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The Supreme Court Thursday refused to stay the proposed amendments to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act which restored the no anticipatory bail provision for the accused. A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri said the pending review petition filed by the Centre against the apex court’s March 20, 2018 verdict and the pleas challenging the new amendments made ...

The Supreme Court Friday decided to examine the Centre’s decision to grant 10 percent reservation in jobs and education to poor candidates belonging to general category. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the central government on various petitions challenging the validity of the Constitution (103 Amendment) Act, 2019, which paved the way ...

Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan will be launching three important centre’s set up by Department of Science and Technology (DST), nucleated at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) on 25th January 2019 at IIT Madras in Chennai. The first of these is the establishment of DST –IITM Solar ...

The CBI has registered an FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in the Rs 3,250 crore ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case and is carrying out searches Thursday at the group headquarters in Mumbai and offices in Aurangabad, officials said. The search operation started Thursday morning and also covered offices of Nupower, a company operated by ICICI Bank’s former CEO Chanda Kochhar’s ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In order to ensure safety on manned hot air balloons, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued regulations regarding the balloons’ manufacture, registration, maintenance and airworthiness certificate. The regulations, issued on January 18, stated that all manned hot air balloons would be required to be registered before any flight was undertaken. “The hot air balloon ...

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested nine people from Thane and Aurangabad for their alleged links with banned terror outfit ISIS, police said Wednesday The nine terror suspects, all part of a group, were nabbed by ATS teams over the last two days, an ATS official said The ATS, acting on specific inputs, kept a watch on the nine ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Amid bone chilling weather our brave Artists, who have gone to showcase Uttarakhand in upcoming Republic day parade-2019, has been performing cultural dance with broad smile in Delhi. During the month of January Delhi shivers and people keep their toe in shoes but artists are showcasing state by wearing slipper. As if state wants to showcase real ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Monday rubbished the allegation of rigging of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and said the insanity of the Congress is increasingly becoming contagious. Jaitley’s comments come in the backdrop of an Indian cyber expert, who is seeking political asylum in the US, claiming that the 2014 general election was “rigged” through EVMs, which ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU VK Shashikala, the live-in-aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been enjoying VIP facilities in jail, a query under the Right to Information Act has found. The 59-year-old, who is serving a four-year jail term after being convicted in disproportionate assets case, had managed to get many of the privileges she was not entitled ...

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik, will inaugurate the 2nd World Integrated Medicine Forum 2019 on the ‘Regulation of Homeopathic Medical Products; Advancing global collaboration’ being organized from 23-25 January, 2019 in Goa. The organizers of the forum are the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy, under the Ministry of AYUSH. International drug regulators dealing ...