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Voting for the penultimate phase of the nine-phased Panchayat polls is underway Saturday at over 2,600 polling stations in Jammu and Kashmir. Polling began at 8 am at 2,633 polling stations – 550 in Kashmir division and 2083 in Jammu division, officials said. They said 361 polling stations have been categorized as hypersensitive with 171 in Kashmir division and 190 ...

A class 7 student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in west Delhi’s Inderpuri area, police said Thursday. Her mother suspects that the girl might have taken the extreme step because she was scolded by a school teacher. However, the police said an investigation was underway for ascertaining the reason. The girl committed suicide at her house ...

It was the season’s coldest day in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 8.4 degrees Celsius Wednesday, a notch below the season’s average. Delhiites woke up to a chill in the air as mercury dipped a bit further from its reading on Tuesday. However, there was high level of humidity in the morning, recorded at 95 per ...

Delhi’s air quality was in the ‘very poor’ category Friday due to unfavourable meteorological conditions that slowed dispersion of pollutants, with forecast of “significant deterioration” in pollution levels over the weekend. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the overall air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was 358. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has caused a stir with his comment that “if he had looked towards the centre,” he would have been compelled to install in the state a government led by Sajad Lone, who was backed by the BJP. “Had I looked towards Delhi (the centre), then I would have been forced ...

Three militants, including one from an ISIS offshoot, and a soldier were killed while two jawans suffered injuries in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam and Pulwama districts on Tuesday, police said. In the Kulgam encounter, two militants of the terror group Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed, while the one killed in Pulwama belonged to the Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand has been awarded among the best states at the 38th India International Trade Fair, Pragati Maidan New Delhi. The theme of this year’s event was the rural MSME based on which the products were displayed at the fair. In this event, the Kedarnath reconstruction works were displayed prominently at the Pavilion of Uttarakhand. Apart from this, ...

In a major success, security forces Friday shot dead six Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants during an encounter in forest area of Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “In one of the most successful operations this year, six Lashkar militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Wagahama area of Bijbehara in Anantnag district,” a police spokesman said. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On a day of hectic political developments, Governor Satya Pal Malik this evening dissolved the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly following rival claims to form the government. The Governor passed an order dissolving the Assembly in exercise of the powers conferred upon him under Section 53 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir. The dissolution followed rival ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A man threw chilli powder at Arvind Kejriwal outside his office in the Delhi Secretariat on Tuesday, an attack the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) described as “politically motivated” while asserting that the BJP is hatching a conspiracy in collusion with Delhi Police to attack the chief minister. Even as the man behind the attack – Anil Kumar ...