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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Excess exposure to illumination in the polling states resulted in malfunctioning of VVPAT (voter-verifiable paper audit trail) machines for which complaints were registered during Lok Sabha bypoll in Kairana (UP) and Bhandara-Gondiya (Maharashtra). This was revealed in a preliminary report submitted by special teams constituted by the Election Commission to look into the matter. In a press ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday lectured RSS trainees on nationalism saying Indian national identity had emerged from pluralism and any attempt to redefine it in terms of religion would dilute it. In a 30-minute address at Nagpur, the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Mukherjee also spoke of democracy as “not a gift but a ...

A special CBI court yesterday sentenced five people, including a former Border Security Force DIG, to 10 years in prison in the 2006 Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal. Pronouncing the quantum of sentence in a packed courtroom here, judge Gagan Geet Kaur said the convicts deserved no leniency. The court had held the five guilty on May 30. The convicts ...

After a gap of a decade, there will be no Iftar celebrations at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Ram Nath Kovind has said that Rashtrapati Bhavan being a public building, there would be no religious observances at taxpayer expense. Iftar parties have been traditionally hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan except during the tenure of APJ Abdul Kalam, who was the president ...

An Indian Air Force Jaguar fighter jet on Tuesday crashed soon after it took off from the Jamnagar air base in Gujarat, killing the pilot, official sources said. They said the aircraft was on a routine training mission and crashed around 10.30 am. The pilot, Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan, died in the crash, the sources said. A Court of Inquiry ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU NEET 2018 result has been announced on the official results website for CBSE results. The result is available and students can check the same using their examination roll number. Earlier, it was announced that the result will be declared at 2 pm but has been made available earlier. With NEET 2018 result declaration, begins the process of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Indian Army has decided to drastically cut down its supplies from state-owned ordnance factories. This move is to ensure that the money spent is instead used to procure adequate stock of critical ammunition and spares for a short intense war. Ordnance factories’ products supplied to Army will be brought down from 94 to 50% as the Centre ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A day after media report that file related to Nirav Modi burnt in recent fire incident , the government on Sunday said the records related to the investigation into the Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi case were safe as they were transferred out before a fire broke out in the Income Tax Office in Mumbai. The clarification ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As Congress approached the Election Commission on Sunday over claims of 60 lakh “fake voters” in the voters’ list in Madhya Pradesh, Election Commission immediately formed two teams to probe the allegations. The have been asked to submit a report by June 7. The EC teams will visit the Narela, Bhojpur, Seoni-Malwa and Hoshangabad assembly seats to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Actor and film producer Arbaaz Khan has told the police he lost more than Rs 2.75 crore in betting on IPL matches, sources said on Saturday. Khan was summoned by the anti-extortion cell of the Thane police in the morning for questioning over his links with bookie Sonu Jalan, who was arrested last month. Police sources said Khan ...