DAINIK NATION BUREAU The spell of rain/ snow continuing across Uttarakhand for the past few days would continue on Sunday. However, the climate is expected to turn dry on Monday-the day Holi would be celebrated in the state. The Met officer has forecast very light to light rain/snow at a few places, especially in the higher reaches of Uttarakhand, on Sunday. Snowfall is likely ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Election commission has decided to conduct repolling of booth no 128 of Lohaghat Assembly seat, which result could not declare because of malfunctioning of EVM, on march 15. As the booth’s EVM could not open at the time of counting so they decided to conduct repolling on that booth. After repolling EC would do counting of the ...

DAINIK NATION  BUREAU Election Commission has declared the results of 69 out of 70 seats on Saturday evening, excluding Lohaghat, where the EVM malfunctioned, resulting in the withholding of the counting.   As per the official declaration, BJP has won 56 seats while the Congress,  11 and two seats has  gone to the  independents. In four districts – Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Negating the view  of most of the political commentators who opined that the  13 Congress turncoats who switched to BJP  few months before the election would prove liabilities for the party, supposedly staring at imminent defeats,  most of the  rebels have registered victories in their respective constituencies by impressive margins. However, two of them tasted defeat. The ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Accepting defeat after the result was declared,  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat submitted his resignation to the Governor Dr KK Paul at Raj Bhawan on Saturday. Before tendering his resignation, Rawat said that he had accepted the defeat in all humility. “Entrusted with the responsibility in the wake of the disaster 2013, I tried my best to provide ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Soon after the counting was over, the state BJP president Ajay Bhatt thanked the people of Uttarakhand for giving his party a resounding victory in the poll. In a press note released, Bhatt said that the unprecedented mandate for BJP has confirmed the confidence people of the state have reposed in the leadership of both the Prime ...