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A lawyer had to knock the doors of the Supreme Court to seek a direction to his client, the Rajasthan government, to clear his bills totalling Rs 48 lakh pending since 1994. A bench of Justics N V Ramana and S Abdul Nazeer came to his aid and directed the state government to pay Rs 48.01 lakh to lawyer Aruneshwar ...

BrahMos, supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired at 1040 hours yesterday from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore, Odisha as part of service life extension programme. The life extension test firing of BrahMos was conducted from a Static Inclined Launcher, proving the efficacy and longevity of the system which was witnessed by the Scientist from Defence Research and ...

A Russian man was arrested at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Sunday for allegedly masturbating on a flight from Istanbul, officials said. The complainant — an Indian woman who was sitting next to the passenger — raised an alarm, following which the man was shifted to a different seat. The man, identified as Krishan Ridzhal, was arrested by Delhi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BS Yedurappa, who had taken oath as chief minsiter of karnataka, has resigned from the government with immediate effect. As we know that he was sworn in as chief minister of karnataka on May 17 by the governor despite knowing that congress and JD(S) alliance government has achieved magic figure i.e. 114. Even he had asked the ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in ensuring sufficient water supply from Haryana as the national capital stares at a possible water crisis next week. In his letter to the prime minister, Kejriwal said the city has been receiving 1,133 cusecs of water from Haryana since 1996, but recently, for the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BJP legislature party leader B S Yeddyurappa was today sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for a second time, after an overnight high-voltage legal battle in the Supreme Court. The 75-year-old Lingayat strongman was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Vajubhai Vala at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan amid loud cheering by ...

To answer the roll-call, students in Madhya Pradesh will no longer say “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, Sir” as the government has made it mandatory for them to reply with a “Jai Hind” instead. This step, the state education board said, is to instill a sense of patriotism among the students. Earlier in November 2017, Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Vijay ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to examine a plea challenging an Allahabad High Court order dismissing a petition seeking prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a hate speech case of 2007. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked petitioner Rasheed Khan to serve the copy to all ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least 12 people died in flyover collapse on Tuesday afternoon. Many are feared trapped in the debris. “Several people are feared trapped,” an official said. Rescue operations are currently underway. An eyewitness said he saw four cars, an auto-rickshaw and a minibus being crushed. “The help came after an hour,” he said. Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharth Nath Singh ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the BJP set for an impressive win in the Karnataka assembly poll, its leaders described the victory as an endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda and claimed that people had rejected divisive, toxic and negative agenda of the Congress. According to the Election Commission figures, the BJP is heading in over 112 seats and ...