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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Army Day is celebrated on 15 January every year in recognition of Field Marshal KM Cariappa’s taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander, in 1948. On the occasion of Army Day, in a bid to reach out and energise the civil society, deepen a sense of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A person, whose business got haywire due to demonetisation and GST, has visited janta darbar after consuming poison at state BJP head office on Saturday. The Janta Darbar was being led by state agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal. Prakash Pandey, who is a transporter, alleged that he has been running here and there to seek solution of their ...

After 500, 50 and 200 rupees, the Reserve Bank of India has issued the first look of a new note of Rs 10. The new note will be of Chocolate Brown color. The Sun Temple of Konark will be printed on the note. The last time there was a change in the notes of ten rupees was in 2005. According ...

The Budget session of Parliament will commence from January 29 and the Union Budget will be presented on February one, the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs recommended today. President Ramnath Kovind will address the joint sitting of the two Houses on January 29 and the Economic Survey will be tabled on the same day, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth Kumar told ...

A Model Draft Bill for Flood Plain Zoning Legislation was circulated by the Union Government in 1975 to all States to help States enact legislation. The model bill provided for prohibition and restriction of the activities in the notified area of the flood plain. The River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Authorities Order, 2016 provides that the bank of River ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Budget session of Parliament will commence from January 29 and the union budget will be presented on February one, the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs recommended today. President Ramnath Kovind will address the joint sitting of the two Houses on January 29 and the Economic Survey will be tabled on the same day, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Thirty six disciplinary proceeding against IAS officers (state and Central cases) are in progress. This was stated by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha. The union government is the competent authority to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers, has filed a police case after a newspaper appeared to have bought login details to get access to its database for Rs. 500, but insisted that there had been no breach. “The Aadhaar data including biometric information is fully safe and secure,” a statement  by the Unique Identification Authority of India, or ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true, India will witness a reform shortly like the advanced countries. As the advanced countries moves towards alternate of fossil-fuel vehicles with electric ones, India wants to take a leap. It has set an ambitious target of having only electric cars by 2030. The target may be more daunting than many advanced countries. For example, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”, three Ministries of the Union Government have joined hands to propel the Technology Mission for Indian Railways (TMIR). The Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Department of Science & Technology signed an MoU, at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi for joint ...