The government said on Monday that any employee not employed for one month can withdraw 75 percent from their own account of provident fund (PF). Labor Minister Santosh Gangwar said in the Lok Sabha that the Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) had considered the proposal to include paragraph 68HH in the EPF scheme, 1952 in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two high-level committees have been constituted by the central government to suggest ways and legal framework to effectively deal with incidents of mob violence and lynching, the Home Ministry said today. One of the committees is being headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the other by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba. The move came a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government doctors have been putting undue pressure on the government to bring changes in the Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP) and are planning to boycott OPD on Friday in case their demand is not met. The DACP, a promotion scheme for doctors that allows promotion after four, nine, 13 and 20 years of service under way ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government today said in the Lok Sabha that it gives advertisements to newspapers only after verifying their claims regarding their circulation. Replying to a query during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said the Registrar of Newspapers for India has been asked to gather details of circulation of various ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The road safety audit work should be completed and the work to remove black spots on the road should also be expedited. Enforcement should be more effective and officers responsible for road accident should not be spared. A joint campaign of transport, police and administrative officers should be launched in the state fromAugust 16.  These instructions were ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Girls of a government-funded shelter home here have alleged that one of their fellow inmates was beaten to death and buried at the premises of the facility, and several were raped. Following the allegations, the Bihar Police has launched a probe and dug up the grounds of the shelter home, but are yet to find the body. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal” ‘New India’ and cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in ...

Uttarakhand’s Badminton player Lakshya Sen created history in the Asian Junior Badminton Championships-2018 held in Jakarta. Sen defeated Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand 21-19 and 21-19 in the singles event in straight sets. He thus became the first Indian to win the final of the Asian Junior Badminton Championships. On Saturday, the semi-finals of the Asian Junior Badminton Championship were held ...

So far, we have seen Iron Man wearing a special suit in the Hollywood movie and flying in the sky. But the real life ‘Iron Man’ in Britain is gaining headlines. Richard Browning, wearing a special suit, starts flying in the air as soon as he blinks. Just like the movie superhero Browning, the son of London’s former oil trader, ...

DAINIK  NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated a contemporary painting exhibition at the Art Gallery situated in MDDA complex , Clock Tower on Monday. The Chief Minister watched the paintings at the contemporary painting exhibition which has been organized in the memory of famous painter Late Surinder Pal Joshi. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the exhibits ...