Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within

Amid growing fears of the Indian house sparrow fast disappearing, a Wildlife Institute of India’s study has raised hopes on conservation and presence of house sparrows in Uttarakhand.

To provide Rs 807 crore to address forest degradation

Four members of a family were killed, while five others, including SDM of Almora district, were feared dead in rain-related incidents as heavy showers lashed Uttarakhand on Wednesday, causing fresh

The Uttarakhand Government on Monday decided to raise a battalion of the State Disaster Response Force on the lines of the National Disaster Response Force.

Announcing this here the Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said the SDRF would comprise of volunteers below the age of 40 from the PAC and other State police agencies.

In a two-day National Discussion seminar, which was organised under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan by Union Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry at CGO Complex, New Delhi on Saturday, Uttarakhand Peyjal M

Thirty-three people are feared killed and at least 40 feared buried under debris and mud as flash floods and landslips hit villages at Ukhimath and Kapkot in Rudraprayag and Bageshwar districts respectively of Uttarakhand on Friday.

Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna released Rs. 10 crore for Ukhimath and Rs. 1 crore for Bageshwar relief work. Governor Aziz Quereshi, while expressing anguish, appealed to the rescue teams, Red Cross members and the public to make all efforts to help those in despair.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake of

Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions.

Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had identified the villages on the basis of a survey

At least 18 children, all below the age of 10, died this morning after a landslide triggered by a cloudburst struck a primary school building in the hills of Bageshwar in Uttarakhand. Thirty students and two teachers were in the school at the time of the incident.

Eight injured children have been pulled out of the debris but the teachers are still missing.