The Latest Breaking News from Uttarakhand

PITHORAGARH: Vikram Singh Mehta, 34, who worked at a restaurant in Mumbai before the pandemic and Dinesh Singh, 35, who worked as a driver in Panipat, returned to their native village, Matiyal in Pithoragarh, around the same time in June 2020, during the nationwide Covid-induced lockdown.

MUMBAI: 41-time champions Mumbai will face Uttarakhand, Karnataka will play Uttar Pradesh, Bengal take on Jharkhand and Punjab will slug it out with Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals, to be played in Bengaluru from June 4.

DEHRADUN/NAINITAL: A bout of rainfall brought some respite to forest fires blazing in Uttarakhand hills. Since mid-February, the state has lost over 1,300 hectares of green cover in 914 fire incidents, with around 167.6 ha being lost in 104 wildfire incidents on Thursday.

MLA Kailash Gehtodi on Thursday vacated his Champawat seat for Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. More details on Dynamite News:

‘No point in burdening Chief Secretaries of Uttarakhand or Uttar Pradesh,’ says Bench

DEHRADUN: Around a month after a forest road connecting several local villages was closed in a crucial elephant corridor of Uttarakhand, Chilla-Motichur, villagers, citing inconvenience, took matters in their own hands and built a 1-km kuccha road. The villagers said they needed the road to avoid a 6-km detour to…

HARIDWAR: The Uttarakhand vigilance department on Saturday caught the SDO of electricity department red-handed while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from the elder brother of Lokesh Pal, a BJP councillor in Haridwar.

MUSSOORIE/NAINITAL: The weekend tourist rush resulted in widespread traffic jams across popular hill towns of Mussoorie and Nainital in Uttarakhand. A serpentine queue of tourist vehicles was seen on Mussoorie-Dehradun road, near Gandhi Chowk, Landour, Lal Tibba and near Picture Palace. There were similar scenes in Nainital.

State’s response comes after Supreme Court asks why there have been no arrests