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.
Nine-year-old released without proper aid, made to share the same vehicle with accused, and travel up to 100 Kms in a sensitive state, alleges parents of the minor.
Residents of Digothi and Lodal villages in Tehri district did not vote saying they did not get a road and other facilities.
A 12-year-old boy Vasu Yadav was beaten up by crickets bats and wickets in his school classroom by his seniors from class 12 in Dehradun.
Two people have been killed as a bridge collapsed in Garhi Cantt area of Dehradun district.
The proposal to rename the Jolly Grant airport after Vajpayee was approved by the state cabinet at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the official said.
The regional Met Office director Vikram Singh has said there would be hail in some places while the other parts of the state will receive rainfall for a day.
Five boys allegedly raped an eight year old girl in their neighbourhood when her parents were not at home in Sahaspur
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“About 5,000 events will be held across the country to mark International Day for Yoga (IDY),” a senior AYUSH ministry official said.
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