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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not fighting corruption but was “corruption himself” and under him, the country is controlled by “corrupt and powerful”. “The name Modi symbolises the collusion between India’s biggest businessmen and the Prime Minister,” Gandhi said while addressing the Congress’s plenary session here. Referring to the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress has expressed apprehensions on the misuse of the electronic voting machine (EVMs) so they demanded from the Election Commission to resume old practice i.e. paper ballot and condemned BJP’s move for simultaneous elections. The political resolution, adopted at the party’s plenary here, underscored the need for ensuring free and fair elections to retain people’s faith in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi wants to build a strong and vibrant party with the help of all delegates. He expressed this view in two day long plenary session of congress party. This is the 84th plenary session of the grand old party that the 47-year-old Gandhi took over as chief in December 2017. In his tweet Rahul ...

In an administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 37 IAS officers including the Gorakhpur district magistrate, a spokesperson said today. Among the Indian Administrative Service officers transferred, as many as 16 are district magistrates. The transfers were ordered late last night. Rajiv Rautela who was the district magistrate of Gorakhpur has been made the new divisional commissioner of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU TDP leader Thota Narasimham moved a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Friday, hours after party president N Chandrababu Naidu announced in Amaravati that the party was exiting the National Democratic Alliance. Andhra Pradesh’s ruling party on Thursday had offered to back the YSR Congress’s no-confidence motion but has now said it withdrew the support as ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court on Thursday asked a Gujarat trial court not to proceed till April 12 with the criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah against the news portal The Wire and its journalists. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked Jay Shah and others, who have filed the complaint ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A plea seeking protection and restoration of natural springs like Gaurikund in Uttarakhand today prompted the National Green Tribunal to ask the Centre, the state government and others to respond to it. A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Ministry of Water Resources, Uttarakhand government, Central Ground Water Authority, National Biodiversity Authority and ...

The CBSE Class 12 Accountancy exam’s question paper was leaked this morning via instant messaging app WhatsApp.The question paper reportedly matches set II of the CBSE’s Accountancy question paper. Meanwhile, CBSE said an expert committee will investigate how the leak occurred. Delhi’s Education Minister Manish Sisodia has confirmed that the paper which was being circulated since the evening on social ...

As many as 17 child labourers, all hailing from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states have been rescued at Secunderabad Railway station here, officials said today. Based on a tip-off that over 150 children were being brought to Hyderabad in a passenger train, teams from departments of Labour, Women and Child Welfare, Police and NGOs carried out searches in all ...

State Bank of India has closed as many as 41.16 lakh savings accounts between April-January in the current fiscal year for not maintaining the average monthly balance, reveals an RTI query. Last April, the nation’s largest lender had re-introduced the penal charges on non-maintenance of average monthly balance after a gap of five years. Later in October, it had revised ...