DEHRADUN: Three people were killed and at least six injured after a house collapsed in Haridwar district as heavy rain wreaked havoc in several parts of Uttarakhand on Wednesday.A family is reported to have gone missing following a cloudburst in a village in the Ghansali area of Tehri district, officials said.A house collapsed due to…
Captive women stripped, beaten in Myanmar, say family members DEHRADUN: Amid efforts to rescue over 15 men from Uttarakhand abducted from Thailand and forced to work in “scam call centres” in Myanmar by alleged Chinese handlers, at least nine women from the state have now been abducted using the same modus operandi.The nine were among…
DEHRADUN: Paramjeet Singh Bisht, 23, resident of little-known Khalla village near Gopeshwar town of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, will represent the country in the men’s 20km race walk on Aug 1 at the ongoing Paris Olympics. However, his journey to be part of the Indian contingent was never easy.Speaking to TOI over phone just before…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand govt has submitted an application to recall and modify an order to eliminate a segment based on the suggested clauses of the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code (UCC) from an HC directive. This directive concerned the protection of an interfaith couple in a live-in relationship in Dehradun. A bench led by Justice Manoj Kumar…
HARIDWAR: Uttarakhand authorities have mandated that shop owners along the kanwar yatra route display nameplates with their details. The directive, following a similar order in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, aims to “prevent any law and order issues” during the yatra, officials said.Backing the directive, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami cited “past instances of shop owners using fake…
DEHRADUN: In light of the recent controversy over the proposed construction of a replica of Kedarnath temple in Delhi, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s cabinet on Thursday decided to introduce a stringent law to prevent the ‘misuse‘ of names of Char Dham shrines and other prominent temples of Uttarakhand, reports Kautilya Singh. The law aims to…
DEHRADUN: In light of the recent controversy over the proposed construction of a replica of Kedarnath temple in Delhi, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s cabinet on Thursday decided to introduce a stringent law to prevent the ‘misuse‘ of names of Char Dham shrines and other prominent temples of Uttarakhand, reports Kautilya Singh. The law aims to…
DEHRADUN: At least eight people were killed after a tempo traveller fell into a deep gorge near the Badrinath Highway on Saturday.The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and local police have initiated rescue operations at the site of the accident.According to the rescue team, two individuals who sustained injuries in the incident have been transported…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand high court has directed the state to propose a new name for a disease that has Ranikhet, a picturesque tourist spot, in its name. After a PIL highlighted that the hill station’s reputation suffers due to its association with an avian disease known as ‘Ranikhet disease’, the administration has now been told to…
Supreme Court, while hearing a plea filed by Dehradun-based advocate Rituparn Uniyal, seeking immediate action to safeguard the region’s forests, wildlife, and birds from the devastating impact of wildfires, told the state govt on Wednesday that “cloud seeding or depending on rain god is not the answer” to the raging forest fires and the authorities…
