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Two college students died and three of their friends were injured when a late night joy-ride turned tragic in south Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar on Sunday. The police said 19-year-old Diksha Dadu was driving under the influence of alcohol when she rammed into a traffic pole. The accident took place at around 2.45 am. The airbags of the Hyundai i20 car ...

A suspended BJP leader on the run since Saturday after being accused of crushing nine schoolchildren to death with his SUV while drunk has surrendered in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, police said today. Manoj Baitha had become a major source of embarrassment for the BJP, which rules Bihar in alliance with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) as the opposition ...

Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have issued a low danger avalanche warning for high-altitude areas in the state, including the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, and advised people to take precautionary measures. On the basis of information received from Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), low danger avalanche warning has been issued for various high-altitude areas, an official spokesman said. The warning ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The CBI on Thursday registered a case and booked five persons on charges of uploading and circulating child pornography through a Whatsapp group that had 119 members from both India and abroad. Calling the activity a “global crime”, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) busted the racket on the basis of intelligence inputs. The members of the ...

In a bizarre statement, former Bihar health minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son Tej Pratap Yadav has accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi of letting ghosts loose in his government bungalow. Citing this reason, the young RJD leader has even vacated the residence. Talking to mediapersons on the issue, he ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash was allegedly manhandled by AAP MLAs at Chief Minister’s residence on Monday late night. Although chief minister office has outrightly rejected the allegation. Meanwhile chief secretary has lodged police complaint against the MLA. The incident took place on Monday night in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Home Ministry today sought a report from Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on an alleged assault on the chief secretary of the city government, an official said. In a communication, the ministry asked the LG to submit a detailed report on the alleged attack on bureaucrat Anshu Prakash at the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Panic griped the residents of Shambhu area in Rajpura after three persons were reported dead and 11 injured in a suspected ammonia gas leak from Himalaya Fresh Protein Factory Pvt Limited. The injured were admitted to Government Rajindra Hospital. The incident took place at around 1.30 am. Before the gas leak, a blast was heard suggesting that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The excise department of the Delhi government has made it mandatory for liquor vends to install CCTV cameras, a move aimed at keeping a tab on all activities outside the outlets. The department has asked all licensees to give a declaration in writing that they have installed CCTV cameras outside the liquor shops for renewal of their ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has said that the health outcomes cannot be achieved by the government institutions alone and the private sector health facilities have to supplement governmental efforts. He expressed these views after inaugurating the State-of-the-art Rainbow Children’s Hospital, here in Delhi on Wednesday. He said that the childhood malnutrition continues to ...