UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived in Dehradun on Sunday morning, a day after her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Wadra’s visit to her son Raihan, a student of Doon School.
HT reports.
In fresh trouble for Yoga guru Ramdev, Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board has issued a show cause notice to the herbal food park run by the yoga guru at Padartha in Haridwar district for allegedly releasing untreated waste into the water bodies of the area.
The police detained 18 Kashmiri students who held a protest march in Dehradun on Tuesday afternoon. No legal action was taken against them till late evening, as saffron brigade workers staged protests at the police station.
The income-tax department has frozen the bank accounts of the two trusts run by yoga guru Ramdev and asked the Divya Yog Mandir Trust and Patanjali Yog Mandir Trust to pay up Rs. 34 crore.
The seven-month exercise of DNA testing has finally yielded result. The Uttarakhand police have nailed the culprit in the minor girl’s rape and murder case that last year rocked Lalkuan, a small town, some 300 kms from here.

Gangraped, a 22-year-old woman battles for her life in a hospital in Uttarakhand. The three accused, who damaged her uterus and left her with multiple bite marks, have been remanded to judicial custody.
A police constable Kamal Singh Mehra, deployed at Uttarakhand Raj Bhawan shot himself with his SLR (self-loading rifle) on Tuesday afternoon. HT reports.
Four persons were arrested from a settlement in Lansdowne Forest Range for allegedly abducting and raping an adolescent tribal girl, revenue police has said.
The alma mater of the Delhi gang rape victim has decided to honour her with a grand prayer meeting in the first week of February, Anupam Trivedi reports.

The Congress-led Uttarakhand govt has come in for flak from the opposition BJP for its announcement that women cannot work after 6pm in select sectors. Abhinav Madhwal reports. Bahuguna denies passing diktat 
It’s not just mad rush for ‘red beacons’ among Congress workers in Uttarakhand. Also the demand for ‘gunners’ is equally soaring in the hill state. Bahuguna government is flooded with such applicants seeking ‘gunners’.
Property worth lakhs was gutted on Tuesday when a major fire engulfed three floors of a three-star hotel in Dehradun.
The oppositon BJP today asked the Uttarakhand government to clear the air over alleged presence of two senior officials and some politicians from the state in Delhi during the Chattarpur farmhouse shootout in which liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother were killed.
Replacing the costly laser technology for virtual mapping of any location or structure, the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R), has come up with a technological solution to 3D virtual mapping by using photogrammetry for the first time in the country.
As many as 34 people, including 14 girls, were arrested at a rave party going on in a hotel in Jakhan locality in Dehradun.