Author: Vineet Upadhyay

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand state health department will start a drive soon to bring down the infant mortality rate from 27 per 1000 to below 10. Dhan Singh Rawat, the state health minister, said, “The awareness drive will start soon in which ASHA workers and state health department officials will be participating to spread awareness among the […]

DEHRADUN: Top Hindu seers from Haridwar have condemned remarks of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, saying that “such comments create schism” between Hindus and Muslims. In a tweet, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP had alleged partiality in the government’s approach towards Muslims. “We have no objection that the government is using taxpayers money to shower flower […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand high court on Thursday directed the state government to monitor the glacial lake near Gaumukh glacier, the origin of the river Ganga on monthly basis. The court was hearing a public interest litigation filed in December 2017 stating that the snout of Gaumukh has been impacted by the debris deposited as a result […]

DEHRADUN: After a video of mass hysteria among the students of class 8 in a junior high school in Rekhauli of Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand went viral, a team from the state health department visited the school on Thursday to assess the situation. Officials from the state health department said that the students are stable […]

DEHRADUN: Known for its lush green mango and litchi orchards, Dehradun is all set to get its own metro rail, Metro Neo, to ease traffic load in the capital city and promote eco-friendly public transportation. The metro line will cover a total distance of 22.42 kilometres with 25 elevated stations. There will be two corridors – […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand cabinet has approved the plan for ‘Tunnel Parking’ to resolve the overgrowing problem of parking vehicles in the hills of Uttarakhand state. The cabinet also approved the abolition of bylaws which were creating hurdles in the Dehradun-Mussoorie Ropeway project. The ropeway which aims to cut down the travelling time between Dehradun and Mussoorie […]

HARIDWAR: A 25-year-old Indian Army jawan died in a scuffle between two groups of Kanwar pilgrims on Tuesday in Roorkee in Haridwar district. Devendra Chouhan, SHO of Civil Lines Kotwali police station, said, “The case has been registered against 25 unidentified kanwariyas on the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in section 304 […]

HARIDWAR: The sounds of ‘Har Har Mahadev’, ‘Jai Bholenath’, ‘Bum Bum Bhole’ resonate through the sky as devotees of Lord Shiva, clad in saffron, thronged Har ki Pauri and other Ganga ghats from across the country as Kanwar Yatra concluded on Sawan Shivratri on Tuesday. Gagan Anand (45), a businessman from Meerut who took the […]

DEHRADUN: Haridwar Police on Monday arrested a man for making a fake call to the Government Railway Police (GRP) about a bomb in a special train for Kanwar pilgrims. After GRP received a call at around 1.30 am on Monday, a combined team of GRP, Railway Police Force, and state police deployed a bomb disposal […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state government is planning to double the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Uttarakhand in the next five years. The CM revealed his plans while attending the meeting of Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states in New Delhi on […]