Uttarakhand News

Champawat Police have arrested a notorious peddler from Indo-Nepal border in Tanakpur and seized 2kg of charas, which he was allegedly smuggling into India from Nepal, on Sunday. The accused, Ghuman Singh, 30, is a resident of Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district. He was arrested near Sharda barrage. The recovered contraband is worth over Rs 1 lakh in the ...

Almost a month after a 23-year-old, newly married woman’s body was found hanging from a tree in Mussoorie’s Chuna Khala area, police said on Thursday that their preliminary investigations revealed that it was a supposed case of a gruesome rape and murder. The unraveling of the incident has left the hill town of Mussoorie shocked. The deceased was reportedly raped ...

CM Trivendra Singh Rawat on Thursday flagged off four raths – which are to ply on the four routes of Char Dham – to spread awareness on keeping the river clean. The four raths which would operate until the Char Dham yatra season ends, were flagged off from the chief minister’s office. On the occasion Rawat said, “We have to ...

Four soldiers and three civilians have gone missing after a cloudburst hit the Mangta Nala region of Uttarakhand on Monday. Three bodies have also been recovered in Malpa. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has been halted due to the floods and landslide caused by the cloudburst on the route. Two bridges were damaged in Mangti and one in Simkhola districts of Uttarakhand. ...

One person was killed and three others were injured after a vehicle that they were travelling in fell into a 200-meters deep ditch on Rikholi-Mussoorie road, about 25km from Dehradun, in the wee hours of Friday. The four worked in an NGO together and were on their way to Mussoorie in an SUV when the accident took place around 3:30am. ...

The skeletal remains of a person, presumed to be a victim of the 2013 Kedarnath disaster, were found near Gaurikund in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district. A human skull and bones were found when locals were removing the debris of a wall which had collapsed following heavy rains. DM Rudraprayag Mangesh Ghildiyal said that after keeping the sample for DNA profiling, the ...

The Uttrakhand Department of Tourism will sign a memorandum of understanding with the Mayor of Chamonix Valley for developing Auli, Bedni Bugyal and Gorsaon (Chamoli), as a world-class winter ski destinations. Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj said the memorandum would be signed on Thursday by the Department of Tourism with the Mayor of Chamonix Valley in the presence of the French ...

Heavy rain may cause Tehri dam reservoir levels to rise to critical state, said dam officials who have written to district magistrates of downstream districts to be prepared for overflowing of Ganga and its tributaries when excess water is released. The warning letter has been issued to district administration of Tehri, Pauri, Dehradun and Haridwar. This would cause Ganga and ...

The Met department today issued a heavy rain alert for Kumaon and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand for the next 48 hours, warning of possible landslides and traffic blockades in the hills and inundation in low-lying areas. Heavy rainfall is likely in Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri, Chamoli, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Pithoragarh districts during the next 48 hours, Met office director ...

Chief Minister Trivendra Rawat yesterday said that the state government would approach the Supreme Court against HC’s decision barring Arts stream students from being appointed as ANMs. Addressing media persons at Janta Durbar here today Rawat said, “We will approach the Supreme court, against the High Court’s decision to bar students from Arts background, who have cleared the ANM examination, ...