Dehradun : A lot of stress has been laid on providing quality education to the children as they are the future of the country. But in Uttarakhand, where governance and administration have reached the lowest ebb ever, a fourth grade employee was found taking classes as none of the five [...]

Hyderabad: There is an active fault beneath the Tehri dam that enhances the earthquake risk, scientists of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here have reported. The Tehri dam is located near Tehri town in Uttarakhand in the Kumaon-Garhwal Himalayas region. “The tectonic loading on this active fault due to [...]

Dehradun : An effort to re-introduce LSD, what was popularly known as ‘acid’ in the 1960s in Uttarakhand was thwarted when a special team of the police Special Task Force nabbed six persons, alleged to be a gang of drug smugglers into the state, including two females and the son [...]

Dehradun : With two senior Congress leaders of Uttarakhand, including union minister for water resources, Harsh Rawat, having openly said that fingers are being raised at the presence of two senior IAS officers at the shooting venue of liquor baron Ponty Chadha at his Chattarpur farmhouse in Delhi on Nov [...]

Dehra Dun: The recovery of a skin of snow leopard from two persons (one managed to give the slip), by a team of the Special task Force of the Uttarakhand Police, has given sleepless nights to wild lovers, who feel that one of the most endangered of the cat species [...]

Higher temperatures are being recorded in Himalayan altitudes which had not seen the mercury rise so much before. Changes in temperature zones are causing migration of plants and endemic animal populations to higher altitudes and so much more. The threat posed to these cool climes is visible out there as [...]

Dehradun : ‘Shaheedon ki chitaon par lagenga har varsh mele; vatan par marne walon ka yahi antim nishan hoga’….Are lines said in almost every meetings held in tribute to our martyrs and men who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country. But in Uttarakhand’s capital, the memorials created in [...]

An alumnus of IIT Roorkee has launched a unique funding initiative for the students of its alma mater. The initiative, known as Student Alumni Association of Roorkee or SAAR, is an interactive technology enabled transaction platform specially designed for the students of IIT Roorkee. The platform would enable the Alumni [...]

Dehradun : Uttarakhand, this small mountain state that came into existence about 12 years back, has problems galore. One of the most important one is that of migration of the people from the hills to the plains, for various reasons, one of them being that the land holdings do not [...]

Dehra Dun: The weather has taken a turn for the worse as the mercury hovers below the 0 degrees C mark in the higher reaches of the state. The four major shrines of Uttarakhand – Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamnotri and Gangotri – all located at an altitude of over 3500 metres have [...]