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Over 7,000 buses, a majority from neighbouring states, were booked for flouting pollution norms in the national capital in the last six years, the Delhi government informed the state Assembly. A total of 7,219 buses were challaned for not having valid pollution under check (PUC) certificates, from 2012-13 till February 2018, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said during the ongoing ...

Train services on the recently-opened Pink Line of the Delhi Metro were affected yesterday for nearly two hours after a section of the overhead electrification (OHE) tripped on the down line due to the dust storm in the evening. The powerful dust storm hit the national capital in several parts of the city, throwing life out of gear. DMRC officials ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed his concern at the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, his spokesperson said as he reiterated that the UN chief’s “good offices” to help resolve disputes between nations are available only if requested for by both sides. “The secretary-general has expressed and will continue to express his concern at the situation. I think we ...

Nagendra Singh, a student of MA 1st year, was shot in the class room of Allahabad Central University by a student preparing for the competitive exam. The injured student is undergoing treatment at a private hospital. Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Kulhari said that the accused has been identified as Sardar Singh, who resides in Badlapur of Jaunpur. According to ...

A Mumbai man molested and then tried to strangle a woman he knows while they were both traveling on a local train in the city last night. A graphic video of the incident, which took place in the moving train’s handicapped compartment, has since been widely viewed on social media. The couple were friends and had an altercation in a ...

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, wanted in India as the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and accused of crimes such as match-fixing and extortion, figured in the UN Security Council’s updated list of terrorists and militant groups. The list – which has 139 entries from Pakistan – identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from ...

Pakistan has violated ceasefire along the LoC and the International Border (IB) 633 times in just two months of this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said Pakistan has violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir 432 times and along the IB 201 times in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU India is likely to receive a “normal” monsoon with “zero chance” of a drought in 2018, private forecaster, Skymet announced Wednesday. “2018 is likely to remain normal at 100 percent (with an error margin of +/-5 per cent) of the long period average (LPA) of 887 mm for the four-month period from June to September,” the organisation ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Income Tax Department has issued a notice to Deepak Kochhar, husband of ICICI bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, in connection with its tax evasion probe in the VideoconBSE 4.99 % bank loan case, officials said. They said the notice has been issued, under section 131 (power regarding discovery, production of evidence) of the I-T Act, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar, released the NIRF India Rankings 2018 in various categories on the basis of performance of Higher Educational Institutions in a programme held in New Delhi today. Minister of State Human Resource Development, Dr. Satya Pal Singh released the report on the NIRF Rankings during the event. 69 top ...