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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Senior NDPP leader Neiphiu Rio was today appointed the new chief minister of Nagaland by Governor P B Acharya and would be sworn in here on March 8, a Raj Bhavan source said. Acharya, in a letter to Rio, asked him to prove his majority on the floor of the House on or before March 16, the ...

 DAINIK NATION BUREAU Tripura BJP president and newly-elected MLA Biplab Kumar Deb was today unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party in the state, Union minister Nitin Gadkari announced. Deb, whose name was proposed by party MLA Sudip Roy Burman in the meeting, will be the new chief minister of Tripura, Gadkari said. BJP’s poll ally, the Indigenous People’s ...

The Lok Sabha today was adjourned till noon following vociferous protests by Opposition members over the Punjab National Bank fraud and other issues while those from NDA ally TDP continued to raise their demand for a special package to Andhra Pradesh. Soon after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made obituary references, members from the Congress, TRS and other parties as well as ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the BJP toppling the Left in Tripura and likely to be a part of ruling alliances in Nagaland and Meghalaya, the party is set to lead or be a partner in 21 of India’s 31 state governments, underlining a saffron dominance of the national political map like no other time. What is more telling is that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU NPP president Conrad Sangma met Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad on Sunday evening and staked claim to form the government in the state with the support of 34 MLAs in the 60-member Assembly. Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate yesterday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party, marginally ahead of its rival, the National People’s Party ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU India’s economic development must go hand-in-hand with modernisation of the armed forces, Army chief Gen. Bipin Rawat said today. “Economic rise takes place if the country is secure,” he said, defending the quantum of budget allocation to the armed forces, and stressed that there is a link between flow of foreign investment into India and the situation ...

In what could labelled as effect of global warming that compared to the previous 50 years, from March to May this year temperatures will be more than 1 degree Celsius. According to the weather department’s report, the summer temperature across the entire country is expected to be very high, but in these months, the maximum heat wave in North India ...

Railway Board has become alert after the case of irregularities in payment of salaries of the fake employees in the Delhi Rail Board. In order to ascertain that there is no such irregularity in any other division, all regional railways have been asked to examine the records of last two years. In the preliminary investigation of the railway, it has ...

Providing relief to a large number of class 10 students who will be appearing for board exams next week, the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) has decided to grant a one-time relaxation in passing marks. This new rule is only for current batch students, the pass mark criteria have been kept at overall 33 per cent. There will be ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, was today arrested by the CBI in connection with its probe in the INX media case, officials here said. Karti was taken into custody by a team of CBI officials at the Chennai airport on his return from the United Kingdom, they said. After completing necessary formalities, the ...