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  Landslide on the route to Badrinath strands over 3,000 pilgrims

  India | May 01, 2015 11:41 IST

  Dehradun: Over 3,000 pilgrims were left stranded on the route leading to Badrinath shrine on Wednesday due to landslides, officials said.A heavy downpour on Tuesday led to a landslide in Vishnuprayag after which the road

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  Badrinath highway in Uttarakhand closed after snowfall

  India | March 09, 2015 12:00 IST

  Dehradun:The Badrinath highway was closed due to to heavy snowfall in Uttarakhand, officials said on Monday.The inclement weather has also stopped the restoration and construction work at Kedarnath, one of the shrines of the famous

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  Thick sheets of snow envelop famous Himalayan temples in Uttarakhand

  India | January 14, 2015 14:09 IST

  Gopeshwar:  Thick sheets of snow today shrouded the famous Himalayan temples of Kedarnath, Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib as the higher reaches of Garhwal Himalayas received fresh snowfall, while the lower areas were lashed by rains

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  Anil Ambani takes 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' to Badrinath, Kedarnath

  India | October 19, 2014 7:44 IST

  Badrinath: Taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative to rid the country of litter and rubbish, Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani on Saturday cleaned the Badrinath and Kedarnath temple premises and area around it to

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  Weather clears in Uttarakhand; pilgrims leave for 'Char Dham'

  India | August 20, 2014 23:29 IST

  Dehradun: The weather was clear in most parts of Uttarakhand today except light to moderate rain at isolated places, allowing ‘Char Dham' pilgrims to leave for Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri.The weather was clear in

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  People here leave their jobs to collect 'Indian Viagra'

  India | May 31, 2014 16:56 IST

  New Delhi: In the months between May and July, people of Chamoli district apply for a long leave from their offices in Dehradun and head to their villages above Joshimath near the temple town of

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  Fresh snowfall blocks two highways to Kedarnath, Badrinath

  India | April 20, 2014 8:44 IST

  Dehradun: Fresh snowfall in higher reaches and moderate showers in plains in Uttarakhand have left two highways leading to Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines in Garhwal Himalayas blocked, raising worries about timely start of the annual

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  Badrinath chief priest Namboodiri arrested in Delhi on sexual molestation charge

  India | February 04, 2014 17:01 IST

  New Delhi: The chief priest (mukhya rawal) of the famous Badrinath shrine, Keshavan Namboodiri was arrested by Delhi's Meharuli Police today on charge of trying to sexually molest a married woman in a hotel. The

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  Yatra to Kedarnath, Badrinath resumes after 3 months

  India | October 05, 2013 21:54 IST

  Gopeshwar(Chamoli): After a gap of nearly three months, pilgrimage to Kedarnath and Badrinath temples formally resumed today as the first batch of nearly 200 devotees paid obeisance at the two Himalayan shrines, leaving behind horrific

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  Kedarnath-Badrinath pilgrimage to restart Oct 5

  India | October 01, 2013 10:50 IST

  Dehradun/Lucknow: Almost four months after flash floods and heavy rains led to the halt of the annual "Char Dham Yatra" in Uttarakhand, the religious trip to Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines is scheduled to open for

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  Yatra to Kedarnath, Badrinath to resume on Oct 5

  India | September 30, 2013 21:44 IST

  Dehradun: Pilgrimage to the famous Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath, suspended since the mid-June calamity in Uttarakhand, will resume on October 5 with the start of the Navratras.The decision was made at a meeting

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  Landslides near Badrinath in Uttarakhand

  India | August 13, 2013 11:00 IST

  Dehradun: Heavy rains continued to lash Uttarakhand on Monday and Tuesday morning causing landslides at several places near Badrinath and Chamoli. Landslides were reported near Peepalkoti, blocking the route to Badrinath. Landslides also took place

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  IAF 'evacuates' helicopter amid landslide warning in Uttarakhand

  India | July 12, 2013 20:13 IST

  New Delhi, July 12: After evacuating over one lakh people stranded in flash-flood hit Uttarakhand, Indian Air Force pilots (IAF) "rescued" a helicopter parked at a helipad in Gauchar Thursday night.The pilots were woken up

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  Relief operations resume in Uttarakhand as skies clear up

  India | July 09, 2013 20:18 IST

  Dehradun, July 9: Relief operations resumed in disaster-hit Uttarakhand on Tuesday as the weather cleared up after three days even as most of the personnel engaged in clearing debris and cremating bodies at Kedarnath were

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  Uttarakhand: Fresh rain hinders relief work in remote

  India | July 07, 2013 18:10 IST

  Dehradun, July 7: Fresh spell of rains on Sunday halted helicopter operations to ferry rations to remote Uttarakhand districts reeling under shortage of foodgrains even as wet weather put brakes on the task of cremation

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  Uttarakhand:Hundred Badrinath pilgrims await evacuation, says NDMA

  India | July 03, 2013 17:00 IST

  Dehradun, July 3: Rescue operations at Badrinath in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand have not ended yet, as about hundred pilgrims and 200 local people are still to be evacuated, a disaster management official said Wednesday."Still we have

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  Uttarakhand: Rescue operations in Badrinath end

  India | July 02, 2013 23:02 IST

  Dehradun, July 3: Seventeen days after the Uttarakhand disaster, the mammoth multi-agency rescue operations to evacuate all stranded pilgrims and tourists concluded today with a group of 150 people being taken to safety from Badrinath.In

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  Uttarakhand:Watch live video of cars, buses washed away in Sonprayag

  India | July 03, 2013 12:35 IST

  New Delhi, July 3 : An alert India TV viewer Mohammed Fayaz has sent a video of cars, buses being washed away by the furious Mandakini and Vasuki rivers on the morning of June 17

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  1,350 evacuated from Badrinath, UN says over 11,000 missing

  India | July 01, 2013 20:58 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 1: A total of 1,350 people have been evacuated from Badrinath while over 3,500 remain untraced in flood-hit Uttarakhand even as a UN agency estimated that the number of missing could be

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  Uttarakhand: All policemen evacuated from Kedarnath, over 200 rescued from Badrinath, mass cremation to take place under joint supervision

  India | June 30, 2013 21:40 IST

  Dehradun, Jun 30: All policemen of Uttarakhand police were today evacuated from the holy town of Kedarnath ravaged by flash flood. This security personel were facing shortage of food for the last four days. They