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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former prime minister Atal bihari vajpayee has been admitted into AIIMS today. Talking to media person BJP says ‘vajpayeeji has been admitted to AIIMS for routine check up.’ The 93-year-old leader will be under the supervision of AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, it said, adding that he has been admitted on doctors’ advise. The BJP stalwart ruled India ...

A 28-year-old IAS officer posted in Haryana Government has made sensational allegations of sexual harassment on her senior officer. The woman, IAS, has accused her senior officer of sexual harassment for writing ‘Contrary comment on official files’. The senior official denied the allegations and claimed that the woman officer was advised not to take any wrongdoing in the files received ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU 383 Gentle men cadet become officers in Indian Army after Passing out Parade at IMA on Saturday.

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Five persons arrested earlier this week for their alleged links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), who were conspiring to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Pune police told a Sessions Court on Thursday. To ascertain it, the police produced a “letter” which they said had been found at the Delhi residence of prisoners’ rights ...

Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, Election Commissioners Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa today launched the online RTI Portal of Election Commission of India. The online portal will facilitate applicants seeking information under the Right to Information Act. The portal can be accessed by general public on the Home Page of the Commission’s website `eci.nic.in’ by clicking on `Online RTI’. There ...

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 ...