Nihi Sharma

Both the Congress and the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand have received major blow from independent candidates in the just-concluded urban local bodies polls that could change political equation of 2019 Lok Sabha polls. read more

As per the state election commission (SEC) data, results of 54 seats of mayor\/chairman had been declared until 6pm, of which the BJP had won 25 and the Congress 15. The independents had won 17 seats. read more

Uttarakhand civic polls 2018: Udham Singh Nagar has the highest number of counting tables at 226 and more than 1,000 personnel will count the votes. Dehradun follows with 166 tables and nearly 8.08 lakh voters, highest in the state. read more

Polling has begun in Uttarakhand for the 84 urban local bodies (ULB) across the state. A total of 23.53 lakh voters — 12.20 lakh male and 11.33 lakh female — will seal the fate of 4,978 candidates contesting the polls. read more

BJP lawmaker Manoj Tiwari was in Uttarakhand capital Dehradun on Wednesday to campaign for the upcoming urban local body elections in the state. read more

A BJP worker from Dehradun had accused Sanjay Kumar, general secretary of the party in Uttarakhand, of sexually harassing her for past several years. The party has accepted Kumar’s resignation. read more

There are 92 urban local bodies in Uttarakhand. In the first phase, elections will be held in 7 municipal corporations, 39 municipal councils and 38 town panchayats. read more

GD Agarwal, a former Indian Institute of Technoloy (IIT) professor popularly known as Swami Gyanswarup Sanand, died in a Rishikesh hospital on Thursday, the 112th day of a hunger strike demanding a law to save the Ganga. read more

The families have alleged that members of the so-called upper castes are objecting to providing a route, and the ground. read more

The Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has, for the first time, successfully created a DNA database of almost 200 rhinos from Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. read more

Uttarakhand BJP president Ajay Bhatt told HT that the ‘panna pramukh’ model used by the BJP in the Gujarat elections proved “successful” for the party and so they have decided to replicate that model in the state next year. read more

Though a graduate, Radhika Chauhan isn’t interested in landing a traditional day job. Instead, she wants to work as a ‘prahari’ (protector) of river Ganga, as part of a group of self-motivated volunteers whose mission is to keep the river clean. read more

The undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Uttarakhand Sanskrit University get barely 12-15 students every year as they gives less job opportunities. read more

Uttarakhand government has moved ahead to promote the hill state in areas of adventure, wellness, history and heritage, and rural tourism read more

Report says collected waste was dumped in trenching grounds without segregation or processing. read more

Nivedita Kukreti, SSP Dehradun, said the medical report has revealed that the minor girl is not pregnant. School authorities had given her ‘local remedies’ to induce abortion, she added. read more

A study conducted by Dehradun based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) shows that farming of 30 traditional crops has been abandoned in Pithoragarh district in last one decade due to climate change and migration. read more

Dr Sunil Kumar, a paediatrician, was shot dead on April 20, 2016, while discharging his duties in the Community Health Centre of Jaspur in Uttarakhand’s US Nagar district. read more

Approximately Rs 90 crore is to be paid to over 4,000 private schools in Uttarakhand under RTE. In Dehradun alone, Rs 50 lakh was distributed in July and August, while nearly Rs 7 crore is still pending. read more

Udan is a central government scheme aiming at achieving better connectivity and providing affordable flights to people. read more

The court also directed that heritage by-laws be framed through director general Archaeological Survey of India in consultation with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage for each protected monument within six months. read more

The administration recently floated a tender of Rs 13 crore for manning all public ghats to ensure plastic ban and check violations. read more

The Magsaysay winner said neither the creation of a separate Ganga Rejuvenation ministry nor the allocation of Rs 20,000 crore budget for Namami Gange has contributed in purifying the ancient river by even 5 per cent. read more

The lone survivor, 14-year-old Meenakshi, sustained multiple injuries in spinal cord, liver and brain and is being treated in a private hospital in Dehradun. read more

The court ordered the probe after hearing an NGO’s petition regarding the seizure of tiger skins in Haridwar in March 2016. The tigers were reportedly from the Corbett Tiger Reserve and adjoining areas. read more

The water from the 40-foot falls spilled onto the main road after debris from landslides accumulated at its origin. read more

The 40-feet waterfall in Mussoorie was closed in July as well during another bout of rainfall in the state. read more

Against over 7,400 doctors, including those in government hospitals, 1,068 are registered with the state health department, official data shows. Of the registered doctors, 910 are associated with private clinics and 158 with government hospitals. read more

The Uttarakhand high court had ordered removal of permanent structures at high-altitude meadows, banned night stays, and limited the number of tourists visiting the meadows to 200. The government said such steps would give a blow to tourism. read more

In a major jolt to Uttarakhand chief minister TS Rawat’s ambitious Kandi Road project that aims to connect Garhwal and Kumaon regions, an affidavit submitted by the central government and other agencies concerned before the National Green tribunal (NGT)... read more

With 17 rafts, two kayaks and a hand-picked team of 26 expert rafters, Praveen Rangar left on Friday morning for Kerala. read more

