A section of road on Rishikesh-Gangotri National Highway, NH-94 near Fakot in Tehri Garhwal of Uttarakhand was damaged on August 27 due to incessant rain. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Border Roads Organisation are working in coordination to open the blocked road.
The group has been in the cross-hairs of the Pakistani military which has launched a massive operation against it, further embittering the relations between the two.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat visited Tehri district's Devprayag area to assess the situation after an incident of cloudburst occurred here on May 11.
Two municipality buildings, including the multi-purpose Nagar Palika Bhawan, caved in after being hit by the rubble brought down by the cloudburst.
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.
Heavy rains are lashing most parts of the hill state, triggering a spate of landslides. Due to rains, many landslides have taken place in the region.
Rainfall, landslides form 100m wide lake near Tehri
The incident occurred near Suryadhar in Uttarakhand. A magisterial enquiry into the incident has been ordered.
A top US military official told Voice of America (VOA) that US drones carried out counter-terrorism strikes in Kunar province, close to Pakistan border, on June 13
Under its rewards for justice program, the US also announced a USD 3 million reward each for information on Abdul Wali, of Jamaat ul-Ahrar (JuA), and Mangal Bagh leader of Lashkar-e-Islam.
Saeed has not been placed under house arrest as an anti-terrorism measure but because he faces threat from terror outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Beijing : China today condemned the brazen Taliban attack on a Pakistani air force camp near Peshawar that killed 42 people, including 29 security personnel, and vowed to support Pakistan's fight against terrorism. "We condemn the
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday called for an end to political squabbling after a high-level judicial commission validated the 2013 polls that had won by his Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N).Opposition parties had
Islamabad: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan today released a video of its militants holding a Shoulder Launch Missile, which the militant group claimed to have used in downing a Pakistan military helicopter killing ambassadors of the Philippines and
Washington: The US designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him.Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed responsibility for the December 16, 2014 attack on an army
Washington: The US today designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Pakistani Taliban, as global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him.Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed responsibility for the December 16, 2014 attack on an army school
New Delhi: The year-end barbaric massacre of nearly 140 defenceless, innocent children at an army-run school in Peshawar by terror outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban has not only failed to deter Pakistani children from their quest of knowledge
New Delhi: The massacre of school children in Peshawar reflects the “inhuman and depraved state of mind” of the Taliban, CPI(M) said today.Expressing shock and horror at the mass killings, the party Politburo denounced “this
Islamabad: Tehrik-i-Taliban, the terrorist outfit that mercilessly massacred approximately 132 children in Peshawar made no demands and started killing children as soon as they entered the building, according to a Pakistan military spokesperson.”They didn't take
Islamabad: The Pakistan army Wednesday said fighter jets bombed positions of militants in the North Waziristan tribal region and killed 40 local and foreign militants."Today in precise aerial strikes five terrorists hideouts and ammunition dumps
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