Sandeep Rawat

‘Where are your priorities’: Uttarakhand seers, clerics question freeze on religious activities

Uttarakhand government says it was considering all the issues raised.

Union HRD minister’s daughter coordinating voluntary facemask making drive

National convener of Sparsh Ganga drive, a pro-Ganga conservation campaign, Aarushi Pokhriyal is herself stitching homemade face masks and coordinating with hundreds of Sparsh Ganga female members and activists in this drive.

Covid-19: Uttarakhand gets first swab collection booth

Uttarakhand’s specially-abled lend helping hand to migrants amid Covid-19 lockdown

Under the aegis of Devbhoomi Hearing and Speech Impaired Association, more than a dozen people, for the past nine days, are collecting ration and essential items from their association members.

IIT-Roorkee on how farmers should do farming in the times of Covid -19

Specially drafted advisory is being circulated through various communication means to the farmers by the premier institute’s agriculture and technical cell on a regular basis to assist them in their work.

Uttarakhand villagers seal their villages to check spread of Covid-19

About a dozen villages in Uttarakhand have sealed themselves in a bid to stop coronavirus from infecting them.

People asked to defer funeral rites amid Covid-19 lockdown in Haridwar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete 21-day lockdown on Tuesday evening across the country as the number of Covid-19 cases went beyond 530.

Elephant who led Mahakumbh processions dies, gets an unusual burial by saints

The 80-year-old female elephant had been part of every Kumbh fair since the 1960s and led the royal processions (peshwayi) of Akhadas during Mahakumbh fair.

Pak Hindus visiting Haridwar say CAA a much-awaited step

Nearly 300 Hindus from Pakistan are on a pilgrimage to Haridwar, where they were accorded warm reception by the local residents.

Woman digs her house in Haridwar after occultist tells her there is treasure beneath it

The neighbours informed the local police, who rushed to the house and were surprised to see that the digging work was on while a tantric was conducting some rituals.

Uttarakhand police campaign rescues child beggars, enrols them to schools

Operation Mukti: In a fortnight, 200 children have been enrolled to various schools by Uttarakhand police in Haridwar.

Haridwar to get podcars, ropeways for Rishikesh and Dehradun

Uttarakhand’s urban development minister Madan Kaushik said the concept was inspired by similar cost-effective personal rapid transit systems in Germany and the UK which was found to be ideal by a state level committee.

Rajinikanth on pilgrimage to Garhwal Himalayas, meditates in his guru’s room in Rishikesh

Rajinikanth is on a pilgrimage to the Garhwal Himalayas. Arriving on Sunday, he visited his guru’s ashram and plans to visit Badrinath and Kedarnath too.

Why forest landscape provides perfect cover for illicit liquor distillation units in Uttarakhand

Police have been conducting raids from time to time in the forests to bust these illicit liquor distillation units, seize thousands of litres of ‘lahan’ and destroy the same, but these units reappear soon elsewhere in the forests.

Uttarakhand lad makes it into Nepal national cricket team

Ishaan tried to secure a place in the Indian cricket team initially after having played district inter school and zone level tournaments, but on the insistence of his father shifted his cricket activities to Nepal two years ago.

Uma Bharti opposes hydro power project on Ganga, plans march from Gangotri

Uma Bharti is opposed to hydro power projects on river Ganga and has sought a Ganga Act to preserve the sanctity and the flow of the river.

The Muslim artisans who create kanwars for Hindu pilgrims

The decorated ‘kanwars’ – made of bamboo and used to ferry the holy Ganga water by pilgrims - are made by Muslim community artisans in sub-urban Jwalapur of Uttarakhand.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Congress pins hope on star campaigners in Haridwar

Party’s Haridwar candidate Ambrish Kumar and youth wing activists are rooting for Sachin Pilot and have directly conveyed to Rajasthan deputy CM’s office as well through party state president Anugrah Narayan Singh for holding either a road show or an election rally in Haridwar.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Congress yet to finalise venue for Rahul Gandhi’s April 6 Haridwar rally

Initially district Congress leaders had earmarked Rishikul Ayurvedic College ground as the venue but were told on Monday that the venue had already been booked by BJP leader Satpal Maharaj for a religious event.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: When BSP’s Mayawati contested from Haridwar seat twice, and lost

Mayawati had contested the 1987 Lok Sabha by-election from the Haridwar constituency, which came into existence in 1977. In the 10th general election held in 1991, she again contested from the seat. She lost both the times.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Former Uttarakhand MLA Chaudhary Yashveer Singh resigns from Congress

Chaudhary Yashveer Singh, who won assembly elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket in 2002 and 2007, joined the Congress in October 2016 .

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Haridwar legislators support MP Nishank, praise his tenure

BJP’s Khanpur MLA Kunwar Pranav Champion had on Monday questioned the tenure of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as Haridwar Member of Parliament. Champion also claimed that his wife deserved the party ticket for the Lok Sabha elections this time.

17-yr-old Shariq killed in Jammu bus stand blast had gone to earn a living and support family

Shariq’s father died two years back due to illness. He had gone to Jammu from Roorkee on Wednesday to learn tailoring so that he could financially support his family.

Third gender seers inducted into Juna Akhara at Kumbh

With this, the Kinnar Akhara will become part of every Kumbh mela moving forward. The next full (purna) Kumbh mela is scheduled to be held in 2022 in Haridwar.

Kerala’s computer science graduate-turned activist on fast-unto-death for clean Ganga

Brahmachari Atmabodhanand has been on a fast-unto-death for the past 77 days, at an ashram in Jagjeetpur village, and refuses to call off his agitation until the central government meets the demands to save the river, its ecology and the conservation of Himalayas.

People want a Congress regime at every level, says Uttarakhand leader Pritam Singh

Pritam Singh, the Uttarakhand Congress Committee president is campaigning for the upcoming local urban body elections in the state.

Clean Ganga activist GD Agarwal dies after fasting for 111 days, Centre says most demands met

GD Agarwal, a former Indian Institute of Technoloy (IIT) professor popularly known as Swami Gyanswarup Sanand, died in a Rishikesh hospital on Thursday, the 112th day of a hunger strike demanding a law to save the Ganga.

Namami Gange a major failure of NDA govt, says Magsaysay awardee Rajendra Singh

The Magsaysay winner said neither the creation of a separate Ganga Rejuvenation ministry nor the allocation of Rs 20,000 crore budget for Namami Gange has contributed in purifying the ancient river by even 5 per cent.

Revoke order that says Har-Ki-Pauri is on Ganga canal: Ex-Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat

The order, issued during the Harish Rawat-led Congress government on December 14, 2016, states that stretch at Har-Ki-Pauri till Mayapur dam is on the ‘Ganga canal’. It was issued to circumvent the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directive that prohibited “any type of construction” within 200 metres from the Ganga riverbed.

Sadhvi claims she is Pashupathinath temple’s shankaracharya, seers see red

The executive director of the Pashupatinath Area Development Trust (PADT), Ramesh Upretly, denied recognising sadhvi Hemanand Giri’s appointment as the first woman shankaracharya of the temple.