The Latest Breaking News from Uttarakhand

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday expelled Roorkee mayor Gaurav Goel from the saffron fold for six years due to his "anti-party activities".

CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said a Uniform Civil Code would be implemented in Uttarakhand soon

The Meteorological Department of Uttarakhand on Sunday issued a yellow alert for heavy rainfall in the state till Wednesday.

DEHRADUN: While the monsoon is likely to reach Uttarakhand by June 27, weather experts have predicted a good spell of rain from Sunday.

DEHRADUN: The Botanical Survey of India and the forest department of Uttarakhand have discovered a carnivore plant, Utricularia Furcellata, in Uttarakhand's Mandal, Chamoli district, at an altitude of around 4,800 feet. This is the first time that the plant has been spotted anywhere in the entire western Himalayas.

DEHRADUN: Scientists and experts in Uttarakhand conducting ground survey work for a proposed river-linking project at Pindari glacier, the "first-of-its-kind" in the country as reported by TOI earlier, have stumbled upon a v-shaped lake that is a km-long and 50-m wide which has formed near Bageshwar's Kuwari village (situated at…

MEERUT: Ankur Singh, 25, a BTech graduate and alleged mastermind of a gang which siphoned off lakhs of rupees from bank accounts of unsuspecting people by fraudulently switching ATM cards, was arrested by Bulandshahr police late on Wednesday night. He along with two others – Parvez Alam and Mohd Yunus…

Dr Ramvilas Yadav, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttarakhand cadre, was arrested by Vigilance after midnight. He will be produced in the court on Thursday. Full story on Dynamite News:

NAINITAL: While hearing a PIL on abuse of equines on the Char Dham yatra and other pilgrimage routes, the Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday asked the state government to list measures taken by it to care for and regulate the use of animals on such routes.