An 11-year-old and another 13-year-old girl fled a government-aided shelter home in Sahyog village on the night of August 5 using a ladder. read more

The state tourism department is going to frame rules to ensure private companies’ adoption of its nine heritage sites listed under ‘Adopt a Heritage’ project -- an initiative of the union tourism ministry read more

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday directed the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) and National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) to take cognisance of deaths of wild animals along Bareilly-Haridwar national highway due to vehicular... read more

The farmers, allegedly involved in the scam, have reportedly fled to Canada read more

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Uttarakhand high court on Friday restricted the entry of tourist vehicles to ‘not more than 100 per day’ after it was apprised that there was no restriction on the number of vehicles plying in Ramnagar forest read more

Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion, the BJP MLA from Khanpur assembly seat in Haridwar, raised the issue at a meeting with Rawat and also alerted the state home department. He said he will soon raise the issue with Union home minister Rajnath Singh read more

Chief minister TS Rawat is not leaving any stone unturned to put a blanket ban on plastic carry bags and disposable cutlery items made of plastic and thermocol read more

Uttarakhand is the third state after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh to enforce a ban on plastic. In January 2017, the then Congress government in state issued an order banning manufacture, distribution and sale of polythene carry bags and single use plastic... read more

The latest killing of a man happened in Khandgaon in Raiwala area, the 24 sq-km vulnerable patch, home to nearly 15 prowling leopards. read more

The ordinance provides that no eviction notice could be issued for three years to over 7.7 lakh slum dwellers. A special policy will be put in place in the next three years to resettle slum dwellers, or regularise slums read more

He was suspended from government service for remaining absent due to health problems about 60 years ago. And eventually after four decades, he got both justice and respect back read more

The Uttarakhand forest department will seek donations from Hanuman devotees to provide food and facilities to the monkeys that will be kept in captivity in a proposed sanctuary, officials said. read more

At least two people were killed died and two others buried in rubble after a Border Road Organisation (BRO) hut collapsed due to a landslide triggered by a cloudburst on Friday in Chamoli district, officials said read more

The SIT, probing into the recruitment of teachers with fake certificates, have identified five more government teachers who were appointed on the basis of fake degree and domicile certificates read more

The state government has announced monetary compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the victims’ next of kin and Rs 50,000 for those injured in the accident. read more

Uttarakhand has become the first state in India to ban angling, an activity that involves catching fish using hooks and releasing them back, in rivers and streams in forest areas and tiger reserves read more

Expelled Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mohammad Shahzad on Wednesday announced to float an organisation to work politically against Mayawati-led party read more

The BJP issued the ‘indiscipline’ notice to Gupta on July 15 after expressed his dissatisfaction over the CM’s ignorance over developmental works in Haridwar district. The MLA was given 10 days to reply. The district has 11 assembly seats, of which 8... read more

Uttarakhand chief minister TS Rawat gave the approval to ban the sporting activity in a board meet last month. read more

Rajpur Road MLA Khajan Das had to return midway after residents of Sanjay Colony also raised slogans against him and uprooted a board carrying his name in ruling party colours. read more

People from lower castes are still not allowed to enter temples in Jaunsar, 170 km from Dehradun, claimed scheduled tribe (ST) leader Daulat Kunwar who lives in Chakrata block. read more

Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat made the announcement at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s executive meeting in Kashipur, US Nagar read more

A family of four was killed when their house in Shashtri Nagar in the Vasant Vihar area collapsed on them in the heavy rains that followed the cloudburst. read more

At least seven people were killed, many properties damaged and roads blocked as heavy rainfall lashed parts of the state on Wednesday read more

Half eaten body of a 56-year-old man was found in Raiwala area of Motichur range in Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Tuesday evening read more

The Uttarakhand government will implement the Supreme Court order banning commercial use of forest guest houses in protected areas meaning that rooms in these rest houses cannot be rented out to tourists read more

Shayara Bano was the original petitioner in the triple talaq case after she approached the Supreme Court in 2016, demanding that the talaq-e-biddat pronounced by her husband be declared as void. read more

Uttarakhand High Court has accorded the status of ‘legal person or entity’ to animals in the state, saying ‘they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person’ read more

Principal of Government Primary School in Almora, Khawani Singh, is set to lose job and the perks he enjoys as government employee read more

Heavy rains lashed Pithoragarh district on Monday killing a woman and damaging settlements of 14 families along with and a hydropower station at Seraghat read more

According to the police, most of the surviving children have lost either of their parents or relatives in the accident. read more

After the Congress came to the support of school principal Uttara Pant Bahuguna, who is accused of misbehaving with chief minister TS Rawat, the BJP on Sunday attacked the teacher and the opposition party read more

Police said that the bus was a 28-seater, but was carrying about 58 persons. read more

Tourists planning to visit Govind Pashu Vihar National Park and Sanctuary in Uttarkashi will have to register online and get a hard copy of the permit from the head office at Purola from the next season, according to new guidelines fixed after two casualties... read more

