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Sulabh to provide sanitation facilities in Kedarnath

Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 22:53

Sulabh International Monday announced that it would provide proper sanitation facilities at Kedarnath, the Hindu temple town in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand disaster anniversary: Call for special policy highlighted

Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 19:43

A year after a devastating deluge ravaged several parts of Uttarakhand, the state government has come under criticism for not framing a policy for the state to deal with natural calamities.

Year after Himalayan tsunami, `Dev Bhoomi` Uttarakhand remains scarred

Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 13:23

A year has passed but the horrifying images from Uttarakhand remain strongly etched in the minds of those who lost their loved ones or saw their livelihood destroyed by the Himalayan Tsunami.

Stay on hydropower projects: SC issues notice to Uttarakhand govt

Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 12:13

Acting on a plea filed by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the Supreme Court issued, Monday, a notice to the Uttarakhand government seeking its view on the stay on construction activity on 24 hydro power projects in the state that was imposed after the 2013 flood tragedy.

Helping hand of NGO brings ray of hope to widows of Deoli

Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 19:26

The wounds are too deep to heal even a year after this ill-fated hamlet in Kedar valley came to be known as the "village of widows".

Uttarakhand tragedy: Lessons not learnt, pain lingers

Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 16:40

Time, it is said, is a great healer. For the hundreds of villagers in Uttarakhand who lost their homes and livelihoods in the flash floods last June 16 and for the thousands all over the country whose loved ones were washed away by the swirling waters, the passage of time has brought no solace. It has, however, added to their pain and anguish for nothing has changed in the hill state, touted as "Gods Own Land".

Uttarakhand BJP leader Rakesh Rastogi was strangulated, says post mortem report

Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 16:02

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rakesh Kumar Rastogi was found dead in his car on Baheri-Nainital Highway under mysterious circumstances on Sunday.

Special task force to search for bodies near Kedarnath

Last Updated: Saturday, June 14, 2014, 19:40

With human skeletal remains still being found in Kedar valley, the Uttarakhand government today constituted a special task force to conduct intensive combing operations in the forests adjoining Kedarnath in search of bodies.

Uttarakhand CM to spend 2 more days at AIIMS after rough flight

Last Updated: Saturday, June 14, 2014, 18:05

The condition of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat is now stable after he was admitted to AIIMS last evening with pain in his neck and back following a rough helicopter ride.

First batch of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims arrive in Almora

Last Updated: Saturday, June 14, 2014, 11:09

The first batch of 56 pilgrims have arrived in Almora, Uttarakhand, for their annual pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet, the water of which is believed to cleanse Hindus of all of their sins.