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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 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Ministry of Home Affairs has also advised all States and UTs that prison inmates should also be Aadhaar seeded so that various aspects of day to day prison administration like production before court, return to prison, transport, health facilities, interview, free legal aid, parole, temporary release mechanism, educational/vocational training, release from prison etc. can be regulated ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will consider in detail the Centre’s review petition against its March 20 judgement on the SC/ST Act but declined to keep in abeyance the directions passed by it to deal with the issues of arrest and sanction under the special law The apex court said people who are agitating may not have read ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Information and Broadcasting Ministry today withdrew its contentious press release on fake news after a directive from the Prime Minister’s Office “PIB Press Release titled ‘Guidelines for Accreditation of Journalists amended to regulate Fake News’ issued on 02 April 2018 stands withdrawn,” the ministry said in a brief statement. Taking note of condemnation from various quarters, ...

Incidents of stone pelting on buses were reported in north Maharashtra today as several Dalit organisations expresses their concerns over the dilution of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Dalit groups had called for a Bharat Bandh today demanding restoration of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in its original form. “Protesters ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A newborn, who had been snatched away by a monkey from its mother’s side yesterday at Talabasta village of Banki in Cuttack district, was found dead today inside a well near the house, the police said. The police and forest department officials could not trace the 16-day-old boy during their day-long searches yesterday. The family members of ...