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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The national capital has been brought under a ground-to-air security cover in view of the Republic Day celebrations and the visit of 10 ASEAN leaders for a high-profile summit here, a senior police official said today. Thousands of armed personnel have been keeping a tight vigil for Republic Day in Delhi and in border areas of the ...

The Cross-LoC bus service resumed through Poonch district today after being suspended last week, despite the ongoing skirmishes along the Line of Control (LoC) and the India-Pak border. Nine people, including five Jammu and Kashmir residents, returned to India, while 20 used the service to go back to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a senior official said. Last week, on January 18, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday described President Ram Nath Kovind’s order disqualifying 20 of its MLAs for holding offices of profit is unconstitutional. It is dangerous for democracy. The president today accepted the Election Commission’s recommendation to disqualify the 20 AAP MLAs. Madanlal, one of the 20 disqualified MLAs, said all hopes hinge upon the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday accepted the Election Commission’s recommendation to disqualify 20 MLAs of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party for holding offices of profit. A notification issued by the law ministry quoted the president as saying that in the light of the opinion expressed by the Election Commission (EC), the 20 members of the Delhi ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Seventeen people are feared dead after a fire ripped through a two-storey factory in outer Delhi’s Bawana industrial area this evening, a Delhi Fire Services official said. The police have so far confirmed nine deaths in the fire. The official said, the blaze, which started from a firecracker factory, has been brought under control. The rescue operations are underway ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Supreme court has upheld the Delhi high court’s decision on Friday. In which rape victim was challenging the court verdict that had acquitted the Peepli live’ co-director Mahmood Farooqui of the rape charges. A bench comprised of Justices SA Bobde and L Nageswara has rejected her plea on the ground that the High court has “extremely well ...

Patna will soon be amongst the few major cities along river Ganga to have 100 percent sewage treatment capacity to ensure that no waste water gets discharged into the river. The National Mission for Clean Ganga has put in place a comprehensive sewage management plan for the city, that will replace its existing, defunct system with one that will take ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Telecom regulator TRAI today recommended allowing mobile telephony and Internet services for passengers during air travel in the country through both satellite and terrestrial network. “The authority recommends that both, Internet and Mobile Communication on Aircraft (MCA) service should be permitted as In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) in the Indian airspace,” Trai said in its recommendations on ‘In-Flight Connectivity’ ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme court had set aside the appointment of a woman teacher who joined Kendriya Vidyalaya 21 years ago by taking the benefit of reservation on the ground that her husband belongs to Scheduled Caste. The bench comprising of Justice Arun Mishra and M M Shantanagoudar held that a person’s caste is not determined by marriage but ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to resolve their differences, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today met the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court who had hurled several accusations against him including on the issue of allocation of PILs of sensitive nature. The apex court sources said the Chief Justice met the four judges –Justices J Chelameswar, ...