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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Delhi Metro’s Mundka-Bahadurgarh section and said his government’s priority is to build convenient, comfortable and affordable urban transport systems in cities. Inaugurating the latest section via video conference, he said there was a direct link between connectivity and development. “Our government brought out a policy relating to metros. This is ...

Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and the BJP will never allow it to be disintegrated from the country, party president Amit Shah today said during his first visit to the state after the saffron party withdrew support from the PDP-led government. The saffron party chief also claimed that J&K is part of India due to the ...

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 ...

Jammu and Kashmir was today placed under Governor’s rule for the fourth time in the last one decade after the BJP withdrew support to its alliance partner PDP, prompting Mehbooba Mufti to resign as the chief minister. A Home Ministry spokesman said “the President has approved imposition of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.” The political developments ...

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) ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Police today arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of veteran journalist Shujaat Bukhari and two of his PSOs, Kashmir’s top police officer announced today. The suspect has been identified as Zubair Qadri, Inspector General (IG) Kashmir Swayam Prakash Pani said at a hurriedly called press conference. He said Qadri was seen in the video ...

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 ...