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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 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Information and Broadcasting Ministry was in news for making some controversial decision when Smiti Irani was at the helm of affairs. The most prominent among them included the controversy over “guidelines to regulate fake news”, which caused widespread outrage among media organizations and were withdrawn after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention. Her ministry was at the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Monday declared the results for Classes 10 and 12, with girls once again outshining boys.Class 10 results recorded a pass percentage of 98.5 per cent, while 96.21 per cent of the students passed Class 12 exam, said Gerry Arathoon, CEO of the Council. Tamanna Dahiya of class ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Three senior Congress MLAs resigned from Punjab Vidhan Sabha committees today upset at being “ignored” in the state Cabinet expansion which took place last month. Former minister Rakesh Pandey, MLA from Ludhiana (North), Randeep Singh Nabha, legislator from Amloh, and Amrik Singh Dhillon, MLA from Samrala, tendered their resignations from the panels as a mark of protest. ...

Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) ICSE 10th results have been announced. The result was released at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Students who have given these examinations can view their results on the board’s official website at cisce.org. The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) conducted the ICSE Examination from 26 February-28 March 2018. According to ...

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today underwent a successful kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), an official at the premier health institute said. Both the donor and the recipient are stable and recovering well, the official said. Jaitley, 65, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday and taken to the operation theatre at 8 am ...

More than 60 people were killed on Sunday across the country as rain, thunderstorms hit various states throwing life out of gear and leaving behind a trail of destruction. Deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi-NCR. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued severe weather warnings for the next 72 hours for all regions between Kashmir ...

A woman can lodge a complaint under the domestic violence law against the excesses committed by her ex-husband even after the dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with the order of the Rajasthan High Court which held that the absence of subsisting domestic relationship in no manner prevents a court from granting ...

Meteorological department has expressed the possibility of storms and storms in different places on Saturday and Sunday in Uttar Pradesh. According to estimates, in many western and eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh, there will be a storm surge in the next 24 hours with strong winds. These include the surrounding areas including Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Siddhartha Nagar and Balrampur. The ...

Former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Himanshu Roy allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself here today, police said. The 1988-batch IPS officer allegedly shot himself at his residence with his service revolver, he said. Roy, who also served as Additional Director General of Police (Establishment), was rushed to Bombay Hospital, where he was declared dead. Roy, who was joint commissioner ...