DAINIK NATION BUREAU Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on the occasion of international yoga day, forest department has been working hard to catch the snake from the venue i.e. FRI. It has been noticed that a snake was roaming around the venue and seeing this organiser asked the forest department to sanitise the area from snake. In precautionary ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The city police has arrested a 20-year-old reality TV show contestant for allegedly raping a minor girl, a senior official said today. Aditya Gupta, a dancer who had earlier participated in a reality show on television, was arrested by the Crime Branch unit IX yesterday in connection with the offence, he said. The accused recently approached the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has ascertained that the chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian would return to US in October. “Few days ago Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian met me over video conferencing. He informed me that he would like to go back to the United States on account of pressing family commitments. His reasons were personal but ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Jammu and Kashmir was today placed under Governor’s rule for the fourth time in the last one decade after the BJP withdrew support to its alliance partner PDP, prompting Mehbooba Mufti to resign as the chief minister. A Home Ministry spokesman said “the President has approved imposition of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.” ...

Technology giant Google has announced the launch of a training programme for journalists, aimed at raising awareness against misinformation and providing new tools to the fourth estate against fake news. “The Google News Initiative India Training Network will provide training to 8,000 journalists in English and six other Indian languages in the next one year,” Google said in a statement. ...

Jammu and Kashmir was today placed under Governor’s rule for the fourth time in the last one decade after the BJP withdrew support to its alliance partner PDP, prompting Mehbooba Mufti to resign as the chief minister. A Home Ministry spokesman said “the President has approved imposition of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.” The political developments ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday called off his nine-day sit-in at the lieutenant governor’s office after bureaucrats started attending meetings with AAP ministers, said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Sisodia said several meetings, attended by IAS officers, were held during the day. The bureaucrats have been at loggerheads with the AAP dispensation following the alleged assault on Chief Secretary ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU England set a new record for the highest total ever scored in a men’s one-day international when they went past 444 against Australia at Trent Bridge here today. When Alex Hales, who already had a hundred to his name, hoisted Jhye Richardson for six in the 46th over it meant England had broken their own world record ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Acquisition of land for the bullet train project hit a hurdle on Monday, when nearly 200 farmers from over 15 villages in Surat presented a memorandum to the district collector opposing the land acquisition notification for the project. The memorandum, citing 14 objections to the notification, was presented by the group of farmers who had arrived on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Health insurance in India is a growing segment, yet it hasn’t taken off fully and several measures are needed to improve and expand insurance coverage, according to the National Health Profile 2018 released today. Out of 4,37,457 persons covered under insurance, 79 per cent were covered by public insurance companies, with the remaining being covered by private ...