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In a veiled hint that the old horses of the party are not happy with many of the Congress rebels being given important ministerial postings in the BJP government, the state BJP president, Ajay Bhatt said that the party should not be reduced to an open platform for all to jump on, given the legacy of sacrifice and commitment it ...

State chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has made it clear that his government’s basic mantra would be to provide the people with corruption- free responsive governance. This was what the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to do during their recent meeting in Delhi, he said. He was addressing the party activists who gathered at the BJP headquarters in ...

In tune with his pledge to embark on an all-out crusade against corruption, the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has on Saturday referred the case of the alleged fraudulent land acquisition for four-laning of the National Highway 74 in Udham Singh Nagar district to the  Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)  while    suspending six serving PCS officers and vowing to  book  a retired ...

Soon after officially assuming charge, the newly appointed drinking water minister Prakash Pant has met the senior officials of the drinking water department at Vidhan Sabha on Saturday. It is being expected that the water projects whose clearances have been pending for some time due to what is known as red -tapism would get the ministerial nod fast as Pant is ...

Soon after being provided with the department through portfolio allocation, the minister of state in charge of cooperatives Dr Dhan Singh Rawat has terminated all the appointments involving  the  nominated members of state cooperative committee with immediate effect on Friday. Besides, the recruitment of the fourth class employees of the district cooperative bank based in  Uttarkashi  has also been scrapped. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Governor Dr K K Paul in his maiden address on Friday to the fourth elected Assembly of the  state  that marked the commencement  of  the first session of the newly elected House has unveiled the     BJP -helmed  government’s  vision of the state while announcing several things, including the re-introduction of Lokayukta Act-2011, Transfer Act-2011 and Right ...

The maiden session of the   fourth Vidhan Sabha of Uttarakhand starting from Friday with the largest strength of the treasury bench since the first Assembly formed in 2002 would prove different on two counts. First, the ministers are devoid of portfolios and second, there is no leader of the opposition with few hours left for the session to commence. Save ...

Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggarwal has been unanimously elected as new speaker of fourth elected Uttarakhand assembly on Thursday. Thereafter most of the MLAs spoke about his achievements and while they were making praise for the new speaker then aggarwal was unable to gulp it easily. With this appointment Vidhan Sabha has declared date for the appointment of deputy speaker i.e. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two of the newly elected MLAs – Rishikesh MLA Premchand Aggrawal and Rudraprayag MLA Bharat Choudhary- took the oath twice on Tuesday, first in Sanskrit inside the house during oath taking ceremony of the legislators and later in Hindi in the chamber of the protem speaker Harbans Kapur. Kapur who had taken oath on Monday administered the oath to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Shortly after taking oath as member of fourth elected uttarakhand assembly Kedarnath MLA  Manoj Rawat has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kedarnath temple. The journalist turned politician Rawat said that he would soon write a letter to the Prime Minister and invite him to Kedarnath.  PM visit would give a positive message across the country. ...