Nainital

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A major portion of Lower Mall Road in Nainital caved in and slid into the Naini lake, disrupting traffic in the popular hill station in Uttarakhand. SDM Abhishek Ruhela said a 25-metre-long and two-metre-wide portion of the road collapsed into the lake on Saturday. However, it caused no harm to any vehicle or passerby, he added. Rain over ...

After the President’s acceptance on Monday, the letter of his appointment of Rajinder Kashyap, joint secretary of the Law and Justice Ministry as Chief Justice of Nainital High Court reached Nainital. Justice Sharma has been appointed since the day of former Chief Justice K. Joseph Joseph left office. Justice Rajiv Sharma was appointed on September 26, 2016 in the Uttarakhand ...

The Uttarakhand High Court has banned commercial use of elephants in the state and also directed the Uttarakhand government to limit the number of gypsies including private and commercial gypsies with valid permits entering Ramanagar forest division, including Sitabani, Bijrani, Dhela zone, Kalagarh and Rajaji National Park to 100 in a day. Hearing a writ petition filed by gram panchayat ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand High Court has come to the rescue of a government servant who was denied maternity leave for her third child, terming a state government rule to this effect “unconstitutional”. Hearing a writ petition by Haldwani resident Urmila Manish, the single-judge Bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma said denial of maternity leave to women for their third ...

During the bus operator’s strike, people had to face lot of difficulties, now the taxi operators have also gone on strike. With this, schoolchildren are also facing troubles along with the general public. According to the Supreme Court directive, private bus operators are on strike in the Garhwal and Kumaon division against the imposition of speed governor. The taxi operators ...

Due to continuous torrential rains, the rivers are overflowing their banks. On Monday morning, at around 7:30 in the morning a 28-seater bus started flowing in one such seasonal river canal in the rainy season of Haldwani’s Chorglia. During this time the passengers were saved in some way. It was told that a bus from Roadways was going to Tankpur ...

On the instructions of commissioner Kumaon, the district administration too is not in the mood to relax on encroachment. On Tuesday, the City Magistrate Pankaj Upadhyay held a meeting with the traders in the Municipal Auditorium and said that from 23 July, the campaign will be run strictly against encroachment. The City Magistrate said that there is no difference between ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In an attempt to end the practice of discrimination being allegedly practised by the temple priests, the Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday ruled that no high caste priest in Uttarakhand will turn down request for performing religious ceremonies, rituals and poojas by the members belonging to lower castes in all religious places. The division bench of Justice ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU People caught talking on their mobile phones while driving in the state will now have to pay a heavier penalty for the offence than just paying a fine, with the Uttarakhand High Court ordering temporary seizure of the cellphones of the offenders in such cases for 24 hours. Justice Rajiv Sharma of the High Court said the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A division bench of the high court has directed the Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and ISRO to inspect the Gaumukh glacier every three month to find out whether a lake is developing close to the glacier and present the first report to the court by August 31. The division bench of Chief Justice KM Joseph ...