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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Stepping up its Dalit outreach, the BJP-led NDA government will now push for reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotion in government jobs and may bring an ordinance. Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who has emerged as the key spokesperson on Dalit issues, said the government would move the apex court for the repeal of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two Jammu and Kashmir BJP ministers, who had attended a rally in support of the Kathua rape accused, on Friday resigned from the Mehbooba Mufti government. Forest Minister Lal Singh Chaudhary and Industries Minister Chander Prakash Ganga had also backed the demand by the Hindu Ekta Manch (HEM) for a CBI probe into the rape and murder ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal today started an indefinite hunger strike demanding government to take concrete actions to curb sexual crimes against women. The hunger strike by Maliwal comes in wake of the recent incidents of rape in Kathua and Unnao. Yesterday, she had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the same. ...

A 32-year-old woman was stabbed nearly a dozen times in South Delhi on Wednesday evening, allegedly over Rs. 5 lakh she had given to a friend. She was rushed to the Apollo Hospital in Jasola, where she is currently in critical condition. The woman, Neetu Sharma, was seen on a two-wheeler with a friend before she was discovered lying in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The seven BJP MPs from Delhi, including the party’s state unit president Manoj Tiwari, will observe a fast tomorrow as part of the party’s protest over the recent washout of the Budget session of Parliament. Tiwari, however, will continue his fast as an indefinite hunger strike against the Delhi government’s alleged “partiality” over developmental works. The Delhi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The CBSE exam started late at few centres in the national capital today as many of them expressed inability to follow the new system of printing encrypted question papers, e-mailed to them, at the school itself. The board officials, however, assured that the students would be given extra time to ensure the delay doesn’t cause them any ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister  Trivendra Singh Rawat called upon Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Sunday. He held talks with the Union Minister on the issues of opening of an additional training and recruitment centre of para-military force in the state. Chief Minister Rawat said that majority of people from Uttarakhand are in armed services and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has got a reply from Google on the details it had sought pertaining to the e-mail address from where the CBSE chairperson was sent a mail about the Class 10 mathematics paper being leaked, an official privy to the probe said. A senior police officer said they had got a reply from ...

The violence in Bihar after Ramnavami was still fresh in the minds of people when once again the environment has worsened there. There has been a lot of clashes between the two communities in Nawada of Bihar to in relation to breaking of Lord Hanuman idol. Many vehicles have been broken in violence. Police have fired 10 rounds so far ...

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav has been sentenced to seven years in jail in the fourth case linked to the fodder scam. The former Bihar chief minister, who was convicted by a court in Jharkhand’s Ranchi on Monday, has also been fined Rs. 30 lakh. The fodder scam involves the embezzlement of government funds in Bihar meant for cattle ...