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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Under pressure from the opposition and ally Shiv Sena, the BJP-led Maharashtra government today accepted the demands of agitating farmers, including their right to till forest land, as thousands of agriculturists converged here in a sea of red. In a major victory for the farmers who trekked 180 km from Nashik to here over six days under ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Stressing the need to “rise above politics”, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today called for an all-party meeting at his residence on Tuesday to find solutions to problems being faced by traders because of an ongoing sealing drive in the national capital. Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken thanked Kejriwal for the move, while the BJP said it ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BSF officers who lead a “lavish” lifestyle or are members of costly clubs would be identified as “suspects” under a new vigilance drive initiated by the force that guards sensitive Indian borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. A section of officials termed these criteria as “ridiculous”. The country’s largest border guarding force regularly conducts a confidential exercise of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Friday recognised right to die with dignity and allowed an individual to issue an advance directive in the form of a living will authorising someone to withdraw his/her life support, if he/she went into a vegetative state because of an incurable and irreversible medical condition. The apex court, which ...

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court declared passive euthanasia and the right of persons, including the terminally-ill, to give advance directives to refuse medical treatment permissible. A Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, in three concurring opinions, upheld that the fundamental right to life and dignity includes right to refuse treatment and die with dignity. ...

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 ...