Nainital

A landslide at Kakdighat, around 40 km from Nainital, resulted in a huge boulder falling on top of a passenger bus carrying pilgrims, killing 5 people and leaving 11 injured on Monday afternoon. Those with minor injuries were taken to a nearby government hospital, while two critically injured people were admitted in the Dr Sushila Tiwari Government Medical College and ...

The Uttarakhand high court, on Thursday, stayed the state government’s decision of cancelling mining leases or licences in Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar districts. A petition filed by a company involved in the business from Ramnagar in Nainital district after the state government had on May 1, 2017 ordered cancellation of mining leases or licences. On March 28 ...

Nainital: Uttarakhand high court (HC) on Friday, while hearing a petition regarding tampering of EVMs in various assembly constituencies of the state, directed that its previous order, dated May 1 (in which the HC had asked for the sealing of EVMs in six constituencies of the state) should not be cited as a precedent anywhere in the country. The order, ...

The state irrigation department has drawn up a Rs 13 crore plan to rejuvenate water bodies in Nainital, including Naini lake, Bhimtal and Sattal. Officials of the state irrigation department said that the project aims at cleaning and beautification of the lakes along with research and preservation of water bodies which have seen water levels dwindle, especially in the summers, ...

The death of a beat watcher run over by a tractor trolley employed in illegal quarrying at Jwalavan area of the Kosi river belt has elicited strong condemnation from political and other some other circles. The authorities have taken action, transferring the officials concerned of the forest department and police following the incident in the Ramnagar area on Friday after ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The High Court of Uttarakhand has directed the state government to shut down polythene and plastic manufacturing related industries in the state. The high court issued this and other directions with all the district magistrates of the state barring the DM of Dehradun appearing before it in Nainital on Friday regarding 26 points related to Ganga river ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The High Court of Uttarakhand has directed the state government to make arrangement for garbage disposal site in every village and town of the state. The high court has also ordered cleaning drives on Sundays and other public holidays in all the local bodies in addition to which the officials concerned have also been directed to ensure ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In another embarrassment for police coming close  on the heels of the custodial death of a minor boy at Kashipur  in Udham Singh Nagar district,  an abduction and rape  accused lodged in Haldwani jail died after he leaped from  the four floor of Sushila Tiwari Hospital  in a bid to escape with police in the chase on Monday.  ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Double murder shocked the people of Haldwani on February 22. On Wednesday evening two women dead bodies, who have been identified of Col Shah’s wife and mother,  recovered from a posh area of Haldwani, Nainital. Prima facie evidence indicates that burgler have decamped with jewellery worth of lakhs of rupees after murdering these two women. It has ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The body of Martyre soldier Dharmendra Shah, who martyred while fighting terrorists at Bandipora in J&K recently, was cremated at his village of Pateliya in Kaladhungi with full military honours on Thursday. The martyr’s body was transport by helicopter from Bareilly  to Kotabagh from where his body draped in the nation tri-colour was handed over to his ...