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In what may come as a major setback for government employees, a finance ministry source has hinted that there is no scope for a change in minimum basic pay from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000. This source, while referring to a Department of Personnel Training letter that said that fitment factor and minimum pay didn’t come under the National Anomaly ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU At least three people were dead and nine left injured after thirteen coaches of the Vasco Da Gama-Patna express jumped the rails near Manikpur railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday Confirming the casualties, Chitrakoot SP Pratap Gopendra Singh said a father-son duo from Bettiah district of Bihar died on the spot ...

The Winter Session of Parliament will commence from December 15, a day after the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, and conclude on January 5. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh today met in New Delhi to decide the dates of the Winter Session. The CCPA recommended that the session be held ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The BJP may be facing the toughest challenge in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home turf  Gujarat, but Christopher Wood, author of the Greed and Fear Report, is putting all his money on a BJP victory for the sixth consecutive term. As Gujarat is schedule to face poll in two phases i.e. December 9 and December 14. ...

The finance ministry today said there is no proposal to withdraw the bank cheque book facility as part of exercise to promote digital transaction. The clarification comes in the backdrop of reports in a certain section of media that there is a possibility that the central government may withdraw bank cheque book facility in the near future, with an intent ...

A certificate of residency issued by the gram panchayat is not a document of citizenship and is “meaningless” unless supported by some other valid record to make a claim for inclusion in the National Register of Citizenship (NRC), the Supreme Court said today. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman said no verification is made before such ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU if you think that income tax department serve notice to individual and private companies only then you are wrong here because this time they have served noticed to the government departments, which have failed to deposit Tax deduction scheme (TDS) money, and freeze their account with immediate effect. In which Uttarakhand secretariat, irrigation and PWD depratments and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat expressed disappointment that currently 60 percent students were studying in private schools while only 40 percent students were learning in government schools. Teachers of the government schools highly talented and well paid. Government teacher falls under A Grade. We have to concentrate on improving the quality of education. A think tank might ...

The BrahMos can now be fired from land, sea and air In a first for India, and the world, the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was today successfully test fired from IAF’s Sukhoi 30-MKI. BrahMos is one of the heaviest missiles in the world to be integrated on a frontline fighter jet and with today’s success, the IAF gets unprecedented ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday declared his support for the Congress in the Gujarat elections next month and said the opposition party had accepted its demand for reservation for the Patel community. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader said the Congress will include the extension of reservation benefit to Patidars in its election manifesto.. The ...