Tag: Uttarakhand

New Delhi: The government has begun the process for registration of pilgrims for this years Kailash Mansarovar Yatra which will be held from June 8 to September 8 through two routes. An External Affairs Ministry release said on Tuesday that the registration for the yatra has begun from April 9 and the last date is […]

Dehradun: At least 58 per cent of Uttarakhand’s 78.56 lakh voters cast their votes to seal the fate of 52 candidates in the fray for the hill state’s five Lok Sabha constituencies where the battle was mainly between archrivals BJP and Congress. Medium to brisk polling was recorded in most polling booths in all five […]

Dehradun: The doors of Badrinath temple nestling in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand were thrown open for pilgrims on Friday after performing all Vedic rituals. The idol of Lord Badri (Vishnu) was installed at the sanctum sanctorum of the temple after it was brought in a religious procession amid chanting of slogans such as “Jai […]

Dehradun: Five days ahead of the election results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning offered prayers at the Kedarnath shrine nestled in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand. Early in the day, Modi arrived at Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport and took a helicopter to Kedarnath. He was wearing a grey attire with a pahari cap and […]

Dehradun: Two engineering students drowned in Nainital’s Garudtal lake in Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday. Akshay Dharamwal (21) and Ritesh Verma (21), both natives of the hill state, had gone to Garudtal for a picnic on Saturday evening along with four friends. However, the duo went into deep water and drowned. The two were B.Tech […]

Dehradun: In less than a month, BJP leader Uma Bharti has returned to the sylvan surroundings of Uttarakashi district in Uttarakhand in search of peace and started meditation at Nachiketa Tal. Superintendent of Police (SP) Uttarkashi Pankaj Bhatt confirmed that Bharti was in Nachiketa Tal since Sunday. “We have provided security as per the norms,” […]

Pithoragarh: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Sunday recovered seven bodies believed to be that of foreign mountaineers who had gone missing on way to the Nanda Devi East peak in Uttarakhand last month, an officer said. A 10-member ITBP team of climbers dug out the seven bodies, including a woman mountaineer, which were buried […]

Dehradun: Uttarakhand has been adjudged as one of the country’s five best performing states in ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, a central scheme aimed at addressing declining child sex ratio and issues of women empowerment. The state will be felicitated, along with the other selected states, in recognition of its consistent performance in respect of sex […]

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government has begun efforts to produce green power from the leaves of pine trees – known as pine needles – in a bid to reduce their quantity in the jungles as they catch fire very quickly. For the past few years, forest fires have been creating havoc in the jungles of Uttarakhand, […]

New Tehri (U’khand): Nine children died and 10 were injured when a van taking them to school fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Garhwal district on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred on the Pratap Nagar-Kangsali-Madan Negi road near Lambgaon. The van was on way to the Angels International School, he said Nine school […]

British adventurer Bear Grylls hosted the popular Discovery Channel show “Man Vs Wild” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was aired yesterday. The special episode of the show was shot at Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand during which PM Modi remained calm in the face of the adversities that nature apparently tossed at him. […]

Dehradun: The Mansarovar Yatra has been halted in Uttrakhand after heavy rain washed away a portion of the road connecting Tanakpur-Champawat. Many of the pilgrims were forced to return, an official said. A total of 56 pilgrims were headed to Mansarovar on this route. As per the officials, six of eight pilgrims, who left the […]

New Delhi: At least two people have died after an avalanche hit Uttarakhand’s Chamoli Garhwal district near India-China border at around 4 p.m. on Friday, the Indian Army said. The…

Berhampur: In a unique awareness march, Onkar Singh Dhillon, who had embarked on a nationwide journey on foot demanding to stop the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), reached Berhampur this morning. The 47-year-old resident of Uttarakhand started his journey last year in the month of August and has set his routes through Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, […]

Mumbai: Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar is over-the-moon with her latest directorial “Chhapaak” as she says the movie has succeeded to serve its “purpose” after Uttarakhand announced pension for acid attack survivors in the state following the release. On Sunday, she took to Twitter, where she shared a news headline, which read: “Uttarakhand announces pension for acid […]