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The two-day mass casual leave on September 4 and 5 called by the United Forum of Reserve Bank Officers and Employees (UFRBOE) has been deferred after discussion with the bank management, the union said Monday. “Consequent to series of meeting between top management of Reserve Bank of India with unions, the forum has decided to defer the programme of mass ...

A shocking case has emerged from West Bengal’s Haridevpur in Kolkata. According to the news agency ANI, skeletal remains of 14 babies have been found in a plastic bag in Haridevpur. It is being told that these skeletons were found in an empty plot in Haridevpur. Skeletons of 14 children were recovered during the digging of the land. This plot ...

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Sunday blamed “external factors” for the rise in domestic prices of petrol and diesel, but said the increase is temporary. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a conclave organised in Surat, Pradhan said the factors responsible for drop in production of crude oil have caused a spike in fuel prices in ...

A drunk man allegedly urinated on the seat of a woman passenger on-board an Air India international flight, prompting the Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a report from the national carrier. The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York. Indrani Ghosh, daughter of the woman ...

DAINK NATION BUREAU A court here today sentenced an auto-rickshaw driver and two others to life-long jail term for raping a 22-year-old woman from Dehradun in November last year. Additional District and Sessions Judge Poonam R Joshi held auto-rickshaw driver Mohammad Irfan and his accomplices Mohammad Garib and Kismat Ali guilty of rape and sentenced them to jail terms till ...

The Modi government has decided to increase the DA of the Central Government employees and pensioners. In the Union Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, dearness allowance (DA) has been increased by 2 percent. After this increase, the DA has become 9%. The benefit of this increase will be given to 1.10 crore Central Government employees and pensioners. At present, the Central ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the RBI announcing that almost all the demonetised currency notes have returned to the system, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge today said the note-ban has failed and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be ready to face “punishment”. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced that 99.3 per cent of the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear at 3.45 PM a plea by historian Romila Thapar and four other human right activists against the arrest of Left-wing activists by Maharashtra Police for suspected links with Maoists. The petition by Thapar and others was mentioned for urgent hearing before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Besides Thapar, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday fixed September 4 for hearing a petition dealing with the environmental clearance issue related to Char Dham highway project providing all-weather connectivity to four holy towns of Uttarakhand. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel posted the matter for hearing at 2 pm after taking note of ...

On her return after winning the historic Gold medal at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, a birthday gift was waiting for wrestler Vinesh Phogat at the Delhi airport. The wrestler returned on Saturday which was also her 24th birthday. And the day was indeed made special for her. Soon after Vinesh touched down in Delhi, her long-term boyfriend and ...