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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for raking up the Emergency, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut today said “contribution” of former premier Indira Gandhi for the country cannot be ignored just because of her 1975 decision. He also said that Gandhi was “pro-democracy” as she called for elections in 1977 after lifting Emergency which she ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Eleven members of a family, including seven women, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in north Delhi’s Burari this morning, the police said. Ten bodies were found hanging and blindfolded, while a 75-year-old woman’s body was found on the floor. Two of the deceased are minors, they said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Monsoon has arrived the entire country around two weeks ahead of its normal date, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. The seasonal rains reached Sriganganagar — its last post in the country located in west Rajasthan — much ahead of normal arrival date of July 15. Generally the monsoon covers the entire country by July ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that 42 lakh senior citizens had voluntarily given up their railway concession in the past nine months while 1.25 crore families had surrendered their gas subsidy. Modi said an environment of honesty has been fostered in the country and more and more people are coming forward to contribute to the nation building by voluntarily ...

A special CBI court here convicted an additional commissioner of Income Tax and an assistant I-T commissioner in a Rs 1.7 crore graft case of 2010 and sentenced them to five years’ imprisonment. The additional commissioner’s husband was also convicted and awarded four years in jail. Special CBI judge Vivek Khathare yesterday sentenced additional commissioner Sumitra Banerjee, 49, a 1992 ...

ive persons were killed when an aircraft on a test flight crashed in a crowded Mumbai suburb this afternoon, police said. Those killed include two pilots and as many flight engineers on board, besides a pedestrian in the Ghatkopar area where it crashed, police said. The King Air C90 12-seater aircraft, which took off from the Juhu airstrip, crashed in ...

In order to strengthen the quality of higher education and curb bogus universities, the government has decided to make major changes in the UGC Act. Under this, the organization named UGC will now end. Instead, it will be replaced by the HECI (Higher Education Commission of India). But it does not have the right to give financial help to the ...

Family members of a woman, who underwent a heart surgery at the Max hospital, alleged that she died yesterday due to negligence of the hospital administration. They claimed that the hospital administration let doctors, nurses, other staff and patients’ kin to enter the intensive care unit (ICU) wearing shoes that led to spreading of infection and eventually the woman’s death. ...

 DAINIK NATION BUREAU Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family on the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India was “turned into a jail for the selfish personal interests” of that family. Addressing a meeting organised by the BJP to mark the Emergency anniversary, Modi said the day needs to be observed to re-dedicate oneself ...

According to Patanjali officials, Baba Ramdev had received a request from the London museum for a statue a few months back. It required persuasion to some extent before he agreed to the proposal. Ramdev’s statue will join a long list of world-renowned figures from the fields of politics, sports, entertainment etc which are already inside the museum which attracts thousands ...