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DAINIK NATION BUREAU If everything goes as per plan then Uttarakhand would have traditional attire for convocation ceremonies of its universities by January 2018. As we know that chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had refused to wear the traditional attire of convocation ceremony at UPES. Since then a demand had created to make traditional attire for convocation in place of ...

Retired IAS officer BB Mohanty has been arrested on charges of raping a 23-year-old girl in 2013, police officials said here on Tuesday. Mohanty was arrested last night. He was chairman of the Rajasthan Civil Services Appellate Tribunal at the time the FIR was registered. He was suspended by the government and later retired. Mohanty surrendered… and was placed under ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true that in coming days distance between corbet tiger reserve and Delhi would be 50 kilometer less than now. It would be possible  the national capital will be shortened with the Union Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate change, Dr Harsh Vardhan along with the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and State forest and wildlife ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Securing all 15 votes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Justice Dalveer Bhandari was re-elected as the 15th judge of the International Court of Justice on Tuesday. While the battle for the last seat at the Hague-based world court between Sir Christopher Greenwood and Justice Bhandari had reached a deadlock, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the departure of few hundred pilgrims from Badrinath, which closed for winter break on November 19, Char Dham yatra closed for this winter season and now it will be open somewhere in April or May 2018. This year 18 lakh pilgrims visited to Char Dham and Hemkund sahib and this number has given sigh of relief ...

Prime Minister launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) exactly one year ago on 20th November, 2016 from Agra. A target of completing one crore new houses after beneficiary registration, geo-tagging and account verification by 31st March, 2019 was set. Of these, 51 lakh houses had to be completed by 31st March, 2018. After the launch, it took few months to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A meeting of top Congress leaders is going on at party president Sonia Gandhi’s 10 Janpath house in Delhi this morning. They may declare their vice president Rahul Gandhi as next president of AICC by today. As we know that election commission has asked the congress to complete their organisational election by December 31 after giving it ...

MajidIrshad Khan, a 20-year-old footballer who used to play as goalie for his team in Anantnag, renounced the life of violence behind and returned to mainstream after the heart wrenching video of his inconsolable mother appealing him ‘to come back or kill them’ went viral. Twenty-year-old Khan walked into an Army camp quietly after videos of his mother Ayesha and ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today lifted its ban on construction activities in Delhi-NCR and allowed trucks to enter the national capital, while asking authorities to strictly monitor their movement. The green panel, however, refused to lift its ban on industrial activities causing pollution in the Delhi-National Capital Region region. “All directions in relation to emissions from industry, burning of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU India’s Mukesh Ambani family is the richest in Asia as its net worth rose $19 billion to $44.8 billion, toppling the Lees of the Samsung empire, to claim the numero uno position, according to Forbes. Despite dropping to the second spot, Korea’s Lee family still saw its wealth soar by $11.2 billion to $40.8 billion this year ...