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Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggarwal has been unanimously elected as new speaker of fourth elected Uttarakhand assembly on Thursday. Thereafter most of the MLAs spoke about his achievements and while they were making praise for the new speaker then aggarwal was unable to gulp it easily. With this appointment Vidhan Sabha has declared date for the appointment of deputy speaker i.e. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two of the newly elected MLAs – Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggrawal and Rudraprayag MLA Bharat Choudhary- took the oath twice on Tuesday, first in Sanskrit inside the house during oath taking ceremony of the legislators and later in Hindi in the chamber of the protem speaker Harbans Kapur. Kapur who had taken oath on Monday administered the oath to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Shortly after taking oath as member of fourth elected uttarakhand assembly Kedarnath MLA  Manoj Rawat has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kedarnath temple. The journalist turned politician Rawat said that he would soon write a letter to the Prime Minister and invite him to Kedarnath.  PM visit would give a positive message across the country. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat still sitting on the portfolio allotment to the ministers even three days after the swearing- in, the ministers have started pressuring the State estate department officials through letters, demanding some chosen government bungalows to be allotted to them. Sources say that the officials of the particular department are under huge ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Apparently acting on the dictum dished out by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a recent    BJP parliamentary party meeting in Delhi – ‘ Na Baithunga Na Baithne Dunga’ (neither will  I sit nor will I allow you to sit)-, the newly appointed chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat  conducted the first cabinet meeting at the secretariat  soon ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A sea of humanity descending in the city on way to the Parade Ground to witness the swearing- in of the new government, huge traffic jams were seen on the city roads on Saturday. Though police had drafted a traffic plan to spare the commuters inconvenience on the roads it seemed to have come to no avail ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In view of thousands of people being expected to attend the Nagar Parikarma  as part of the ongoing Jhanda Mela on March 19, Dehradun police have drafted a traffic plan  to keep traffic smooth on the roads. Dehradun senior superintendent of police (SSP) Sweety Aggarwal said that the routes of the city buses and the Vikrams have been diverted. Traffic will ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With nine MLAs being inducted in the Trivendra Singh Rawat ministry, seven are   those who have made it to the Assembly several times.  Two fresh faces in the Assembly are Satpal Maharaj   and Dhan Singh Rawat. Maharaj had a stint as a minister of state for Railways. Besides, he is supposed to have played an instrumental role ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Trivendra Singh Rawat as the chief minister, seven as cabinet ministers and two as ministers of state were sworn in at Parade Ground in Dehradun on Saturday in the presence of the Prime Minsiter Narnedra Modi. The high-pitched poll-drama dragging for over a month climaxed as the Governor Dr KK Paul administered the oath of office and secrecy to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following the announcement of the chief minister’s name, the stage is set for the constitution of the cabinet. With some of the cabinet ministers being  expected to be sworn in along with the CMon Saturday, the BJP top brass, including the CM designate Trivendra Singh Rawat, is now  busy  with the challenging task of  accommodating  some of ...