Uttarakhand News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday reviewed the progress of Uttarakhand’s all weather roads and Kedarnath reconstruction projects via video-conferencing and expressed satisfaction at the work done this month. Launched by the prime minister at the time of the state assembly polls earlier this year, the ambitious all weather roads project would smoothen the annual pilgrimage to the four famous Himalayan ...

Rajasthan and Uttarakhand were today jolted by medium intensity earthquakes measuring 4.2 and 3.3 on the Richter scale, the India Meteorological Department said. The first quake hit Jodhpur at 1521 hrs, while the second quake hit Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand at 1832 hrs, it said. However, there were no immediate reports of loss of life and property. Earlier in the day, ...

Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday directed the National Highways Authority of India to take over the widening work on NH-58 that connects Dehradun to Haridwar. The minister also released Rs 280 crore for the project which has been seven years in the pipeline. Former Uttarakhand CM and current Haridwar MP Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’said that ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday termed as ‘academic’ the appeals of then nine rebel Congress MLAs of Uttarakhand challenging the Uttarakhand high court order that had upheld their disqualification by the speaker of the assembly. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud disposed of the pleas of MLAs, saying that a ...

The Uttarakhand Board of School Education (UBSE) will make some changes in the examination pattern for 2018 board examinations in certain subjects. For Class 10, the changes are only in Mathematics subject, while for Class 12, the changes will apply to Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. According to education officials, students appearing for board exams will get options of multiple ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat yesterday said that the state government was working in the direction of making Gairsain the summer capital of the state. Addressing a fair on agriculture, horticulture and tourism in Chamoli district of the state, Rawat asserted that his government was committed to the overall development of Uttarakhand and was working in the direction of ...

The state government will conduct special audit of key government departments/ undertakings in news for corrupt practices. Chief Minister TS Rawat said, “The Department of Finance has been asked to undertake special audits and once the audit report is out within two-three months, action will be taken.” The state government had set up a SIT to look into the NH-74 ...

The Nainital High Court is likely to give it’s directives tomorrow on whether the government should refer the NH-74 probe to the CBI or continue with SIT investigation. While hearing a PIL on the matter, Judges Sudhanshu Dhulia and Lok Pal Singh had on October 8 ordered the CBI to inform the court during the next hearing (October 28) it’s ...

Madan Kaushik, urban development minister, Uttarakhand said,”Rishikesh Nagar Palika Parishad has a population 1.21 lakh which is well above the required number. In the plains, a population of over 1 lakh is required to upgrade a municipal council into a municipal corporation and for the hills the required population is 90,000.” Kaushik said, “Kotdwar municipal council has a population of ...

The pilgrimage to Hemkund Sahib in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand will no more include an arduous 16-km trekking stretch as the authorities are all set to construct a road till Bhyundur considerably reducing this distance. Under the present arrangements, pilgrims who come to Govindghat, the gateway to Hemkund Sahib, take their vehicles up to Pulna, which is at a ...