The maiden session of the   fourth Vidhan Sabha of Uttarakhand starting from Friday with the largest strength of the treasury bench since the first Assembly formed in 2002 would prove different on two counts. First, the ministers are devoid of portfolios and second, there is no leader of the opposition with few hours left for the session to commence. Save ...

General public visiting the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun faced problems as the entrance of the office was locked by agitating Asha workers on Thursday. Shouting slogans against the state government and CMO of Dehradun, the Asha workers assembled outside the office in the morning and placed a lock on its entry.  The state President of Uttarakhand Asha ...

An Indian Army chopper crash- landed in a thick forest under Baniyawala beat of Chilla range of Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Thursday morning. However, the two officers, on board, a Major and a Caption who was in the pilot’s seat, were safe. It took some time for the officials of the forest department and the district administration to reach the ...

Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggarwal has been unanimously elected as new speaker of fourth elected Uttarakhand assembly on Thursday. Thereafter most of the MLAs spoke about his achievements and while they were making praise for the new speaker then aggarwal was unable to gulp it easily. With this appointment Vidhan Sabha has declared date for the appointment of deputy speaker i.e. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two of the newly elected MLAs – Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggrawal and Rudraprayag MLA Bharat Choudhary- took the oath twice on Tuesday, first in Sanskrit inside the house during oath taking ceremony of the legislators and later in Hindi in the chamber of the protem speaker Harbans Kapur. Kapur who had taken oath on Monday administered the oath to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The newly elected BJP legislators appeared ecstatic after taking oath in Vidhan Sabha premises on Tuesday. Summing up the atmosphere senior BJP leader Munna Singh Chauhan and MLA from Vikasnagar said, “I had a privilege of being a part of many legislative assemblies both in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh but the enthusiasm shown by the members today is ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Shortly after taking oath as member of fourth elected uttarakhand assembly Kedarnath MLA  Manoj Rawat has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kedarnath temple. The journalist turned politician Rawat said that he would soon write a letter to the Prime Minister and invite him to Kedarnath.  PM visit would give a positive message across the country. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU With the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat still sitting on the portfolio allotment to the ministers even three days after the swearing- in, the ministers have started pressuring the State estate department officials through letters, demanding some chosen government bungalows to be allotted to them. Sources say that the officials of the particular department are under huge ...

Senior MLA Harbans Kapur has been appointed as protem speaker of fourth assembly by the cabinet. Now governor would administer him oath of his office on Monday afternoon and later he will administer oath to each member of the house in Vidhan Sabha on March 23.

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Apparently acting on the dictum dished out by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a recent    BJP parliamentary party meeting in Delhi – ‘ Na Baithunga Na Baithne Dunga’ (neither will  I sit nor will I allow you to sit)-, the newly appointed chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat  conducted the first cabinet meeting at the secretariat  soon ...