Uttarkashi, May 27 More than a dozen houses were gutted in a fire that broke out on Monday in Mori block’s Salra village of Uttarkashi district, authorities said. The fire was caused by a short circuit in a house and...
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Dehradun, May 24 Six Kedarnath pilgrims had a narrow escape on Friday as their helicopter developed a technical snag that made it go into a tailspin before a hard-landing metres below the helipad in the mountainous region. Online videos showed...
Chandigarh, May 23 In an attempt to arrest a man who allegedly harassed doctor, police in AIIMS Rishikesh drove a car into a hospital ward. A 26-second viral video showed the police went a step ahead showing unusual keenness...
Nainital, May 22 The Uttarakhand High Court has directed the state government to totally abolish the system of revenue police within a year and hand over areas under its jurisdiction to regular police. Uttarakhand is the only state in the...
Aksheev Thakur New Delhi, May 21 Raging forest fire in Uttarakhand could accelerate Himalayan glacial melt, experts said. More than 1,140 hectares of forest cover has been lost owing to over 1,000 wildfire incidents in the Himalayan state since November...
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Dehradun, May 21 Two doctors of AIIMS, Rishikesh were among five people arrested for allegedly helping candidates, appearing for the Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test for MDs, cheat in lieu of money, police said on Tuesday. Those arrested...
Dehradun, May 20 Two persons, including a woman, died while three others were injured on Monday morning after a car they were travelling in fell into a deep gorge near Shikhar Fall in the Rajpur area here, police said. The...
Dehradun, May 16 The Uttarakhand government on Thursday decided not to allow VIP darshan at the Chardhams—Kedarnath, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Gangotri—through the rest of the month due to the huge rush of devotees at the Himalayan temples. There will be...
Dehradun, May 15 Hoteliers and traders staged protests in Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand on Wednesday against alleged mismanagement of the Chardham yatra. They took out a procession along the highway in the Paligad area of the district under the banner of...
Satya Prakash New Delhi, May 15 Upset over a “very sorry state of affairs” in dealing with forest fires in Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the state Chief Secretary to personally appear before it on May 17 and...
Dehradun, May 10 The Chardham Yatra began on Friday as the doors of Kedarnath and Yamunotri temples in the Garhwal Himalayas were opened for devotees on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya after remaining closed during the winter season. The doors...
Dehradun, May 9 The Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri temples of Uttarakhand will be opened for devotees on Friday after remaining closed during the winter season. The famous temples situated in the Garhwal Himalayas are closed with the onset of winter...
Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, May 9 According to ground reports, five persons lost their lives and as much as 1,300 hectares of land was affected in the hill state of Uttarakhand in recent forest fires. Senior forest official Dhananjai Mohan, who...
Satya Prakash New Delhi, May 8 Five persons have been killed in 398 forest fire incidents in Uttarakhand, where 388 criminal cases have been lodged against 60 persons, the state government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Cloud seeding, rain...
New Delhi, May 8 The Supreme Court on Wednesday said cloud seeding or “depending on rain god” is not the answer to the raging forest fires in Uttarakhand and that authorities will have to take preventive measures to tackle the...
New Delhi, May 6 The Supreme Court said on Monday it will hear on May 8 a plea on forest fires in Uttarakhand where 910 such incidents have occurred since November 1 last year damaging forests in about 1145 hectares....
Dehradun, May 4 With forest fires still raging in Uttarakhand, newly appointed Head of Forest Force Dhananjai Mohan on Saturday asked officials of the department to address all fire alerts on priority and reduce the response time. Uttarakhand reported 18...
New Delhi, May 4 The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has seized cryptocurrency worth more than Rs 130 crore and arrested a Uttarakhand-based man as part of a drugs trafficking-linked money laundering probe initiated on the request of US...
Dehradun, May 4 Five people, including a woman, were killed and another was injured in the early hours of Saturday when their car fell off the road in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie. The car fell about 60 metres down on another road...
Thane, May 4 The police from Maharashtra’s Thane city have arrested a 21-year-old man from Uttarakhand capital Dehradun for allegedly sharing the private pictures of a 13-year-old girl on the Internet, an official said on Saturday. Accused Rohit Kumar, originally...
New Delhi, April 30 The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority for inaction in the misleading advertisements case involving Patanjali Ayurved Limited. Expressing dissatisfaction over the explanation offered by the body, a bench of Justice...
New Delhi, April 29 Uttarakhand drug regulator has suspended manufacturing licences of 14 products made by pharmaceutical companies of yoga guru Ramdev for repeatedly publishing misleading advertisements about their efficacy, a government order showed. The order is the latest setback...
Dehradun, April 28 The firefighting operation in Uttarakhand’s forests with the help of an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter continued for the second day on Sunday with the blaze brought to control in several areas, officials said. Efforts have also...
Dehradun, April 27 An IAF helicopter was pressed into service to extinguish the raging forest fires in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district on Saturday, a day after the flames reached the High Court Colony in the Pines area. The blaze came dangerously...
New Delhi, April 27 The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday arrested a man from Uttarakhand in a money-laundering case linked to dark web-assisted international drugs trafficking, official sources said. The agency’s action came after US anti-narcotics authorities sought India’s assistance to...
Dehradun, April 19 Nearly 11 per cent polling was recorded in the early hours of voting for Lok Sabha elections in Uttarakhand on Friday, poll officials here said. Polling began at 7 am and by 9 am 10.54 per cent...
Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, April 17 With campaigning for the first phase ending on Wednesday, the day marked an important landmark in the seven-phase Lok Sabha election that begin on April 19. As many as 102 constituencies in 21 states and...
Satya Prakash New Delhi, April 16 Facing contempt of court proceedings for publication of ‘misleading’ advertisements, Patanjali Ayurved co-founders Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna on Tuesday tendered unconditional apologies in person with folded hands to the Supreme Court, which said...
Dehradun, April 14 Four people, including two brothers, were killed when their car fell into a river in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district in the early hours of Sunday. The accident occurred on the Rima-Gharamghar motor road, near Chidag, at around 4...
Dehradun, April 9 Eight people, including seven Nepalese nationals, died when their vehicle fell into a 150-foot-deep gorge in Nainital district of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, police said. Two Nepalese nationals were injured in the accident that occurred near Betalghat, they...
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