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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress President Rahul Gandhi has approved the appointment of 10 new national spokespersons of AICC, some of whom were earlier media panelists. Among the new national spokespersons are Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain, Pawan Khera, Jaiveer Shergill, Ragini Nayak, Gourav Vallabh and Rajiv Tyagi. Uttar Pradesh leader Akhilesh Pratap Singh, Sunil Ahire, Hina Kaware (MLA) and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday laid the foundation stone of 50 MW LNG-based power project at Hope Town in South Andaman, the Power Ministry said. The PM also inaugurated two projects on clean cooking and electric mobility in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the ministry said in a statement. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the Foundation stone of the 50 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath distributed portfolios to his cabinet Friday evening, keeping Public Relations, Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion Department and Employment Department among others with himself, an official said. Tribal MLA Bala Bachchan, who was minister in the previous Digvijay Singh-led Congress government, was given Home and Jail, while another senior MLA, Tulsi Silawat, ...

Body scanners will be installed for security checks of passengers at all airports across the country from the new year. With this, security officials will not have to check each person personally. Currently it takes more than five minutes at security check At the airport, it takes at least five minutes in the security check. The Bureau of Civil Aviation ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The railways has decided to grant 40-per-cent concession in passenger fares to transgender senior citizens. The concession for a person of the third gender, aged 60 years or above, will be available from New Year’s Day, said Central Railway spokesperson Sunil Udasi. Till now, such a concession was admissible for men who are 60 years and above, and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A pregnant woman in Tamil Nadu is HIV positive after infected blood was pumped into her during a blood transfusion at a government hospital in Virudhunagar district, Chennai. Three lab technicians of a government-run blood bank in the neighbouring town of Sivakasi have been suspended for the horrific lapse. Two years ago, they had allegedly failed to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Prime Minister  Narendra Modi, today dedicated the Bogibeel bridge in Assam, to the nation. The bridge, which spans the River Brahmaputra between Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts of Assam, is of immense economic and strategic significance for the nation. At a massive public meeting in Kareng Chapori, on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra,the Prime Minister also ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU 7 killed in 50-vehicle pile-up during dense fog in Haryana’s Rohtak

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F11) successfully launched the communication satellite GSAT-7A from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota yesterday. The GSLV-F11 lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at SDSC at 04:10 pm IST, carrying 2250 kg GSAT-7A and about 19 minutes later, injected GSAT-7A into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) of 170.8 ...

A bill that bars commercial surrogacy and allows only close relatives to act as surrogates to needy infertile couples for “altruistic” reasons was passed by the Lok Sabha Wednesday with Health Minister J P Nadda terming the proposed legislation historic. The ‘Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016’ was passed after an hour-long debate amid noisy protests by Congress and AIADMK members over ...