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The last date for online nominations/recommendations for the Padma Awards to be announced on the occasion of Republic Day, 2019 is September 15, 2018. Already more than 28,260 Registrations have been made on the website, out of which 28,212 nominations/recommendations completed since the nominations opened on 1st May, 2018. Nominations have been invited from Central Ministries/Departments, States/UT Governments, Bharat Ratna ...

The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu emplaned today for United States of America on a two-day visit on September 8-9, 2018. During this visit he will address the 2nd World Hindu Congress being held in Chicago on the occasion of 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Historic Speech at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893. The Vice ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Gay sex among consenting adults is not a criminal offence, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday, holding that part of a 158-year-old colonial law that criminalised it, violated the constitutional right to equality and dignity. The top court decriminalised part of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises consensual gay sex, saying it was ...

A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises consensual unnatural sex. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra termed the part of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which crimiminalises unnatural sex as irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary. The ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday urged the countrymen to come in maximum number of Kumbh Mela being held in Allahabad next year. Kumbh Mela in Allahabad is going to start from 15th January, 2019 Yogi said, “We are trying to open the door of Prayag Fort where Saraswati exists and for this purpose, we are talking with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Narendra Modi led NDA government has outrightly dismissed the Congress demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal with France saying: “… to satisfy the ego of an ill-informed gentleman (Rahul Gandhi) it was not an option”. In a bid to educate the council of ministers the top security brass briefed them ...

Along with changing times, CBSE is changing its exam pattern too. From the year 2020, the Board is introducing such exam pattern for 9th and 11th students, in which the number of small questions will be higher. Students participating in the board exam in March 2020 will take the exam in new patterns. It is important that students start preparing ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to hear next week a PIL seeking stay on the Rafale fighter jet deal between India with France. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of advocate M L Sharma that his plea be listed for urgent hearing. In his PIL, Sharma alleged ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Transport services connecting the vast areas in the south-western part of the city and South 24 Parganas district were severely affected owing to collapse of a portion of a road over bridge at Majherhat on the arterial Diamond Harbour Road Tuesday. A Kolkata Traffic Police officer said traffic movement through Diamond Harbour Road in Taratala area has ...

Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha has said that today’s  flight fares have become cheaper than auto-rickshaws. According toANI, he has mentioned, how the faresin the airplane is cheaper than in an auto. State Minister for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha has said that when two people travel in auto rickshaw, they pay 10 rupees per kilometer. That ...