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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Indian Army has decided to drastically cut down its supplies from state-owned ordnance factories. This move is to ensure that the money spent is instead used to procure adequate stock of critical ammunition and spares for a short intense war. Ordnance factories’ products supplied to Army will be brought down from 94 to 50% as the Centre ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A day after media report that file related to Nirav Modi burnt in recent fire incident , the government on Sunday said the records related to the investigation into the Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi case were safe as they were transferred out before a fire broke out in the Income Tax Office in Mumbai. The clarification ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As Congress approached the Election Commission on Sunday over claims of 60 lakh “fake voters” in the voters’ list in Madhya Pradesh, Election Commission immediately formed two teams to probe the allegations. The have been asked to submit a report by June 7. The EC teams will visit the Narela, Bhojpur, Seoni-Malwa and Hoshangabad assembly seats to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Actor and film producer Arbaaz Khan has told the police he lost more than Rs 2.75 crore in betting on IPL matches, sources said on Saturday. Khan was summoned by the anti-extortion cell of the Thane police in the morning for questioning over his links with bookie Sonu Jalan, who was arrested last month. Police sources said Khan ...

Shimla Police today claimed to have busted a sex racket with the arrest of a man and a woman from a guest house in the Himachal Pradesh capital. The police also arrested a customer and rescued a 19-year-old woman who was allegedly brought to the state capital for flesh trade by the woman who ran the racket, an official said. ...

A textbook used by Gujarat board to teach Sanskrit in Class XII has come under fire for stating that it was Lord Ram who abducted Sita and not Ravana. A paragraph on page 106 of the ‘Introduction to Sanskrit Literature’, the book mentions: “Here the poet has brought out a beautiful picture of the character of Rama with his original ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Election Commission today initiated a probe into the large-scale failure of paper trail machines during the May 28 bypoll to Lok Sabha and assembly seats. It has sent two teams to Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra to trace the reasons behind high cases of defects and failure in the voter verifiable paper trial ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Tabassum Hasan, whose victory in Kairana has given strength to opposition unity in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2019 general election, today became the first Muslim MP from the most populous state in the 16th Lok Sabha. Hasan (48) defeated her nearest BJP rival Mriganka Singh by a huge margin of 44,600 votes as the Rashtriya Lok ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Three friends in Jaipur have secured the top three positions in the Common All India Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2018, the results of which were announced today. Aman Garg secured the first position with 159 score, whereas his friends Devansh Kaushik and Anmol Gupta came second and third respectively with 157.5 score each. All three prepared for ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP today suffered a stunning electoral upset with the joint opposition candidates posting victories in the bypolls for Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly constituencies. Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Tabassum Hasan won the Kairana seat by a margin of 44,618 votes, while Naeemul Hasan of the Samajwadi Party bagged the Noorpur Assembly seat by a ...