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A CRPF jawan was injured in a gun battle between security forces and a terrorist in the Kakriyal belt of Jammu region Wednesday, official sources said. During a cordon and search operation, personnel from the CRPF, police and the Army cornered the terrorist to a house in the Kakriyal belt, they added. As the security personnel narrowed down on the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) sealed a mosque in the Sheetla colony area Wednesday triggering a protest against the authorities. An official, however, said the newly built structure fell within the restricted radius of 300 metres from an Indian Air Force (IAF) ammunition depot. The MCG has also sealed 11 more newly built structures which came ...

A Delhi Police head constable was shot dead allegedly by unidentified men in the Jaitpur area here, an official said Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ram Avtar. He was posted as head constable at south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar Police Station, they said. The incident took place Tuesday night when he was going to a shop near his house in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As many as 30 joint secretaries (JSs) have been appointed in various central government departments as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected Monday by the Centre. IAS officers Piyush Goel and Nidhi Khare will be joint secretaries in the Home Ministry for five years, an order issued by the personnel ministry said. Nidhi Mani Tripathi has ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On Monday night, two miscreants barged into former SMO Rajesh Goyal’s house in Nabha and attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon. They overpowered his wife, talking on the phone, and minutes later decamped with cash and ornaments. They were later nabbed. The mastermind turned out to be a constable with the Intelligence wing of Punjab Police. A ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Girls rescued from an orphanage here were allegedly being drugged and raped. They were given candies and chocolates laced with drugs, says a complaint to the police on Saturday by a five-member team of district officers. The team had raided the “illegal” orphanage run by pastor Anthony on Friday and saved 19 minors, including eight girls. According ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With four days left for the roll out of the Arvind Kejriwal led AAP Government’s ambitious project of doorstep delivery of public services, state cabinet Minister Kailash Gahlot on Thursday held a review meeting with officers of all departments. The residents of the Delhi delivery of various Government services, including driving licence, marriage certificate and ration cards ...

The Delhi government has sanctioned over Rs 150 crore to remodel 94 dispensaries into polyclinics in the national capital. In a written communication to PWD’s Engineer-in-Chief Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, Director General of Health Services Kirti Bhusan said a committee will be constituted to monitor the work on regular basis. “The government has given administrative approval and expenditure sanction of Rs ...

Militants have abducted seven relatives of policemen from various places in south Kashmir, officials said today. Police did not immediately gave any official statement and said they were trying to ascertain reports of abductions. However, officials privy to the development, said that at least seven people, whose family members were working in the Jammu and Kashmir Police, have been picked ...

RJD president and fodder scam convict Lalu Prasad today surrendered before a special CBI court Ranchi on expiry of his provisional bail. Prasad, who reached Ranchi from Patna yesterday, was directed by the Jharkhand High Court to surrender before the CBI court by August 30. After his surrender before Judge S S Prasad, RJD chief’s advocate Prabhat Kumar said his ...