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After just a day of discussion, the Lok Sabha (LS) on Thursday passed a bill that makes triple talaq a criminal offence. The draft bill, officially called Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017, says, “any pronouncement of talaq by a person upon his wife, by words, either spoken or written or in electronic form or in any ...

Two policemen, who were in-charge of piloting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cavalcade during his visit to the city on December 25, have been suspended for taking the convoy on a wrong route and causing a security breach. SSP Love Kumar has suspended the two policemen for the security lapse. The suspended policemen are Sub Inspector Dilip Singh and police driver ...

India’s attempts to develop a robust multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield got further boost on Thursday when a homegrown supersonic interceptor successfully destroyed an incoming ballistic missile over the Bay of Bengal. The missile was intercepted in the endo-atmospheric region — at an altitude of 15 km. Defence sources said the low altitude Advanced Area Defence (AAD) interceptor missile ...

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and six others accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast will stand trial on stringent terror charges, a special NIA court today ruled in the politically-sensitive case that raised speculation of saffron militancy. However, Special NIA judge S D Tekale dropped organised crime charges against them under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime ...

Coordinated action to combat stubble burning, commissioning studies and launch of a hotline and an app to report violations are some of the measures in the 12-point draft plan formulated by a high-level task force to combat air pollution in the NCR region. The draft action plan also calls for formulating a journey planner app which integrates the Metro, the ...

A local court has quashed non-bailable warrants issued against Uttar Pradesh minister Suresh Rana, BJP MLA Sangit Som and BJP MP Bhartendu Singh in connection with a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. The NBWs were issued on November 15 following permission from the state government to prosecute them. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Madhu Gupta yesterday quashed non-bailable warrants against four persons–Rana, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Five-time BJP MLA Jairam Thakur has been declared as the new Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh after he was elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party on Sunday. He would sworn in as new CM on December 27. The decision was taken at a meeting of BJP MLAs. Thakur’s name was proposed by Suresh Bharadwaj ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has strengthened itself by creating more Border Outposts (BOP). It happened after the Dokalam standoff with China. Addressing the border guarding force during its 54th anniversary parade here, the minister said the SSB not only guards India’s border with Nepal and Bhutan, it also takes ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU More than 30 people killed and several others injured when a bus fell into the Banas river from an 100-foot high bridge in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed condolence to the affected families. The bus was ferrying passengers from Lal Soth to Sawai Madhopur, about 65 km away. It was being ...

An eight-year-old girl from Kondhwa was repeatedly raped over the last five months by an 18-year-old boy and four minors who live in the vicinity of her house. The incident came to light on Thursday when the girl’s father took her to a doctor after she complained of pain in the stomach. After conducting a medical examination, the doctor informed ...