Dehradun News

Kaira is the third MLA to join the BJP from the Opposition. Before him, independent MLA from Dhanaulti constituency- Pritam Singh Panwar and Congress MLA from Purola constituency- Rajkumar had joined the ruling party last month at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

Last week chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met top police officers and sought suggestions on how to make the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act stronger to check conversions

The programme will be held on the premises of a private institute in Lamachaur area of Haldwani. Around 2,000 volunteers of the RSS are expected to attend the programme on the first day. Bhagwat will also chair meetings of state-level office-bearers during his stay in Uttarakhand.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Uttarakhand today, and, during his visit, dedicate to the nation 35 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants established under the PM CARES Fund, as informed by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday.

A total of 1,224 PSA oxygen plants have been funded under PM CARES so far, and after Thursday, all districts of India will have commissioned plants.

Uttarakhand high court on Tuesday lifted the daily limit on the number of pilgrims who can visit Char Dham yatra following the state government’s plea that the limitation should be lifted as the Covid-19 cases have come down significantly in the state

Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday issued directions to district magistrates and police chiefs of Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi where four Char Dham shrines are located, to ensure pilgrims face no inconvenience or difficulties during the pilgrimage

Vinay Bhargav, divisional forest officer Pithoragarh, said the hunter has been called to eliminate the problematic leopard which has created terror in the area.

Six people had gone missing after an avalanche hit their summit of Mt Trishul in Chamoli district on Friday morning.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri have always inspired people and promoted non-violence in the country.

A police team from Haryana arrived in Haridwar on Thursday night after tracing four men who allegedly committed a robbery in Faridabad.

SS Kaler, the father of the deceased had resigned from the post of state president of the AAP Uttarakhand unit earlier this month. At that time, he had said that he was resigning from the post of state president as the party had decided that he would be contesting the assembly polls from Khatima, the home turf of Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

The dilapidated Gandhi Mandir structure, 4 km from Nainital district headqurters, was renovated last year under the heritage circuit scheme for ₹1.96 crore through Asian Development Bank funding.

The translocation initiative is part of efforts to repopulate Rajaji Tiger Reserve’s western part, which is home to two tigresses that have not reported breeding in almost a decade

A 4-year-old child was playing with his siblings when a leopard suddenly pounced on him in front of his mother on Monday evening

The hideout was revealed based on the interrogation of the “last wanted Maoist leader” of Uttarakhand.

Director, WIHG, Kalachand Sain, who is leading the project, informed that the project will help in a “comprehensive study of the surface and sub-surface areas of the Himalayas.”

Elaborating on the details of palm species that have been grown in the Palmetum, Chaturvedi said around 4 species are critically endangered, 2 species are endangered, 2 species are vulnerable and 6 species are near threatened as per IUCN categorization,

The development follows a complaint filed by Supreme Court advocate and wildlife activist Gaurav Kumar Bansal to CEC, a committee constituted by Supreme Court on September 20.

The five people were stranded on the island after the water level of Bhagirathi River increased following the release of water from a dam on it.

The AAP accused the BJP of “working on the lines of Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)”.

The expedition comprising of personnel from the Indian Army’s base in the border district of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand had left to scale the peak to commemorate the Swarnim Vijay Varsh celebrations during which they came across the body of the mountaineer.

Uttarakhand government cited demographic changes in parts of the state to order police and administrative officers in districts to track what it called illegal land deals and outsiders who have criminal antecedents.

BJP MLA and minister Ganesh Joshi called his acquittal in the case relating to death of a police horse, Shaktiman, a “victory of truth. The judge ruled there was not enough evidence and contradictions in statements of witnesses, his lawyer said.

On Tuesday, the forest team rescued 33 turtles from a wildlife smuggler from the Pullbhatta barrier on Bareilly road in Udham Singh Nagar district.

Himalayan black bears can be found in and around Himalayan meadows at an elevation of 10,000 to 12,000 feet high. They come down to 5,000-6000 feet in winter months in search of food. The Himalayan black bear has been listed as a vulnerable species under the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.