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In continuing anti-smuggling operations, Air Intelligence officials of the Customs at the International airport here today seized over one kg of gold valued at Rs 32 lakh in two separate cases. In the first case, five metal pieces, weighing 995 grams and valued at Rs 30.49 lakh were found concealed in a sub woofer brought in as check-in baggage of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the escape of a jailed Pakistani terrorist, the Union government has categorically asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to review security measures of jail premises and transportation of inmates too. The Union Home Ministry also asked the state government to ensure that no such incident takes place in future and deploy CRPF in prison ...

The Delhi Police arrested Group Captain Arun Marwaha on Thursday on charges of passing on details of secret IAF documents to Pakistani spy agency ISI. DCP (special cell) Pramod Khushwah has confirmed the arrest. Marwaha, 51, was allegedly using his smartphone to click pictures of classified documents pertaining to combat exercises at the IAF headquarters and then sending them across ...

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 ...