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The ruling Congress in Punjab today swept the civic elections, winning 267 of the 414 wards of municipal committees and nagar panchayats as well as the three municipal corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala. In Patiala, it won all wards. Repolling will be held in  Patiala’s booth 3 of Ward 37 on December 19. While AAP suffered a near rout, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU All preparation for the Counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly polls, which had become prestige issue for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his home state and an acid test for newly elected Congress president Rahul Gandhi. While the BJP is seeking a sixth consecutive term in office while the Congress is aiming to stage a comeback ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Newly elected AICC President Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP, accusing it of spreading hatred and violence in the country, and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking India back to the medieval times. In his first speech to party workers after formally assuming charge as president, he set the tone for the future course ...

The body of an HRD Ministry official was found at the railway tracks in Palam, nearly three days after he went missing, police said today. Jeetendra Kumar Jha, an Indian Civil Accounts Service officer, went missing from Dwarka on Monday after he had gone for a morning walk, they said. His body was yesterday found at the railway tracks in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hopes that the Winter Session of Parliament will be a productive one with constructive debates and innovative suggestions that will help resolve the country’s problems didn’t begin as expected with Lok Sabha being adjourned on Day 1 itself. After obit references, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the Lower House for the day. The House will meet again ...

The deadline for the Aadhaar-linking of bank accounts, mobile phones and all government schemes will be extended to March 31, the Supreme Court today ruled, accepting the centre’s suggestion. The order is an interim or temporary one, which will be in effect till the court decides whether making Aadhaar-linking mandatory for welfare schemes and financial transactions, like getting a loan ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Except saffologist Yogendra Yadav, who has tweeted that BJP would loss Gujrat, Exit polls today predicted a victory for the ruling BJP in Gujarat. They have given a clear cut majority to BJP in the keenly-contested Assembly polls in the state. Soon after voting ended in the second and final phase of the election, an exit poll ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Air India has suspended three employees and warned a pilot for late-coming after some 125 passengers, including Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju, had to wait inside a plane at the Delhi airport for over 60 minutes on Wednesday morning. The minister demanded an explanation from new Air India Chairman And Managing Director Pradeep Kharola as angry ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The lone bridge linking Uttarkashi to the China border collapsed today, disconnecting dozens of villages and causing inconvenience to daily commuters, especially school-going children and teachers. The makeshift Gangotri bridge collapsed around 6 am when two trucks were crossing it, Uttarkashi District Magistrate Ashish Chauhan said. No one was hurt in the incident, he said. According to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The first few hours of polling in the final phase of the Gujarat elections has witnessed very few voters due to variation in the temperature. As per the EC only 10 percent voting was recorded in two hours, an official said, adding that the process would pick up as the day progressed. There were several complalints made ...