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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two high-level committees have been constituted by the central government to suggest ways and legal framework to effectively deal with incidents of mob violence and lynching, the Home Ministry said today. One of the committees is being headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the other by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba. The move came a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government today said in the Lok Sabha that it gives advertisements to newspapers only after verifying their claims regarding their circulation. Replying to a query during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said the Registrar of Newspapers for India has been asked to gather details of circulation of various ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal” ‘New India’ and cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Police today arrested seven more accused in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman from Chandigarh by 40 men for four consecutive days at a guest house in Morni area of Haryana’s Panchkula district, officials said today. They said that while accused Sahib Singh, a resident of Panchkula was arrested earlier, six more were nabbed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today lashed out at the Narendra Modi government, saying the people of the country have to be rescued from a “dangerous regime” that is “compromising” with India’s democracy. In her address to the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee, which met for the first time under the chairmanship of party chief Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi ...

In the 28th meeting of GST Council headed by Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, several major decisions were taken. During the meeting, the Council has removed Sanitary Napkin from the realm of Goods and Services Tax (GST). GST Council decisions on sanitary napkins gave women great relief. Earlier, the sanitary napkin was included in the 12 percent GST slab. But ...

A mahant at a temple in Haryana’s Fatehabad was on Friday arrested by the police after videos of him allegedly raping women surfaced online. The police confirmed that a case had been filed and an investigation was underway. News agency ANI quoted a police official as saying, “We filed a case and started the probe. His premises were also raided ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Narendra Modi led NDA government is working for the welfare of the few businessmen, who were suits, but he keeps promising to the mass. Now he has realised his loophole which is why he has been trying to paint rosy picture before mass. He expressed these views while participating in no confidence motion, which was mooted by ...

All India Motor Transport has gone on an indefinite nationwide strike since today due to rising petrol and diesel prices across the country. Transporters say that the government is continuously increasing the prices of petrol and diesel, which is causing the losses to transporters. The government is not thinking about their employment even once, due to which it is becoming ...

A new note of Rs 100 will be issued soon by the Reserve Bank of India. These new notes of the Mahatma Gandhi series will be signed by the current Governor Urjit Patel. According to the statement issued by the central bank, the back of this new note will be a picture of ‘Rani Ki Wav’ located in Patan district ...