are bound to be included within the ambit of the GST regime … It is only a matter of time. It will immensely help in containing prices ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Excess exposure to illumination in the polling states resulted in malfunctioning of VVPAT (voter-verifiable paper audit trail) machines for which complaints were registered during Lok Sabha bypoll in Kairana (UP) and Bhandara-Gondiya (Maharashtra). This was revealed in a preliminary report submitted by special teams constituted by the Election Commission to look into the matter. In a press ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday lectured RSS trainees on nationalism saying Indian national identity had emerged from pluralism and any attempt to redefine it in terms of religion would dilute it. In a 30-minute address at Nagpur, the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Mukherjee also spoke of democracy as “not a gift but a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Indian central bank’s first interest rate rise since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power could not have come at a worse time for a government grappling with spending constraints, voter discontent in the rural heartlands and rising oil prices. The rate increase, the first in more than four years, is likely to be followed by ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh apprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the preparations of the International Yoga Day, in New Delhi on Thursday. Along with it, the Chief Secretary apprised the Prime Minister about the apprised the Prime Minister about the progress of Kedarnath reconstruction work. Regarding the mass yoga performance being organized in Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU State Finance Minister Prakash Pant has categorically said that the state government will not go in for farm loan waiver for now, but will focus on to double the income of farmers. His party never made such promises even at the time of elections, “But, instead we are committed to increasing the income of the farmers,” he ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Under Uttarakhand government’s concept of ‘Minimum Government Maximum Governance’, in order to ensure transparency and competitiveness in government work, the arrangements for procurement through Government E-Market (GeM) operated by the union government were made in Uttarakhand Procurement Manual-2017. Efforts of the Uttarakhand government have been appreciated by the Indian government. During a felicitation ceremony organised in New ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On the occasion of the completion of the four years of the PM Narendra Modi led union government, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat attended a programme of the beneficiaries of the central schemes in Vikasnagar, Dehradun on Thursday. CM laid the foundation stone and also inaugurated various schemes worth Rs 26.70 crores. In his address Chief Minister ...

On the Rampur road, village Barapokhara a murder case has come to light. The wife of a coaching center operative was found murdered while the husband was found in a seriously injured circumstance. The incident is expected to have occured on Tuesday night. Criminals have also looted the whole house. Fear and panic has gripped the region by the incident. ...