Uttarakhand News

The Uttarakhand government has handed the charge sheet to Suspended IAS Pankaj Kumar Pandey and Chandresh Kumar Yadav in the NH 74 land compensation scam. Both will have to answer within 14 days. After this, the government will take a decision on appointing a senior IAS officer as an officer in the case. The sources said that the Department of ...

Investment proposals worth Rs 74,000 crore have been received by the Uttarakhand government and memorandum of understanding (MoUs) to the tune of Rs 60,000 crore signed with firms ahead of an investors’ summit to be held here next month, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said Friday. Attributing the huge volume of investments coming to the state to a sustained campaign ...

Exercise Yudh Abhyas, a joint Indo-US Military exercise which witnessed participation of an Infantry Battalion of Indian Army and the 1st Battalion 23 Infantry Regiment of US Army concluded at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand on 29 Sep 2018. The exercise was the 14th in the Yudh Abhyas series, which started in 2004 under US Army Pacific Partnership Programme. Exercise Yudh Abhyas strengthens ...

Growth centres will give new dimension to rural economy Provide increased opportunities for self-employment Help stop migration Growth centre scheme has been started in the state for identified economic activities in specific rural areas, to get the local produce and services identified at the national and international level and to generate large scale employment opportunities at the local level. The ...

The Uttarakhand government has doubled the grant amount given to pilgrims traveling to Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. The people of Uttarakhand who are traveling will now be given a grant amount of 50 thousand rupees from the government. So far 25 thousand rupees per pilgrim were given. On the last day of the assembly session, MLA Surendra Singh brought a proposal ...

Today Entire police machinery visited Raipur sports stadium to assess the security preparedness of PM Modi’s visit to Uttarakhand for the upcoming investor summit.  Chief Minister said that Destination Uttarakhand will provide a platform for investment in Uttarakhand to the International and investors from the country. In the summit, investors, producers, manufacturers, policy makers and industrial organizations from around the ...

The Meteorological Center has issued heavy to very heavy rain warnings on 23 and 24 September in Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh and Bageshwar. On Saturday, heavy rain warnings have been issued in these districts. During this time 204 mm water can rain in one day. On the other hand, Himachal Pradesh has also been warned of heavy rains for ...

In Uttrakhand, now the accused of any crime will not have to go to the High Court for interim bail. The High Court has made Section 438 of the Indian Penal Code effective in the state. After this order a person has got the right to seek interim bail from the lower courts also. Due to this the accused can ...

China has once again tried to encroach on the Indian border after the deadlock. This time China’s People’s Liberation Army has trespassed Indian territory adjacent to the border in Uttarakhand. News agency ANI quoted a source that in August last month, the Chinese army has tried to enter the Indian border at least three times. The soldiers of the Chinese ...

In the case of NH 74 compensation scam case, the Trivendra Singh Rawat government took a big action. Two IAS officers Pankaj Pandey and Chandresh Kumar Yadav involved in the NH 74 case have been suspended. It is worth mentioning that a huge compensation scam had surfaced during the widening of National Highway 74 passing through Rudrapur in Udham Singh ...