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Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is absconding with crores of rupees loan from India’s banks, gave a big statement on Wednesday, outside a London court that he had met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country. Mallya said that he wanted to resolve the matter with them but due to objections of the banks the matter could not be ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday rubbished Vijay Mallya’s claim of having met him before fleeing to London in 2016, saying he never gave him an appointment after becoming a minister in 2014 but the fugitive liquor baron misused his position as an MP to accost him once in Parliament. Terming Mallya’s offer to settle overdue loans of ...

Earthquake tremors were felt in six states of India in a span of five hours on Wednesday. Earthquake occurred in parts of Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Haryana, West Bengal and parts of Jammu and Kashmir. On earthquake tremors, people in these states came out of buildings and panic spread. There is no news of loss of life anywhere so far. The ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As many as 35 journalists were detained Tuesday after they tried to forcibly enter the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar, the police said. The journalists, representing small and medium size local newspapers, had gone to meet the CM to raise the issue of changes made in the state government’s advertisement policy, police said. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Allahabad High Court Tuesday told police they could not arrest four people booked for assaulting a Dalit woman and her daughter without following the CrPC provisions endorsed by the Supreme Court in an order in 2014. Though the case was registered under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act as well as under IPC ...

UPSC website hacked on late Monday night; restored later The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) website was hacked late last night. The hackers, put up an image of a an injured Doraemon – popular Japanese cartoon character. The image contained two lines: “Doraemon!!!!!!! Pick up the Call” on the top and “I. M. STEWPEED” below. The ‘Doraemon’ title song in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU When officials of the Registrar of Companies (RoC) raided a tiny office in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills area in July, they found 25 employees running 114 companies out of a single room. Most of the entities were owned by family members of B Ramalinga Raju, the man behind India’s biggest corporate fraud — the Satyam Scam. Kolkata is ...

While the Congress-led Punjab and Karnataka coalition government was thinking of reducing the VAT on petrol and diesel the BJP government of Rajasthan led by Vasundhara Raje, standing at the cusp of assembly elections, decided to reduce VAT on petrol and diesel. This decision of the government will provide relief in the price of oil up to 2 to 2.50 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi has categorically said that the doctrine of ‘one nation, one poll was not being forced upon anyone, but there should be a debate on the issue. Modi’s comments came during his address at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) national executive meet here. Reporting Modi’s address at the top party meet to the media, ...

The famous Hazratganj intersection of Lucknow will now be known as Atal Chowk. Lucknow Mayor, Sanyukta Bhatia has given her consent to rename Hazratganj to ‘Atal Chowk’ in honor of former PM late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Now its proposal will be kept in the Lucknow Municipal Corporation House where it will be passed unanimously. Lucknow Municipal Corporation decides to name ...