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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 […]

NURPUR (HP): The final battle for the ballot is still months away, but trouble seems to be brewing for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh ahead of the Assembly elections later this year. With an aim to strengthen the party in Kangra district, BJP had awarded its outspoken leader from Nurpur, Rakesh […]

NEW DELHI: Giving a fresh jolt to Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengal, its former state vice-president Arjun Singh on Sunday returned to Trinamool Congress. Singh rejoined TMC in the presence of the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his office in South Kolkata. Talking to the media after re-joining TMC, Singh said, “I have […]

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 […]