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DEHRADUN: ‘Haridwar Darshan’ pod taxi transport system, covering the key cities of Haridwar-Rishikesh-Dehradun by the Uttarakhand Metro Rail Corporation (UKMRC), will be India’s first such transport system, officials told The New Indian. Jitendra Tyagi, managing director of the UKMRC, said, “The project has been approved by the UKMRC board and the proposal is in the […]

DEHRADUN: More than 80 per cent of lush green tea gardens of Dehradun in Uttarakhand have fallen prey to the land sharks of Dehradun, claimed an RTI activist. Vikesh Negi, Dehradun-based RTI activist and a practising advocate told The New Indian, “More than 80 per cent of the land of the tea estates/gardens of Dehradun […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Subordinate Selection Service Commission (UKSSSC) chairman S Raju on Friday resigned from his post amid an ongoing investigation of an alleged paper leak. State government authorities refused to comment on the matter terming it a subjudice and sensitive one. “Either he was told to resign or he offered his resignation by himself remains […]

  DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday issued instructions to form a ‘Narcotics Rapid Action Force’ to achieve the goal of a ‘Drug Free’ state by 2025. “All concerned officials, departments should work in mission mode to form a Narcotics Rapid Action Force to eradicate drug menace from our state,” said the […]

DEHRADUN: Rare optical phenomenon ‘Sun Halo’ or 22-degree halo in which a rainbow appears around the Sun was visible in Dehradun skies on Sunday. Bikram Singh, director of Meteorological Centre, Dehradun, said, “The phenomena occur due to refraction of sunlight in millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Our eyes see the colours […]

DEHRADUN: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) will hear a case regarding the felling of trees on the Sahastradhara Road in Dehradun of Uttarakhand. The petition filed by Rajat Narayan, a resident of Delhi has been listed for hearing on July 26. Protests inspired by the ‘Chipko Movement’ have been going on for some time now […]

DEHRADUN: The district administration and the Uttarakhand state education department launched an investigation after a school administration in Dehradun decided to proclaim Friday a half-day holiday. The decision led to an uproar among guardians and parents of the students of Bright Angel Senior Secondary Public School in Dehradun’s Vikasnagar. Speaking to The New Indian, block […]

DEHRADUN: Kanwar Yatra has reached its peak in Uttarakhand as more than 28 lakh pilgrims have reached Haridwar for Gangajal since the Yatra began on July 14. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami who welcomed the devotees carrying Kanwar by washing their feet in Haridwar on Wednesday said, “Our government is committed to providing every facility […]

DEHRADUN: “How’s the f****ng josh? High Sir!” Ambience charged with patriotism, emotions running high among newly inducted Indian Army officers on Saturday in Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun as it witnessed 288 cadets graduating to become part of the second-largest Army in the world. A total of 377 ‘Gentleman Cadets’ (GCs), 150 from Regular Course […]

  DEHRADUN: Barely touching 21, Baba Danish Langer, from Jammu’s Akhnoor, a region that remains under routine shelling from Pakistan, is now a Lieutenant. But Langer’s fight is more than a fistful of stoicism as he has become India’s rare Army officer who suffers from Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a life-threatening paralysis in which the immune […]