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Amid controversy over encounter killings in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that those who believed in the language of the gun, should be answered in the same manner. His remarks came amid criticism over the rising cases of encounters in the state. “Everyone should be guaranteed security, but those who want to disturb peace of the society ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Launching an attack on the BJP and the Narendra Modi led NDA government, former AICC president Sonia Gandhi has categorically said “she would work with like-minded political parties to ensure its defeat in the next general elections”. Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party, of which she is the chairperson, Gandhi alleged that the government was orchestrating violence against ...

In a disturbing incident, a 21-year-old biker was killed on Thursday after he crashed into an iron wire used to tie two police barricades cut through his neck and slit his throat in north west Delhi’s Netaji Subhash Place. “There were two barricades in the road which were tied to each other by a wire. There was no light when ...

A former senior government officer accused of leaking secret defence documents has been acquitted in a 31-year-old espionage case by a Delhi court which said the CBI had failed to establish that they were classified “secret” documents. The court absolved N W Nerurkar, who was working as an advisor to the Department of Electronics under the Centre in 1987, and ...

All coaches of the Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto trains will soon have four CCTV cameras each to ensure passenger safety, a railways official said. Twenty-three pairs of Rajdhani, 26 pairs of Shatabdi and 18 pairs of Duronto trains would have the facility, he said yesterday. “All Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto train coaches are to be fitted with CCTVs one each ...

There has been no breach of Aadhaar data and a majority of the country’s people trust the scheme as it is completely safe, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. Terming Aadhaar a game changer, Prasad said in Lok Sabha that as of now 120 crore people have the Aadhaar cards and 57 crore bank accounts were linked with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress Leader Mallikarjun Kharge was stunned today in when a TDP MP in the Lok Sabha accused him of “beating” him while he was tapping his shoulder asking him to move aside. While Kharge was speaking on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, the TDP members, along with those from YSR Congress Party, were in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Amid tension between allies BJP and TDP, political debates are on about how far Chandrababu Naidu would go in his mind-game as his reflexes are likely to be dictated by countermoves of turf rival Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress. Many politicians feel Naidu — known for hard bargaining with the Centre during the two United Front and Vajpayee ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the centre for filing an 845-page affidavit containing incomplete information about solid waste management across the country and said that the Supreme Court of India is not a “garbage collector”. The apex court declined to take the affidavit on record and said that the government cannot dump “junk” before ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that 400 security personnel were killed fighting militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and Left-Wing extremists in Naxal-affected areas in the past three years, while 111 persons were killed in 822 communal incidents in the country in 2017 with UP registering the highest number of such incidents. Responding to a ...