Dehra Dun : Despite all claims of saving the tiger and high mortality of the king of the jungle this last one year, conservationists in Uttarakhad have something to cheer about. A new reserve in this small mountain state has been accepted by the feline as its new home and [...]

Dehra Dun : The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that chief minister Vijay Bahuguna should resign as chief minister of Uttarakhand on moral grounds, following the defeat of the Congress candidate, Saket Bahuguna in the by-election from the Tehri Lok Sabha seat, by a margin [...]

Dehradun : In what is being seen as a setback to the Congress in general and Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna in particular, the party candidate Saket Bahguna lost to BJP’s Mala Rajlakshmi Shah by a margin of over 23,000 votes, in the Tehri Lok Sabha by-election, counting for which [...]

Dehradun : With Congress having come to power in Uttarakhand, it has apparently started toeing the lines of the UPA government at the centre by tightening the noose around yoga guru Baba Ramdev. After the raid on products of Patanjali Yogpeeth anuinding discrepancies in the samples, the Uttarakhand government has [...]

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government Friday recommended a CBI probe into the disappearance of Guru Shankar Dev Singh. The ayurveda expert and teacher of yoga guru Baba Ramdev is missing since 2007. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh had last month raised the issue, saying something was wrong in the matter. Congress [...]

Dehra Dun : While the government believes that there is much that can be done to promote adventure tourism in Uttarakhand, as its number of mountains and glaciers are just about ideal for treks and mountaineering expeditions, but probably change in the maximum temperatures of the higher reaches, due to [...]

Dehra Dun: It is 50 years to the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict. For the people of Uttarkhand, there are a number of recollections of the courage and grit shown by its young men of the Garhwal Rifles and in other regiments who gave the supreme sacrifice for their country. But of [...]

Dehra Dun: The severely endangered musk deer, hunted by poachers for its musk gland, found only in adult males which lie in a sac between the genitals and umbilicus, the secretions of which are mainly used to attract mates, faces another threat. Its food, the skimmia known as kedarpati in [...]

Dehra Dun: The 87-year-old former Uttarakhand chief minister and Andhra Pradesh governor Narain Dutt Tewari may have been proved to be the biological father of Rohit Shekhar, in a case filed in the courts, following the result of the DNA test, but the veteran Congress leader has taken the necessary [...]

Dehradun : Either he was too naïve about it, or it was a faux passé, but Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna had his facts wrong when he tried to attribute less water in the reservoirs of the state, for the low power generation, resulting in the power shortage that the [...]