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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Over 300 challans were issued today under the ‘Clean Air Campaign’ – a joint venture of the Environment ministry and the Delhi government to combat air pollution in the national capital. Under the campaign, 70 teams comprising officials from Centre and Delhi government, municipal corporations, pollution control boards and others have been formed to monitor causes of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Three soldiers and the daughter of an armyman were injured when a group of terrorists stormed into the Army camp at Sunjawan, on the outskirts of Jammu city, on Jammu-Pathankot national highway. The condition of one of the injured is said to be serious. IGP Jammu told the media person that terrorists involved in the attack are ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Delhi High Court today decided to transfer from the joint registrar to a court the ongoing cross-examination of Arun Jaitley in a defamation suit filed by him against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and five other party leaders. Justice Manmohan said the cross examination of the Union finance minister be done by a single judge of the high court. He ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court today gave a stern warning to those obstructing the ongoing sealing drive in Delhi and said that any interference in the functioning of court-mandated Monitoring Committee would amount to contempt. Observing that “rule of law must be enforced”, the court took a strong note of the committee’s report, which said that during the sealing ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The NHRC has taken cognisance of a complaint filed by three children of Army officers alleging violation of human rights of the force’s personnel in recent incidents of stone-pelting in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement today, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said the complainants have also sought its “intervention for an appropriate enquiry into the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU NITI Aayog released today a comprehensive Health Index report titled, “Healthy States, Progressive India” at a function in the capital today. The report ranks states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other. The report was released jointly by the CEO, NITI ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU All coaches of the Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto trains will soon have four CCTV cameras each to ensure passenger safety, a railways official said. Twenty-three pairs of Rajdhani, 26 pairs of Shatabdi and 18 pairs of Duronto trains would have the facility, he said yesterday. “All Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto train coaches are to be fitted with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Lashkar-e-Taiba militants today staged a daring attack outside a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to free a Pakistani terrorist from custody, killing a policeman and critically injuring another, police said. Naveed Jutt, the LeT militant from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, managed to escape with the assailants, police officials ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Delhi High Court today upheld the conviction of seven Uttarakhand policemen for the infamous Ranbir Singh fake encounter that took place in Dehradun in 2009. At the same time, the high court set aside the conviction and life term of 11 other policemen who were also held guilty in the fake encounter case. A special CBI ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A lawyer’s remark that ‘nari narak ka dwar hai’ (women are the gateway to hell) today drew the ire of the Delhi High Court which warned him of stern action. The statement was made by the lawyer who was representing a Delhi-based ashram of Virender Dev Dixit, facing a CBI probe for allegedly confining women and girls. ...