Pushkar Singh Dhami

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday called for maintaining a balance between economy and ecology while undertaking development projects by using science and technology. Dhami made the remark at a ‘Bodhisattva’ meeting organized at the Secretariat here to develop Champawat as a model district. He also exhorted state government officials to work […]

DEHRADUN: MLA Madan Kaushik, who was blamed by many for CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s defeat and has now been replaced by Mahendra Bhatt as Uttarakhand BJP president, is likely to be inducted in the state Cabinet, as per party sources. On Saturday, the Central party leadership announced Bhatt, who lost the last Assembly elections, as […]

DEHRADUN: After Draupadi Murmu won the Presidential elections, the Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised a victory show in Kashipur, Udham Singh Nagar on Thursday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami congratulated President-Elect Murmu. “Her win signifies a golden era in the history of democratic India. The election of a woman from such humble beginnings has […]

DEHRADUN: One state cabinet minister and two Congress MLAs missed the action as 67 members, out of 70, of the state legislative assembly cast their vote in the Presidential Elections on Monday. Three MLAs who did not vote include state cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das, who had to be admitted to a hospital due to […]

  In an exclusive interview with The New Indian, the former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat talks about the contentious issue of the Uniform Civil Code. The national general secretary of the Indian National Congress also said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Draupadi Murmu as their candidate for the Presidential election to appease […]

DEHRADUN: The reports of the number of unprecedented deaths of pilgrims as well as equines have finally created noise at the Uttarakhand Assembly. The Leader of the Opposition at the assembly blamed the state government for the deaths during his speech on the second day of the budget session on Wednesday. The LoP in the […]

  DEHRADUN: After going through a rough phase for nearly two years that saw Covid-19 snatching jobs of over 2.5 lakh people, the economy of Uttarakhand is bouncing back. As per government data, the state economy has recovered by more than 10 per cent in the financial year (FY) 2021-22 compared to the previous year. […]

  DEHRADUN: Thousands gathered in Parade Ground here to witness victory lap of Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday after he defeated his Congress rival by a margin of more than 55000 votes in Champawat. Chief minister Dhami was welcomed was greeted by a sea of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and supporters […]

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 […]