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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The massive floods in Kerala have been declared a calamity of severe nature, the Home Ministry said today. “Keeping in view of the intensity and magnitude of the floods and landslides in Kerala, this is a calamity of a severe nature for all practical purposes,” a home ministry official said. The decision has been taken considering the ...

No ATM will be replenished with cash after 9 pm in cities and 6 pm in rural areas from next year even as two armed guards will accompany crisp notes in transit as per a new directive issued by the Home Ministry. The deadline for putting money in the ATMs located in Naxal-hit areas is 4 pm while private cash ...

Deprecating the practice of a teacher or professor pursuing a full time course while simultaneously working as a faculty member, the Madras High Court has made it clear that it cannot be permitted without prior permission from the university or college concerned. “The university/institution and the recognition authorities must ensure that no teacher/professor is permitted to do the full time ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today an immediate financial assistance of Rs 500 crore to the rain-battered Kerala, after reviewing the flood situation in the state. Modi also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh per person to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those seriously injured from the Prime Minister’s National ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Centre, acting on the recommendation of the Madhya Pradesh government, has decided to prematurely retire a 1995 batch Indian Police Service officer “in public interest” with immediate effect, an official said today. IPS officer Mayank Jain (51) was suspended after the Lokayukta police raided his properties in May 2014 claiming to have unearthed illegal wealth allegedly ...

The Supreme Court today asked the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) and a sub-committee set up by Kerala to deal with the flood situation in the state to coordinate and explore the possibility of reducing the water level at the Mullaperiyar Dam by three feet. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice D Y Chandrachud asked Kerala and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kerala this evening to take stock of the flood situation there. He tweeted that he would be reaching the state later this evening “to take stock of the unfortunate situation due to floods there.” The prime minister spoke with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan this morning. “We discussed the flood situation across the state ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Statesman and pragmatist, orator and poet, a man of peace and conviction. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a towering nationalist who softened the often sharp edge of his party’s politics with a gentle sophistry of words, earning him the sobriquet “ajaat shatru” or the man with no enemies. The first prime minister from a non-Congress party to complete ...

Bharat Ratna, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee breathed last today at 5:05 P.M. Vajpayee, one of the most charismatic and popular faces of the nation’s politics, breathed his last at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences at the age of 93. He had been in AIIMS for more than two months and had died due to his ill ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited AIIMS to enquire about the health condition of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his second visit in less than 24 hours. BJP president Amit Shah also reached the hospital for the second time since morning. The prime minister was at the hospital for a little over 45 minutes. As anxiety grew about the ...