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From March next users may find it difficult to retain their number while porting out from one telecom network to the other, as per media reports. A report in the Economic Times said that two companies –MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions and Syniverse Technologies –that carry out Mobile number portability (MNP) services in India have written to the Department of Telecommunications ...

Army Major Nikhil Handa exchanged more than 3000 calls and messages since January with the officer’s wife he is accused of murdering, it was revealed in court on Monday. Shailja Dwivedi, the wife of another major, was found at the Delhi cantonment area on Saturday with her throat slit and signs of being run over. Major Handa, arrested from Meerut ...

The Supreme Court has directed a Maharashtra-based medical college to pay Rs 20 lakh as penalty to each of the 19 meritorious students who were “illegally” and “wrongly” denied admission by it six years ago. The top court asked the college to deposit the money in three months with the Pravesh Niyantran Samiti (PNS), a body constituted by the state ...

A city court has sentenced two DDA officials to four years of rigorous imprisonment each for demanding Rs 6,000 bribe every month for allowing a man to run his eatery illegally in northwest Delhi. Special Judge Ashutosh Kumar handed down the jail term to Delhi Development Authority (DDA) officials Mukesh Chander and Satyabir Singh for demanding monthly bribe from the ...

Some passengers on an AirAsia India flight from Kolkata to Bagdogra got into an altercation with airline staff over deplaning them after the flight was delayed by over four hours, a passenger claimed. Indian Oil Corporation Executive Director (West Bengal) Dipankar Ray, who was also travelling in the same flight, complained of very “unprofessional and rude” behaviour from the airline ...

Teachers of Government schools can now send their entries directly for National Award for Teachers. Announcing this, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar said that this is a new initiative, as earlier entries were selected by the State Government. He said that Government Teachers themselves can apply for National Award for Teachers. In the new system, Government teachers/heads ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Wednesday said the imposition of Governor’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir is unlikely to have any impact on ongoing anti-terror operations and noted that there was no political interference. General Rawat’s response came after President Ram Nath Kovind approved the imposition of Governor’s Rule in the state with immediate effect earlier ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A constable of the Railway Protection Force or RPF was suspended after he was seen in a video, touching a woman inappropriately on Wednesday. The constable, Jahangir, was posted at Kalyan police station in Mumbai. In the video, which has gone viral on social media, Jahangir can be seen touching a woman sitting next to him on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Jammu and Kashmir was today placed under Governor’s rule for the fourth time in the last one decade after the BJP withdrew support to its alliance partner PDP, prompting Mehbooba Mufti to resign as the chief minister. A Home Ministry spokesman said “the President has approved imposition of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.” ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The growing resentment in the party cadre and its traditional voters in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhere is the key reason for the party’s decision to pull out of the coalition government in the state, sources said. The party’s core support was unhappy and the cadre dispirited over the PDP-BJP government’s inability to deliver on its agenda ...