Badrinath (Uttarakhand): Portals of the Badrinath temple situated in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand reopened on Wednesday after remaining closed for six months due to heavy snow. Devotees from far and near assembled at the temple to take part in the daylong opening rituals and witnessed the opening of doors that they consider auspicious. A notable [...]

Dehradun (Uttarakhand): Manasvi Mamgai, who won the coveted title of Pantaloons Femina Miss India (PFMI) India World 2010, has expressed a desire to work for the animals cause. “Since my childhood, I have a soft corner for animals, and I am trying to have some sort of association, I am trying to visit the hospital [...]

Udham Singh Nagar (Uttarakhand): The police arrested two persons near Corbett sanctuary in Uttarakhand”s Udham Singh Nagar District for possessing leopard skin. Police said the duo was coming from Champawat district and going to Uttar Pradesh”s Moradabad district to sell it off. “When we were checking some suspected vehicles at the intersection, our informers told [...]

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Rural Development has released grant in aid worth Rs.6181.84 lakh (Rs. Sixty one crore eighty one lakh and eighty four thousand only) to Uttrakhand for execution/completion of rural water schemes to provide safe drinking water facilities to rural habitations and schools under Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission for [...]

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station at “The Energy Resources Institute”, Disttt. Mukteshwar, Uttaranchal. Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC). The Community Radio Station is [...]

New Delhi: The President of India appointed Mr.  Justice Bipin Chandra Kandpal, senior most Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court with effect from 10th September, 2009 consequent upon the retirement of Mr. Justice Vinod Kumar Gupta, Chief Justice of the [...]

Nahan: Chief Minister Himachal Prof Prem Kumar Dhumal addressed three bye election rallies in Vikas Nagar constituency of Uttrakhand. Before leaving from Paonta Sahib to Uttrakhand, Chief Minister visited the house of Sainwala Pacnhyat Pardhan Pushpa Devi to condole the death of her son Manoj Kumar in a road accident recently. Chief Minister also met [...]

New Delhi: The Annual Plan outlay for Uttarakhand for the year 2009- was finalized at a meeting, here today, between the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Uttaranchal Ramesh Pokhriyal. The Annual Plan size was agreed at Rs.5574.70 crores. This includes additional Central assistance of Rs.400 crores for infrastructure [...]

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station at Guru Nanak Fifth Centenary School, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of [...]

New Delhi: The Planning Commission approved the originally submitted proposal for Lakhwar Vyasi Project (now in Uttarakhand) in 1976 at a cost of Rs. 140.97 crores (Price level January 1976). In January, 2000, the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) considered the Kishau Project (now in Uttarakhand) proposal at an estimated cost of Rs.3455 croree (Price level [...]

SR Pundir writes from Nahan: Dead bodies of three persons who drowned in the Yamuna canal in the Uttrakhand yesterday were fished out by diverting the water of canal. Two drowned persons belongs to Paonta and one to Uttrakhand. Three person were drowned yesterday evening in the Yamuna canal at village Matak Majri, near Asan [...]

DECLARATION OF RIVER PROJECTS AS NATIONAL ASSETS  New Delhi: The Central Government has declared 14 water resources projects as National Projects for which 90 per cent project cost of irrigation and drinking water component of the project is to be provided as Central Grant after techno-economic appraisal of the Detailed Project Report