Helicopter crash near Garud Cheti, three kilometres from Kedarnath. Two pilots and four civilians were killed. Bodies have been retrieved.
Saurabh, son of former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, is among the youngest members of the Pushkar Singh Dhami cabinet.
As the Chamoli district has received fresh snowfall today, Superintendent of Police (SP) Shweta Choubey informed that the region has received snow coverage of more than 2 ft.
The upgradation of the NH-734 section includes the Moradabad–Thakurdwara–Kashipur, Moradabad and Kashipur bypass sections in the state of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
In this regard, the release stated that Additional Secretary Personnel Lalit Mohan Rayal had issued a letter to Vigilance, the order stated.
The bus was on its way to Kanda village in Bironkhal from Laldhang town in Haridwar when it fell into a 500-metre gorge near Simri bend at around 7 pm on Tuesday, they said.
19-year-old Ankita was missing for at least six days before the Uttarakhand administration recovered her body from the Chilla canal in Rishikesh on September 24.
The money is being paid to Bhandari’s father Virendra Singh Bhandari from the Chief Minister’s Discretionary Fund, said Additional Secretary Navneet Pandey.
Pulkit Arya, the main accused, is the son of former minister Vinod Arya. Arya was expelled from the party after his son’s name cropped up in connection with the case.
As per a viral chat, it is alleged that it was being said that the guest would get ‘extra service’ for Rs 10,000. In the WhatsApp chat, there is talk of providing ‘extra service’ in the name of providing spa treatment at the Vanatara Resort.
A receptionist at a resort owned by a BJP leader’s son, was allegedly killed by the owner and his two other employees.
Vinod Arya’s son Pulkit — who owns the resort in Pauri’s Yamkeshwar block — was arrested Friday along with two employees of the facility for allegedly killing the receptionist, who had been missing for the past few days.
The 19-year-old receptionist had went missing a few days ago following which three accused including Pulkit Arya, son of former Uttarakhand Minister and BJP leader Vinod Arya and owner of the resort where Bhandari worked, were arrested.
Pulkit Arya is the son of Vinod Arya, a BJP leader from Haridwar, and a former chairman of Uttarakhand Mati Kala Board. Vinod Arya has been granted a state minister’s rank but holds no post in the government.
According to the World Health Organization, dengue is one of the fastest emerging infections and is currently the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease known.
Lucknow-based RMS TechnoSolutions Pvt Ltd’s was roped in by the UKSSSC to conduct the graduate-level recruitment examination whose question papers were leaked.
Dhami also announced the release of the recruitment calendar by the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission in a week.
CM Dhami said that in the last few days, there were many such cases in which reports of misuse had come to the fore, so the state government decided that the recommendations of the land law committee will be studied.
Allegations of irregularities in the examination held in 2021 have emerged at a time when recruitments by the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission and ad-hoc appointments to different posts in the Assembly Secretariat are under the scanner.
Porters accompanying the trekkers informed authorities about the incident after which a team of ITBP personnel left for the spot Sunday morning to safely rescue the injured trekkers, Uttarkashi Disaster Management officer Devendra Patwal said.
Those who remain live in fear and rarely venture out of their homes after dark. During the day, they escort their children to school and back
Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Nagagher, has been arrested and is being interrogated, they said. Dehradun Superintendent of Police (rural) Kamlesh Upadhyay said a blood-smeared knife has been recovered from the spot.
Bhat had been appointed as the state BJP chief on July 30 replacing Haridwar MLA Madan Kaushik.
The chief minister demanded that a special conference for the Himalayan states should be organised under the leadership of the prime minister. The conference, he said, should be held in Uttarakhand.
Residents of these villages will be trained by experts to use the ancient Indian language as a medium of daily communication, Uttarakhand’s Minister for Sanskrit Education Dhan Singh Rawat said on Thursday.