National

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Madras High Court has allowed a 40-year-old convict serving life imprisonment in the central prison in Tirunelveli district to go on a two-week leave for the “purpose of procreation”. A division bench of Justices S Vimala Devi and T Krishna Valli granted the two-week temporary leave to Siddique Ali, an inmate of Palayamkottai Central jail on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A total of 795 Police personnel have been awarded Medals on the occasion of the Republic Day this year.  Police Medals for Gallantry (PMG) have been awarded to 107 personnel, President’s Police Medals for Distinguished Service to 75 personnel and Police Medal for Meritorious Service to 613 personnel. Among the 107 Gallantry Awards, 66 are from J&K ...

The ‘Bharat Parv’ event is being organized by the Government of India at the Red Fort, Delhi from 26th to 31st January, 2018 as part of the Republic Day 2018 celebrations. The prime objective of organizing the event is to generate a patriotic mood, promote the rich cultural diversity of the country and to ensure wider participation of the general ...

The CBI has begun a probe into a Rs 487 crore scam related to over valuation of inferior quality of coal imported from Indonesia, which was passed on to NTPC and other power generation companies in collusion with officials. The action of the agency came on the basis of a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence investigation which had shown over invoicing ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU India’s entry into elite nuclear groups in the recent past has reaffirmed the country’s strict non-proliferation commitments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. His remarks come in the backdrop of India becoming a member of the ‘Australia Group’ (AG), a move that is expected to raise New Delhi’s stature in the field of non-proliferation and also help ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union government is going to make amendment in the provision of the Indian Evidence act-1872 shortly. As mobile phone has become basic necessity and the circulation of images and videos have become much easier so government has realized that such images and videos can act as a primary evidence in criminal proceedings. With an objective of incorporating images and ...

In a horrifying incident, a seven- year-old boy was brutally attacked and mauled to death by half-a-dozen stray dogs in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, the police said today. Vikki, a son of a migrant labour from Uttar Pradesh, was attacked by the dogs while he was returning home from a near- by market in Amarkot village under Paonta sub division, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a shocking incident, a woman principal of a private school in Haryana’s Yamunanagar town was shot dead on Saturday by an agitated Class 12 student who had been rusticated. Principal Ritu Chhabra was shot at thrice allegedly by the student in her office at the Swami Vivekanand Public School in Thapar Colony of Yamunanagar town, around ...

A seven-year-old was allegedly stabbed by a senior girl student. He is now at the trauma centre of King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow. The boy got deep wounds on chest and stomach but is now reportedly out of danger.According to the victim’s statement a ‘didi with boy-cut hair’ took him to the bathroom on the second floor, slapped ...

India on Thursday test fired its indigenously developed intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V, which can reach targets as far as Beijing. The firing took place from the Abdul Kalam Island facility off the Odisha coast. A Defence Ministry official said the pre-induction test of the highly sophisticated and world class game-changer missile was successful. Developed by the Defence Research ...