Haridwar

Heavy rain in the past few days has resulted in rise of water level of the Ganga at Haridwar, with the river touching the warning mark on Wednesday. According to the central water commission (CWC), Ganga at Haridwar touched the warning mark at 293 metres at 2pm on Wednesday. The river, however, is still flowing below the danger mark of ...

Eight people have drowned in Ganga in Haridwar during the Ganga Dussehra celebrations that took place in the holy city on Sunday. While the bodies of two people – a 12-year-old from Mathura and a teenager from Delhi – have been recovered by jal police, a search is on to trace the other bodies. Twelve-year-old Mohit’s body was recovered by ...

Thousands of devotees flocked around Har Ki Pauri to pay obeisance to Mother Ganga on the occasion of Ganga Saptami on Tuesday. They conducted ‘aarti’ too by way of offering puja to the holy river, universally revered as the cleanser of human sins and bestower of salvation. Families of priests and other devotees brought milk and food delicacies, prepared in ...

An Indian Army chopper crash- landed in a thick forest under Baniyawala beat of Chilla range of Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Thursday morning. However, the two officers, on board, a Major and a Caption who was in the pilot’s seat, were safe. It took some time for the officials of the forest department and the district administration to reach the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Showing his own keen interest in making a rejuvenating retreat at Yoga guru Swami Ramdev’s Yog Gram, the union Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that in the newly extended facility of Naturopathy centre, a person could get treatment from nature’s herbs living amidst nature while enjoying modern facilities. He lauded the efforts of Ramdev and Ayurveda expert ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union govenrment’s bid to clean Ganga river seems fizzled down here due to the lackadaisical attitude of district authorities and the Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB). Even after four months after the team of National Green Tribunal directed action against 125 earmarked hotels, Dharmshalas and Ashrams which are polluting the Ganga in Haridwar, the administration is silent ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Despite operation smile, which was launched to reunite th missing children with their families, 92 children gone missing from the holy city in last few months but police seems clueless. Although they have been saying that their work would get momentum now because they have been eased from election duty. As per the statics SSP, Haridwar  56 girls ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Kankhal tha police has seized 5Lakh rupees cash from a Scorpio car belonging to a Congress party worker from Pathri area during checking drive. This has given a boost up to the BJP encashing the agenda at the time when the city had Congress star campaigner Rahul Gandhi conduct his road show. BJP legislator from Haridwar rural ...

  The Patanjali Food and Herbal Park – Padartha authorities have stressed that an effort to remove an encroachment on the park’s land is being misrepresented to stir up communal lines in view of the Vidhan Sabha election 2017. In an official statement released on Monday, the Patanjali food park administration stressed that thousands of local youth including a considerable ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Checking migration from the hilly areas would be the top priority of Bharatiya Janata Party if elected to govern Uttarakhand, said the Union home minister and one of the party’s star campaigners Rajnath Singh on Sunday while addressing two public rallies in Bahadurgarh and Bahadrabad in Haridwar. In his address Singh said that the clean image of the two times ...