Uttarakhand

Rawat, Adityanath visit Badrinath temple

4:47 pm November 17, 2020

Badrinath: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath visited the Badrinath temple on Tuesday. The two chief ministers were supposed to visit the temple on Monday after attending the portal closing ceremony at the Kedarnath shrine. However, the visit had to be put off due to heavy snowfall at […]

Farm fires continue to deteriorate Delhi’s air quality

7:50 pm November 8, 2020

New Delhi: The national capital’s air quality was recorded in ‘severe’ category on Sunday as stubble fires continued to be reported in Punjab and nearby regions. According to the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) mobile app SAMEER, Delhi’s overall air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 426 which falls in the ‘severe’ category. The Ministry […]

Elderly man killed by elephant in Uttarakhand

Radio collaring of elephants begins in Uttarakhand

8:47 pm October 15, 2020

Dehradun: Radio collaring of elephants began in Uttarakhand on Thursday with an aim to keep tab on their movement and reduce man-animal conflict, officials said. The drive began as a tracking collar was tied around a 35-year-old male tusker in Haridwar forest division, they said. Divisional Forest Officer Haridwar Niraj Kumar Sharma said the elephant […]

Rajnath Singh inaugurates bridges in border areas

8:02 pm October 12, 2020

Dehradun: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday virtually inaugurated 44 bridges built by the Border Roads Organisation in seven states, including eight in Uttarakhand. The defence minister said they will usher in a new era of connectivity and development in the border regions. Singh also laid the foundation stone of the Nechifu tunnel on Tawang […]

Leopard mauls to death 7-year-old girl in Uttarakhand

3:41 pm October 8, 2020

Pithoragarh: A leopard mauled a seven-year-old girl to death in Bhattigaon village in Berinag sub division of the district, officials said on Thursday. The girl was attacked when she was playing outside her house on Wednesday evening. She was dragged by the animal to the nearby bushes, they said. As villagers rushed to the spot […]