Uttarakhand News

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Under the Udan scheme, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Premchand Aggarwal and Cabinet Minister Prakash Pant jointly flagged off the Dehradun to Pantnagar air service at Jolly Grant Airport on Friday. It will prove to be very important for connectivity between Garhwal and Kumaon. CM said that along with Jolly Grant Airport, air strip ...

High school and intermediate examinations of Uttarakhand board will start from the first week of March 2019. Officials of the Education Board have started preparations for the examinations as soon as the list of government holidays came from the government. Considering the election of the Lok Sabha, the board officials had doubts about the exam date. This time, 14,992 students ...

Uttarakhand’s dream of hosting the National Games has been completed. Indian Olympic Association has stamped the hosting of 2020 National Games in the state. Uttarakhand was selected among the three states to for hosting the games. Indian Olympic Association has also decided to give a chance to Chhattisgarh and Mizoram to host the games in the coming years. In 2019, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Uttarakhand High Court on Friday paved the way for the state Forest Department to remove the Rishikesh ashram of goldman Asaram, built on forestland. A Bench of Justice Manoj Tiwari gave the green signal for the removal of the ashram by vacating its earlier order that had stayed the department’s order for the removal of the ...

The Motor vehicle tax on motor vehicles in Uttarakhand has been revised as per rules in a bid to make it rational, making tax system easy, increasing the state revenue and keeping the interest of the transport traders in mind. Keeping all the above mentioned facts in mind the following changes have been made in the motor vehicle tax. 1. ...

Five persons were killed and twelve injured in two separate road accidents in Uttarakhand late on Thursday. Two people were killed in Champawat district while three died in Almora district when the vehicles they were travelling in fell into deep gorges on Thursday. The first incident occurred at around 5.30 PM on Chanol-Nagarkhan motor road in Almora district killing three ...

After the snowfall in the high hills of the Himalayas, including Kedarnath, the cold wave has increased in the entire district. At all places including the headquarters, there was cloudy sky throughout the afternoon, which resulted in people getting cold. Two-inch new ice has accumulated in Kedarnath. Due to the changing weather for two days the effect of cold has ...

The state of Uttarakhand  has started buzzing again with political activities after a brief sting episode. In this case Leader of Opposition Dr. Indira Hridayesh, has attacked the government after giving a statement regarding having proof of the sting of those belonging to the ruling party. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said in a reversal that if Congress ...

A ban has been imposed on the screening of the film “Kedarnath” in seven districts of Uttarakhand in view of protests by Hindu outfits, a senior official said Friday. The decision has been taken by District Magistrates concerned in view of the situation prevailing in their areas, ADG (law and order)Ashok Kumar told PTI on Friday. There will be no ...

In Uttarakhand, the state government has taken a big step towards reducing pollution in the Ganga. In this sequence, the directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) have been imposed on the hotels, ashram and Dharmashalas. On the excavation of the sewerage or dirty water coming out of them in the Ganges and its tributaries, the penalty will be imposed ...