Uttarakhand

COVID-19 tally in India breaches 48-lakh mark; death toll climbs 79,722

2:12 pm September 14, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally crossed 48 lakh with 92,071 new infections being reported in a day, while over 37.8 lakh people have recuperated taking the national recovery rate to 78 per cent on Monday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 48,46,427, while the death toll climbed […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Pvt firm’s executive found dead in Greater Noida flat

9:51 pm September 11, 2020

Noida (UP): The body of a private company’s assistant manager was found inside his Greater Noida apartment on Friday in a suspected suicide case, police said. The body was found after locals alerted the police about stench emanating from the third floor of a house in a residential society under Beta 2 police station limits, […]

Rare orchid found for first time in western Himalayas

5:22 pm September 10, 2020

Dehradun: Liparis Pygmaea, a rare variety of orchid, has been found for the first time in the western Himalayan region in Uttarakhand. The flower was spotted by a team of the research wing of the Uttarakhand forest department at an altitude of 3,800 metres during a trek to Saptakund in Chamoli district in June this […]

13-million-year-old fossil ape discovered in Uttarakhand

8:30 pm September 9, 2020

Dehradun: An international team of researchers has unearthed a 13-million-year-old fossil of a newly discovered ape species in Uttarakhand, which is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The finding, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, fills a major void in the ape fossil record and provides important new evidence […]

‘Sanskrit Gram’ to be developed across Uttarakhand

3:15 pm September 9, 2020

Dehradun: Encouraged by the success of an experimental project promoting the use of Sanskrit as a means of daily communication, the Uttarakhand government has decided to develop ‘Sanskrit Gram’ across the state. People in these model villages will communicate with each other in the ancient Indian language on a daily basis. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has entrusted Haridwar-based Sanskrit Academy Uttarakhand with […]