Tag: Uttarakhand

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday ordered that there can be no landfill sites or garbage dumping within half-a-kilometre area of the Ganga between Haridwar in Uttarakhand and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. The bench also announced a penalty of Rs 50,000 on anyone dumping waste near the river. During the hearing of a […]

Bhubaneswar: Inter-state ATM looters’ gang leader Ajay Choudhury was arrested in Uttarakhand by the Commissionerate Police for looting more than Rs 48 lakh from five ATM machines in Puri, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. Informing newsmen about the arrest at the DGP camp office in Bhubaneswar, Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh said teams of the […]

Bhubaneswar: As part of the Biju Patnaik Himalaya Abhiyan-2016, 15 Odia mountaineers will begin their expedition from September 20. The team comprising nine male and six female members will set off its expedition to scale 5819 metre Rudugera mountain peak in the Himalayan region in Uttarakhand. The expedition will conclude on October 5. To be […]

Lucknow: As part of the ongoing Indo-US defence cooperation, a joint military training exercise “Yudh Abhyas 2018” will be conducted in the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand’s Chaubattia from September 16-29, a spokesman of the Central Command said on Monday. This will be the 14th edition of the joint military exercise hosted alternately by […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium is understood to have recommended senior woman lawyer Indu Malhotra and Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court K M Joseph, who was part of the bench that quashed the imposition of President’s rule in Uttarakhand in 2016, for appointment as judges of the apex court. Malhotra, if appointed, […]

New Delhi: Tremors were felt in Delhi and NCR at around 8.45 p.m. on Wednesday that lasted for a few seconds following a moderate earthquake in Uttarakhand. According to the Centre for Seismology, an earthquake of 5.5 magnitude was reported in Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand. “The epicentre is in Uttarakhand, the tremors felt in Delhi and […]

Dehradun: The Yamunotri Highway in Uttarakhand continues to remain blocked for the third consecutive day on Thursday by the debris of landslides, an official said. More than 800 people are stranded. While authorities are working to clear the debris, the official said it could take one more day for the traffic to resume. The pilgrims […]

Dehradun: Four persons were killed and 10 others, including six soldiers, went missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district on Monday, police said. The disaster occurred near Malpa, washing away 14 persons. Four bodies have been recovered but the six soldiers and four others remained untraced. “One JCO (Junior Commissioned Officer) […]

Dehradun: Heavy rains have disrupted the annual Badrinath and Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage in Uttarakhand as routes have been blocked at many places due to landslides, an official said on Saturday. The Badrinath highway has been shut at the Lambagad area in Chamoli district. The 14th group of pilgrims to the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has been […]

New Delhi: Chinese troops transgressed almost a kilometre into Indian territory in Barahoti of Uttarakhand last week, even as a stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops is on in Doklam in the Sikkim sector. While the Indian Army has refused to comment on the incident, an official said that transgressions occur due to different perceptions […]

Dehradun: At least 24 persons were killed and eight others injured when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand late on Tuesday, police said. The accident took place near Nalupani in Uttarkashi district when a bus full of pilgrims from Indore, Madhya Pradesh were returning from the Gangotri shrine. Three […]

Dehradun: The number of pilgrims for the annual ‘Char Dham Yatra’ has significantly increased in 2017, an official of the Uttarakhand government said on Wednesday. Post the 2013 flash floods that killed thousands, the pilgrimage had evoked lukewarm response over the past few years. The natural calamity had left the pilgrims worried about their safety. […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways will commence this week the final location survey for providing rail connectivity to the four important Hindu shrines in the hills of Uttarakhand at an estimated cost of over Rs 40,000 crore. The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a railway PSU, has been entrusted with the task of undertaking the […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said those living in rented houses will also get free water and subsidised electricity if the AAP comes to power in the civic corporations. “Those staying in rented houses don’t get benefit of low water and electricity tariff. After municipal elections, we will make sure even […]

Dehradun: The BJP on Saturday stormed back to power in Uttarakhand with a three-fourth majority by winning 57 seats in the 70-member assembly. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “tsunami” swept away Chief Minister Harish Rawat who lost from both the seats he contested: Haridwar Rural and Kichcha. Rawat lost to Yatiswaranand of the BJP by 12,278 votes […]