Dehradun: The Uttarakhand police have arrested a Congress leader and three policemen for allegedly robbing a bag containing Rs one crore, a top police official said on Wednesday. Director General of Police (Law and Order) Ashok Kumar said all the four arrested on Tuesday night have been identified as Congress[Read More…]
Dehradun: In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boarding school student was brutally killed with cricket bats and wickets by senior students. According to police, the school management, hurriedly buried the boy’s body inside the campus after doctors declared him dead. Reportedly, there was a delay in taking the boy to[Read More…]
Uttarakhand’s health department has issued a notice to food aggregator apps Swiggy and Zomato for serving non-vegetarian food in certain restricted areas in Haridwar. Reportedly, Haridwar municipal corporation prohibit the sale of non-vegetarian food items and meat products within city limits, including Jawalapur, Har-ki-Pauri, Kankhal, Kharkhari, Motichur and Haripur areas. However, both[Read More…]
Dehradun: Uttarakhand poll officials, here Sunday, reviewed the preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections after the Election Commission announced that polling for all the five seats will be held on April 11 in the first phase. The elections will be held in single phase to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.[Read More…]
Dehradun: Life will never be the same for Mange Ram (38) of Balupur village in Haridwar, a survivor of the hooch tragedy that claimed more than 100 lives in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Though Ram, the only breadwinner of his family, survived the tragedy, he lost his vision. The blindness[Read More…]
Bajrang Dal members are planning to shoot videos of couples involving in “obscene activities” in public in Dehradun on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Videos of harassers as well as stalkers will also be shot after which it will be submitted to police. Reportedly, the organisation has plans of deploying[Read More…]
Lucknow/Dehradun: The death toll in the moonshine tragedy in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand rose to 97 on Sunday even as 215 people were arrested in a sweeping police crackdown on illicit liquor in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. Simultaneously, as the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) blamed[Read More…]
2019 shall be remembered as the year that honoured unsung heroes from the crowd of commons. After inspiring story of Odisha’s Padma Shri ‘Chai Wala’ who imparts free education to poor kids from his meagre earnings from tea stall, here comes another epitome of humankind, Friederike Irina Bruning who was[Read More…]
Nainital: Uttarakhand High Court has ordered the state forest department to remove the Rishikesh ashram of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. A bench of Justice Manoj Tiwari gave the green signal for vacating the ashram located at Munni Ki Reti in Rishikesh. On Friday, the honorary court found out that the[Read More…]
UTET 2018 Admit Card update: Uttarakhand Board of School Education has released the UTET 2018 Admit Card. While Uttarakhand Board of School Education will conduct the Uttarakhand Teacher Eligibility Test (UTET) on December 14, 2018, Candidates appearing for the examination can easily download the admit card from the official site[Read More…]
In an effort to promote ‘Gotra’ (clan lineage), the Uttarakhand Government plans to to offer ‘gotra tourism’ packages to tourists. Announcing the plan a few days ago, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the idea is to encourage visitors to come to the Himalayan state to update their family records, visit places associated[Read More…]
New Delhi: Over 200 students from National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand (NITUK) has reached Delhi on Tuesday to raise their demands for safer and well-equipped campus. The protesting students have approached Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) Secretary, but the deadlock continued as the strike entered the 57th day.[Read More…]
A newly wedded wife and her family claimed that her husband, identified as Mayank Rautela, who had tied knots with her in court two months ago, was secretly marrying another woman in Nainital. On receiving information about groom marrying another woman, the complainant and her family reached the wedding spot[Read More…]
Sunil Uniyal Gama, a BJP candidate who has been engaged in jobs such as selling paan and chowmein won the Dehradun Municipal Corporation seat to become a Mayor. Sunil defeated Congress’ Dinesh Agarwal by a whopping margin of 30,000 votes. In an interview to a newspaper, he said, “It is only[Read More…]
The 84 urban local bodies, which went to polls on Sunday, include seven municipal corporations, 39 municipal councils, and 38 nagar panchayats. Uttarakhand, these are the Results for Mayor/Chairman (Total: 84 seats): Results declared – 83 BJP – 34, Congress – 25, Independent – 23, BSP -1 Uttarakhand, these are the Trends/Results[Read More…]
Uttarakhand Municipal Election Results: Independent candidates have won more number of mayor posts than the Congress and BJP in Uttarakhand civic polls. Tanakpur – Vipin Kumar (Independent) Ukhimath – Vijay Singh (BJP) Champawat – Vijay Verma (Congress) Gaja – Meena Khati (BJP) Banbasa – Renu Agarwal (Independent) Chinyalisaur – Bina[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: Uttarakhand, these are the Results for Mayor/Chairman (Total: 84 seats): Results declared – 83 BJP – 34, Congress – 25, Independent – 23, BSP -1 Uttarakhand, these are the Trends/Results for Ward-Members (Total: 1,064 seats): Trends available so far – 37 BJP – 19; Congress – 14, Independent – 4[Read More…]
A widow pension scam has been busted in Uttar Pradesh where at least 22 women with alive husbands had been receiving widow pension under a government scheme. The matter came to light after one Sandeep Kumar in Batsganj village, noticed a message from the bank on his wife’s phone around[Read More…]
Dehradun: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday celebrated Diwali with the personnel of Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), mandated to guard 3,488 km Sino-India border, in Uttarakhand and said that India was taking great strides forward in the defence sector. The Prime Minister reached Harshil village at around 7.50[Read More…]
Dehradun: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Kedarnath Temple, performs pooja and takes the blessings of lord Kedar. The Prime Minister flew into the state capital in a special Indian Air Force (IAF) plane. He was received at the Jolly Grant airport by Chief Minister Trivendra Rawat and other senior officials. Besides[Read More…]
Clean Ganga mission crusader GD Agarwal who was on fast until death dies on Thursday after 112 days on the way to Delhi for treatment in the ambulance. Agarwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, about his grievances and demands. Agarwal an IIT Kanpur professor[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath’ minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, an MLA from Ghazipur questions the compensation rate for people killed in an encounter based on their caste. In a video, Rajbhar raised strong objection towards the separate compensation formula for people killed in an encounter by Yogi Adityanath’s police in Uttar[Read More…]
19 IIT Roorkee students and 5 supported staff went missing after the incessant rain and flash flood in Uttarakhand. The IIT trekking team had gone on a trip from Tehri to Kedarnath. A police team is deployed to find them and as per the last report, they have started the[Read More…]
‘Manjari’ textbooks circulated to more than 50,000 students in the city printed late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s date of birth wrong – December 2, instead of December 25. Published by Basic Education Department, the textbook has a brief biography of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Inside the book, a chapter[Read More…]
The Uttarakhand Assembly one and all passed a resolution on Wednesday to declare cow the ‘Rashtra Mata’. The State Animal Husbandry Minister Rekha Arya moved a resolution in the Assembly and got it passed without exception after it got the support of both opposition and treasury benches. “Giving a very[Read More…]