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A seven-year-old boy was killed and nine people, including his mother, were injured in a low-intensity explosion in front of a multi-storey building in the Nagerbazar area in Kolkata’s northern suburbs on Tuesday, police said. “A child, who was severely injured in the blast, has died in hospital. A total of nine people are injured,” Deputy Commissioner of Police, Barrackpore ...

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has allowed the facility of withdrawal of applications by candidates. The arrangement will be implemented beginning with Engineering Services Examination, 2019. This was announced by the Chairman of UPSC Arvind Saxena, while speaking on the occasion of the 92nd Foundation Day Celebrations here today. The Chairman said that UPSC’s experience with the Civil Services ...

Petrol price Monday crossed the Rs 91-mark in Mumbai while domestic cooking gas LPG rates breached the Rs 500-level for the first time ever as oil at four-year high pushed fuel prices to new all-time high across the country. Petrol prices were hiked by 24 paise per litre and diesel by 30 paise, according to price notification of state-owned oil ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Monday that Indian judiciary is the “most robust institution” in the world and young lawyers were assets having potential to develop the jurisprudence “Our judiciary has been strongest judiciary in the world having capability to handle mind boggling number of cases,” Justice Misra, who will retire as the CJI ...

Punjab AIG (crime) Randhir Singh Uppal has been booked for allegedly raping a law student, a senior police official said Friday. Based on a complaint lodged by the woman on September 18, Inspector General (crime and women) Vibhu Raj has been asked to probe the allegations levelled by the victim against Uppal. The assistant inspector general of police (AIG), however, ...

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 ...