The Latest Breaking News from Uttarakhand

HARIDWAR: The Uttarakhand high court on Friday heard a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Matri Sadan ashram against mining in the Ganga river. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Justice RC Khulbe has sought central government’s response on the matter by March 8.

The Editors Guild of India on Thursday demanded the immediate release of local journalist Kishore Ram following his arrest by Uttarakhand police. In a statement, the group said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest and also urged the state administration not to use laws as “tools of intimidation” against…

Fourteen people were killed and two injured when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge on the Sukhidhang-Dandaminar road in Uttarakhand's Champawat district, police said on Tuesday.

‘Congress will retain power in Punjab and wrest Uttarakhand’

"His impatience shows he entered the poll battle just to grab the Chief Minister's chair and has nothing to do with public concerns," State BJP media in-charge Manveer Chauhan said

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were seen patrolling in a snow-bound area at 15,000 feet in sub-zero temperatures around in Uttarakhand Himalayas.

LUCKNOW: With a mixed population of 6.3 lakh, including defence veterans, Brahmins, Dalits, Sikhs and people from Uttarakhand, Lucknow Cantonment has been banking heavily on women power. Two women MLAs have represented the constituency for five terms since 1980 — Premvati Tiwari of Congress in 1980, 1985 and 1989 and…

NEW DELHI: After spending 12 years in jail while undergoing life imprisonment for allegedly killing his wife, a man and his mother were acquitted by the Supreme Court which set aside their conviction done “on the basis of suspicion, conjectures” and directed their immediate release.

Five States—Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur, and Goa are in the midst of their Assembly election cycles.