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More than 25 Employees of Jal Nigam staged a protest outside the head office of the Peyjal Nigam Uttarakhand, alleging that they have not received salaries for the past three months. The Jal Nigam staff under the banner of 'Adhikari Karmchari Sanyukt Samanvaya Samiti, Peyjal Nigam' said that they would launch an indefinite agitation soon if their demands are not heard. A...

Uttarakhand BJP demanded an investigation into the allegations of corruption and irregularities in Uttarakhand Technical University (UTU) under its current Vice-Chancellor P K Garg. A BJP delegation led by Pradesh General Secretary Naresh Bansal met Governor K K Paul and handed him a memorandum alleging irregularities in appointments made during the present VC's tenure and his protective attitude towards a highly-placed...

Forest Research Institute (FRI) on Wednesday said that the Uttarakhand Forest Developmental Corporation (UFDC) auctions medicinal plants worth Rs 40 crore every year. But, the experts said this can be increased up to four times if packaging, branding and marketing facilities are enhanced. he state government currently has no policy for fixing costs of these plants and often, rare plants are...

The State Govt of Uttarakhand reshuffled (Transferred) - 7 IAS Officers, 31 (PCS) Provincial Civil Services & 10 IPS officers with immediate effect. The move follows the election commission’s instructions to transfer all the officials who have completed three years in one place or worked in the same place during the last election or who belong to the same district where they were posted,...

The State Government has launched a “monkey control” programme involving trained personnel on Wednesday, the State forest and wildlife minister Dinesh Agrawal flagged off a team of the forest department personnel trained in monkey-capture. The group of monkey catching personnel was flagged off by the minister near Pipaleshwar Mahadev temple at Bharuwala Grant which is also part of the...

Vodafone India has been selected and got a contract from the Uttarakhand Government as the preferred partner to keep ASHA workers in the state connected 24x7. Through this partnership, Vodafone's network will keep Uttarakhand's ASHA workers connected even across the hilly regions and rural hinterlands, helping them address queries and offer assistance to the community via ASHA Kiran Doot...

The work on 125-km long Rishikesh-Karnprayag railway line which will make Char Dham Yatra more accessible for the pilgrims, gathered momentum as the state administration has initiated the process for land acquisition. Chief secretary Shatrughana Singh  held a meeting with top central and state officials to begin the process of acquiring the land for the ambitious railway project. The railway line...

100's of Volunteers carried out a Ganga cleaning drive at various places across the country today, to pay homage to the spiritual organisation's founder Pt Shriram Sharma Acharya. A cleanliness drive was conducted simultaneously at over 15,000 'ghats' of holy river simultaneously in the country by volunteers of the All World Gayatri Parivar, as part of the movement to...

India's Biggest Solar power service provider Rays Power Infra Pvt Ltd on Tuesday announced the launch of its 100 MW project expected to be commissioned by February, 2017 in Uttarakhand. It will be executed by Rays Power Infra on turnkey basis -- from land acquisition to commissioning -- the company said in a press release. "After commissioning a 55 MW Solar...

Former Union Minister of State Satpal Maharaj Rawat expressed concern over large scale migration from the hilly region of the state, particularly villages near the Line of Actual Control with China. Maharaj spoke to the media on the sidelines of the Sadbhavna Sammellan at the Prem Nagar ashram here today. He said the recent instances of incursion by Chinese army personnel...