Author: Vineet Upadhyay

DEHRADUN: Nirmala Gahtori, the losing Congress candidate from Champawat, now holds an electoral record that no politician wants to hold – losing deposits and losing by a record margin. Gahtori lost her deposits getting only 0.51% of the total votes cast in the by-elections in Champawat. She was pitted against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh […]

DEHRADUN: Beating all electoral records in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami won Champawat by-polls by a margin of over 50,000 votes. In the process, he garnered 92.97% of the total votes cast by the people of the constituency. “I am overwhelmed and speechless. I don’t know how to thank the people of Champawat for […]

DEHRADUN: Celebrating the 175th year of its foundation, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R), on Tuesday announced a strategic collaboration with Deloitte, a leader in artificial intelligence to deliver rigorous, immersive programs in AI and machine learning (ML) that are designed to build the next generation workforce. While highlighting the importance of the collaboration […]

DEHRADUN: The results will be declared on Friday, June 3, but Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is claiming victory as voters in Champawat sealed the fate of their representative in the by-elections on Tuesday. The voting started at 7 in the morning and continued till 5 in the evening […]

  DEHRADUN/CHANDIGARH: A day after the murder of popular Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala, a joint team of Uttarakhand special task force (STF) and Punjab Police nabbed six people in connection with the murder on Monday from Dehradun who were said to be moving in the guise of pilgrims to the shrine. According […]

TANAKPUR: Sushma Devi is looking for a change as she was preparing chapatis for her guests at her affordable eatery in the main market of Tanakpur in Champawat, from where Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is contesting by-elections. “I feel so grateful and lucky to have witnessed Maharaj ji (UP CM Yogi Adityanath) during […]

DEHRADUN: After the deaths of over 60 equines in Char Dham trek routes, especially in Kedarnath, former union minister Maneka Gandhi’s ‘People For Animals’ (PFA) has sent a legal notice to state government officials including the chief secretary and director general of police of Uttarakhand. “Keeping in mind your esteemed positions in the state machinery, […]

TANAKPUR (UTTARAKHAND): The rain must have been beating down in the Himalayan climes of Uttarakhand but the ‘poll weather’ raised the temperature on Saturday. Hinting at internal sabotage in the Khatima seat in the recently concluded 2022 state assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s star campaigner and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that […]

  DEHRADUN: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and the Uttarakhand Police on Wednesday jointly launched the second edition of the state-level Devbhoomi Cyber Hackathon in a bid to find solutions to new challenges in cyber policing. As part of the first stage of the hackathon, the Uttarakhand Police have launched of a website for […]

DEHRADUN: As Col (Retd) Ajay Kothiyal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party with his 700 odd supporters on Tuesday at the party office in Dehradun in presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, political analysts say that the AAP has lost a credible face and is now faceless in Uttarakhand. Jay Singh Rawat, Dehradun based political […]