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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 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In the wake of the drubbing faced by the BJP in the Assembly elections, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief and former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha Wednesday said countdown of the saffron party had begun. His statement comes two days after he severed ties with the BJP and resigned from the Union council of ministers, accusing Prime ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday suspended the memberships of former Union minister M J Akbar and ex-Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal over allegations of sexual misconduct. The Guild had sought the views of its Executive Committee (EC) on what action should be taken against Akbar, a dormant member at present and one of its past presidents, ...

The Congress in Chhattisgarh will hold its legislature party meeting here on Wednesday to decide on the next chief minister of the state. Congress’ Lok Sabha member Tamradhwaj Sahu, who successfully contested the Assembly election from Durg Rural seat, state party chief Bhupesh Baghel and senior leader T S Singhdeo are front-runners for the top post. The Congress registered a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Five-time Chief Minister of Mizoram, Lal Thanhawla, who contested from Champhai South and Serchhip, has lost both the seats. While he lost Champhai to Mizo National Front’s (MNF) TJ Lalnuntluanga, Serchhip was snatched by Zoram People’s Movement’s (ZPM) chief ministerial candidate Lalduhoma. The 76-year-old Congress leader has been ruling the state since December 2008. In the 2013 ...

Agni V, a long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, was successfully launched from a canister on a road mobile launcher at the Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha, yesterday. The launch operations were carried out and monitored by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) in presence of Scientists from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and other associated ...