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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari today welcomed former President Pranab Mukherjee’s decision to accept an invitation to attend an RSS event, saying it is a “good start” and “political untouchability” is an outdated concept. Gadkari, the Lok Sabha MP from Nagpur, also said the RSS was not Pakistan’s ISI, but an organisation of nationalists. ...

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh ​has said the​ Government has approved setting up of an exclusive “Brahmaputra Study Centre” at Gauhati University, Guwahati, for which a fund of about Rs. 28 crore will be ...

Four students topped the Class 10 CBSE examinations this year even as girls once again stole a march over boys. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Class 10 board exam results today. The overall pass percentage was 86.70, it said. Girls, with a pass percentage of 88.67, did better than the boys, who registered a pass percentage ...

The southwest monsoon today hit Kerala, three days before its scheduled arrival, says the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The onset of monsoon over the southern state marks the commencement of the four-month long rainy season in the country. June 1 is the official onset date for arrival of monsoon in the country and it takes more than a month-and-half to ...

Twenty-one public sector banks (PSBs) have incurred losses totalling Rs 25,775 crore due to banking frauds in the financial year 2017-18, a Right to Information reply has stated. Punjab National Bank (PNB) had incurred the highest loss of Rs 6461.13 crore due to different cases of fraud during the fiscal that ended on March 31 this year, Chandrasekhar Gaud, who ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Tamil Nadu government today issued a Government Order, directing the state Pollution Control Board to seal the Vedanta group’s copper plant and close it down “permanently” following last week’s violent protests during which 13 people were killed in police firing. The Government Order (GO) said it endorsed the recent closure direction of the Tamil Nadu Pollution ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former union minister and newly-elected Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkote district early on Monday, a senior police official said. Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a lorry and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress today said people now know the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo was harmful for the country after four years of the NDA rule, which it described as a period of “treachery, trickery, revenge and lies”. Releasing a booklet titled ‘India betrayed’ on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Modi government, Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced today with Noida girl Meghna Srivastava, topping the examination this year. The overall pass percentage was 83.01 per cent as against last year’s 82.02 per cent. Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 per cent against boys’ 78.99 per cent, officials at the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Asserting that BJP’s return to power in 2019 is “not a challenge but a certainty”, its president Amit Shah today projected the next Lok Sabha polls as a contest between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to “remove corruption and poverty” and the Opposition’s single-point agenda of ‘Modi Hatao’. On the Modi government’s fourth anniversary, Shah listed details ...