Swami Gopal Das on Friday started indefinite hunger strike at Matri Sadan to take forward the save Ganga crusade started by environmental activist GD Agarwal, who died at a Rishikesh hospital on the 112th day of his fast. 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

Railway stations in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand have been put on high alert after an anonymous bomb threat letter was received by the government railway police in Haridwar. 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

Clashes broke out Tuesday morning on the Delhi-UP border on national Highway 24 after a major standoff between thousands of farmers and police and paramilitary forces as police tried to stop an estimated 20,000 farmers from marching to the national capital to press their 15-point demand, including loan waiver to the Centre.

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A day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) refused to extend its affiliation to the boarding school in Dehradun, in which a 16-year-old student was gang-raped recently read more

Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Sunday launched a “state framework and strategic plan for malaria elimination”, even as the health department data showed 74% decline in malaria cases in the state in the past six years. read more

The boy, however, is treated a minor in the trial of the case, as he was minor when he committed the crime on August 14. read more

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

The UGC brings water from Haridwar and a temple complex was built around a decade ago in the canal area for devotees who take a dip and offer prayers, especially during the festival season. read more

Building a house or shop in Dehradun has become more expensive now read more

The Uttarakhand high court said it was disturbing that between ‘Hotel Teerth’ and ‘Nai Sauta’, people have opened their sewerage pipes and drain in the nallah. 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 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 order, issued during the Harish Rawat-led Congress government on December 14, 2016, states that stretch at Har-Ki-Pauri till Mayapur dam is on the ‘Ganga canal’. It was issued to circumvent the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directive that prohibited... read more