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Gold coins belonging to the 12th century have been found during earth-digging for a road construction in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district, officials today said. A pot containing 57 gold coins, a silver coin and a gold earring was unearthed on July 10 during the construction of a road between Korkoti and Bedma villages, district collector Neelkanth Tekam said. Korkoti Sarpanch Nehrulal ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the S-400 Triumf air defence missile deal with Russia will go ahead notwithstanding the US sanctions on military transactions with Moscow. Referring to CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act), under which the Trump administration has imposed sanctions on military deals with Russia, she said it is an American law and ...

The army is contemplating to eliminate all its 62 Cantt areas. This can save about two lakh acres of land and saving hundreds of millions of rupees per year in maintenance. According to a news of the Times of India, the army has proposed to the Ministry of Defense that the military areas within the cantonment can be converted into ...

A fire drill conducted in a private college in Coimbatore went horribly long in which a 19 year old girl  student lost her life. Though a net was held by students on the ground, the girl hit the sushade on the first floor. The bizarre disaster preparedness drill took place on Thursday at the Kalai Magal Arts and Science College ...

In the case of mass suicides in New Delhi’s Burari 11 people of the same family had died mysteriously. On Wednesday, the post-mortem report of 10 people was found in this case, where police theory seems to be proven to be true. Based on the post mortem report, the police say that 10 people have been killed by hanging. There ...

The Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism, K. J. Alphons announced today that the Tourism Ministry in partnership with the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hospitality (FAITH) and with the support of State /UT Governments will organize the ‘first ever’ India Tourism Mart (ITM) from 16th to 18th September, 2018 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The objective of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU South Korean consumer electronics major Samsung on Monday inaugurated the world’s largest mobile phone factory here which will double its annual handset production capacity to 120 million units by 2020. The facility was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in The new plant will help the company raise its capacity in ...

A 99-year-old man, a retired school principal, was arrested in Chennai on Saturday for allegedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. The child lives with her family in a home rented out by the elderly man, retired from a government school. The man, a father of seven, had constructed five houses next to his own in the Tamil Nadu capital and ...

A Chitradurga District and Sessions Court has sentenced a 75-year-old man to life imprisonment for killing his wife, just 11 days after the crime took place. Chitradurga District and Sessions Court Judge S B Vastramutt yesterday sentenced Parameshwaraswamy to life and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on him. According to prosecution, the man had killed his 63-year-old wife, Puttamma, ...

The Supreme Court said that it will reconsider the homosexuality law under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The hearing in this case will begin on July 10. A bench headed by Chief Justice Deepak Mishra has decided to reconsider its earlier order to uphold Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Justice Mishra said, “Our first order needs ...