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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The BJP’s alliance troubles are threatening to spread to Bihar, with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s party mirroring Andhra Pradesh’s demand for special status. Two ministers of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are set to quit the central government and two BJP ministers have already left the Naidu government. Now Nitish Kumar’s Janata ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Rajesh and Nupur Talwar have been wrongly cleared of charges that they murdered their teen daughter Aarushi and domestic help, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told the Supreme Court. In its appeal against their acquittal by the Allahabad High Court last October, the CBI said that the court’s conclusion that there was no evidence to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A young woman, who was riding pillion with her husband on a two-wheeler in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy district, died on Wednesday after she fell from the vehicle while being chased by the police for not wearing helmets. A traffic policeman has been arrested. The woman’s husband, Raja, was riding his two-wheeler without a helmet and did not stop ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Rahul Gandhi’s first big attempt at internal change since taking over as Congress president is facing resistance from party seniors. Soon after he took over as Congress president in December, the 47-year-old had made it clear that he intended to hold elections to the 12 positions in the party’s highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee or ...

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in association with the Government of Uttar Pradesh, is organizing a Women’s Convention – called Swachh Shakti 2018 – tomorrow, on International Women’s Day, at Lucknow. 8000 women sarpanches, 3000 women Swachhagrahis, 2000 mahilasamakhyas from Uttar Pradesh and women sarpanches from across the country have been invited to recognize their outstanding contribution towards ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018 for introduction in the Parliament. It is a part of the efforts of the Government to encourage institutional arbitration for settlement of disputes and make India a centre of robust Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism. Benefits: The Amendments in the Act ...

Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Farooq Takla, wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was arrested here today by the CBI after he arrived from Dubai, the agency’s spokesperson said. Incidentally, just a couple of days ago media reports had surfaced that Dawood was keen to return to India. Mustak Mohammad Miya alias Farooq Takla, was ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Virtually putting the Modi government on notice, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today demanded that the Centre honour the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 and come out with a clear stand on the state’s demands in the next two-three days. At the same time, he admitted for the first time that the 14th Finance Commission had ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In another first for women, 25-year-old Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the border guarding force, ITBP. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force is the last of the CAPFs to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first allowed it to enroll them in 2016. Prakriti, who goes by a ...

Karnataka lokayukta Vishwanath Shetty was injured when a complainant stabbed him in his Bengaluru office on Wednesday, police said. Shetty was out of danger and the accused, Tejaraj Sharma, had been arrested, Karnataka home minister Ramalinga Reddy said. According to reports, Justice Shetty was stabbed at least three times by the attacker, identified as Tejas Sharma, while he was hearing ...