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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The three-year Jammu and Kashmir government, wracked by bitter political feuds and worsening security challenges, collapsed today with the BJP pulling out of its alliance with the PDP setting the stage for yet another round of governor’s rule. BJP general secretary Ram Madhav made the surprise announcement after the party high command summoned its Jammu and Kashmir ...

At least two persons were killed, while around four people were critically injured in a fire at two hotels in Charbagh area in Lucknow, police said. The fire broke out at the two hotels in Charbagh’s Doodh Mandi area around 6 am, they said. “Two persons have died, while four to five others were admitted to a hospital with severe ...

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), for the third successive time, received an order of Rs 8 crore from Air India for the supply of amenity kits consisting of Khadi herbal beauty care products for its international passengers.The amenity kits include Khadi hand sanitizer, moisturizer lotion, handmade soap, lip balm, Khadi rose face wash and essential oils. Giving this ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi for anti-Narendra Modi tirade, Union Minister Arun Jaitley questioned the Congress President’s wisdom saying that it has to be acquired through learning and cannot be inherited. The Congress party has become “ideologyless” because its “only obsession is a person called Narendra Modi”, Jaitley said in a Facebook post. Gandhi has been ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Trump administration has approved a deal to sell six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to India for $930 million as well as Hellfire and Stinger missiles to bolster the country’s ability to defend its homeland and deter “regional threats”, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The Pentagon’s notification to the Congress comes ahead of the first 2+2 dialogue ...

Ten new iconic sites, namely, RaghavendraSwamy Temple (Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh); Hazardwari Palace (Murshidabad, West Bengal); Brahma Sarovar Temple (Kurukshetra, Haryana); VidurKuti (Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh); Mana village (Chamoli, Uttarakhand); Pangong Lake (Leh-Ladakh, J&K); Nagvasuki Temple (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh); ImaKeithal/market (Imphal, Manipur); Sabarimala Temple (Kerala); and Kanvashram (Uttarakhand) have been taken up under Phase III of the flagship project Swachh Iconic Places ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi will face trial in a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker after a magistrate court here today framed charges against him. Gandhi pleaded not guilty in the case. The 47-year-old Congress leader arrived at the magistrate’s court in Bhiwandi at 11.05 am amid heavy security cover and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress president Rahul Gandhi today cited the examples of successful American entrepreneurs to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies but took the analogies too far by describing the founder of Coca-Cola as a ‘shinkanji seller’ and that of McDonald’s a ‘dhaba wala’. He also said the founders of Ford, Mercedes and Honda were ‘mechanics’ whose skills were ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former finance minister P Chidambaram today said that state of the economy was bad in the country due to the wrong policies of the NDA government and tyres of three of the four wheels on which the economy rides were punctured. Addressing a press conference here today, he said a flawed road to GST continues to haunt ...