DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress president Rahul Gandhi demanded an immediate probe into the “extremely serious” allegations made by fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya and said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should step down till the investigation is over. Mallya, facing charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to around Rs 9,000 crore and fighting an extradition case, told reporters in London ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Pauri MLA Mukesh Koli thanks Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat for transferring senior physician Dr. Amit Rautela from Haldwani to District Hospital, Pauri.  The local residents of Pauri had been demanding positing of a senior physician in the district hospital for a long time. Chief Minister in public interest on the request of local legislator Mukesh Koli gave ...

Earthquake tremors were felt in six states of India in a span of five hours on Wednesday. Earthquake occurred in parts of Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Haryana, West Bengal and parts of Jammu and Kashmir. On earthquake tremors, people in these states came out of buildings and panic spread. There is no news of loss of life anywhere so far. The ...

A Delhi Police head constable was shot dead allegedly by unidentified men in the Jaitpur area here, an official said Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ram Avtar. He was posted as head constable at south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar Police Station, they said. The incident took place Tuesday night when he was going to a shop near his house in ...

China has once again tried to encroach on the Indian border after the deadlock. This time China’s People’s Liberation Army has trespassed Indian territory adjacent to the border in Uttarakhand. News agency ANI quoted a source that in August last month, the Chinese army has tried to enter the Indian border at least three times. The soldiers of the Chinese ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As many as 35 journalists were detained Tuesday after they tried to forcibly enter the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar, the police said. The journalists, representing small and medium size local newspapers, had gone to meet the CM to raise the issue of changes made in the state government’s advertisement policy, police said. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Allahabad High Court Tuesday told police they could not arrest four people booked for assaulting a Dalit woman and her daughter without following the CrPC provisions endorsed by the Supreme Court in an order in 2014. Though the case was registered under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act as well as under IPC ...

The last match of the five-Test series between India and England was played at the Oval. India lost by 118 runs in this match. India were set a the target of 464 runs to win but despite the century of opener Lokesh Rahul and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, the Indian team was dismissed for 345 in the second innings. With the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Over optimistic bankers, slowdown in government decision making process and moderation in economic growth mainly contributed to the mounting bad loans, said former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan in a note to Parliamentary panel. In a note to Chairman of Estimates Committee Murli Manohar Joshi, he said “A variety of governance problems such as the suspect allocation of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Giving fillip to crusade against the corruption, Trivendra Singh Rawat government has suspended two IAS officer on Tuesday. Pankaj Kumar Pandey and Chandresh Yadav, who were posted in Udhamsinghnagar as District Magistrate during which NH-74 scam had happened, have been suspended with immediate effect. Their file were pending before the Chief Secretary for Special Investigation Team (SIT) ...