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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 ...

Proposal to start rail service from Tanakpur-Delhi and Lal Kuan to south India has been sent by North Eastern Railway. Rajiv Aggrawal, General Manager, North Eastern Railway, who came to meet Chief Minister Mr. Trivendra Singh Rawat at CM residence on Friday, gave this information to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister said that the expansion of railway in the state ...

Incidents of lynching triggered by rumours claimed ten lives in 14 incidents in Maharashtra during the last one-and-a-half months, the police said in Mumbai. In the latest incident, five persons were lynched by a mob in Dhule district on Sunday on the suspicion of being child-lifters, sending shock waves through the state. In the wake of the horrific crime, police ...

No casualty reported, 5 people sustained injuries Rail Traffic disrupted on Western Suburban route between Goregaon station & Bandra station In Vileparle – Andheri section of Mumbai Division, Western Railways, a portion of Road over Bridge (ROB), (meant for pedestrian movement) near Andheri Railway Station collapsed and fallen on railway tracks damaging Overhead electric lines at Km 21/7 at around ...

Rajasthan Minister Arun Chaturvedi has said nearly 2.5 lakh beneficiaries of various schemes of the central government will attend a meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on July 7. Out of nearly 4.5 crore beneficiaries of various schemes, about 2.5 lakh people from the state will attend the interaction with the prime minister, he said here yesterday. “It is ...

A SFI leader was stabbed to death and two others were injured in an attack allegedly by members of a pro-Islamic outfit at a college here, police said today. They were attacked allegedly by workers of the Campus Front and its parent outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) inside the Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, campus last night, they said. The condition ...