A senior police official here claimed disposal rate in crime in Uttarakhand perpetrated against women in the state was far higher than the national average.
“The disposal rate in rape, loot and murder cases is more than 70 per cent in...
April 21, 2013 3:16 pm / no comments
DEHRADUN: A joint team of the Special Operation Group (SOG) and the Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested six members of a gang of suspected poachers after raids in the Corbett National Park landscape under the Ramnagar forest division....
April 21, 2013 2:53 pm / no comments
Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, today announced the launch of its weekly flights between Dehradun and Lucknow from May 2.
“Alliance Air will be introducing flights on Dehradun- Lucknow-Dehradun sectors with Canadian Regional...
April 20, 2013 6:21 am / no comments
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai is shooting his new movie “Kaanchi” in Uttarakhand with Bengali actress Indrani Chakraborty.
Indrani, who is making her debut in Bollywood with the film, plays the title role of Kaanchi, a girl’s journey...
April 16, 2013 4:15 pm / no comments
The floriculture department in Nainital encourages the farmers to shift their focus from traditional crops to cultivation of Lilly flower, as surge in the sales of flowers yield profits for the growers.
A grower Sudhir Chaddha said that due...
April 15, 2013 8:08 am / no comments
Dehradun: The Centre on Friday said it would extend all possible help to the Uttarakhand government for its development endeavours and infrastructure building efforts by timely clearance of projects.
“The Centre is aware of the problems...
April 14, 2013 12:23 pm / no comments
An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 4.3 on theRichter scale, shook the Rudraprayag area of Uttarakhand in the early hours of 7th April, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The quake, which had its epicentre at latitude...
April 8, 2013 5:14 am / no comments
DEHRADUN: Save Ganga activists in Uttarakhand have decided to launch a three-day Ganga Yatra beginning on Friday from Haridwar to sensitize people about the need to conserve the Ganga and its tributaries.
Founder of Matrisadan Ashram Dayanand...
April 6, 2013 4:57 am / no comments
Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi on Thursday called for an end to cow slaughter, asking those involved in the practice not to “hurt” the religious sentiments of any community.
Addressing a seminar on cow slaughter here, the Governor appealed...
April 5, 2013 3:31 am / no comments
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand forest department on Tuesday decided to bring Kotri and Duggada reserve forest areas spread over 160 square km from Lansdowne forest division to Corbett Tiger Reserve’s buffer zone in Pauri district.
The decision...
April 3, 2013 5:14 pm / no comments