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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 ...

The two-day mass casual leave on September 4 and 5 called by the United Forum of Reserve Bank Officers and Employees (UFRBOE) has been deferred after discussion with the bank management, the union said Monday. “Consequent to series of meeting between top management of Reserve Bank of India with unions, the forum has decided to defer the programme of mass ...

A shocking case has emerged from West Bengal’s Haridevpur in Kolkata. According to the news agency ANI, skeletal remains of 14 babies have been found in a plastic bag in Haridevpur. It is being told that these skeletons were found in an empty plot in Haridevpur. Skeletons of 14 children were recovered during the digging of the land. This plot ...

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sunday blamed “external factors” for the rise in domestic prices of petrol and diesel, but said the increase is temporary. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a conclave organised in Surat, Pradhan said the factors responsible for drop in production of crude oil have caused a spike in fuel prices in ...

A drunk man allegedly urinated on the seat of a woman passenger on-board an Air India international flight, prompting the Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a report from the national carrier. The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York. Indrani Ghosh, daughter of the woman ...

DAINK NATION BUREAU A court here today sentenced an auto-rickshaw driver and two others to life-long jail term for raping a 22-year-old woman from Dehradun in November last year. Additional District and Sessions Judge Poonam R Joshi held auto-rickshaw driver Mohammad Irfan and his accomplices Mohammad Garib and Kismat Ali guilty of rape and sentenced them to jail terms till ...

The Modi government has decided to increase the DA of the Central Government employees and pensioners. In the Union Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, dearness allowance (DA) has been increased by 2 percent. After this increase, the DA has become 9%. The benefit of this increase will be given to 1.10 crore Central Government employees and pensioners. At present, the Central ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the RBI announcing that almost all the demonetised currency notes have returned to the system, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge today said the note-ban has failed and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be ready to face “punishment”. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced that 99.3 per cent of the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 ...