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The southwest monsoon today hit Kerala, three days before its scheduled arrival, says the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The onset of monsoon over the southern state marks the commencement of the four-month long rainy season in the country. June 1 is the official onset date for arrival of monsoon in the country and it takes more than a month-and-half to ...

Twenty-one public sector banks (PSBs) have incurred losses totalling Rs 25,775 crore due to banking frauds in the financial year 2017-18, a Right to Information reply has stated. Punjab National Bank (PNB) had incurred the highest loss of Rs 6461.13 crore due to different cases of fraud during the fiscal that ended on March 31 this year, Chandrasekhar Gaud, who ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Tamil Nadu government today issued a Government Order, directing the state Pollution Control Board to seal the Vedanta group’s copper plant and close it down “permanently” following last week’s violent protests during which 13 people were killed in police firing. The Government Order (GO) said it endorsed the recent closure direction of the Tamil Nadu Pollution ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former union minister and newly-elected Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkote district early on Monday, a senior police official said. Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a lorry and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress today said people now know the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo was harmful for the country after four years of the NDA rule, which it described as a period of “treachery, trickery, revenge and lies”. Releasing a booklet titled ‘India betrayed’ on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Modi government, Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Girls outshone boys in the CBSE Class 12 results announced today with Noida girl Meghna Srivastava, topping the examination this year. The overall pass percentage was 83.01 per cent as against last year’s 82.02 per cent. Girls did better than boys with a pass percentage of 88.31 per cent against boys’ 78.99 per cent, officials at the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Asserting that BJP’s return to power in 2019 is “not a challenge but a certainty”, its president Amit Shah today projected the next Lok Sabha polls as a contest between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to “remove corruption and poverty” and the Opposition’s single-point agenda of ‘Modi Hatao’. On the Modi government’s fourth anniversary, Shah listed details ...

CBSE 12th class Result 2018 has been declared. A total of 83.01 percent of the students have passed. Meghana Shrivastav of Ghaziabad has topped the exams. Meghna has secured 499 out of 500 marks. Even this year, girls have registered their names in the first and second positions while retaining their dominance. The two girls of Ghaziabad Meghna Shrivastav (99.8%) ...

The Income Tax Department today launched and activated all the seven ITR forms for e-filing by taxpayers, after more than a month of them being notified. The Central Board of Direct Taxes had notified the new Income Tax Return forms for the assessment year 2018-19 on April 5. “All ITRs for AY 2018-19 are now available for e-filing,” the department ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday sought vote of confidence in the Karnataka Assembly for the three-day-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by him. Kumaraswamy moved the one-line motion soon after the unanimous election of Ramesh Kumar as the speaker of the assembly. With the numbers game in favour of the coalition, the 58-year old, who took oath ...