The police department renders helpless in case any Nepalese flees back to his country after committing crime. 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

The complainant Armana Beghum said the accused took money from her and more than 300 other people assuring them huge returns but never paid back. read more

On October 11, responding to a PIL, the Uttarakhand HC directed the state government to provide necessary rations and other essential items within 24 hours to villages near the China border through helicopter and maintain regular supplies through the... read more

On October 9, the high court had directed that the process for elections to local bodies be started within a week. Urban local bodies include municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats. The state has 8 municipal corporations . read more

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Uttarakhand high court order banning all religious outfits, bodies, panchayats and groups of people in the state from issuing ‘fatwas’. read more

In 2004, 16 containers had brought the scrap of the Gulf War from Tughlaqabad in Delhi to SD Steel Factory, Kashipur for melting. The scrap had a total of 556 objects which were later established as missiles. One of the missiles exploded on December... 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

On October 5, HT had reported that during the rescue operation of an injured leopard in Bageshwar district, a 48-year-old man, Jagdish Singh, was attacked by the leopard in self defence, as Singh went very close to the animal and it was prodded by thick... read more

Union home minister Rajnath Singh said that as a result of the economic policies pursued by the BJP government at the Centre, India has emerged as the world’s sixth largest economy and “will jump to the fifth position very soon”. He said this at the... read more

Bihar concluded the league stage with an unassailable 30 points and grabbed the solitary qualifying berth from the spot from the plate group. read more

Highlighting rapid growth in the infrastructure sector, the Prime Minister said 10,000 km highways have been built, which is double in comparison with what was done by earlier governments. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his Uttarakhand visit to attend Uttarakhand Investors Summit in Dehradun. He said that the ease of doing business has improved in recent times. “The ease of doing business has improved. To bring this improvement, we have abolished over 1400 laws. We have also brought about changes in the taxation system. Doing business has become easier due to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. The banking system has strengthened. With the GST, India has seen its biggest tax reform since independence.” (HT Correspondent)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