Nainital High Court has issued a notice of contempt to the district magistrate of Rudraprayag, Saurabh Gaharwar, for disobeying the order on maintaining sanitation at the Kedarnath Yatra track.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning at isolated places over Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Tehri, Pauri and Nainital in the next 24 hours.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by an Advocate for lodging an FIR against Mobile App based company, MakeMyTrip India Ltd., its directors, and a Private Homestay and Kitchen, Nainital (Uttrakhand) for allegedly cheating and other provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
The draft of the proposed Uniform Civil Code for Uttarakhand is complete and the report of the expert Committee along with the draft code would soon be printed and submitted to the Government of Uttarakhand.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for releasing an instalment of Rs 1,322 crores to Uttarakhand under the tax transfer process.
Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, on Thursday gave nod to Uttarakhand government to continue mining work in Gaula river in Nainital district till June 30.
Vinay Shankar Pandey has been made the Secretary to the Chief Minister and MSME and Investment Commissioner. The DMs of 3 districts Haridwar, Nainital and Almora have been changed, the order read.
Leena Nandan, secretary in the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF & CC) has tendered "unconditional apology" before the Nainital bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in the matter of deputation of Uttarakhand cadre IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi.
"All three shooters, Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh and Lovelesh Tiwari, are under threat of attack behind bars, owing to which they have been shifted to a high-security cell and are kept under CCTV surveillance," official sources said.