A seven-year-old boy was killed and nine people, including his mother, were injured in a low-intensity explosion in front of a multi-storey building in the Nagerbazar area in Kolkata’s northern suburbs on Tuesday, police said. “A child, who was severely injured in the blast, has died in hospital. A total of nine people are injured,” Deputy Commissioner of Police, Barrackpore ...

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will receive the United Nations’ highest environmental honour, the ‘UNEP Champions of the Earth’ award at a special ceremony in Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, New Delhi on October 3. The award announced on 26th September, on the sidelines of 73rd UN General Assembly at New York City, will be presented by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The ...

Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma starrer ‘Sui Dhaaga’ has become a hit at the box office. With this, Varun Dhawan seems to prove a hit machine for producers. Varun Dhawan, who started his career in 2012, has so far starred in 11 films, all his films have been a hit apart from ‘October (2018)’. Yash Raj Banner’s film ‘Sui Dhaaga’ ...

In the southwestern Sichuan province of China, the world’s largest Buddha statue will undergo four months scrutiny and survey. The extensive exercise is being conducted for the repair of the statue. The 71 meter high statue of Buddha in Leshan city has a crack in the chest and stomach part of the statue and it has been broken in someplaces. ...

The total gross GST revenue collected in the month of September, 2018 is Rs. 94,442 crore of which CGST is Rs. 15,318 crore, SGST is Rs. 21,061 crore, IGST is Rs. 50,070 crore (including Rs. 25,308 crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 7,993 crore (including Rs. 769 crore collected on imports). The total number of GSTR 3B Returns ...

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has allowed the facility of withdrawal of applications by candidates. The arrangement will be implemented beginning with Engineering Services Examination, 2019. This was announced by the Chairman of UPSC Arvind Saxena, while speaking on the occasion of the 92nd Foundation Day Celebrations here today. The Chairman said that UPSC’s experience with the Civil Services ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A total of Rs. 630 crore worth of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU’s) were signed for production in Aroma sector in the presence of Chief Minister  Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday. Chief Minister said that there are immense opportunities in aroma sector in the state. There is positive response from the industry for ‘Investors Summit’.  An aroma policy ...

Petrol price Monday crossed the Rs 91-mark in Mumbai while domestic cooking gas LPG rates breached the Rs 500-level for the first time ever as oil at four-year high pushed fuel prices to new all-time high across the country. Petrol prices were hiked by 24 paise per litre and diesel by 30 paise, according to price notification of state-owned oil ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Monday that Indian judiciary is the “most robust institution” in the world and young lawyers were assets having potential to develop the jurisprudence “Our judiciary has been strongest judiciary in the world having capability to handle mind boggling number of cases,” Justice Misra, who will retire as the CJI ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) may start a probe against rating agency ICRA for assigning investment grade ratings to IL&FS’ debt before downgrading them sharply after its debt crisis came to light. A source told Moneycontrol that SEBI is considering a probe to see whether proper due diligence was carried out by the rating ...