Uttarakhand

Punjab and Haryana are the major basmati rice exporters. In the last financial year, their exports were to the tune of Rs 33,000 crore.

Police have registered a case against madrasa operator Mohammad Haroon and his son Ibrahim under various sections including POCSO.

There are over 300 such teachers in the state who have been rendering their services in the state's schools in difficult and extremely inaccessible areas for the last 20 or more years.

On this occasion, all the stakeholders deliberated through discussions and made a roadmap to make Uttarakhand child marriage free.

The expert committee has also cautioned against the pressure of permanent population growth in the mythical city of Joshimath, built on a pile of glacier debris.

The expert committee has given a clean chit to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), which has been targeted by various organizations and people of Joshimath for this land submergence.

According to the highly placed official sources, "The CBI is likely to soon start questioning the officials concerned as well as former forest minister Harak Singh Rawat in this matter".

Taking a cue from the deaths of three people due to sewerage gas in the last few years, 'Jal Sansthan' has taken this decision.

This resort also falls in the same district area as Vantara Resort, where receptionist Ankita Bhandari was murdered last year.

Built in 1890 during the British period, the hotel The Rink in Mussoorie was once Asia's largest wood-floor skating rink built in 1890 during the period.

More than two and a half dozen patients are fighting for life and death in hospitals," said District Magistrate (DM) Haridwar, Dhiraj Singh Garbyal.

Congress leader Pritam Singh said, "Despite repeated directions of the bench in the House during the Assembly session, the authorities are not giving due respect to the 'honourable MLAs."

The CAG considers it a violation of Articles 204 and 205 of the Constitution.

Gangotri (Harshil) Range Officer Jagmohan Gangani said, "Eight forest personnel were sent to the Jhinda Meadows area to seal the idol and bring it to Tharali."

In May this year, there was an avalanche in Kedarnath Dham. There were three incidents in September and October last year, this is the fifth avalanche in the last one year as per sources.