The Latest Breaking News from DEHRADUN

DEHRADUN: Four years ago, when Harikrishna Budhlakoti (now 67) of Kumola village in Nainital district applied for a loan by mortgaging his three nali (1 nali = 200.67 sqm) ancestral land located in Pangot, he was told that it belonged to a forest officer, not him.

DEHRADUN: Fans of all age groups of the Harry Potter wizarding world came together for a ‘Potterhead hangout’ in the Botanica Osteria cafe on Sunday morning.

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand STF on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old shooter, Rohit Changal, from Kichha (Udham Singh Nagar) for allegedly killing a man in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on July 5.

DEHRADUN: Over 50,000 different types of bacteria found in the deglaciated area of the Gangotri glacier, 92% of which are "unknown" to mankind, have been turning it from white to green, discovered scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in a first-of-its-kind study of the Indian side of the…

DEHRADUN: Droupadi Murmu was elected as India's 15th President on Thursday after she defeated her opponent Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election. She secured 2,824 first preference votes against her rival Sinha who managed to get 1,877 first preference votes.

DEHRADUN: Taking cognisance of the allegations of locals being subjected to police harassment in Chamoli, Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has ordered a probe into incident by Garhwal commissioner Sushil Kumar. In a tweet, Dhami said that Kumar would present his probe report to the state government.

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand High Court heard a Public Interest Litigation filed by environmentalist prof Ajay Rawat on the proposed ropeway from Ranibagh to Nainital by the tourism development board and the state government.

DEHRADUN: Protesters objecting to the felling of trees on Sahastradhara Road have alleged harassment by cops while they were carrying out a protest on Wednesday afternoon. The alleged harassment took place when residents and local activists were staging a Chipko-like protest to stop the felling of trees, which has been…

DEHRADUN: A 25-year-old kanwaria, Sonu alias Gaurav from Suncity of Haryana's Rewari district, was feared to have drowned in the Ganga in Haridwar on Saturday after he was swept away while taking a dip.

DEHRADUN: A car ferrying a group of people from Punjab and Delhi-NCR was swept away in the gushing waters of the Dhela river early on Friday in Ramnagar, Nainital district. Nine persons were declared dead later. Only a 22-year-old woman, a local resident, survived miraculously and was rescued.

DEHRADUN: Operation Mukti, a drive run by the Uttarakhand police department to rehabilitate child beggars across the hill state, has found its mention in "Best Practices on Smart Policing", a book recently launched by the Bureau of Police Research Development (BPRD) under the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA).