DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Madras High Court on Monday asked the I-T department if late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had any legal heir or if she had left behind any will as it adjourned an appeal over a 20-year old wealth tax case related to her. A bench comprising Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh and Justice K Kalyanasundaram asked the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As many as 30 joint secretaries (JSs) have been appointed in various central government departments as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected Monday by the Centre. IAS officers Piyush Goel and Nidhi Khare will be joint secretaries in the Home Ministry for five years, an order issued by the personnel ministry said. Nidhi Mani Tripathi has ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU When officials of the Registrar of Companies (RoC) raided a tiny office in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills area in July, they found 25 employees running 114 companies out of a single room. Most of the entities were owned by family members of B Ramalinga Raju, the man behind India’s biggest corporate fraud — the Satyam Scam. Kolkata is ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the media reports that CBSE affiliated schools are forcing parents to buy two sets of book, i.e. NCERT and school own book list, state Education Minister Arvind Pandey held a review meeting of the Education Department in the Secretariat on Monday. He reviewed the action taken by the Nodal Officers regarding the directions issued ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Rebuking the officials of the Haridwar Municipal Corporation, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has directed them to soon ensure the garbage disposal in the district Haridwar. He warned the officials that in case the garbage disposal was not ensured in the district, then strict action will be initiated against the concerned officers. Swachhta Abhiyan is the utmost ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following on the order of the Supreme Court to prevent mob violence, adequate arrangements are being made by the Uttarakhand government. Principal Secretary Anand Bardhan said that necessary instructions have been issued to the Police, District Administration and other department concerned in this regard. In each district, high level nodal officers are being deployed and the responsibility ...

The BSE Sensex plunged over 400 points in afternoon session Monday after the rupee breached 72.50 mark against the US dollar for the first time ever amid weak Asian cues. While, rupee continued its free fall hitting a new low of 72.67 due to a strengthening dollar and widening trade deficit. Global market sentiment turned weak after US President Donald ...

Delhiites will now get 40 government services, including driving licence and marriage registration certificate, home-delivered, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday launching the doorstep delivery of public services, which he said is a “revolutionary change in governance”. Kejriwal said 30 more services will be included in the project in the next one month and the number will rise to 100 ...

While the Congress-led Punjab and Karnataka coalition government was thinking of reducing the VAT on petrol and diesel the BJP government of Rajasthan led by Vasundhara Raje, standing at the cusp of assembly elections, decided to reduce VAT on petrol and diesel. This decision of the government will provide relief in the price of oil up to 2 to 2.50 ...

Altogether 58 Congress activists were Monday taken into police custody in Jharkhand for forcibly trying to enforce the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by the party, a police officer said. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Left parties in Jharkhand are supporting the Congress-sponsored ‘Bharat bandh called against fuel price hike. Fifty eight Congress activists including Palamau district ...