Shivani Saxena | |After being pulled up by Dehradun Consumer Court for taking Rs 52,000 as tuition fees from a student but not giving him admission or refund, the Uttaranchal University has returned the amount to the aggrieved student
TNN | |In a move to boost the agriculture in hill districts, chief minister Harish Rawat on Thursday cut the ribbon for an agriculture fair–cum-exhibition at Gairsain in Chamoli district. The event was jointly organized by state agriculture department and GB Pantnagar Agriculture University
Arpita Chakrabarty | |With the Dussehra holidays fast approaching, the beautiful Kumaon hills are buzzing with activity as tourists from nearby cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Gurgaon, Noida and Bareilly have started pouring in
Seema Sharma | |The ‘Gaon Bachao’ campaign led by environmentalist Anil Joshi, after 20 days of touring villages, staged a rally in Dehradun on Thursday. People gathered to march to the secretariat, but the authorities did not allow the group to move beyond Clock Tower
Shivani Azad | |In a move that will severely affect health services in remote areas of Uttarakhand, more than 600 emergency workers of National Health Mission, who work in public and community health centres across the state, joined 1,600 employees on strike on Thursday
Darshan Kunwar | |Kedarnath and its surrounding areas, recovering from the devastating floods of 2013, will be receiving a boost, with the state government launching 20 development projects across Rudraprayag district
Vineet Upadhyay | |A month after a Special Forces commando from Haldwani was killed battling militants at Handwara in Kashmir, another soldier from Uttarakhand, Lance Naik Govind Singh, a commando with the elite 9 Parachute Regiment was killed at Krishna Ghati on the Line of Control in Poonch on Wednesday
Shivani Saxena | |Slamming the proposed ‘Fees Control and Disposal Complaints’ Bill’, which seeks to put a cap on the fees levied on students in private schools, principals and officials of nearly 35 prominent institutes on Wednesday decided to meet chief minister Harish Rawat and apprise him of their stand on the issue
Shivani Saxena | |Shiksha preraks (education instructors) working under the national literacy mission have helped over 3 lakh people and are very close to achieving their target, a letter purportedly received by them on Thursday from the state mission coordinator said
Vineet Upadhyay | |With the Uttarakhand high court shifting the date of hearing of the case of the Maggi ban in Uttarakhand to November 2 on Tuesday, uncertainty continues to pervade in the state on the future of the 2-minute noodles