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Delhi’s metro service, which is often referred to as its ‘Life Line’, can be stalled in the next 24 hours. The reason behind this is that 9000 non-executive employees of Delhi Metro have announced an indefinite hunger strike since June 29. If the staff’s hunger commences, then the Delhi Metro service is in danger of being stalled. Millions of passengers ...

Amid tight security, the first batch of nearly 3000 pilgrims today left the base camp here for the annual 60-day pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas. Advisors to the Governor K Vijay Kumar and B B Vyas flagged off a fleet of 107 vehicles and four motorcycles carrying the pilgrims from the heavily-guarded Bhagwati base ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A Delhi court has rejected a man’s plea to set aside an order directing him to pay Rs 15,000 as monthly maintenance to his estranged wife and son in a domestic violence case, saying a man is duty bound to maintain his family. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar II upheld a magisterial court order directing the man ...

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) ...