Delhi

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join thousands of volunteers performing yoga asanas in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun to mark the 4th International Yoga Day tomorrow. The event will be held in the picturesque lawns of the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in the lap of the Himalayas. A series of yoga related events are also being organised across the world ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday called off his nine-day sit-in at the lieutenant governor’s office after bureaucrats started attending meetings with AAP ministers, said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Sisodia said several meetings, attended by IAS officers, were held during the day. The bureaucrats have been at loggerheads with the AAP dispensation following the alleged assault on Chief Secretary ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that Uttarakhand government has been working on mission mode on 25 important targets to achieve the goal of New India by 2020. Special Focus is laid on doubling the income of farmers, checking distress migration from hilly areas and Digital Uttarakhand. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat gave detailed information ...

A steady breeze slightly decreased the city’s air pollution levels but the air quality remained in the “severe” category for the fourth day today, monitoring agencies said. There was a dip in the air quality level on Tuesday due to dust storms in western India, particularly Rajasthan, which increased coarser particles in the air, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ...

Arvind Kejriwal and three Delhi ministers were seen sitting in couches and working their phones in photos tweeted on Tuesday morning, after they spent the night at the Lieutenant Governor’s Raj Niwas in protest. One of the ministers, Satyendra Jain, has launched an indefinite fast. The chief minister, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai and Satyendra Jain had gone to ...

An IIT alumni who had completed B.Tech in 2010 from Delhi’s IIT, jumped from the seventh floor of the IIT building this morning. 31-year-old alumnus Anshuman Gupta, on Saturday, went out of his house telling that he was going to meet his friend. But did not name the friend he was meeting. Then, at around 10 in the morning he ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Governor Dr KK Paul has inaugurated a day long seminar on Smart City and Cyber Security at India International Centre, New Delhi. Three hundred people including representatives of Cyber wings of BSG, ITBP, BSF and other security forces and other people associated with cyber security participated in this seminar. In his address, Dr Paul said that cyber ...

After a gap of a decade, there will be no Iftar celebrations at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Ram Nath Kovind has said that Rashtrapati Bhavan being a public building, there would be no religious observances at taxpayer expense. Iftar parties have been traditionally hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan except during the tenure of APJ Abdul Kalam, who was the president ...

The Third Edition of Health Editors’ Conference on Yoga was inaugurated by the Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge), Shripad Yesso Naik at Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga in New Delhi. The Conference was jointly organized by Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga and Press Information Bureau (PIB), Ministry of Information Broadcasting ahead of International Yoga Day, which ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to the Centre and the Uttarakhand Government on a plea seeking a stay on the construction of a road linking Kotdwar to Ramnagar and passing through the Corbett Tiger Reserve. A Bench, headed by acting Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim, sought responses from the Ministry of Environment ...