A man was electrocuted to death while repairing an air-condition at a mall in south Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar, police said today. The deceased was identified as Sarwar Ali, a resident of Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, they said. He was rushed to Safdarjang Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. The body was sent for post-mortem, the officer said, adding that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Under the anti-encroachment drive on Thursday, 58 illegal encroachments were demolished and 138 illegal encroachments were identified. Till date, a total of 3195 illegal encroachments have been demolished, 6056 illegal encroachments have been identified and 108 buildings have been sealed. Additional Chief Secretary Om Prakash has informed that in pursuance of orders of honorable court, the exercise ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Transport Corporation will buy 300 new buses and will hire 200 buses on contract basis. The corporation will buy ten electric and ten Volvo buses also. These decisions were taken at the 25th meeting of the board of directors of transport corporation. Presiding the board meeting at Secretariat on Wednesday, Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh instructed to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU To review the situation in the disaster sensitive district of Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Tehri Garhwal and Pauri Garhwal CM Trivendra singh Rawat conducted meeting through the video conferencing at Secretariat on Wednesday. Chief Minister took the information from the District Magistrates about the progress pertaining to the disbursal of the compensation amount to those affected ...

The Union cabinet has approved the amendment in the SC-ST Act on Wednesday. The revised bill will be introduced in Parliament in the ongoing monsoon session. The news agency PTI has written in its report citing government sources, “The central cabinet has approved amendment to re-implement the original provisions of the SC-ST Act.” The Supreme Court recently banned the immediate ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With a view to increase the employment opportunities in Uttarakhand, the Chief Minister  Trivendra Singh Rawat held discussions with a delegation of the Industrial Association Uttarakhand (IAU) at Secretariat on Wednesday. Chief Minister said that in order to increase self-employment in the state, the government, administration, educational institutions and industry have to work together. Especially in the hill ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The woes of home loan borrowers will continue as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the repo rate yet again in its bi-monthly monetary policy review. On Wednesday, the central bank announced a 25 basis points (bps) hike in the repo rate. With the latest hike, the repo rate now stands at 6.50 per cent. One ...

The Delhi Women Commission has freed 39 Nepalese girls from a hotel in the capital, allegedly being taken for smuggling in Gulf countries. The commission said on Wednesday that Nepali girls were rescued from a hotel located in Paharganj on Tuesday night. They were brought there on the pretext of getting a job and were locked in the hotel. According ...

The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today reported a marginal decline in sales at 1,64,369 units in July. The company had sold 1,65,346 units in July last year, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement. Domestic sales were up marginally at 1,54,150 units last month as against 1,54,001 units in the year ago month, it added. Sales ...

Deaths caused by severe heatwaves will increase dramatically by 2080, particularly in countries located near the equator such as India, if we fail to counter climate change, a global study has found. The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, is the first to predict future heatwave-related deaths and aims to help decision makers in planning adaptation and mitigation strategies ...