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India has been ranked 81st in the global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International, which named the country among the “worst offenders” in terms of graft and press freedom in the Asia Pacific region. The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, placed India at the 81st place. In ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A 13-year-old student of an elite Gurgaon school, studying in class seven, threatened to rape one of his teachers and her minor daughter in a post on social media site Facebook rattling the institution’s administration. Disturbingly, this is not the only incident of delinquent behaviour that the upscale school. It is faced with as another one of ...

Uttar Pradesh has signed 1,045 pacts worth Rs 4.28 lakh crore on the first day of the UP investors’ summit, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today. “It is a matter of pride for the state that fortune-500 companies are participating in this summit. I want to tell you all that till now we have signed 1,045 MoUs worth Rs 4.28 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A woman chopped off her husband’s genitals and then disposed them in a toilet for allegedly having an extramarital affair, police said on Tuesday. In the attack, Azad Singh, a resident of Joginder Nagar here, was seriously injured and was fighting for his life in a local hospital, they further said. The woman, Sukhwant Kaur, took this ...

Punjab Police today claimed to have seized demonetized currency worth Rs 1.05 crore from two residents of Haryana’s Fatehabad. The demonetized currency was recovered from the possession of Ravinder and Kapil , during a checking at Landran-Kharar road in Mohali, Superintendent of Police, Mohali, H S Atwal, said. A case under relevant sections of the IPC has been registered against ...

Former Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari health got worse on Monday. He had a fever. At the same time his blood pressure was also very low. He has been shifted to ICU of Max Hospital in Saket. When doctors examined him, his heart rate and ECG were uncontrolled. He is being treated by Dr Neurologist Dr ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Pakistan has billed India Rs 2.86 lakh as route navigation charges for Indian Air Force aircraft used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a stopover in Lahore and visits to Russia, Afghanistan, Iran and Qatar, an RTI response shows. The data gathered by activist Commodore (Retd) Lokesh Batra through his RTI application, show that till June 2016, ...

In a shocking incident, a Hyderabad-based management student hanged herself in her hostel room during an ongoing video call with her friend. The incident took place in Kompally on Sunday. B Haneesha Chowdary, 24, hailed from Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh and was pursuing MBA at Sivasivani Institute of Management. She took the extreme step during the early morning hours, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the lawmakers becoming richer, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered that all candidates contesting elections would have to disclose sources of their income. Even they have to disclose their family members income source too. The landmark verdict pronounced by a Bench led by Justice J Chelameswar on a petition filed by an NGO, Lok ...

The Supreme Court today directed the Karnataka government to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from its inter-state Biligundlu dam. The judgement clarified that Karnataka will now have an enhanced share of 14.75 tmcft water per year while Tamil Nadu will get 404.25 tmcft, which will be 14.75 tmcft less than what was allotted by the tribunal ...