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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 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today hailed the All India Motor Transport Congress’s decision to call off its strike. Talking to the media here, Gadkari said he and the finance minister were in constant discussions with the transport unions in this regard. “People were facing problems due to the transport unions’ strike. Today we had success (in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and 17 others were today acquitted of charges of corruption in the transfer of land to a private developer in a decade-old case. The accused included former Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kewal Krishan and two former ministers. All three are dead now. Mohali Special Judge Jaswinder Singh accepted the closure report filed ...

As many as 17 facilities that can be used as roads as well as airstrips are being developed in the country, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said yesterday. The facilities are being developed under the ambitious Bharatmala project that mainly seek to strengthen roads network in the country. Gadkari told the Lok Sabha that several projects have been taken up under ...

The income tax department has increased the deadline of filing ITRs by one month. The Central Government has given time till August 31 to fill the ITR. The Finance Ministry has given this information. The Finance Ministry said that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the final date for filing income tax returns. For the sake of ...

While replying to a starred question in Rajya Sabha today, Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar said that the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued / notified the UGC (Declaration of Government Educational Institutions as Institutions of Eminence) Guidelines, 2017 for public institutions and UGC (Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017 for private institutions for setting up / ...