DEHRADUN: Four people were killed and two others were critically injured after a speeding Mercedes hit them near Sai Baba Temple on Rajpur Road in Dehradun on Wednesday night. Police said the car was a silver Mercedes with a Chandigarh registration number. The driver fled the scene after the accident, and authorities are currently searching…
DEHRADUN: There was no time to run. One moment, the workers were asleep inside their container homes, the bitter cold pressing in from all sides, the hum of the mountains steady and unbroken. Then came a roar – deep, monstrous, growing louder by the second. The earth beneath them shuddered. The walls groaned. And before…
SDRF personnel conduct search and rescue operations in avalanche-hit Mana in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district (IANS photo) DEHRADUN: On a bitterly cold morning amid heavy snowfall near Mana, at nearly 10,500 feet, 23 men knew they couldn’t afford to wait for help. When an avalanche thundered down on their shelter at dawn on Friday, they had…
DEHRADUN: An avalanche struck Uttarakhand‘s Chamoli district, reportedly trapping 57 workers in Mana village.According to the BRO, all 57 workers were engaged in work when the avalanche occurred. While 10 have been safely rescued, efforts are underway to rescue the remaining workers, led by the Garhwal 9th Brigade and BRO.Rescue operations are ongoing, with teams…
DEHRADUN: Nine days after Uttarakhand implemented the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Jan 27, three live-in couples have applied for registration, with one successfully registered as of Tuesday, according to the official website. Abhinav Shah, Dehradun’s nodal officer for UCC, told TOI, “Applications have been submitted and will be reviewed by the registrars. There are…
ROORKEE: Two drunk men, in a bid to make a fast buck, broke into a house at a posh colony in Roorkee in Uttarakhand on Monday night and started ransacking the house. As the night was cold, they decided to take a few gulps more at the house from a bottle which they carried. However,…
DEHRADUN: At least three people died while many others sustained injuries after a roadways bus carrying around 25 passengers fell into a gorge in Nainital district of Uttarakhand on Wednesday. The mishap was reported from Bhimtal, a popular tourist spot some 20km from Nainital following which a massive search and rescue operation was launched. The…
DEHRADUN: National Green Tribunal (NGT), taking suo-motu cognisance of a media report earlier this year which indicated loss of forest cover up to 23 lakh hectares (ha) in the country since 2000, has directed Forest Survey of India (FSI), headquartered in Dehradun, to provide a comprehensive report on the matter.NGT, in an ongoing hearing of…
DEHRADUN: A man who claimed to have reunited with two different families in Dehradun and Ghaziabad as their ‘long-lost’ son is now being investigated by police who are trying to ascertain how he accessed personal details of both families. The revelation that it was the same man in both cases emerged after TOI verified photographs…
DEHRADUN: Real and unreal. Snake or rope? Ancient Indian philosophers had agonised over it through the centuries. Police in Uttarakhand and UP are dealing with it now. The story of a missing man miraculously reunited with his family – first in Dehradun and then in Ghaziabad – after years in oblivion has tied them up…
