Uttarakhand BJP leader Virendra Manral, who had been facing trial for a murder case and had come to the court on Saturday for hearing, was shot dead outside the court in Nainital district. Though the Police is yet to catch the accused in the murder of 38-year-old BJP leader, the[Read More…]
Haridwar: A statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised by miscreants in a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, sparking tension, police said. A district official said the miscreants damaged the statue in Kanhawaali village while it was dark. Inspector Bhagwan Mehar and Sub-Divisional Magistrate Kaustubh[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra will this year take place through the two traditional routes — Nathua La Pass in Sikkim and Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand — and the registration process for the annual pilgrimage has started, the External Affairs Ministry announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes after China[Read More…]
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld a trial court’s order convicting and awarding life terms to seven policemen for killing a 22-year-old MBA student in a staged shootout in Dehradun in 2009. The High Court ruled that a “fake encounter has no place in legal system”. “A fake encounter[Read More…]
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday reiterated its 2015 order banning the use, sale, manufacturing, and storage of plastic items in the pilgrimage towns of Haridwar and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. The tribunal ordered a fine of Rs 5,000 on the violators. The ban includes plastic items used in any[Read More…]
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday lauded his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath for his drive against criminals and said that he will also ask the police in the hill state to emulate the crackdown. Addressing an event in Gorakhpur, the hometown of Adityanath, Rawat said it was[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Umiya Dham Ashram at Haridwar and said that it will benefit the pilgrims coming to place. He addressed the gathering through a video conference where he stressed on the importance of ‘yatra’. “The idea of a ‘yatra’ existed as an integral part[Read More…]
The patients undergoing treatment for XDR, a form of multiple drug-resistant (MDR) TB, are facing severe shortage of drugs in Dehradun and other districts. There are nearly 80 patients in Uttarakhand diagnosed with MDR tuberculosis. In 2016, around 50 patients were diagnosed with XDR TB. The deficiency arose after the[Read More…]
Days after a Facebook post created huge tension in West Bengal, a case of another turmoil between two groups in Garhwal district’s Satpuli town over a social media post has surfaced. Anxiety gripped the town after a minor boy allegedly shared an ‘offensive’ image of the Kedarnath shrine on Facebook.[Read More…]
On Friday, the Supreme Court stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order to declare river Ganga and Yamuna as a juristic person and as a living entity. Earlier, the Uttarakhand government had moved the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court order to grant rivers Ganga, Yamuna and their tributaries, the status[Read More…]
In Uttarakhand, a debt-ridden farmer from Nagar district committed suicide, claimed his relatives on Sunday. This comes at a time when governments across states are providing loan waiver to farmers as a repercussion to the intense stir in many Indian states especially Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Ramavtar (42) of Haldi[Read More…]
The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday ‘restrained’ the state government from purchasing luxury items till schools are fixed in the state. Holding the state government responsible for “falling standards of education” and for “miserably failing to provide bare minimum facilities” in government schools, the Uttarakhand HC came out with such[Read More…]
Plastic rice is being openly sold in Haldwani district of Uttarakhand, where food retailers are freely selling it in markets. The matter came to light when a video of children playing with a ball made of plastic rice went viral. KK Mishra, City Magistrate, said. “A team has been constituted[Read More…]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its result for class X today on its official website cbse.nic.in. Until now, the results of 11 regions, including, Allahabad, Chennai, Delhi, Dehradun, Trivandrum, Ajmer, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Madras, Guwahati and Patna have been announced. However, the board informed that the results of[Read More…]
Fresh clashes erupted in the already boiling Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after BSP chief Mayawati’s visit. A Dalit man was killed and several others were reportedly injured in the incident. Reportedly, a group of Dalits threw stones at the houses of some Rajputs before Mayawati’s rally. This[Read More…]
At least 23 pilgrims from Indore district of Madhya Pradesh died after a bus carrying them fell into the Bhagirathi River in Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand on Tuesday evening. The pilgrims had gone to Dehradun by train but took the bus on their way to Kedarnath. The accident happened around 7[Read More…]
The State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked the Uttarakhand government to renovate the neglected and crumbling school buildings on a priority basis during the summer holidays. “There must be at least 500-600 school buildings from the primary to intermediate level in the state which are either without[Read More…]
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi kick-started his Uttarakhand visit on Wednesday, he inaugurated a research institute run by spiritual leader Baba Ramdev’s business franchise Patanjali Ayurveda in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. Notably, Patanjali Research Institute will be India’s first organisation to conduct clinical trials as per international standards in the field of[Read More…]
Raju Binjola, a close aide of Uttarakhand BJP spokesperson Munna Singh Chauhan had accurately predicted the vote share of both Congress and BJP in many key booths of the constituency more than a week before the results were announced, on Facebook. Now, questions are being raised over the accuracy of[Read More…]
Days after the Uttarakhand High Court declared river Ganga as a living entity, a notice was issued upon the river by the court. This is the first time a river has been issued a legal notice, Hindustan Times reported. A two-judge bench led by VK Bisht and Alok Singh, while[Read More…]
The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Election Commission and the state government on a petition regarding the EVM tampering in Dehradun’s Vikasnagar constituency. The petition, filed by former cabinet minister Navprabhat, has alleged that there were tampering and manipulation of EVMs at the constituency during the[Read More…]
Rights activist and writer Harsh Mander on Saturday said that every individual is free to eat, dress, follow a religion and love as they choose. Speaking at the Dehradun Community Literature Festival (DCLF), he said that there are no conditions to belong to any country. Newsd is the digital media[Read More…]
Renowned author Devdutt Pattanaik on Friday stated that mythology is truth based on trust. Speaking at the Dehradun Community Literature Festival (DCLF), he said that mythology enables people to have relations with others. Newsd is the digital media partner for DCLF which started on April 19 and will continue till[Read More…]
Noted writer Nayantara Sehgal on Thursday said that history is slowly being wiped out and mythology is taking over in contemporary India. Speaking at the Dehradun Community Literature Festival (DCLF), she announced her upcoming novella, ‘When the moon shines by the day’. Newsd is the digital media partner for DCLF[Read More…]