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A hijack scare on a Kandahar-bound flight sent security officials at the Delhi airport into tizzy on Saturday after the pilot “mistakenly” pressed the ‘hijack button’ when it was taxiing for take-off, sources said. The Ariana Afghan Airlines plane took off nearly two hours later after “satisfactory” security checks, they said. While there was no immediate official reaction, the sources ...

The National Green Tribunal has slapped a penalty of Rs 2 crore on the Tamil Nadu government over the inordinate delay in removal of the encroachments along and prevention of pollution of Adyar and Cooum rivers in Chennai. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel slammed the state government over poor pre-monsoon preparedness and asked its Public ...

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday inducted three major artillery gun systems, including the M777 American Ultra Light Howitzers and the K-9 Vajra, into the Army. The third gun system inducted is the ‘Composite Gun Towing Vehicle’ for towing some of the existing guns in service with the country, while K-9 Vajra is a self-propelled artillery gun. The induction ceremony here ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the following: “In-principle” approval for leasing out six airports of AAI viz. Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru for operation, management and development under Public Private Partnership (PPP) through Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC). Constitution of an Empowered Group of Secretaries headed by CEO, NITI Aayog ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has created three new regiond to reduce the burden of growing schools. Uttar Pradesh has now two regions. This has reduced the scope of Dehradun, Panchkula and Delhi region. Board secretary Anurag Tripathi has issued the notice. There were ten regions of CBSE so far. In the year 2013, CBSE had established Dehradun ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two women and a man who were part of a honey-trap racket were arrested here for allegedly blackmailing a businessman, the police said Tuesday. Operating in Rajasthan, the trio were threatening to lodge a false rape case against Kishan Bihari Yadav, a resident of Lanka colony in Baran district, if their demands were not met, they said. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress has finally managed to regain its erstwhile stronghold of Ballari Lok Sabha constituency after nearly 15 years, signalling the diminishing clout of the Reddy brothers in the mine rich district. Storming BJP’s Ballari bastion, Congress’ V S Ugrappa scored a resounding victory defeating his rival J Shantha by amargin of 2,43,161 votes. Shanta is the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) INS Arihant. The submarine recently returned from its first deterrence patrol, completing the establishment of the country’s survivable nuclear triad. Stressing the significance of the successful deployment of INS Arihant for the completion of India’s nuclear triad, the Prime Minister congratulated the crew and all involved ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Tomato is commercially important vegetable crop intensively grown in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and North Eastern States of India. Tomato is cultivated in 0.809 million ha with the total production of 19.697 million tonnes and average productivity is 24.34 Mt/ha in the country. However, in Uttarakhand it occupied an area of 8626.81 ha with the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Amid probability of a legislation for early construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has categorically said that any ordinance by the government or a bill passed in Parliament will be unconstitutional when the matter is sub-judice. Bringing an ordinance or law pending an appeal in the Supreme Court will be an “adventurist ...