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JNU professor Atul Johri, who was arrested for sexual harassment of several women students, was yesterday granted bail by a Delhi court. Duty magistrate Ritu Singh granted bail to Johri and directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 30,000 for each of the eight FIRs registered against him. Johri had moved a bail plea saying sending him to ...

Under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the Supreme Court has given directions in the offense. The Supreme Court has said that there will be no automatic arrest in such cases now. Not only that, the investigation of the allegations is necessary before arrest. The bail can be given before the arrest. The Supreme Court ...

Scores of agitated students demanding jobs in railways on Tuesday blocked rail traffic, including suburban services between Matunga and Dadar stations, causing difficulties to lakhs of commuters, a Central Railway official said. The students blocked the rail track at 7 am, forcing railway to stop the suburban as well as express trains in the affected section between Matunga and CSMT. ...

Nine persons were arrested today for allegedly running a sex racket at a mall yesterday, police said. Gurgaon Police PRO, Ravinder Kumar said the police received a tip off that a sex racket was being run in the Omex Mall at Sector 50 in the name of a spa centre. “A team was made and a decoy customer was sent ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said while there could be a debate on the performance of the BJP-led government at the Centre, no one could raise a question on its integrity and intention. After inaugurating a number of projects here, he said, “There is no need to tell anyone as regards how our government is running ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not fighting corruption but was “corruption himself” and under him, the country is controlled by “corrupt and powerful”. “The name Modi symbolises the collusion between India’s biggest businessmen and the Prime Minister,” Gandhi said while addressing the Congress’s plenary session here. Referring to the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress has expressed apprehensions on the misuse of the electronic voting machine (EVMs) so they demanded from the Election Commission to resume old practice i.e. paper ballot and condemned BJP’s move for simultaneous elections. The political resolution, adopted at the party’s plenary here, underscored the need for ensuring free and fair elections to retain people’s faith in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi wants to build a strong and vibrant party with the help of all delegates. He expressed this view in two day long plenary session of congress party. This is the 84th plenary session of the grand old party that the 47-year-old Gandhi took over as chief in December 2017. In his tweet Rahul ...

In an administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 37 IAS officers including the Gorakhpur district magistrate, a spokesperson said today. Among the Indian Administrative Service officers transferred, as many as 16 are district magistrates. The transfers were ordered late last night. Rajiv Rautela who was the district magistrate of Gorakhpur has been made the new divisional commissioner of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU TDP leader Thota Narasimham moved a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Friday, hours after party president N Chandrababu Naidu announced in Amaravati that the party was exiting the National Democratic Alliance. Andhra Pradesh’s ruling party on Thursday had offered to back the YSR Congress’s no-confidence motion but has now said it withdrew the support as ...