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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 ...

BSF troops today foiled an infiltration bid and killed an intruder along the International Border in Jammu district. Troops observed movement of two-three persons along the IB near Nikowal Border Out Post (BoP) in Arnia sector around 0545 hours, IG BSF, Jammu frontier, Ram Awtar told PTI. They challenged them and opened fire resulting in the death of one intruder, ...

The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district. Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in attacks by protesters across the state ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Recently the UIDAI had asserted that “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at UIDAI.” On Wednesday, a national daily “purchased” a data, which is being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp. The data provided unrestricted access to details for any of the more than 1 billion Aadhaar numbers ...