Uttarakhand Police files FIR for spreading fake news regarding forest fire
News | May 27, 2020 22:10 ISTUttarakhand Police have filed FIR against some people for spreading fake news regarding forest fire in the state.
Uttarakhand Police have filed FIR against some people for spreading fake news regarding forest fire in the state.
Domestic air travel resumed at the Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun on Monday, with five out of six scheduled flights leaving for their destinations amid strict adherence to social distancing norms by passengers.
Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital in Uttarakhand have been kept in the red zone with 80 per cent of positive COVID-19 cases in the state reported from these districts.
Dehradun Zoo, has been put on high alert after a Tiger test positive for COVID-19 in United States of America (USA).
As country is locked down till 14th April to stop spread of coronavirus, authorities are making all efforts to confine people at home.
4 new Covid-19 positive cases have been reported in Uttarakhand today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 26.
Streets and roads in Uttarakhand's Dehradun wore a deserted look on March 23 after the state government extended the 'Janata Curfew' till March 31 due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Centre has given in-principle nod to the construction of an elevated expressway between Dehradun and New Delhi which will reduce the distance between the two cities to 180 kms.
The Railway Ministry has agreed to launch a Tejas Express train equipped with modern onboard facilities between Delhi and Dehradun via Haridwar.
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad joined protest against CAA and NRC in Uttarakhand's Dehradun.
An official of the state government said: "The electricity and water supply is disrupted in more than 900 villages and 50 tourists are stranded in a number of places due to the closure of roads. Traffic is blocked on around 100 highways across the state."
The sacred portals of Badrinath in Garhwal Himalayas closed for devotees on Sunday for the winter season. After traditional prayers, the gates of the famed Himalayan shrine were closed at 5.13 pm, Badrinath-Kedarnath Mandir Samiti sources said.
There were 115 passengers on board the 120-seater Airbus aircraft, the official said, adding that the flight will operate twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday.
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat expressed grief at the loss of lives in the incident and ordered a magisterial probe into it, saying the guilty must be given stern punishment.
Aviation Advisor, Uttarakhand government, Capt Deep Shrivastava, in a press release, said the service will be operational on Wednesday and Saturday every week till October 26.
The matter came to light only when the victim complained to the principal of the institute on Rajpur Road. The accused has since been arrested and handed over to the police. He has been kept under house arrest at the same institute.
The woman was made to undergo abortion after rape and her foetus was buried within the premises of the 'Nari Niketan' in a bid to cover up the matter, according to public prosecutor Sanjiv Sisodia.
Four kanwarias from Haryana were killed and eight others injured when a boulder fell on their vehicle in the Tehri district of Uttarakhand on Sunday, the police said. The accident took place at Bagardhar when the Tata Sumo carrying 12 kanwarias was hit by a boulder on the Gangotri-Rishikesh Highway.
Neetu Agarwal, 32, wife of Ajay Kumar Agarwal, who is the chief engineer of a government-run power corporation, was hospitalised with multiple fractures on Monday after she was repeatedly hit by a car whose registration number was found to be fake.
A rape survivor has gone missing from her house here, raising fears that she might have been kidnapped by the rapists, who are out on bail, the Uttarakhand police said on Friday.
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