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The Mandua and Chaulai will now be the dominant warriors for the fight against malnutrition in Uttarakhand. In a first of its kind experiment, the hill state will use locally produced Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to fight Malnutrition and Anemia among children and expectant mothers. Uttarakhand, which has around 10 lakh malnourished and around 2,500 severely malnourished children, has turned to...

Proud moment for Uttarakhand, As for the first time the selection of candidates for the semi-finals of Jet Skiing World Cup Competition will be held in Two-Days Tehri Festival from October 15 at Tehri Lake. And this will also help in promoting adventure tourism in Uttarakhand State. In this competition event the jet-skiers will perform flips and synchronized moves on the 42...

Around 200 trekkers will trek from 6 newly developed Trekking Routes for Kedarnath from October 3 on-wards and will reach to Kedarnath using these different routes where CM Harish Rawat himself will facilitate them. These new trekking routes are: Dehradun- Sitapur-Kedarnath-Vasukital. Dehradun-Guttu-Panwali-Trijuginarayan Dehradun-Chaumasi-Kham-Baljitiya-Kedarnath. Dehradun-Ransi-Manni-Kedarnath Dehradun...

The food safety department of Uttarakhand issued adulteration notices to two most reputed & popular sweet shops of Dehradun City after finding “Synthetic Colours, Fungus and High Quantity of Starch” in some sweets samples. The food quality tests were conducted after a local resident of dehradun complained that some shops were selling sweets lacking the desired or required quality. As per customer filed...

The International Yoga festival started in Jageshwar Dham on Wednesday in Almora District of Uttarakhand. The Uttarakhand Paryatan Vikas Nigam in association with the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam is organizing the three day festival (5-7 OCTOBER). Around 50 yoga follower of Swami Chidanand Muni with 56 foreign nationals from 14 countries have arrived to participate in the event. The festival is being...

Vandana Katariya (Forward Player) from Uttarakhand was named the captain of the 18-member Indian women’s hockey squad for the fourth edition of the Asian Champions Trophy to be played in Singapore between October 29 and November 5 announced on Tuesday. This is the first tournament the Indian team will play after the 12th and last-place finish at the Rio Olympics in...

Governor of Uttarakhand Dr. Krishan Kant Paul launched a Satellite based Mobile - Citizen APP for the cleanliness of Dehradun, and to manage the garbage in the city under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan on Tuesday. The software has been designed and developed by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS). Launching the Cleanliness software at Raj Bhawan, the Governor said, "This intelligent and useful software,...

Uttarakhand Government has issued notice to the excise department to shift all liquor shops which are within 100 Meters of range from NH & State Highways in Uttarakhand to prevent road accidents due to drunk driving. More than 500 liquor shops will be affected with this guidelines in the hill state Uttarakhand and a whopping 68% of them are...

Santosh Singh Negi, A Mathematics Teacher by profession in a Government College in Pauri Garhwal, is M.SC (PHYSICS), M.A(ECONOMICS), M.B.A, M.A (JOURNALISM), M.ED and preparing to crack IAS Examination. He was lauded by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in his monthly radio show, Maan Ki Baat, for his work towards water conservation. when he realized that the level of groundwater was falling rapidly in...

110th Nirvana Diwas of Swami Ramtirth will be celebrated on Oct 16 in New Tehri, the great spiritual seer, who lived in Tehri Garhwal district and made it his spiritual abode. Devotees from across the world will gather to celebrate this nirvana divas, Kaka Hari Om and Pandit Vinod Chamoli, members of the Swami Ramtirth Organisation, said Nirvana Diwas...