Uttarakhand News

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 ...

There is good news in festive season for the people of the urban areas of the state who are struggling with water shortage. The State Government has given permission to the Drinking Water Corporation to procure a loan of Rs. 1000 crores for providing 135 liters of water per day per person in urban areas. Now the corporation has started ...

Several important decisions were taken in the meeting of the Uttarakhand cabinet. The Cabinet also stamped its approval to allow benefits of the seventh pay commission to KVMV, GMVN, Zilla Panchayat and corporation employees. Along with it, it was decided that liquor shops would now open from 10 am to 10 pm. A discussion was held on 24 points in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will once again come to seek the blessing of Kedar Baba. PM Modi will reach Kedarnath Dham on October 20. The Uttarakhand police administration has braced up for the security preparedness of PM’s visit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will once again be on the Uttarakhand tour. Just a day before the closure of the temple, PM ...

Uttarakhand Sub Junior Judo Team of 24 participants in various categories won two golds, three silvers and one bronze in the Sub Junior National Judo Championship held at Warangal in Telangana from September 30 to October 3. Uttarakhand’s Sneha Chauhan was declared the Best Judoka in girls’ category in the country. The 13-year old, studying in Dehradun, has been learning ...

A scam worth over Rs 600 crore has been detected in the public distribution system of Uttarakhand leading to the dismissal of the regional food controller in Kumaon division of the state. “Vishnu Singh Dhanik’s dismissal was ordered late on Monday night after preliminary investigations by an SIT headed by Udhamsingh Nagar District Magistrate Niraj Khairwal revealed large-scale financial irregularities ...

Joshimath: Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that people living along the China border were the country’s “strategic assets”, and directed the frontier guarding force ITBP to ensure that they did not migrate as this would put India’s security at risk. Addressing locals and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troops at the 1st battalion camp here, Singh said the border population ...

Inclement weather, thick cover of snow along with high altitude acted a stumbling block in the operation to rescue the four stranded trekkers on the Badrinath-Madmaheswar route in Rudraprayag district on Thursday. The Air Force helicopter took some rounds near the Panpatia glacier, at an altitude of 4,000 metres, where the four trekkers were spotted holding the national flag. However, ...

Police late on Tuesday arrested Parvesh Kumar, the history teacher of Sardar Singh Rawat Inter College, Nainbagh, accused for raping a 15-year-old student for several months. The case came to light when medical examination confirmed that the class X student was eight-month pregnant. The accused had been raping her for months and had threatened her for months. Manoj Negi, Station ...

Faced with an acute shortage of middle level IAS officers, the Uttarakhand government has written a letter to the Central government to send back atleast some of the IAS officers who have gone on deputation to the Centre from the state. The new BJP government is faced with an uphill task of strengthening the administration in the government but its ...