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DAINIK NATION BUREAU West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged that the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam was done with a “political motive” to divide people and warned that it would lead to bloodbath and a civil war in the country. Attacking the BJP, she said the saffron party is trying to divide the country and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Alleging that Narendra Modi led NDA government at the Centre and Trivendra Singh Rawat led BJP government in Uttarakhand have failed to provide employment to the youth, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) staged protest here in Dehradun on Tuesday. NSUI was being led by its national president Firoz Khan. During protest rally minor skirmish witnessed between ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BJP president Amit Shah has categorically asked opposition parties to make their stand clear on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants while asserting that National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be implemented in Assam “to the last full stop” as his party stands for national security and Indians’ rights. Dismissing criticism by parties like the Congress and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A Supreme Court-monitored exercise to identify genuine Indian nationals living in Assam on Monday excluded over 40 lakh people from the final draft list, triggering a political slugfest, with the Opposition alleging it was a BJP gameplan to divide the people for electoral gains. Nearly 12 per cent of the population could not make it to the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU NRC Draft List has been published in Assam. I want to emphatically say that this is only a draft and not the Final NRC. Everyone will have full opportunity to file Claims / Objections as per provision in law. Only after the disposal of claims and objections, the Final NRC will be published. Some people are unnecessarily ...

A crucial bill seeking to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences more stringent, was passed by the Lok Sabha today. The bill replaces the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Months ahead of the assembly polls, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh today decided to hike the monthly honorarium for senior journalists from Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000. The state Cabinet also brought down the eligibility age of the journalists to claim the honorarium to 60 years from current 62 years, a state minister said. The cabinet ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A young woman died after she was allegedly stabbed by a migrant worker when she tried to prevent him from snatching her grandmother’s gold chain at their home at Edathikkad in the district today, police said. Nimisha, a college student who was stabbed in the neck, died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Her paternal uncle, ...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the draft National Register of Citizens for Assam is completely “impartial” and those whose names are not included shouldn’t panic as they will get an opportunity to prove their Indian citizenship. The home minister’s reaction came after the draft NRC was published today with the names of about 40 lakh residents of the state ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A woman lodged a police complaint here today against her husband, accusing him of raping her and forcing her into unnatural sex, police said. The Gurgaon police lodged an FIR against her husband under IPC sections 376(2)(n), 377, 34, 406, 495 and 506 at a women’s police station and also booked her father-in-law in this connection. “We ...