DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former Mayor of Agra Baby Rani Maurya has been appointed as new governor of Uttarakhand. With this appointment incumbent Governor Dr KK Paul will hand over the charge to her. Although there is no declaration of date for her swearing in ceremony. As we know that as per the rule, high court chief justice will administer oath ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Ahead of road show for Investors’ summit, the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, met the business leaders in Bengaluru on Tuesday. In the run up to the ‘Destination Uttarakhand: Investors Summit’ scheduled from October 7-8, 2018. The maiden investor summit, which will be organized at Dehradun will be inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand High Court has permitted a petitioner from Ghaziabad to withdraw his PIL in connection with the alleged dhaincha (green manure crop) seed procurement scam and file a fresh one with additional facts. The permission was granted yesterday by a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Kumar. The petition was filed ...

DAINIK NATION BAUREAU State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has relaxed the claim settlement and documentation process for the flood victims in the deluge-ravaged Kerala, including waiving off death certificates and delayed premium payment fees. The rain fury, the worst since 1924, began on August 8 and has left 223 dead as of today and forced over one million ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The UAE has pledged $100 million for flood-battered Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Tuesday, adding “a new Kerala” needed to be built following the widespread destruction. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to hundreds of thousands of Keralites, has informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it would be providing $100 million (Rs 700 crore) for ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Never had Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput thought that his act of donating Rs 1 crore for the Kerala flood victims, and that too on the plea of an Instagram user, turn him from a reel hero into a real hero. The actor was on Tuesday tagged by the Instagram user suggesting him to help him in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday imposed a ban on slaughter of goats in the open or in public on the occasion of Bakr-Eid. Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, the division bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Tiwari ordered that the slaughter of goats will not take place in the open or in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Cricketer turned politician and Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said his visit to Pakistan was not “political” but just on a “warm invitation from a friend”, in a bid to clarify his decision to visit the neighbouring country and hug its Army chief.While addressing a press conference here, Sidhu said, “I am hurt ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A special court on Tuesday sentenced two men to death for raping an 8-year-old, less than two months after the incident that caused nationwide outrage. Special Judge Nisha Gupta held Irfan alias Bhaiyu (20) and Asif (24) guilty and sentenced them to death under the newly-introduced IPC Section 376DB (punishment for rape of a woman under 12 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Bowing down under pressure of people, who were running annoyed after rape incident happened in Uttarkashi, Police has arrested the rape accused on Tuesday. On August 18, 2018, information was received that dead body of a girl has been found on the bridge of the border of the revenue village Bhakda Hitanu. In this regard, victim’s parent ...