DAINIK NATION BUREAU With raising of the holy flag at historic Darbar Sahib, the famous Jhanda Mela started on Friday. The 15 day long fair is celebrated to commemorate the auspicious occasion of the birthday and arrival of Guru Ram Rai in Doon valley in the year 1676. The huge mast of the flag was hoisted amid chanting of bhajans by a sea of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Following the announcement of the chief minister’s name, the stage is set for the constitution of the cabinet. With some of the cabinet ministers being  expected to be sworn in along with the CMon Saturday, the BJP top brass, including the CM designate Trivendra Singh Rawat, is now  busy  with the challenging task of  accommodating  some of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In view of swearing- in of the chief minister at Parade Ground, the Dehradun police have drafted a traffic plan and some routes have been changed in the state capital on Saturday. No heavy vehicle would be allowed to enter the city while the vehicles on emergency services will reach the city via Dudhali. Much before the arrival ...

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 Senior BJP leaders and the state administrative officers on Friday visited Parade Ground, the venue of the swearing- in of the new chief minister and the cabinet ministers, to be held on Saturday. The senior leaders from the saffron party who inspected the ground included Dharmendra Pradhan (minister of state – independent charge), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Party state in-charge Shyam Jaju and State ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The examinations of Uttarakhand board started on Friday with general Hindi examination of class XII.  The examination of the Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP)- the Uttarakhand Board- was organized at 1319 centres across the state. The Secretary of the USVP, Manoj Simalti told that the examination started on a good note as not even a single case of any ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Governor Krishan Kant Paul, exercising the powers vested in him under Clause (1) of Article 164 of the Constitution of India, has appointed Trivendra Singh Rawat as the chief minister of Uttarakhand following his election as the leader of the BJP state legislature party on Friday. The Governor also invited him to form the government. Rawat will ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay congratulated Doiwala MLA Trivendra Singh Rawat for being elected the head of Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party on Friday. In his statement issued to the media, the PCC chief said that the manner in which the BJP rushed to form its government in states it had not achieved a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The saffron top guns stamping their seal on the name of Trivendra Singh Rawat has not taken many in the state BJP roost by surprise, given the latter’s excellent equations with the duo of the   Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the national party president Amit  Shah and  equally importantly, with the RSS apparatchiks. A double MA in ...

Trivendra Singh Rawat has been elected as BJP legislature party leader in Uttarakhand and will take oath as ninth chief minister of the state on March 18 amid the presence of PM Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah. With this declaration about a week long suspense ended and workers who were desperate to burst crackers got busy in ...