Dehradun

DEHRADUN: A student of DAV College climbed on a more than 100-foot tall mobile tower, pressing the college authorities and the state government to provide better infrastructure on the campus else he won’t come down. The student climbed down the tower only after intervention of state higher education minister Dhan Singh Rawat, who assured that students’ demands would be looked ...

A young Delhi man inspired by YouTube videos of adventure sports drowned while rafting on the Ganga river in Rishikesh on Thursday. The survivors of the rafting tragedy claim their guides were inexperienced and refused to help. Subhash Kumar (35) and his cousins were taking a turn on the “Golf Course Rapids”, usually negotiated only by professionals, when their raft ...

With the mercury soaring in Dehradun, the common people, particularly the school children, suffered a lot on the roads as traffic came to a standstill at important crossings with thousands of Congress workers staging rallies to mark the formal assumption of office by the newly appointed Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pritam Singh here on Thursday. The procession accompanying Singh ...

A 20-year-old BTech student has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence in Forest Research Institute (FRI) colony. His parents had gone to the market at the time of the incident. She was first to see her brother hanging. Hearing her cries, the neighbours rushed to the scene. The deceased, Mayank, was son of ...

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 ...

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, ...

A few days after a woman died in a chance encounter with elephants in Pantnagar area in the Terai region of Kumaon, there have been no reports of fatal human-wildlife conflict situations. However, experts point out that the small elephant population has been trapped in this area due to their corridors being blocked. If the situation remains unchanged and the ...

The National Cadet Corps (NCC) should organize sanitation campaign and workshops on digitization in different parts of the state. The land for  establishment of a NCC academy in the state should also the earmarked. The education and sports minister, Arvind Pandey made these comments in his meeting with Additional Director General of NCC, Major General C Mani at Vidhan Sabha ...

To review the security preparedness for upcoming Vidhan Sabha session slated  to begin on May 1, the Speaker Premchand Aggrawl convened a meeting with the officials of the administration, police, health, municipal corporation, power, water supply and information in the Assembly premises  on Friday. He instructed the nodal officer of the estate department to ensure uninterrupted supply of  power and ...