Uttarkashi

Former Union minister Uma Bharti, who is on a personal visit from Gangotri in Uttarakhand to Ganga Sagar in West Bengal, offered prayers at several temples here on Tuesday and greeted locals on the occasion of Bhai Dooj. Bharti began her visit from Gangotri on October 14 and stayed for a few days there. She arrived here on Tuesday morning ...

Today, on the holy festival of Annakut, the valleys of the Gangotri temple are closed for the winter. Gangotri Temple Committee Chairman Suresh Semwal said that the process of closing the doors of Gangotri Temple started at 8.30 am. A special puja was performed after Mahabhishekha was performed with Veda mantras. The temple doors were closed at 11.40 am after ...

A helicopter engaged in relief and rescue operations in the rain-ravaged Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand crashed on Wednesday killing three persons on board including two crew members. A private helicopter with three persons on board crashed near Moldi in the rain-hit Uttarkashi district after getting entangled in cables, Uttarakhand’s Director General of Police (Law and Order) Ashok Kumar said. The ...

Seasonal trial competition will be organized for admission in class six of Maharana Pratap Sports College, Dehradun and Hari Singh Thapa Sports College, Pithoragarh,  on 24 at Purola and on 25 March at Uttarkashi district headquarter. District Sports Officer, Akash Joshi said admissions in sports college Dehradun are open for athletics, football, volleyball, boxing, cricket, hockey, badminton, judo, table tennis ...

In the case of garbage dumping in Bhagirathi river, the Forest Department has registered a case against the Executive Officer (EO) of the Nagar Palika Badahat (Uttarkashi). Along with this, the Forest Department has also started investigating the matter. In Uttarkashi, the municipality has no trenching ground. Where the municipality was putting garbage, the waste was going away from the ...

An alto car on Manjiyali Purola road went out of control and fell into a gorge. Two people died died on the spot of the accident. The third passenger died at the hospital during treatment. According to the information, on Monday morning around 10.30 am, an Alto car going to Dehradun from Purola fell into the gorge after the driver ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Fourteen people were killed and as many injured on Sunday when the bus in which they were travelling fell into a 150-metre deep gorge in Uttarkashi district, an official said. The private bus was on its way to Vikas Nagar from Jankichatti, near the Himalayan shrine of Yamunotri, when it fell into the gorge near Damta, District ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has expressed his deep condolences at the death of passengers of a max vehicle in a road accident. The vehicle which was coming from Jogat to Chinyalisaur in Uttarkashi district met with an accident at Bankot on Monday morning. He prayed for the peace of the departed souls and early recovery of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Exercise YUDH ABHYAS 2018 a joint military exercise of Indian and US armies, commenced this morning at Chaubattia, Uttarakhand with a short yet impressive opening ceremony that saw the unfurling of the national flags of both countries to the strains of “Jana Gana Mana….” and “The Star Spangled Banner”. Indian and US soldiers stood side by side, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Bowing down under pressure of people, who were running annoyed after rape incident happened in Uttarkashi, Police has arrested the rape accused on Tuesday. On August 18, 2018, information was received that dead body of a girl has been found on the bridge of the border of the revenue village Bhakda Hitanu. In this regard, victim’s parent ...