Author: Vineet Upadhyay

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Bhartiya Janta Party unit has shared a list of 10 names, including two former state Chief Ministers, to the central leadership for the Rajya Sabha seat which will fall vacant in July this year. Uttarakhand has a total of eight seats in both the houses of the Parliament of India – five seats […]

  DEHRADUN: Nawab Tyagi has accompanied his ‘parents’, Vikas and Himshi Tyagi to religious places since he was just six months old. There was never a fuss. But a reel of the four-year-old seeking blessings from Nandi, Lord Shiva’s ride, in front of the revered Kedarnath shrine had drawn ire from a section of the […]

DEHRADUN: Research wing of the Uttarakhand forest department on Sunday released its ‘Annual Report’ listing a total of 1943 species which have been conserved through in situ and ex-situ conservation measures in the year 2021-2022. The species have been conserved across six centres – Haldwani, Nainital, Ranikhet, Pithoragarh, Gopeshwar and Dehradun. Last year, the number […]

  DEHRADUN: Former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat who was ousted after his ‘Fati Jeans Wearing Women’ comments from the office of the CM last year, has justified his stance against ripped jeans saying that such attire is not a part of Indian culture. “I am very happy and proud that I got overwhelming […]

DEHRADUN: With a list of 40 ‘Star Campaigners’, Bharatiya Janata Party is not leaving anything to chance in Champawat by-polls to get Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami elected to the state assembly. The list includes Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, union ministers Anurag Thakur and Ajay Bhatt, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, four Uttarakhand […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Dhami late Friday revised his government’s guidelines on the pilgrimage to four key shrines, announcing a ban on VIP Darshan and urging the youth to allow seniors to move ahead amid a rise in deaths being reported in a span of last 10 days. Dhami’s directions came hours after The […]

DEHRADUN: An unprecedented 28 deaths of pilgrims in the last 10 days on Char Dham Yatra routes has sent the administration into a tizzy. The central government has decided to deploy teams from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to aid the tourists, while a team of doctors from Armed Forces […]

  DEHRADUN: Bhartiya Janata Party MLA Kailash Chandra Gahtori (54), who vacated Champawat assembly seat for Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, would have continued as a businessman in Madhya Pradesh if it was not for the fateful intervention of destiny. “I am fortunate that honorable CM chose to contest by-polls from my seat. I am […]