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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 ...

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 ...

Reopening of the portals of Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines marked the start of the Char Dham Yatra period in Uttarakhand on Friday. The shrines to the river goddesses Ganga and Yamuna were reopened to the public amidst Vedic chanting and traditional rituals on the occasion of Akshay Tritiya. Thousands of devotees were present at the shrines in Uttarkashi district on ...

Acting on the state education minister Dr Dhan Singh Rawat’s ‘nationalist’ diktat to the vice- chancellors of the universities  and principals of the colleges based in the state during a meeting in Nainital earlier this month, DAV College principal Dr Devendra Bhasin has made mandatory for the students to sing the national anthem and the national song ‘Vande Matram’ twice ...

Commenting on the BJP victory in DELHI MCD elections, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad categorically asked that first tell me what Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has said on it. when he was told that he has blamed Electronic voting machine (EVM) for his defeat then Prasad said that in 2015 when he had won then EVM was okay, When Akhilesh ...

To make the Transfer Act and Lokayukta Act more comprehensive, the selectcommittee led by the state parliamentary affairs minister Prakash Pant convened its first meeting in Dehradun on April 12 after the state Assembly referred the two bills to the committee to have an in-depth study of them.  During the meeting, the committee has asked the people to suggest things meant ...

 Amid the outrage over the death sentence awarded to alleged Indian ‘spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, India on Tuesday warned Pakistan of consequences if it executed him. A defiant Islamabad justified the capital punishment. A day after Jadhav’s sentencing by a Pakistani military court, the issue resonated both inside and outside Parliament. While Parliament unanimously condemned Pakistan’s decision, External Affairs Minister Sushma ...

Trivendra singh rawat government has declared their 64 state highways as other district road on Friday. with this order state liquor shops, which were closed after supreme court order in which they had imposed blanket ban on the sale and serving of liquor with 500 meter of national and state highways by april 1, 2017, would be able to serve ...

Class XI student Gayatri, who lives in the Deepnagar area of Dehradun elicited the attention of prime minister Narendra Modi who also talked of her complaint about the pollution in Rispana river in the provisional state capital. Some locals are hoping that, the issue being taken cognisance of the prime minister even in mentioning might encourage the state government to ...

Considered to be among the most experienced MLAs in the state, Haldwani MLA and former cabinet minister Indira Hridayesh was unanimously chosen as the leader of the Congress legislative party in the provisional state capital Dehradun. The All India Congress Committee general secretary and party state in charge Ambika Soni announced that Hridayesh had been chosen for the post on Sunday and ...