Uttarakhand

The Uttarakhand government has begun the process of constructing 15 sewage treatment plants that would stop direct discharge of municipal waste from towns along the banks of the Ganga. According to the master plan, the government will undertake 21 projects under the Namami Gange mission to ensure

This news would not have made so big, but for the fact that a politician's daughter has made it to the army. Usually, one finds children of politicians enjoying luxuries. This news is of Namita Pant who has become the Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the Indian Army. She is the daughter of Prakash

At the National Institute for Visually handicapped school grounds in Dehradun a joyous roar erupts, mixing with the sound of the ball, which has a bell inside it, that jingles away. This would have been an ordinary sight at most stadiums, except that these boys are completely or partially blind

Twenty-one-year-old Bhumika Sharma from Dehradun has become the first Indian woman to win the Miss World Body Building Championship held in Italy on June 17-18. Bhumika is a second-year student at a private college in the city. Sharma got interested in bodybuilding after a trainer at a gym showed

Today, in an event organised in Uttarakhand at village Veerpur Khurd on the bank of River Ganga, Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar commissioned two Ganga Grams in the presence of various faith leaders led by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, co-founder of GIWA

बायोलॉजिकल डायवर्सिटी ऐक्ट के तहत आर्थिक लाभ पाने वाले उत्तराखंड के दुधई गांव के निवासी संभवत: देश के पहले ग्रामीण बन गए हैं। ग्रामीणों ने इसके साथ ही स्वर्ण नदी में चल रहे अवैध खनन को भी समाप्त करा दिया, जो कृषि योग्य जमीनों और जंगलों को नष्ट कर रहे थे। देहरादून के पास दुधई में बड़े पैमाने पर

Winter has finally come, it's time to take the morning off and enjoy the #earthly #pleasure of #heavenly #pristine snow," reads one post with a photo of snow-clad fields on the Instagram channel @voicesofmunsiari. This is no holiday post by a visiting city-dweller, but the musings of a villager in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Highway Development Programme for Char Dham on Tuesday. The total investment for building the 900 km long highway to connect the holy shrines of Uttarakhand is estimated to be 12000 crores. With this, pilgrimage to the holy abodes of Gangotri, Yamunotri

Ekal Sansthan, under its Ekal_Digital mission undertook a pilot project of empowering digitally, all the 30 Ekal Vidyalaya teachers of Nanak Matta sanch in Uttarakhand. There are 30 schools in a sanch. After an extensive study of the area, including an ‘acharya’ survey by an intern, it was decided

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has undertaken preparation of Detailed Project Report(DPR)for up-gradation to 2-lane with paved shoulder of National Highways to provide connectivity to Chardham from Rishikesh leading to Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath including Tanakpur

Modern-day Ayurveda specialists will try to find what Hindu god Hanuman moved a mountain for — the mythical and elusive, all-curing Sanjeevani Booti herb. The department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (Ayush) in Uttarakhand has formed a committee for the purpose

A Twitter post addressed to Communication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has helped the remote Himalayan village Bhanoli Sera in Uttarakhand get a post office. The post office was made operational in just 4 days and is presently housed in a temporary room. Such positive action has been seen when most