Uttarakhand News

The international skiing championship slated to be held in the world famous ski slopes ofAuli has been canceled due to insufficient snowfall this season. The championship was proposed from 16 to 22 February. About this, the Winter Games Federation has sent a report to the Federation of International Skiing (FIS). The government had decided to organize skiing championships in Auli ...

Lanco Infratech Limited which was building Vyong phata hydro power project (76 MW) in Vyong village of Rudraprayag district has closed down the project for incurring losses, especially after a large part of its barrage got washed away in 2013 deluge. Villagers who had been opposing this project and another Singoli Bhatwadi (99MW) in the vicinity since 2001 and were ...

With a special investigating team (SIT) already examining the Rs 300 crore scam in the NH-74 land acquisition and compensation process another central agency, enforcement directorate (ED), on Sunday joined the investigation process. The ED is all set to register cases under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on FIR filed by SIT which also ...

Social activist Anna Hazare will be on a two-day visit to Uttarakhand from February 13. He will be addressing rallies in Srinagar and Tehri. State coordinator of the anti-corruption movement Bhopal Singh Choudhury said Anna would arrive in Dehradun on February 13. He will leave for Srinagar the same day and address a rally there on February 14. He will ...

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,500 crore for three years to promote organic farming in state. The amount was sanctioned by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh when Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met him in New Delhi yesterday. This was in keeping with PM Narendra Modi’s vision of developing Uttarakhand as an organic state, which he spelt out during ...

The Uttarakhand School Education Council will conduct high school and intermediate examinations in the state from March 5 to 24. Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh has asked Garhwal and Kumaon Commissioners to provide adequate security to managers and invigilators of examination centres to help them stop students from using unfair means in the exam, saying guardians of students create chaos ...

Dehradun police on Sunday launched an initiative -‘Sukhad’ in which free pickup and drop facilities will be provided to women on Sundays. Police will provide free pick-and-drop facility to women going shopping, travelling or other work in the city on Sunday. This facility will be available in the city from 10 am to 10 pm, as per the planning of ...

The officials of the Social Welfare Department in the state are proving to be an obstacle in welfare schemes. It was learned from Departmental Minister Yashpal Arya that there was a review meeting that, despite repeatedly saying Pauri’s District Social Welfare Officer, Ratan Singh Rawal did not send proposals for special component plan. The proposals for the two assembly constituencies ...

The Government of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the World Bank Board signed in New Delhi, a $120 million Loan Agreement which will help increase access to improved water supply services in peri-urban areas in the State of Uttarakhand. The Agreement for the project was signed by Sameer Kumar Khare, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU After a marathon operation, a killer tusker was finally captured by the forest officials in the Haridwar region of Uttarakhand. The tusker was responsible for death of two persons recently and was in a habit of frequently raiding human habitations in Haridwar and its surroundings. A joint team of Rajaji Tiger Reserve along with the Haridwar Forest ...