Nainital

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her cricketer husband Shoaib Malik are expecting their first child, due in the month of October this year. The couple celebrated their eighth marriage anniversary a few days back on April 12. The 31-year-old Indian tennis superstar, who is out of action due to a jumper knee issue since October 2017, tweeted a picture ...

A trap team of vigilance department’s sleuths on Thursday arrested a junior engineer of state power department for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a contractor in lieu of clearing his bills. The accused engineer, Subodh Negi, who was posted at Chilkiya sub-station in Ramnagar area of Nainital district was caught red handed by the vigilance team ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the PIL, which was filed by the Advocate Rajiv Bisht, about parking problem in Nainital, Uttarakhand High Court has asked the district administration to appeal the tourist not to come Nainital by their own vehicle. Instead of private vehicle you come by public transport. To publicise this appeal you give advertisement in four national ...

Four students and a professor of IIT-Kanpur’s Earth Sciences department were penalised on Wednesday for illegally flying a drone camera in the restricted area of the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR). On Tuesday, Professor Javed N. Malik of IIT-Kanpur’s Earth Sciences department entered CTR’s Bijrani range to operate the drone camera through a mobile phone, with the four students watching from ...

For the last few years Naini lakes water level has remained a challenge for the district administration / governance. In the tourist town, due to falling water level of the lake, adverse impact of tourism is affecting the drinking water supply of the city. At the same time the lake has a bad effect on the aquatic organisms. This year ...

The government on Wednesday got the Budget for fiscal year beginning April 1 passed in Lok Sabha without discussion by applying the guillotine process as the Opposition paralysed the functioning for the eighth day. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the Finance Bill 2018, which contains taxation proposals of his fifth and final budget, as well as the appropriation bill that ...

Junior doctors and trainee doctors working at Sushila Tiwari Medical College have gone on a strike against the non-payment of wages. They have demanded to pay salaries of the doctors in the medical college. On Thursday, 110 junior doctors of Sushila Tiwari Hospital and Medical College and 80 trainee doctors went on strike. All of these doctors have gone on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that women have proved their worth in every field. Women were worshipped and treated as replica of power since ancient times. He was expressing his views at a function to commemorate International Women’s Day held in Haldwani on Thursday. After extending greetings to women on International Women’s Day, CM ...

The state government is planning to develop tea gardens on 500 hectares in Okhalkanda block of Nainital district. If implemented, the tea gardens would be the biggest in Kumaon division of the hill state. At 1,052 hectares, the Garhwal division’s 150-year-old tea gardens are the oldest in Uttarakhand. The project is supposed to generate employment for thousands of people in ...

Incensed at the denial of pension to a 100-year-old freedom fighter who died in November last year after waiting for his dues for almost four decades, the Uttarakhand high court (HC) on Thursday fined the state government Rs 3.5 lakh “for the inordinately long delay” and ordered that “the total pension amount since 1981 along with arrears be paid to ...