DAINIK NATION BUREAU In order to save numerous trees of their evergreen forest from being axed for construction of the proposed Dang-Pokhri motor road, the residents of Dang village in Uttarkashi district have themselves constructed a stretch of the road skirting the trees. Opposing the axing of a large number of green trees for constructing road on the proposed route, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On the day of polling in the Karnprayag Vidhan Sabha constituency with one day left for counting of votes cast in the Vidhan Sabha election 2017, the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay averred that one of the striking aspects of this election was the negative campaigning and the amount of money pumped into the campaign ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The polling for the 70 seats for Uttarakhand Assembly came to an end on Thursday with around 58.60 per cent of the voters casting their votes in the election   for the Karnprayag Vidhan Sabha constituency. The voting was peaceful with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere in the constituency.  The election to this constituency was postponed after the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The National Safety Day/Week-2017 and the Foundation Day of the National Safety Council was celebrated at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum here on Tuesday. Administering a safety pledge to the employees and others in the gathering on the occasion, the institute director Anjan Ray said, “As an institute devoted to research in petroleum, we understand that although ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two days left for the polling for Karnprayag constituency in Chamoli district 13 polling teams, including the presiding officers and the polling officers, left for their assigned polling centres spread over the far- flung areas of the constituency on Tuesday. The remaining 156 teams would depart on Wednesday,   said Chamoli district election officer Vinod Kumar Suman on Tuesday. A total of 91, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Holi festival may be a week away, but the holy city Rishikesh has started to be hued in the colour of the festival on Tuesday, the concluding of the 29thInternational Yoga Festival.  As many as 1200 yoga enthusiasts and practitioners who had gathered from 101 countries & six continents smeared one another with the colour of Holi. Soaked ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In course of  the high- profile review meeting on Pancheshwar multipurpose project proposed on Mahakali river (known as Sharda river in India) as convened by the chief secretary S Ramaswami on Tuesday,  the ecological assessment and environment management project (EMP) was  presented. It is learnt that the Union ministry of  environment, forest and climate change has approved the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Four days left for the counting, the state director general of police MA Ganapathy asked the district police chiefs on Tuesday to deploy security forces in  adequate strength at the counting venues to ensure peace during the process. While polling was held for 69 seats on February 15 the election to Karnprayag constituency would be held on March 9. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Widespread rain/snowfall activities are forecast for both Garhwal and Kumaon regions Uttarakhand for at least four days starting from March 8.  Informing, Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Bikram Singh said on Mondaythat the rain and snow of moderate intensity are likely to lash several places in Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts. Besides, light rain/snowfall might occur in the remaining districts ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a piece of good news for Uttarakhand, the  Jollygrant Airport, which is  seeing operation of 12 flights a day while ferrying around eight lakh passengers per year,  has been certified  as  one of cleanest airports of the country, clearing decks for its being developed as an international airport in the coming days. This was disclosed during ...