Dehradun: Bhuvanya Vijay, a girl from Dehradun, has done Uttarakhand proud by emerging the all India topper this year in ICSE class XII board examinations with 99 per cent marks. Ecstatic over her results declared on Friday, Bhuvanya said she used to study for 12-14 hours every day while preparing for her exams. A student of one of Dehradun's leading schools St Joseph's Academy, Bhuvanya participates in debates and recently...
08:42:46 AM May 19, 2013
Dehradun: Rights activist Avdhash Kaushal on Friday sought a ban on the entry of BJP leaders Uma Bharati, Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank and environmentalist GD Aggarwal in any hydel project area in Uttarakhand and demanded their arrest under the NSA if they did so. Criticising these leaders for opposing the uplifting of the Dhari Devi temple which will pave the way for 330 mw Srinagar hydropower project, Kaushal, a Padmashree award...
05:10:08 PM May 17, 2013
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday ordered to speedily compensate the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in a land exchange deal entered into in 2007. Ordering quick disposal of pending business related to the armed forces, Bahuguna on Tuesday said that transfer of a plot of land at Sitarganj to SSB should be expedited. According to sources, Bahuguna said that in view of the strategic importance of Uttarakhand, which...
06:20:51 PM May 15, 2013
Haridwar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are set to share the stage at Haridwar. The Gujarat Chief Minister is in Haridwar to inaugurate Ramdev's new school 'Acharya Kulam'. This is a vedic-cum-modern education centre near Patanjali Yog Vidyapith in Haridwar. Many spiritual leaders and followers are also expected to attend the function. This comes days after Ramdev had backed Modi as a Prime Ministerial candidate....
11:05:03 AM Apr 26, 2013
Kotdwara: Two man-eating leopards were caught by forest officials in two different villages under Ekeshwar block in Pauri Garhwal district, an official said. "Two man-eating leopards who had claimed three lives were trapped in cages in Barsu and Patal villages. Both the leopards have been sent to Forest Rescue centre in Almora," DFO of Garhwal forest Division, Rajmani Pandeya said. One leopard was trapped in the cage set in Barsu...
03:16:06 PM Apr 17, 2013
Roorkee: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Tuesday threatened to return the Padma Bhushan conferred upon him, accusing the UPA of betraying the nation on the issue of Lokpal. "This is an unpardonable betrayal of the nation...I don't want any awards from a government which does not act against corruption," Hazare said, addressing people at the parade ground in Dehradun on the conclusion of the first phase of his Jantantra Yatra....
08:00:57 AM Apr 17, 2013
A local court in Uttarakhand has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife for dowry six years ago. ...
03:01:36 PM Mar 31, 2013
CBI has registered a case in connection with alleged kidnapping of yoga exponent Ramdev's guru Swami Shankar Dev who mysteriously went missing six years ago while taking a morning walk in Haridwar. CBI sources said a case under Section 365 of Indian Penal code against unknown persons. The section pertains to kidnapping or abducting and wrongful confinement. ...
03:46:16 AM Mar 23, 2013
The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday referred back a case of recovery of income tax worth Rs 40 crore from a Ramdev's trust to the Income Tax Judicial Tribunal, asking it to dispose of the case quickly. ...
02:48:38 AM Mar 14, 2013
A woman from Siwan in Bihar, who had come to the state to attend a marriage function, was allegedly raped by his husband's friend in Udham Singh Nagar. ...
01:47:31 AM Mar 04, 2013
A woman from Siwan in Bihar, who had come to Uttarakhand to attend a marriage function, was allegedly raped by his husband's friend in Udham Singh Nagar. ...
10:40:05 PM Mar 03, 2013
Cracking the whip on errant policemen, Dehardun Police have decided to adopt a novel method of punishment in which they will spend a day in forest all alone with the bare minimum for survival. Police personnel, found guilty of dereliction of duty or misbehaving with public will spend a day in the forest all alone with the bare minimum for survival, SSP Keval Khurana said. ...
04:59:07 PM Mar 02, 2013
Terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad on Tuesday allegedly threatened to blow up major railway stations and places of religious and tourist interest in Uttarakhand in retaliation to the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, a senior police official said. ...
04:25:24 AM Feb 27, 2013
A woman identified as Rinku, who had entered into a written agreement with some hired killers, has been arrested by Dehradun police for plotting to murder her husband. She had used a stamp paper to enter into an agreement with the killers in which the amount to be paid for the murder of her husband Surinder Singh was also mentioned. ...
11:00:02 AM Feb 25, 2013
An employee of the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment was killed and three Army jawans were injured in a snow avalanche at a forward post near the Indo-China border in the district, ITBP sources said here on February 7. ...
11:21:58 AM Feb 07, 2013
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