Uttarakhand News

The local administration prevented members of the ABVP leaders today from taking out Tiranga rally in Satpuli town where communal tension flared up after a minor boy allegedly posted ‘offensive’ picture of the Kedarnath shrine on Facebook. Members of the ABVP were stopped by the police in the afternoon and taken to police station. Earlier, the police held a flag ...

In a significant decision, the Uttarakhand government has decided to introduce compulsory retirement for all officials above the age of 50 if they fail an annual screening test meant to check their performance. According to the government order issued on Thursday, a screening committee would meet every year to ascertain the performance of employees above 50. The ones who fail ...

The state government’s move to transfer government doctors in the hills and deploying private institutions for running its hospitals in the plains has drawn flak from doctors under the aegis of Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS). The government in a decision taken in June had decided to operate all the community health centres in the Dehradun district under PPP mode ...

Even as the pendency of cases are mounting in courts across Uttarakhand, as many as 75 judicial posts, including a post of a high court judge, are lying vacant, reveals an RTI reply. “There are a total of 291 sanctioned positions in the state judiciary, including the high court, of which nearly 25% positions are lying vacant, which the government ...

Five persons, including three Nepali citizens, were killed, and two Nepali citizens were injured when a boulder hit a Maruti Alto near Tawaghat, in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, on Thursday. Continuous rainfall in the Tawaghat region triggered landslips, which loosened the boulder that hit the car on Thursday morning and killed five persons, including the driver. “The car was going from ...

The famous Monal bird of Uttarakhand and an athlete in action with mountains in the background will be the mascot and logo for the 38 National Games, which will be hosted by the state government in 2018. Chairing a meeting yesterday, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat finalised the designs for the mascot and logo, which will be sent for the ...

After a delay of nearly 10 days, monsoon finally arrived in Uttarakhand on Saturday with meteorological centre issuing a warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in next 72 hours. “Monsoon has arrived in many parts of Uttarakhand and it’s active in both Kumaon and Garhwal,” meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said, adding that it is likely ...

Agriculture Minister Subodh Uniyal yesterday recommended the lodging of an FIR against eight officers of Uttarakhand Seeds and Tarai Development Corporation Ltd (USTDC) for their alleged involvement in the Rs 16 crore wheat seed scam for Rabi season. “Based on prima facie evidence as indicated in the enquiry report submitted by Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Dr Ranbir Singh, ...

The Department of Health and Medical is bracing up for initiating action against government doctors who have not adhered to the transfer orders and have failed to reach their new places of posting by June 30. On Monday, the department is likely to take stock of the situation and even take recourse to issuing suspension order to those who continue ...

Uttarakhand has drawn up an ambitious plan to shift the medium of instruction from Hindi to English in the approximately 18,000 government schools in the hill state. The state’s education minister, Arvind Pandey , told TOI the project would be rolled out in a phased manner, beginning with the introduction of English as the medium of instruction in Class 1 ...