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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The union government on Friday approved a draft law under which the practice of giving instant triple talaq would be made illegal and would attract a jail term of three years for the husband. This was confirmed by a government official. The draft ‘Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill’ was considered by the Union cabinet ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU BJP president Amit Shah today made his parliamentary debut, occupying a front row seat in the Rajya Sabha on the opening day of the winter session. Shah, 53, who was elected to the Upper House of Parliament in August, walked in just minutes before the proceedings began. Members of the treasury benches, including several ministers, stood up to ...

An Army jawan on Thursday shot himself dead with his service rifle while on duty in the RS Pura border belt of Jammu district, police said. Lance Naik Parvesh Kumar Mishra (34) of the 118 Medium Regiment shot himself dead with his INSAS rifle around 0645 hours. He was on duty near Chhalla village in the RS Pura police station ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two army men went missing after a snow avalanche hit army post in Nowgam sector of Kupwara district today, reports said. According to the sources, two army men of 20 Dogra came under the avalanche. Sources said that the army has launched a rescue operation to trace the missing men. Earlier, three soldiers of the Indian Army ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Tuesday. During the meeting, the progress of Char Dham All Weather Road was discussed. The CM also requested to convert some of the state highways along with the Ramnagar-Karanprayag State Highway to National Highway. The CM apprised the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari has said that deliberations and outcome of seminars and conferences should be visible on the ground and benefit the farmers and common man. Inaugurating the 7th International Ground Water Conference (IGWC) on Ground Water vision 2030 in New Delhi Gadkari said that Water, Power, Transport and Communication are the four ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today pitched for “automatic suspension” of members who rush to the well of the House to disrupt proceedings and said the names of disruptors who break rules should be put in the public domain. Ensuring quorum in the House is not the accountablity of the government and the treasury bench only and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met the Union Law and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday. The Union Minister said that the Center Government wanted to open BPOs in small towns. The Central Government is trying to provide employment opportunities through BPO in Uttarakhand. The Central Government is ready to provide internet and networking with the ...

A journalist of a Hindi daily was beaten up by liquor mafia in Bihar’s Nawada district, police said today. The incident occurred when Vikas Kumar alias Sonu, working in the newspaper ‘Hindustan’ had gone to cover the raid on liquor mafia by a police team in Rajauli Dih area of the district last evening, Rajauli police station SHO Awadhesh Prasad ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A CBI court has pronounced death sentence to businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his aide Surendra Koli in one of the Nithari serial rape-murder cases on Friday. With this prouncement Pandher has been awarded death sentence in ninth case by the CBI court, so far. Special CBI Judge PK Tiwari noted that Koli and Pandher were involved ...