Uttarakhand News

The Uttarakhand High Court today asked the state government to form a special investigation team (SIT) within 48 hours to look into the alleged gang rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Uttarkashi district. Taking suo motu cognisance of the recent incident, which has led to a wave of protests in the state, a division bench of Justice Rajiv ...

In Uttarakhand, 444 varieties of medicines have been banned. It was reported that medicines that have been banned are considered as addictive drugs by the Central Drug Control Organization. Given that in view of the growing addiction nature among the youth in Uttarakhand, Shweta Masiwal had filed a petition in the High Court which was heard on Monday. And the ...

In Dehradun municipal area, the ongoing tussle for the last one month to increase house tax rates is likely to stop now. So far, it was proposed that the corporation will increase 40 per cent directly, but seeing the long list of objections and massive public opposition, the corporation has already prepared to implement such a system like ‘Taxation of ...

On Tuesday, the martyred body of Hamir Pokhriyal of Rishikesh and Mandeep Singh from Kotdwar (Pauri Garhwal), who were martyred in Jammu and Kashmir were cremated. People turned up in huge numbers to pay tributes to the martyrs. Among the slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Terrorism Murdabad” there was tremendous resentment among the people towards Pakistan. On Wednesday, ...

After the President’s acceptance on Monday, the letter of his appointment of Rajinder Kashyap, joint secretary of the Law and Justice Ministry as Chief Justice of Nainital High Court reached Nainital. Justice Sharma has been appointed since the day of former Chief Justice K. Joseph Joseph left office. Justice Rajiv Sharma was appointed on September 26, 2016 in the Uttarakhand ...

Uttarakhand Transport Federation has announced a two-day strike for the 15-point demand including exempting the speed governor in old commercial vehicles. In the agitative notice sent to the Chief Minister, the federation has given a deferment of the strike till August 16, and if it does not happen, on 17-18 August, it has warned of stopping private transport services in ...

Chief Minister Trivendra Rawat has announced a fine on the condition of using polyethylene while appealing to people nof the state to discontinue the use of polythene. The Chief Minister has given information through tweets that if found to be using polythene, the shopkeepers will be fined Rs 5000, the perpetrators will get Rs 2000 and the subscribers will be ...

The government is going to take steps to rehabilitate the 60 villages of Almora and Pauri districts, most affected by migration. These are the villages whose population has remained between two to ten. The Rural Development and Welfare Commission is preparing the plan for development of all these villages. Almora and Pauri districts are in the state where the population ...

A work plan to train 40 lakh youth between the age group of 15 to 59 to make them employable and self-employable through Skill Development to be prepared · Union Minister Dharmender Pradhan calls for full support of the central government · Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat emphasized on focusing on service sector · Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and ...

Incessant rains affected normal life across Uttarakhand today, especially in the hilly areas, where a number of roads were blocked due to landslides and schools remained closed. Jollygrant received a maximum of 145.1 mm of rains, followed by Rishikesh 132.4 mm, Purola in Uttarkashi 110 mm, Roorkee 106 mm Mussoorie 99.5 mm and Dehradun 98.6 mm, the Meteorological (MeT) office ...