The International Court of Justice today stayed the hanging of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of “spying”. The order by the Hague-based International Court of Justice came a day after India approached it against the death sentence handed down to Jadhav by Pakistan’s Field General Court Martial last month. ...

Convocation of 2015-17 IFS (Probationer) Course at IGNFA, Dehradun was held in presence of chief guest President of India Pranab Mukherjee while Governor Dr. KK Paul and Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat were also present as special guest there today.   President  Mukherjee extended congratulations to the trainees. He said that training imparted to young probationers will help to prepare ...

Uttarakhand Governor Dr.K.K.Paul today stressed the urgent need for checking deforestation which is occurring the world over despite the growing awareness of numerous benefits of stopping deforestation. He said that more than thirteen million hectares of forests are cleared around the world each year and this deforestation accounts for a very significant percentage of global greenhouse gas emission which is ...

Chakrata MLA Preetam Singh, who had managed to regain his seat amid PM Narendra Modi magic  and lone congresss MLA out of 10 seat of dehradun dstirct, has been appointed as Uttarakhand PCC president on Thursday. With this appointment one thing is clear that party high command has accepted that party poor performance happened due to outgoing PCC president Kishore ...

Amid tight security Kedarnath shrine portal open for the public on Wednesday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid obesience at temple.  As we know that portal opens as per the schedule but this year Prime Minister is one of the dignitaries who spared time to visit kedarnath on the occasion of opening ceremony. This is Narendra Modi’s first visit to ...

A day ahead of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Uttarakhand visit, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat visited Kedarnath to review the on ground preperation. Before this a minute to minute rehearsal and debriefing involving Special Protection Group (SPG) officers, the administrative officers and the policemen were held at Dehradun Airport, Kedarnath Dham and Patanjali Yog Peeth in Haridwar on Tuesday. An ...

Like in other parts of the country, the armed forces veterans here believe that Pakistan’s army barbaric act of beheading and mutilating the bodies of two Indian soldiers should be avenged. They strongly believe that more surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the border should be carried out to give fitting response to the enemy. Sharing his views with media, ...

Thousands of devotees flocked around Har Ki Pauri to pay obeisance to Mother Ganga on the occasion of Ganga Saptami on Tuesday. They conducted ‘aarti’ too by way of offering puja to the holy river, universally revered as the cleanser of human sins and bestower of salvation. Families of priests and other devotees brought milk and food delicacies, prepared in ...

The State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) bill was passed unanimously on the last day of the two-day special session of the Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday with both the ruling party and the Opposition MLAs urging the state government to see to it that the common people are not inconvenienced in any way. With the passage of the bill in ...