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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court Thursday declared as unconstitutional the penal provision on adultery. Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and R F Nariman held that Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code dealing with the offence of adultery is unconstitutional. “We declare Sec 497 IPC and Sec 198 of CrPC dealing with prosecution of offences ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court Wednesday declared the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid. Although bank and telecom companies can’t force customer to submit their Aadhaar no. With this  order apex court has given guideline for Aadhaar. The apex court’s five-judge Constitution bench said Aadhaar means unique and it is better to be unique than being best. The ...

The CBI has arrested an Indian Air Force officer for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from a Mumbai-based firm over a works contract, an official said Monday. Assistant Accounts Officer Pankaj Kumar, serving under the Integrated Financial Adviser in the Air Force Station at Jamnagar was arrested Thursday by the anti-corruption wing of the CBI, an official informed. Kumar ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, referring to the Congress broadside on the Rafale jet deal, said today that she would lead a nationwide campaign to “fight the perception battle” with a series of press conferences. “We need to fight the perception battle. Many of us will be speaking across the country. Facts have to come out,” Nirmala Sitharaman ...

Due to heavy rains due in many areas of Himachal Pradesh, one male and a girl were killed in Kangra and Kullu respectively due to the water from incessant rainfall. Officials have issued ‘High Alert’ for Kullu district. The district administration said that after the torrential rains, water level in the rivers increased in Kangra district, due to the flowing ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sikkim’s first airport on Monday. The aerodrome at Pakyong is around 33 km from Gangtok. The foundation stone of the greenfield airport was laid in 2009. Modi is also scheduled to address a gathering at St. Xavier’s School at Pakyong later in the day. The prime minister reached here on Sunday evening in an MI-8 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU GRD world school Bhauwala, where class Xth student was gang raped by their four seniors, had taken affiliation from CBSE on the name of other school. It means it was being run without procuring No objection certificate (NoC) from the department concerned. During investigation it has revealed that they did not apply for affiliation on similar name. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a significant development, a French media report quoted former French President Francois Hollande as purportedly saying that the Indian government had proposed Reliance Defence as the partner for Dassault Aviation in the Rs 58,000 crore Rafale jet fighter deal and France did not have a choice. Reacting to Hollande’s remark that is at variance with the ...

Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh launched two separate portals to strengthen Women Safety in New Delhi on Thursday. The portal “cybercrime.gov.in” will receive complaints from citizens on objectionable online content related to child pornography, child sexual abuse material, sexually explicit material such as rape and gang rape. The National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO), which is accessible only to law ...