Shishir Prashant

Besides, the Adani group will also invest Rs 1,400 crore to set up a new grinding unit in the state with a capacity of four million tonnes

Modi called upon the businessmen to focus on capacity building in India

The temple too has seen many controversies in the past 23 years. The latest, over a Rs 125 crore gold "scam", has rocked the hill state

Educators need a plan ambitious enough to remedy enormous learning losses

After the crash, the state civil aviation department suspended all the helicopter flights to Kedarnath

On July 22 this year, the police started investigation into the alleged paper leak for class III government jobs through the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC)

The factory was set up in 2010 at the Pantnagar industrial estate to avail the tax incentives offered by the central government under a special package for Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh

In the brief history of the hill state, there has not been a single instance where a chief minister lost a by-election

Before his exit from BJP politics in the hill state, Koshiyari used to be a dominant force here

The Congress, the BJP's main opposition in the state, has been left totally bruised, with Harish Rawat, who was the party's face in the elections, losing from Lal Kuan.

Over the years, thousands of people in Dehradun and other cities and towns in the plains have encroached upon the riverbeds

On October 11, Yashpal Arya returned to the Congress from BJP. By re-inducting Arya, the Congress is wooing the 18 per cent Dalit vote in the state

The differences within the state BJP is going to be the biggest challenge before Dhami in the run up to the polls

Infinity Greenfield, a start-up, is setting up a similar plant in Moradabad in western UP to produce diesel from polyethylene and pol­yp­ropylene plastic

Showing no signs of let-up, the second wave threatens to be fatal, spreading faster than the first, albeit with a lower mortality rate. This leaves smaller businesses gasping for air

In the last 2 or 3 days, forest fires have broken out with seething frenzy in many areas of the hill state, and are threatening to destroy the rich plant and animal wealth of the Himalayan region

The fact that Anant Baba too was flying to Italy with the Sharma family was a clear sign that a wedding was in the offing

Court had asked state to take action on units for causing pollution

A keen contest, however, is likely to take place in other two seats - Almora and Nainital in the Kumaon region - between the Congress and BJP, the two main parties in the state

The factory began production in 1985 after it was with inaugurated by then PM Rajiv Gandhi