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...
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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...
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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...
Nainital, April 8 Nearly three dozen shops were burned down on Monday in a fire in the famous Garjiya temple complex in Ramnagar here, police said. There is no report of any loss of life in the incident, they said,...
Chandigarh, April 5 Super 30 fame Padma Shree Anand Kumar, a celebrated mathematician and academician encouraged the city youth and answered their career and life-related queries at an event in Lucknow. As a distinguished educator, he not only inspired the...
Rudrapur, April 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi for his remark suggesting there would be a “conflagration” in the country if the BJP gets a third term. Kick-starting his Lok Sabha campaign...
New Tehri, March 31 Three persons, including a woman, were killed and 11 others were injured on Sunday when their vehicle fell into a gorge in the Tehri district. The incident occurred near Duwakotidhar on the Gaja-Dandachali-Chamba motor road in...
Rudrapur, March 30 Five people, including a retired IAS officer, have been booked in connection with the killing of the dera kar seva chief of the Nanakmatta Sahib Gurdwara in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district, police said on Saturday. Those...
Dehradun, March 29 Uttarakhand DGP Abhinav Kumar on Friday visited the Nanakmatta Sahib Gurdwara in Udham Singh Nagar district where two assailants gunned down dera kar seva chief of the shrine Baba Tarsem Singh a day ago. “I inspected the...
Dehradun/Rudrapur, March 28 The dera kar seva chief of Nanakmatta Sahib Gurdwara in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district was shot dead Thursday on the shrine’s premises by two men on a motorcycle, police said. Baba Tarsem Singh was rushed to...
Dehradun, March 15 Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s former private secretary P C Upadhyay has been arrested for defrauding a pharmaceutical company owner of over Rs 50 lakh on the pretext of getting him an e-tender, police said on Friday....
Gurugram, March 9 An woman from Uttarakhand was allegedly thrashed by the bouncers of a club here police said on Friday. The woman claimed the bouncers “tried to strangle” her and threw her out “without any reason,” they said. The...
Dehradun, March 8 An FIR has been lodged against BJP MLA Mahesh Jeena and four unidentified people for allegedly misbehaving with Dehradun Municipal Commissioner Gaurav Kumar and threatening him recently. The alleged incident had led to a strike by municipal...
Satya Prakash New Delhi, March 6 Amazed at their audacity, the Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed former Uttarakhand Forest Minister Harak Singh Rawat and former Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Kishan Chand for allowing illegal construction and felling of trees at...
New Delhi, March 6 The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on former Uttarakhand forest minister and Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat and ex-divisional forest officer Kishan Chand for allowing illegal construction and felling of trees in the Corbett...
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