Uttarakhand News

The state cabinet in a meeting on Wednesday decided to hike the grant given to freedom fighters for the wedding of their granddaughters from Rs 4,000 to Rs 50,000. Urban development minister Madan Kaushik said, “Until now, freedom fighters registered in the state were granted Rs 4,000 for the wedding of their granddaughters. The cabinet has raised the amount of ...

Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat yesterday announced the setting up of a Science City in the state. He was addressing a workshop organised by the Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA) at Vigyan Dham in Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology office, Dehradun. The Chief Minister while announcing the setting up of a Science City in the state asserted that it ...

The Badrinath highway which was closed after heavy rain and landslides around midnight, opened on Tuesday morning, an official said. Landslides triggered on Monday night at Lambagad left the highway blocked with rocks for almost eight hours. The annual ‘Chaar Dham’ pilgrimage at the other three places – Yamunotri, Gangotri and Kedarnath though were running smoothly, he added. Water-logging was ...

Dehradun: The NDA’s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind yesterday held a meeting with MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand at Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s official residence here to canvass support for himself. The closed-door meeting, chaired by the chief minister, lasted for two hours, official sources here said. All 57 party legislators and two out of ...

Thousands of people took out a rally under the banner of the Gorkhali Sudhar Sabha on Sunday demanding separate state Gorkhaland. Participants in the rally led by Lieutenant General Shakti Gurung (AP) said that they will not give up the movement until Gorkhaland is formed. Earlier, a large number of people of Gorkha community gathered in Parade Ground. The name ...

State Congress president Pritam Singh has sought waiving of farmers’ loans in the state and urged the BJP government to follow Punjab that recently waived farmers’ loans. In a letter written to Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Singh said the role of farmers in providing food grains to the people kept paramount importance and thus the issues affecting the farmers ...

No compromise in selection of cities and quality of smart city plans, says M.Venkaiah Naidu Central government today announced another list of 30 cities for development as smart cities taking the total cities picked up so far to 90 under Smart City Mission launched on June 25, 2015. Announcing the new batch of smart cities at a National Workshop on ...

The southwest monsoon is likely to hit the state by June 25, the Meterological Centre at Dehradun has predicted. Earlier, the forecast for the arrival of the monsoon was June 21. Director, Met Centre, Bikram Singh said,  “Monsoon has reached Bihar but is yet to cover the entire state. It appears that the southwest monsoon has been delayed by four ...

The six-day budget session of Uttarakhand assembly, which concluded on late Thursday night, proved to be a historic one. Speaker Premchand Aggarwal said that the assembly conducted business for a record 11 hours and 25 minutes on Thursday, making it the longest session day in the history of Uttarakhand assembly. The assembly also passed the appropriation bill of Rs 39,957.13 ...

In a mammoth exercise, Uttarakhand government will relocate 395 villages in disaster-prone areas to safer locations. In the first phase of the project, which is worth Rs 10,000 crore, 73 villages will be relocated. A total of 3,491 families live in these villages. Of the 73 villages, three are located in Bageshwar district and harbour a total of 31 families, ...