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DEHRADUN: Possession of tiger hide from four suspected poachers on Thursday in Uttarakhand has wounded India’s conservation programme with the death toll of tigers rising to 89 after a prima facie probe has pointed at the big cats’ origin and their absence from the Rajaji Tiger Reserve (RTR) . “These tigers were killed in the […]
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday allowed the slaughtering of animals for the Bakr Eid festival in Manglaur town of Haridwar district. The HC stayed the Uttarakhand government’s order on a blanket ban on animal slaughter in the entire district on an intervention application filed by one Faisal Hussain, a resident of Muslim dominated Manglaur […]
In an exclusive interview with The New Indian, the former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat talks about the contentious issue of the Uniform Civil Code. The national general secretary of the Indian National Congress also said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Draupadi Murmu as their candidate for the Presidential election to appease […]
DEHRADUN: Some of us must have come across the renowned Kumaoni folk song ‘Bedu Pako Bara Masa’ (Figs do ripen round the year). It is also the official song of the Kumaon Regiment of the Indian army. ‘Bedu’ – the Wild Himalayan Fig – is now ready to invade our platter and palate in […]
DEHRADUN: District and Sessions Court, Nainital has suspended the 2-year rigorous imprisonment and Rs 50,000 fine imposed on the principal of prestigious Sherwood College in the case of the death of a Nepalese student in 2014. On June 29, the Nainital Chief Judicial Magistrate Court convicted college principal Amandeep Sandhu and two others under 304A […]
DEHRADUN: Nainital Chief Judicial Magistrate court on Wednesday convicted Sherwood College, Nainital principal Amandeep Sandhu and two others under 304A (Causing death by negligence) of the IPC in the death of a student in the year 2014. Nepal’s Shaan Prajapati, then 14-year-old, died in November 2014 due to medical negligence. Harish C Pande, counsel for […]
DEHRADUN: If the experts have their way, our trip to the higher reaches of Uttarakhand might get costlier while the money generated could be used to develop the villages in those places. A team of experts including environmentalists and trekkers have written to the Uttarakhand tourism department recommending levying a ‘Green Tax’ or an ‘Environment […]
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand High Court on Monday granted protection from arrest to Mahim Verma, secretary of the Cricket Association of Uttarakhand (CAU) after Uttarakhand police booked seven people associated with CAU on charges of assault, extortion and criminal intimidation of a young cricketer named Arya Sethi. An FIR was registered on June 20, 2022, under sections […]
DEHRADUN/SRINAGAR: “Hope is the one thing that can help us get through the darkest of times.” Family and friends of Haldwani’s Dr Mahesh Kumar seem to believe staunchly in this quote. On a trekking expedition to Kashmir’s Pahalgam, Dr Mahesh had washed away after falling into the Lidder river from a makeshift bridge on June […]
DEHRADUN: A highly rare carnivorous plant species, not seen anywhere in India in more than three decades, has been discovered in Chamoli district in the western Himalayas for the first time, as per officials of Uttarakhand Forest Department. Utricularia furcellata (Lentibulariaceae) was found in picturesque Mandal valley by a three-member team of the forest […]