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The Supreme Court today took on record the final report submitted by a supervisory body appointed by it to look into the closure of 241 cases in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and said it will examine it. The bench said it will examine on December 11 the report filed by the advisory body, comprising former apex court judges Justices J ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Earthquake has shaken Uttarakhand today at around 8.50 pm. It is being said that it was around 5.1 richter scale but its epicenter was around 90 kilometer away from Rishikesh and around 30 meter beneath the earth. It was nearby Rudraprayag district, which had devastated due to deluge in the year 2013, so people are looking tense. ...

The Bombay High Court today upheld the validity of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA). A bench of Justices Naresh Patil and Rajesh Ketkar pronounced its judgement on a bunch of petitions filed by by real estate developers and individual plot owners, all challenging the constitutional validity of the Act that was brought into effect earlier this year. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A newborn, who was found alive after being declared dead along with his twin and handed over to his parents in a plastic bag by an Max hospital Delhi has died after a week of treatment. On November 30, the twins were being taken for burial when a movement in one of the packages shocked the family. ...

As many as 39 people have perished and 167 fishermen were still missing after cyclone Ockhi hit Tamil Nadu and Kerala coasts while 809 others were swept away to Maharashtra, the Union Home Ministry said today. Joint Secretary in the ministry Sanjeev Kumar Jindal also said the cyclone is slowing down and would have no impact in Gujarat, where the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Commenting on Kapil Sibal’s appeal in the apex court to defer hearing in the Ramjanambhoomi dispute till General election-2019, BJP national President Amit Shah asked Rahul Gandhi to clear the Congress stand on it. Alleging the Congress have double standard on the touchy issue Shah said BJP wants to end the matter as soon as possible. Shah asked ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A day after Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav, who was disqualifed from the Rajya Sabha,  reiterated  on Tuesday that he would intensify his fight to save democracy. Yadav tweeted “I am disqualified from the Rajya Sabha as the ‘mahagathbandan’ which was formed to defeat the NDA in Bihar and after 18 months to break it and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court will commence on February 8, 2018 its hearing on a batch of petitions challenging a 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit that had divided the disputed Babri Masjid site between the Nirmohi Akhara, Lord Ram deity and the Sunni Waqf board. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok ...

As Mumbai braces for Cyclone Ockhi, areas near the metropolis witnessed a spell of hailstorm, while schools and colleges in the city and adjoining districts have been closed today as a precautionary measure. Some parts of the Munbai-Pune Expressway experienced a hailstorm early today, police said. The weather department has forecast intermittent rains in Mumbai and suburbs in the next ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As Gujarat nears the first phase of Assembly polls, all eyes are set on two temples that epitomise “the pride and power of the Patidar community” and exercise considerable influence among members, political analysts feel. The Khodaldham Temple in Rajkot district, built by the Leuva sect of Patidars, and the Umiya Dham temple in Mehsana district of ...