Pithoragarh

A man named Guddu threw acid on a woman who lived in a rented  property in district headquarters Pithoragarh. The acid thrower is absconding. The woman has been admitted to the District Hospital. According to the doctor, women has received burnsbetween 20 to 25 percent. Tthe woman had eloped with Guddu almost two years ago. She returned to her husband ...

Strange but true, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra would be costly affairs by next year.   To make yatra more comfortable Kumoan Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN), which organise yatra on the direction of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), is planning to install solar power geyser and solar light so that pigrims would get unhindered hot water supply and lights during night. In ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In  a bid to assess the ground situation at indo china border Lt Gen BS Negi, Army Commander, Central Command today visited the forward Areas of Pithoragarh and Gunji. The General Officer along with the Formation Commander carried out aerial operational reconnaissance of the forward Areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The Army Commander took ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Eleven Air Warriors of the Indian Air Force who had set course for trekking to Sundardunga Glacier, located in the Himalayan range on  October 28  returned to  the Air Force Station at Bhowali in Nainital district safe and sound. The trekking team was received at the Air Force Station Bhowali by the Station Commander Group Captain S ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true that state government is consistently claiming that they would ensure development or benefit of the government scheme should reach upto the last village of the state but Pithoragarh district residents are surviving only on locally grown potatoes and rice for the last few months. It has happened because connecting road washed away due to ...

Two skeletons were recovered from the Kali river at Jhoolaghat town here today on the Indo-Nepal border with the police suspecting them to be of those who went missing after cloudbursts hit Mangti and Malpa on August 14. “The recovery of the skeletons has given rise to suspicion that they could belong to those who went missing in the natural ...

Namita Pant, the daughter of state finance minister and Pithoragarh MLA Prakash Pant, has become the Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the Indian Army on Saturday. Many members of the family were present at the passing out parade held at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai. There is an atmosphere of happiness in the joining of Namita in the Indian ...

Search for those missing since the cloudbursts at Mangti and Malpa in Pithoragarh closed today, 17 days after the tragedy in which nine persons lost their lives. The search operations was winded up after the security personnel engaged in the exercise said the huge dumps of debris at Malpa and Mangti Nalla ended all hopes of any more recoveries, District ...

Four soldiers and three civilians have gone missing after a cloudburst hit the Mangta Nala region of Uttarakhand on Monday. Three bodies have also been recovered in Malpa. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has been halted due to the floods and landslide caused by the cloudburst on the route. Two bridges were damaged in Mangti and one in Simkhola districts of Uttarakhand. ...

Five persons, including three Nepali citizens, were killed, and two Nepali citizens were injured when a boulder hit a Maruti Alto near Tawaghat, in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, on Thursday. Continuous rainfall in the Tawaghat region triggered landslips, which loosened the boulder that hit the car on Thursday morning and killed five persons, including the driver. “The car was going from ...