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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 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Indian Air Force (IAF) chief  BS Dhanoa today said that there was “no overpricing” in the Rafale purchase as the government had “negotiated a very good” deal for the French fighter aircraft. It is definitely a better deal. It is lower than what was there in MRMCA contract. “It is not overpricing… We have negotiated for ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The All India Congress Committee (AICC) vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale fighter aircraft agreement and asked the media why it did not question him for allegedly changing the “entire deal” to benefit a businessman. He made this allegation while interacting with reporters after meeting of the newly formed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Army Chief Bipin Rawat has categorically said that there is need to enhance our capabilities because future battlefields would be complex and warfare hybrid in nature, With this changing patterns in terrain, armoured vehicles like battle tanks should must have the capacity and capability to operate on the western as well the northern borders. he expressed these ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The National Green Tribunal today slammed the Uttarakhand government for the construction of a new legislative assembly building without mandatory environment clearances. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, which stopped short of imposing environment compensation on the state, asked how could the dispensation start the project without getting environment clearance. During the proceedings, the tribunal ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The fate of 1.5 lakh students, who were enrolled in private institutions under Right To Education (RTE) Act since 2011, are running in dilemma because union government has not released budget on this head. Earlier state used to bear its expense but now state has expressed inability to bear this burden because it has accumulated upto Rs ...