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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in ensuring sufficient water supply from Haryana as the national capital stares at a possible water crisis next week. In his letter to the prime minister, Kejriwal said the city has been receiving 1,133 cusecs of water from Haryana since 1996, but recently, for the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BJP legislature party leader B S Yeddyurappa was today sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for a second time, after an overnight high-voltage legal battle in the Supreme Court. The 75-year-old Lingayat strongman was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Vajubhai Vala at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan amid loud cheering by ...

To answer the roll-call, students in Madhya Pradesh will no longer say “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, Sir” as the government has made it mandatory for them to reply with a “Jai Hind” instead. This step, the state education board said, is to instill a sense of patriotism among the students. Earlier in November 2017, Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Vijay ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to examine a plea challenging an Allahabad High Court order dismissing a petition seeking prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a hate speech case of 2007. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked petitioner Rasheed Khan to serve the copy to all ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least 12 people died in flyover collapse on Tuesday afternoon. Many are feared trapped in the debris. “Several people are feared trapped,” an official said. Rescue operations are currently underway. An eyewitness said he saw four cars, an auto-rickshaw and a minibus being crushed. “The help came after an hour,” he said. Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharth Nath Singh ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the BJP set for an impressive win in the Karnataka assembly poll, its leaders described the victory as an endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda and claimed that people had rejected divisive, toxic and negative agenda of the Congress. According to the Election Commission figures, the BJP is heading in over 112 seats and ...

Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has been found guilty of causing injuries to a person in a 30-year-old road rage case and fined Rs. 1,000 by the Supreme Court today. The cricketer-turned-politician won’t go to jail and will retain his portfolio in the Punjab government. Navjot Singh Sidhu had appealed in the top court challenging the Punjab and Haryana HC ...

The BJP today looked on course to emerging as the single largest party in the Karnataka Assembly as it led in 102 constituencies, according to trends available for 195 of the state’s 222 seats polling for which was held on May 12, officials said. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was trailing by over 11,000 votes in Chamundeshwari, and leading by a slender ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday replaced Union Minister for information and broadcasting Smriti Irani with her deputy Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Besides her, PM has also allocated the senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley ‘s portfolios to Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. Jaitley underwent a kidney transplant at AIIMS on Monday. Rathore emerged as a gainer, Irani (who earlier ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Over four years after Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a hotel suite here, the Delhi Police on Monday charged the senior Indian National Congress leader with abetting her suicide, claiming there was enough evidence to proceed against him Tharoor, 62, dismissed as “preposterous” the nearly 3,000-page charge sheet filed before a city court ...