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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla on Wednesday took a dig at PDP-BJP coalition, saying the government has ‘failed to meet even basic minimum expectations of the people’. He said ‘administrative inertia’ has terribly affected the life of J&K.“The government is a non-starter as it has not yet moulded itself into governing mode”, Bhalla said while addressing a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today met several union ministers during his visit to Delhi and flagged several issues related to the state. While calling on the Union Minister For road, Transport and Highways, Water resources, Nitin Gadkari, the deputy chief Minister raised the issue of conservation and protection of River Tawi River in Jammu city. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Income-Tax Department has unearthed undisclosed income of Rs 7,961 crore in between november, 2016 to March-2017. It was informed by the treasury bench during ongoing winter session of Parliament. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pon Radhakrishnan said the department, during this period, conducted searches on around 900 groups, ...

The body of an HRD Ministry official was found at the railway tracks in Palam, nearly three days after he went missing, police said today. Jeetendra Kumar Jha, an Indian Civil Accounts Service officer, went missing from Dwarka on Monday after he had gone for a morning walk, they said. His body was yesterday found at the railway tracks in ...

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 ...