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The National Green Tribunal yesterday rapped the Delhi Jal Board over cleaning of the Yamuna river and said there has been no “meaningful progress” on the ground in the last three years. The green panel noted that work on 14 sewage treatment plants (STPs) has not even begun. These were supposed to be completed by March 2017 as per the ...

Protesters attacked public buses in Mumbai, and the neighbouring Thane and Navi Mumbai as the bandh called by Maratha outfits over their demand for reservation began this morning. Two BEST buses were attacked by agitators in Kanjurmarg and Bhandup suburbs of Mumbai. In view of the stone-pelting on buses, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) partially suspended its services ...

The Supreme Court today expressed dissatisfaction over the Centre’s response on appointment of search committee members for a Lokpal. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and Navin Sinha asked the Centre to file a fresh affidavit giving relevant details of the search committee. During the hearing, Attorney General K K Venugopal submitted an affidavit and said a meeting ...

The government said on Monday that any employee not employed for one month can withdraw 75 percent from their own account of provident fund (PF). Labor Minister Santosh Gangwar said in the Lok Sabha that the Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) had considered the proposal to include paragraph 68HH in the EPF scheme, 1952 in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two high-level committees have been constituted by the central government to suggest ways and legal framework to effectively deal with incidents of mob violence and lynching, the Home Ministry said today. One of the committees is being headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the other by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba. The move came a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The government today said in the Lok Sabha that it gives advertisements to newspapers only after verifying their claims regarding their circulation. Replying to a query during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said the Registrar of Newspapers for India has been asked to gather details of circulation of various ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal” ‘New India’ and cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Police today arrested seven more accused in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman from Chandigarh by 40 men for four consecutive days at a guest house in Morni area of Haryana’s Panchkula district, officials said today. They said that while accused Sahib Singh, a resident of Panchkula was arrested earlier, six more were nabbed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today lashed out at the Narendra Modi government, saying the people of the country have to be rescued from a “dangerous regime” that is “compromising” with India’s democracy. In her address to the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee, which met for the first time under the chairmanship of party chief Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi ...

In the 28th meeting of GST Council headed by Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, several major decisions were taken. During the meeting, the Council has removed Sanitary Napkin from the realm of Goods and Services Tax (GST). GST Council decisions on sanitary napkins gave women great relief. Earlier, the sanitary napkin was included in the 12 percent GST slab. But ...