DAINIK NATION BUREAU Members in the Rajya Sabha today sought a cap on airfares and sought to know why charges were levied by airlines on booking preferential seats in a flight. Raising the issue during Question Hour, Congress leader Chhaya Verma said that she had taken an Indigo flight on June 29 from Delhi to Raipur, and the staff did ...
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Engineering and Medical exam pattern set to change
Software to generate random questions for each question paper This time in the Joint Entrance Examination and the National Eligibility Entrance Test for the admission in Engineering, Medical Colleges, different questions can be given to all the test takers, i.e. all examiners will have different questions in the paper. It is being told that the paper will be selected from ...
Read More »3 dead in Greater Noida building collapse
An accident occurred in Shah Beri of Greater Noida West last night. A six-storey under-construction building collapsed here. Many workers are reported to be injured in the accident. 3 dead bodies have been recovered from the site of the building collapse. The fear is that many people have been buried under the building debris. Police and administration teams have reached ...
Read More »Mobocracy can’t be allowed to become new norm
DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with ...
Read More »SC asks Parliament to consider new law to deal with mob lynching
The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with offences like mob ...
Read More »From April next year, national database for gun licence holders
Come April 2019, names of all arms licence holders – new or old – will be included in a national database and they will be issued a unique identification number (UIN), according to the Home Ministry. The move is aimed at keeping a tab on authorised private gun holders, many of whom are often found involved in crimes and celebratory ...
Read More »20 injured in PM’s rally as tent collapses
DAINIK NATION BUREAU A makeshift tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in West Bengal’s Midnapore district today, injuring at least 20 people, a police official said. The tent, officials said, was erected next to the main entrance of the rally venue to shelter people from the rain. Many enthusiastic BJP supporters were seen crowding inside the tent during ...
Read More »Tirupati Temple to be closed from 9th to 17th August
A big news related to the world famous Tirupati Balaji Temple of Lord Venkateswara located in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh came out. It is being told that for the first time in history, the temple of Lord Venkateswara is being closed for 6 consecutive days. According to the information, this famous temple will be closed till 6 P.M.on August 9 to ...
Read More »Niti Aayog working on proposal to replace LPG subsidy with cooking subsidy
Government think tank Niti Aayog is working on a proposal to replace LPG subsidy with cooking subsidy in order to extend the benefits to people using piped natural gas and biofuels for cooking purposes, a top official said today. Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said subsidy should be applicable for all fuels that are used for cooking. At present, ...
Read More »Can petrol, diesel prices be made same for four wheelers: SC asks Centre
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to apprise it as to whether petrol and diesel can have an equal pricing for four wheelers and private cars after the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) said pollution from diesel vehicles was a cause of concern. A bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta suggested that the government could contemplate ...
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