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Two persons were killed and as many as 106 patients and visitors suffered injuries in a fire at a government-run hospital in Mumbai Monday evening, officials said. As many as 108 people, including patients, were trapped inside when the fire broke out at ESIC Kamgar Hospital at Marol in suburban Andheri, said the official of the Disaster Management Cell of ...

The Delhi High Court on Monday convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for conspiracy to commit murder in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and sentenced him to imprisonment for life A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel convicted Kumar for criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity and acts against communal harmony The high court said Kumar’s life imprisonment will be for ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Ruling out referring the Rafale deal to a parliamentary panel, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday launched a blistering attack on the Congress, calling it “bad losers” and said the CAG’s view of the deal is not relevant after the Supreme Court’s clean chit. With the first four days of winter session of Parliament washed out over various ...

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow via Delhi was grounded Saturday after a bomb threat call, airport sources said. The aircraft was taken to an isolated bay for a secondary ladder point check after a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) found the threat as specific , the sources said. Later, security agencies declared the plane “safe”, they said. Repeated ...

Police on Friday claimed to have busted a sex racket with the arrest of 12 people, including eight women, from a guest house here. Acting on a tip-off, a raid was conducted at the guest house on Thursday night in sector 45, a police official said. “A team headed by Poonam Hooda, the SHO of Metro Police Station, raided the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court Friday gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government on the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. The apex court said there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the multi-billion dollar Rafale deal. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said there has been a necessity of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court order on the Rafale jet deal issue Friday rocked the Rajya Sabha which witnessed intense sloganeering by the ruling BJP and opposition Congress members leading to adjournment of House proceedings. Amid noisy protests, Leader of the House and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was heard saying that the Opposition has been demanding a debate on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU All India Congress Committee (AICC) has announced that Senior leader Kamalnath would be next chief minister of Madhya Pradesh today. With this announcement around  24 hours long high voltage drama, which had started after declaration of assembly election result in Madhya Pradesh since December 11 midnight, over on December 13 midnight. Nath has been a close confidant ...

The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar inaugurated ‘Kala Utsav (Festival of Arts)’ at colourful function at the National Bal Bhavan in New Delhi. In his inaugural address, Prakash Javadekar said that teachers have the onerous responsibility of identifying and nurturing the talents in the students and encouraging them. Present day students are bogged down so much in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union government has cancelled passport of 33 Non Resident Indian (NRIs), who had married with indian women but did not turn up thereafter, with immediate effect. Women and child development ministry had initiated this bid and union government finally approved it. To keep close monitoring on such activity, ministry had formed integrated nodal agency (INA), who has ...