Uttarakhand News

The sports fraternity and sports enthusiasts in the state are a excited lot as the Queen’s Baton Relay for the XXI Commonwealth Games (to held in Australia next year) will reach Uttarakhand on October 5 and will pass through six cities of Uttarakhand for two days by eminent sportspersons hailing from the state. Calling it a proud occasion for the ...

Taking a U-turn on the CBI probe into NH-74 land scam, Chief Minister TS Rawat has stated that the agency had not accepted the government’s request to take up the investigation. Rawat had during the Assembly session in June announced that the CBI had accepted the state government’s request for a probe. The CM clarified, “At that point in time, ...

Senior politician ND Tiwari is critical after suffering from brain stroke on Wednesday. He has been admitted to Max Hospital in Saket in New Delhi, his niece Manishi Tiwari was quoted by ANI. Sources at Max Hospital in Saket said the condition of 91-year-old Tiwari is serious and he is under observation in the Intensive Care Unit. A team of ...

Reacting to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s remark on dynasty, Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah who is on a two-day visit to Uttarakhand said BJP has ended the dynastic rule in India. “I hail from a non-political background and a party like BJP has chosen me as its national president. It shows the existing internal democracy within the ...

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar will now be the brand ambassador for the Open Defecation Free (ODF) campaign in the state. Uttarakhand has declared rural areas of the state ODF and aims to achieve the same in urban areas by March 31 next year. The Toilet- Ek Prem Katha star has conveyed his willingness to chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat to ...

Hundreds of gram pradhans across Uttarakhand protested on Monday demanding implementation of guidelines of Panchayati Raj Act 2016 and enhanced pay and perks. In Dehradun, several hundred pradhans and their supporters from nearby villages gheraoed the secretariat, resulting in major traffic snarls and inconvenience to commuters. The pradhans had first protested in July this year, voicing for their demands by ...

Uttarakhand State Badminton Association secretary BS Mankoty said that the junior number one player Lakshya Sen will lead the Indian team in the World Badminton Championships in Indonesia from October 9 to 22. In this, Dhruv Rawat, Unnati Bisht, Aditi Bhatt and Sneha Razvar from Uttarakhand have been selected in the Indian Badminton Team. Secretary said that Unanti Bisht is ...

Three more accused in the kidney murder case were arrested by the police. These include the medicine supplier of Gangotri Charitable Hospital, Gujarat’s agent and the wife of the hospital’s director Rajiv Choudhary. So far, eight accused, including Kidney Purchase gang gangster Amit and his brother Jeevan, have been arrested. Police Superintendent Rural Sarita Dobal told that Abhishek Sharma, resident of  ...

Nainital High Court has given relief to the State Government and Stone Crusher owners and lifted the ban on mining in the 5 km radius of Ganga river. At the same time, gave its consent to the government’s policy on mining in Uttarakhand. While hearing a PIL filed by Haridwar resident Pawan Kumar Saini, the court on December 6 last ...

Preparations of the Uttarakhand State Eligibility Test (U-Set), proposed by the University of Kumaon on October 29, are going on expeditiously. Five places in Kumaon have been chosen for examination, while center in six cities has been set up in Garhwal region. Till date, ten thousand candidates have been registered for the examination. In the first paper of the examination, ...