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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 ...

Ministry of Railways has introduced Unreserved Mobile Ticketing with a view to promote three C’s- Cashless transactions (Digital payment), Contact less ticketing (no need to physically visit the point of sale) and Customer convenience and experience. As a big leap, booking of unreserved tickets on all non-suburban sections across all Zonal Railways has been made available from 1st November to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to submit in a sealed cover in 10 days strategic, confidential and pricing details of 36 Rafale fighter jets being purchased from France, even as Attorney General KK Venugopal opposed it. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, however, said details considered “strategic and confidential” be placed ...