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  Hundreds clean Ganga 'ghats' in four states

  India | October 18, 2015 14:11 IST

  Haridwar: Hundreds of activists on Sunday took part in a mass campaign across four states to clean numerous 'ghats' of the Ganga, a spiritual group here said.The mass cleaning took place at 200 points between Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand and

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  Sylvester Stallone sees dead son, family performs 'shradh' in Haridwar

  Hollywood | October 14, 2015 14:34 IST

  Haridwar: The family of Hollywood superstar Sylvester Stallone was recently in Haridwar to perform the Shraddh of his son, who died of an alleged drug overdose in 2012, a leading English daily reported.Stallone,who is famous

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  Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal travels to Haridwar for rakhi

  Politics | August 29, 2015 23:36 IST

  Haridwar: On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today travelled here from the national capital to have a rakhi tied on his wrist by his sister who lives in this city

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  National Green Tribunal bans use of plastic bottles in Haridwar

  India | August 10, 2015 10:20 IST

  Haridwar: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned the use of plastic bottles around the banks of Uttarakhand here to check the menace of pollution in and around the river Ganges, an official said on

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  Haridwar Mail renamed as Yoga Express

  India | June 16, 2015 7:19 IST

  New Delhi:  Indian Railways has rechristened Haridwar Mail as Yoga Express. However, there will be no change in the train timings and its composition, the Railways said.The train No 19031/19032 Ahmedabad-Haridwar-Ahmedabad which is also known

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  Uttarakhand considers making Haridwar, Uddham Nagar no-mining zones

  India | May 25, 2015 8:35 IST

  Dehradun: Uttarakhand government is mulling making Haridwar and Uddham Singh Nagar districts of the state as no-mining zones and has ordered officials to assess the impact on the exchequer if such a move is implemented.

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  Woman kills husband over suspicion of extra-marital affair

  India | April 13, 2015 8:54 IST

  Haridwar: A woman allegedly killed her husband today on the suspicion that he was having an extra-marital affair, police said.In order to make it appear like a case of loot, the woman, identified as Richpal,

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  Swami Sivananda starts indefinite fast against Ganga mining

  India | April 01, 2015 9:25 IST

  Haridwar: Demanding a complete ban on mining around the banks of River Ganga, Swami Sivananda Saraswati on Tuesday started his indefinite fast at his ashram here."I have no other way to stop the activity and

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  UP CM Akhilesh Yadav kicks off Samajwadi Shrawan Yatra

  Politics | March 15, 2015 8:30 IST

  Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday flagged off the Samajwadi Shrawan Yatra-2015 under which over 900 devotees are being taken to Haridwar and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.Yadav also issued instructions to officials to

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  Manisha Koirala performs 'havan' in Haridwar to thank almighty

  Bollywood | February 19, 2015 15:49 IST

  New Delhi: Bollywood beauty Manisha Koirala who won the battle against cancer, along with her mother took part in a religious procession taken out from Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar.According to reports, Manisha's 'havan' in

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  LeT issues threat to blow up Haridwar railway station

  India | October 03, 2013 15:49 IST

  Haridwar: A letter purportedly by terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba has threatened to blow up Haridwar railway station and temples which abound in the city on December 29, police said today.In the letter to Haridwar Railway Station

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  MP deploys buses in Haridwar to bring back stranded pilgrims

  India | June 23, 2013 19:54 IST

  Bhopal, Jun 23: The Madhya Pradesh government has deployed 10 buses at Haridwar to bring back the safely stranded pilgrims in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand, official sources said today.Reviewing the relief and rescue operations, state Chief Minister

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  Uttarakhand tragedy: 40 bodies found in Haridwar, toll 190

  India | June 21, 2013 14:31 IST

  Dehradun, Jun 21:  Forty bodies of flood victims were today recovered from Haridwar, taking the toll in the rain fury to 190 as operations to rescue over 9000 stranded in Kedarnath and Badrinath were stepped

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  Is it Ganga or some other water flowing at Haridwar? Uttarakhand govt says, it's not the holy river

  India | April 12, 2013 6:44 IST

  Haridwar, Apr 11: The water flowing at the world famous Har Ki Pauri ghat at Hardwar is not Ganga, but Aapoorti Dhara in the irrigation department records of Uttarakhand government, an RTI (Right to Information)

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  Girl kidnapped from Mumbai CST rescued from Haridwar

  India | July 07, 2012 22:48 IST

  Mumbai, Jul 7: A three-year-old girl, kidnapped from a railway station here last month, was traced in the holy town of Haridwar in Uttarakhand from where she has been rescued, police said on Saturday.The alleged

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  Fires in Jammu, Kanpur, Haridwar

  India | May 09, 2012 9:42 IST

  Jammu/Kanpur/Haridwar, May 9: Three major fire incidents in places as far away as Jammu, Kanpur and Haridwar caused considerable damage to a fruit wholesale market, a power transformer and a hilly forest on Tuesday.Fire gutted

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  Nigamanand Was Not Poisoned : CFSL Report

  India | November 16, 2011 17:24 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 16: CBI will constitute a medical board to re-examine the circumstances leading to the death of Swami Nigamanand, who was on hunger strike against illegal mining, as forensic reports show that he

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  Lashkar Letter Threatens Blasts At Stations, Temples

  India | August 03, 2011 21:31 IST

  Haridwar, Aug 3: Terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba has threatened to blow up railway stations here and in Dehra Dun and Rishikesh on Independence Day. A letter threatening to blow up the three railway stations was received

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  CBI Questions Ramdev's Aide Acharya Balkrishna

  India | June 30, 2011 21:46 IST

  Haridwar, Jun 30: The CBI has quizzed Balkrishna, a close aide of yoga guru Ramdev, in connection with alleged furnishing of wrong information for getting passport even as police said that two birth certificates with

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  CBI Makes Discreet Inquiries About Ramdev Trusts' Funding Sources

  India | June 27, 2011 22:34 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 27: In a bid to find evidence of any ‘wrong-doings' in the yoga guru-cum-anti-corruption crusader Baba Ramdev's estimated Rs 1,100 crore, a team of CBI officials are making discreet enquiries to track