Facing backlash from opposition parties and teachers’ groups, the BJP government in Uttarakhand set an appointment with the suspended principal Uttara Pant Bahuguna, and assured her of justice. read more

A 67-year-old trekker from Thiruvananthapuram, who lost his way in Vedini Bugyal — a Himalayan Alpine meadow — in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, was rescued on Friday midnight by the SDRF read more

The arduous 2.5 km track leading to Gartang Gali in Nelong Valley will be opened for tourists soon read more

All owners will have to register their elephants with the forest department and also provide a medical certificate which also mentions the vaccination history of the animal. read more

Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has radio collared two female swamp deer -- popularly called barasingha -- within a month in Jhilmil Jheel Conservation Reserve in Haridwar to study their movement along Ganga river and breeding pattern read more

Uttarakhand has lost 4,538 hectares of vegetation to forest fires this year, incurring a loss of Rs 86 lakh in the process. The official forest fire season began on February 15 and ended on June 15. read more

Dehradun’s district magistrate asked the forest department last week to keep the ground safe and “clear” the area of snakes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on International Yoga Day, June 21. read more

Uttarakhand chief minister TS Rawat has approved the proposal of establishing the safari in the Savalde Eco Tourism Zone of Dhela range that falls in the buffer of the reserve read more

Asked if he is one of the claimants to the BJP ticket from Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand for next year’s elections, Shaurya Doval said he was only a karyakarta not a ticket claimant read more

The forest department is currently dependant on professionals from Uttar Pradesh. read more

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is going to submit a ‘feasibility’ project on Kandi Road that is proposed to pass through Corbett Tiger Reserve by September read more

The State Board for Wildlife (SBWL), headed by chief minister TS Rawat, has given its approval to develop Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary and Surai range of Terai East as tiger reserves read more

The Uttarakhand government on Friday agreed to increase the compensation to victims of man-animal conflict from existing Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. This is the third time that the government has approved this proposal read more

The Uttarakhand State Board for Wildlife is going to meet on Friday after a gap of 19 months to discuss some key conservation issues read more

The mountain state has in the last 13 years declared 182 big cats, including 166 leopards and 16 tigers, as man-eaters read more

Facing shortage of over 25 lakh NCERT books for government and CBSE-affiliated private schools, Uttarakhand school education department will now request NCERT publishers in adjoining states like Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to... read more

Helicopter services to Sikh shrine Hemkund Sahib are still working on temporary arrangement even three weeks after opening of its portals due to strict norms of Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority read more

Uttarakhand governor and chief minister will be seen flying in a new helicopter soon. read more

Chief minister TS Rawat is going to woo big wigs of Uttarakhand whose inclination towards Congress is well-known. This will be done as a part of the BJP’s ‘Sampark Abhiyan’ read more

Early flowering of a number of high altitude species has worried experts, who stress on conducting a scientific study to find out the reasons behind the phenomenon read more

Cabinet minister of Uttarakhand Prakash Pant has accepted that in summers, scarcity of water remains a common problem, but it hasn’t yet become a crisis like in Shimla and Himachal Pradesh read more

Volunteers picked up about four lakh pieces of plastic waste in a two-hour operation as 200 organisations joined hands to battle plastic pollution across Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Himachal, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Arunachal, Bengal, J&K, Manipur... read more

Going by current concentration of plastic waste in a day in total municipal solid waste of 81 cities of Uttarakhand, which is 17% at present, average tonnes of plastic waste is going to double in 2041, according to a latest survey read more

A minor girl was swept away during heavy rainfall in Uttarkashi district on Friday night and her body was found on Saturday, officials said read more

A Uttarakhand policeman, who became hero for saving a Muslim man from being lynched by a mob in Nainital district, on Saturday said he didn’t receive any threat and was on leave for personal work. read more

Giving credence to the fact that several cases of blaze breaking out in forests were man-made, forest officials have till date booked 60 people for intentionally setting vegetation on fire. This, however, is one fifth of total 300 people booked in 2... read more

BJP national vice presidents Avinash Rai Khanna and Shyam Jaju on Wednesday gave clear signal to party leaders in the hill state that ministerial responsibilities will not be disseminated till the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, party insiders said read more

Several parts of Uttarakhand recorded rainfall. It is expected that the rainfall will help moderate active fires and leave enough moisture in the grass to prevent further occurrence of forest blaze read more

Almora’s Shashita Sadaf, the state topper in the Class 10 examination results declared by the CBSE on Tuesday, wants to pursue career in medicine read more

The tribunal was hearing a plea seeking stay on the construction of the Kandi road as it would damage the ‘biodiversity, ecosystem and wildlife of the tiger reserve’ read more

Uttarakhand has reported 6,000 wildfire alerts since May 21 followed by Himachal that recorded over 3,500 such alerts in the same period, data collected by Forest Survey of India showed on Monday read more

State BJP president Ajay Bhatt on Monday attacked the Congress on Vishwasghat Diwas, observed by the party on May 26, saying that the name of the rival party’s campaign was apt, as it has betrayed people read more

Haridwar’s Tanuja Kapri got the third position in the Class 12 examination results announced by the CBSE on Saturday read more