DAINIK NATION BUREAU A woman sub-inspector was suspended for allegedly extorting Rs five lakh from a resident of Muni-ki-Reti area here after threatening to frame him in a false case. The order to suspend Sub-Inspector Deepa Rani with immediate effect was issued by ADG (Intelligence) Ashok Kumar. A complaint had been lodged against Deepa Rani and two others on July ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following on the orders of honorable court anti encroachment drive will continue. Now government will lodge FIR against the person if he/she makes re-encroachment. Additional Chief Secretary Ompraksh said that the exercise of demolition, identification of illegal encroachments and illegal constructions on footpaths, lanes, roads and other places and sealing of illegal encroachments in Dehradun city by ...

State Bank of India (SBI) has increased interest rates on fixed deposits. New rates have been effective from July 30, 2018. SBI has amended the interest rates for every period, every amount for general and senior citizens. For fixed deposits of less than Rs 1 crore, interest rates have been increased by 5 to 10 basis points, whose tenure is ...

A crucial bill seeking to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences more stringent, was passed by the Lok Sabha today. The bill replaces the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister  Trivendra Singh Rawat met Prof. Ratnakar Shetty, Rahul Johri and Rachit Mehrotra of BCCI at Chief Minister’s residence here on Monday. The BCCI members informed that a meeting of the consensus committee to oversee the organization of cricket activities in the state will be held on Tuesday. They said that in the next one year talent ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Months ahead of the assembly polls, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh today decided to hike the monthly honorarium for senior journalists from Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000. The state Cabinet also brought down the eligibility age of the journalists to claim the honorarium to 60 years from current 62 years, a state minister said. The cabinet ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A crucial bill seeking to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years was taken up for discussion by the Lok Sabha today. The bill seeks to replace the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As many as 41 security personnel, including 20 policemen, were killed and 907 others injured in militancy-related and stone-pelting incidents in Kashmir valley this year, officials said today. Giving details, the officials said 39 security personnel, including 17 Army personnel, 20 policemen and two CRPF personnel, were killed and 96 others injured in militancy-related incidents in first ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A total of 50 projects worth 20,000 crore have been prepared for the “Investors Summit” proposed to be held in the first week of October. Chief Secretary Utpal kumar Singh presiding over a preparatory meeting in this regard, asked all the departments to submit a policy attracting investments by August 15.  In the meeting held at Secretariat on Monday, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A young woman died after she was allegedly stabbed by a migrant worker when she tried to prevent him from snatching her grandmother’s gold chain at their home at Edathikkad in the district today, police said. Nimisha, a college student who was stabbed in the neck, died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Her paternal uncle, ...