Sandeep Rawat

Pilgrims’ march halts movement of goods, industries suffer loss

An official says that it’s high time for Uttarakhand government to prepare a long-term industrial policy.

Without the RSS, India can’t tread development path: TS Rawat

At four-day event to commemorate cow protectors, who were killed 100 years ago, in Katarpur village, CM said RSS ideology needs to be followed by all and sundry.

Sangh to observe ‘martyrdom’ at cow memorial

RSS, VHP and BJP leaders will attend the event in memory of Katarpur villagers who died protesting cow slaughter 100 years ago.

UP CM’s father attends job fair to register granddaughters’ names

A retired forest department employee, Anand Singh Bisht says he won’t accept any favour from his chief minister son.

Ramdev backed firm files cheating case against trader

Postal communications done by the pharmacy were also not responded, said complainant Harish Shankar, the pharmacy’s assistant managing director.

Mahila Congress plans strategy to manage booths in Uttarakhand civic polls

The women’s wing of the Congress has planned a booth management strategy to ensure that maximum number of party candidates win in the April urban body polls

IIT-R professor develops new technology for aerial survey

A professor with the IIT-Roorkee has developed a new technology for carrying out aerial survey, which is more cost-effective and precise than the LiDAR system used at present

IIT-Roorkee professor develops new technology for aerial survey

A professor with the IIT-Roorkee has developed a new technology for carrying out aerial survey, which is more cost-effective and precise than the LiDAR system used at present

Villagers say Patanjali unit polluting water bodies in Haridwar

Villagers in Haridwar district alleged that a unit of yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali firm was polluting Ban Ganga rivulet and a few other rain-fed water bodies

Amid Rajput protests, cinemas refuse to screen Padmaavat in Haridwar

Kshatriya Mahasabha has threatened that cinema halls releasing the film in Uttarakhand will have to face ’dire consequences’

Illegal mining: BJP MLA asks officials to release vehicle, draws flak

A BJP legislator from Haridwar has drawn flak for allegedly pressurising forest department employees to release a vehicle that was caught carrying illegally quarried riverbed material

Supporters corner minister Kaushik over fund target

On Saturday, Cabinet minister Madan Kaushik faced the ire of the party district unit office bearers when he was addressing a meeting regarding the ‘Ajeevan Sahyog Nidhi’ (lifetime party fund).

Declared ‘dead’ by doctors in Haridwar, man dies 8 hours later in mortuary

BHEL Hospital doctors in Haridwar declared a man dead on January 12, but an autopsy report indicates that he died 8 hours later.

Jumbo scare in Haridwar, experts say stay indoors

Forest officials have urged people to inform forest employees if they see any elephant in their residential areas.

Why Uttar Pradesh doesn’t want to move out of Haridwar hotel

Alaknanda Hotel -- an Uttar Pradesh tourism property -- will soon be handed over to Uttarakhand after 17 years of legal battle between the two neighbouring states

BSP sets civic polls in Uttarakhand as ‘preparatory test’ for general election

The Bahujan Samaj Party that once had eight legislators in the Uttarakhand assembly is trying to regroup its cadre and vote base in the state ahead of municipal elections

Cold wave kills in six in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district in one week

More snowfall is forecast in Garhwal’s upper reaches and the plains are expected to remain extremely chilly till January 10.

Bus service in the offing for tourists wish to visit akhadas in Haridwar

For making 13 akhadas and hundreds of ashrams, having mythological-spiritual aspects attached with them, more accessible to tourists, the government will soon start a special bus service in the Hindu holy city

Matri Sadan cries vendetta as Haridwar admin probes if ashram is built illegally

Matri Sadan ashram, fighting to stop quarrying on the Ganga riverbed, has cried vendetta after the Haridwar district administration launched a probe to find if the ashram was built illegally

Curbing crime: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh police to share inputs on criminals

Haridwar senior superintendent of police Krishan Kumar VK says police from the bordering districts of UP and Uttarakhand will remain in touch with each other.

Haridwar traders not yet ready for NGT ban on plastic

Many traders continue to sell plastic items such as poly bags and plastic cans to earn a living in Haridwar

Akhara Parishad likely to release second list of self-styled godmen on Friday

The much-awaited release of second list of fake saints is likely to be released by the apex body of seers -- Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP) -- at Prayag in Allahabad on Friday

Matra Sadan seer claims manhandling by Uttarakhand police, to move court

Matra Sadan ashram on Tuesday decided to move court over alleged police manhandling of its seer Brahamchari Atmabodhanand, who was arrested on Monday for objecting to Haridwar district magistrate Deepak Rawat’s felicitation

Uttarakhand priests seek union minister’s apology for ‘baseless’ comment on Ganga pollution

Ganga Sabha, an organisation of priests that manages affairs of sanctum sanctorum of Braham Kund at Har-Ki-Pauri, has demanded an apology from Union minister Satya Pal Singh for his recent remark in which he said that immersion of dead people’s ashes into the Ganga by Hindus adds to the river pollution

Haridwar city set for major facelift

As per suggestions in a report submitted to the government by the panel of urban and transport planning experts, a specialised vending zone should be set up by next year to decongest stretches leading to Har-Ki-Pauri.

Youth arrested for molesting minor girl

The 15-year-old girl had come in contact with the accused when she used to attend her coaching classes, the police said, adding that the accused had confessed to have established physical relation with the girl who studies in a government school.

Agitating seer in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar forcibly taken for medical care

Suspended zila panchayat chairperson to move High Court

In absence of her reply, DM filed a report with the government, as a result of which, principal secretary Manisha Panwar ordered her suspension. She also handed over the investigation to commissioner Garhwal.

Teerth purohit remembers Shashi Kapoor’s visit to Devbhoomi, now awaits immersion of his ashes

Reminiscing Shashi Kapoor’s visit four decades ago, Paliwal says while his other family members left for Mumbai after the immersion of his parents’ ashes, he spent some days alone in Haridwar.

Polythene ban goes for a toss on Ganga banks in Haridwar

Floating polybags on the Ganga waters and the rampant use of plastic material at Har-Ki-Pauri show the ban is not effectively implemented.