In a veiled hint that the old horses of the party are not happy with many of the Congress rebels being given important ministerial postings in the BJP government, the state BJP president, Ajay Bhatt said that the party should not be reduced to an open platform for all to jump on, given the legacy of sacrifice and commitment it ...

State chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has made it clear that his government’s basic mantra would be to provide the people with corruption- free responsive governance. This was what the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to do during their recent meeting in Delhi, he said. He was addressing the party activists who gathered at the BJP headquarters in ...

In tune with his pledge to embark on an all-out crusade against corruption, the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has on Saturday referred the case of the alleged fraudulent land acquisition for four-laning of the National Highway 74 in Udham Singh Nagar district to the  Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)  while    suspending six serving PCS officers and vowing to  book  a retired ...

State agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal said that he is committed to align the state resources with centre government’s schemes like Make In India, FDI retail, Mission Horti & various schemes of Ministry of Food procession (MOFPI). Food processing industry is one of the major employment intensive segments contributing majorly to employment generation, he  said while addressing a conference organized by ...

Soon after officially assuming charge, the newly appointed drinking water minister Prakash Pant has met the senior officials of the drinking water department at Vidhan Sabha on Saturday. It is being expected that the water projects whose clearances have been pending for some time due to what is known as red -tapism would get the ministerial nod fast as Pant is ...

Soon after being provided with the department through portfolio allocation, the minister of state in charge of cooperatives Dr Dhan Singh Rawat has terminated all the appointments involving  the  nominated members of state cooperative committee with immediate effect on Friday. Besides, the recruitment of the fourth class employees of the district cooperative bank based in  Uttarkashi  has also been scrapped. ...

In order to generate employment opportunities for the locals and to encourage conservation of the environment, an eco tourism development corporation has been formed in the state. Chief secretary S Ramaswamy presided over the first board meeting of this corporation at the secretariaton Friday. It was decided in the board meeting that an eco-tourism development working plan will be presented ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Governor Dr K K Paul in his maiden address on Friday to the fourth elected Assembly of the  state  that marked the commencement  of  the first session of the newly elected House has unveiled the     BJP -helmed  government’s  vision of the state while announcing several things, including the re-introduction of Lokayukta Act-2011, Transfer Act-2011 and Right ...

The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat made a surprise visit to the Prem Nagar government hospital on Friday evening. The CM was annoyed with the sanitation condition of the hospital. Accompanied by the Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi the CM’s sudden arrival created panic among the hospital staff. The CM visited the wards of the hospital and enquired about ...

Happy over the Uttarakhand Police’s role in the detention of the father-son duo from Bihar, tagged to an attempted rape case, who were absconding for long, director general of police, Bihar, PK Thakur has written a letter to his counterpart of Uttarakhand MA Ganapathy, stating that the coordination between team of Pauri Garhwal police and that of Patna Police in this ...