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Udaipur: A spiritual journey ended in heartbreak for the Soni family of Udaipur and Gogunda, as several of their members were either injured or remain missing following a bus accident in Uttarakhand Thursday. The family members were on a Char Dham yatra when their minibus plunged nearly 300 metres into the Alaknanda River near Gholtir in Rudraprayag district around 7:30am.Three family members -- Lalit Kumar Soni, 48, from Pratap Chowk in Gogunda, Sanjay Soni, 55, and Sushila Soni, 77, both from Shastri Circle in Udaipur -- are still missing. Another Udaipur resident, Ravi Bhavsar, 28, is also unaccounted for.Those injured from Udaipur include Deepika Soni, 42, and Hemlata Soni, 28, residents of Gogunda. Both women were seriously hurt and were airlifted to AIIMS Rishikesh along with Ishwar Soni from Gujarat and the driver, Sumit Kumar.Kundan Soni, a relative of Lalit Soni who lives in Udaipur, said that about ten days ago, Sanjay Soni and his family left for the Char Dham yatra. The group included his wife Chetna, his mother, his sisters Bhavna and Hemlata, Lalit Soni, and other family members. After completing the Kedarnath leg of the journey, they were on their way to Badrinath when the accident occurred.
Uttarkashi (U'Khand) | Nine construction labourers went missing early Sunday after a landslide triggered by a cloudburst hit their shelters along the Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district, officials said. The labourers, who are said to be of Nepali origin, were engaged in the construction of a hotel. District Magistrate Prashant Arya said the landslide occurred at Silai bend about 4 km ahead of Paligad, Uttarkashi The labourers were engaged in the construction of a hotel, he said, adding a new landslide zone has developed close to the hotel. "There were 19 labourers at the camp ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 4 (ANI): As he completed four years as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed gratitude to the citizens of the state. CM Dhami stated that he was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose guidance helped him work for the development of Uttarakhand. Also Read | Kolkata Fatafat Result Today: Kolkata FF Result for July 04, 2025 Declared, Check Winning Numbers and Result Chart of Satta Matka-Type Lottery Game. "With your love, affection, and blessings, I have completed 4 years as the chief servant today. Inspired and guided by ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 4 (ANI): Following the completion of four years as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami said that in the past four years, he has faced many challenges, but with the "grace of god", every time it became an "opportunity" for him. Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the 'Northern Region Ministers Conference on Civil Aviation' in Dehradun. He was accompanied by Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu. Also Read | PNB, Indian Bank and Bank of India Cut MCLR by 5 BPS in July 2025 After RBI Repo Rate Cut; Home, Personal Loans May Get C ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 14 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and sought guidance on various issues related to the development of Uttarakhand, a release from Uttarakhand CMO said. Expressing gratitude to the Central Government for its cooperation in the development of the state, the Chief Minister said that under the leadership of the Prime Minister, Uttarakhand is ready to play its effective role in the vision of Developed India 2047. The Chief Minister said that all Indians are proud that 27 c ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 29 (ANI): The Char Dham Yatra has been suspended for the next 24 hours following a heavy rain alert, officials said on Sunday. While speaking to ANI, Garhwal Division Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said that the pilgrimage had been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure. 'I have given instructions to the police and administration officials to stop the pilgrims in Haridwar, Rishikesh, Srinagar, Rudraprayag, Sonprayag and Vikasnagar,' Pandey told. The suspension followed a cloudburst that hit Silai Band on the Barkot-Yamunotri road in Uttarkashi d ...Read More >
A cloudburst near Barkot-Yamunotri road in Uttarkashi has caused significant damage to a hotel construction site, leaving several workers missing as rescue operations are underway. Separately, heavy rainfall has blocked the Badrinath-Rishikesh highway, disrupting pilgrimage travel. Chief Minister Dhami has advised caution and urged residents to avoid unnecessary travel due to the adverse weather forecast.A cloudburst in Baligarh, along the Barkot-Yamunotri road in Uttarkashi district, caused sign ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is probing from all angles, including sabotage, in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 274 people on board and on the ground last month, Minister of State (MoS) For Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said. Mohol said the black box of the Air India flight AI 171 that has been recovered is in AAIB's custody and will not be outside the country for a thorough assessment. The MoS was speaking at the Pune chapter of the Emerging Business Conclave. "It (plane crash) was an unfortunate incident. The AAIB has begun a full investig ...Read More >
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced on Thursday that the state government has decided to temporarily suspend the Char Dham Yatra due to the bad weather conditions CM Dhami noted that the safety of the pilgrims is the government's priority. "Considering the weather, the Char Dham yatra has been temporarily halted. In the future, we will proceed with the yatra in accordance with the weather. When the yatra is safe, it will continue... Our priority during the yatra is the safety of all pilgrims... All our district officials, disaster management teams, National Dis ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 4 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday held a telephonic conversation with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed heavy rainfall in disaster-prone areas of the state. Dhami informed that considering the seriousness of the issue Shah has assured that Centre's emergency relief agencies, NDRF and ITBP are being deployed promptly to ensure that the Char Dham Yatra is not disrupted and that devotees face no inconvenience in their travel. 'Union Home Minister Amit Shah, through a telephonic conversation, obtained detailed informa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday offered prayers at the historic Marghat Hanuman Temple located in Kashmere Gate on the auspicious day of Lord Hanuman, and prayed for the well-being of the nation, the state and its citizens. During his visit, the Chief Minister sought blessings from Lord Hanuman and expressed his devotion, stating that he had prayed for prosperity, happiness, and the removal of obstacles facing the country and Uttarakhand. While speaking to ANI, CM Dhami said, 'Today is the day of Lord Hanuman. We have visited him and ...Read More >
Lucknow: Amid chants of 'Jai Jagannath', 'Jai Subhadra' and 'Jai Balabhadra', the city marked the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra on Friday with great fanfare.Children participated by donning costumes of deities while many walked the procession barefooted for several kilometres. Elderly people lined up on the streets to shower petals on the deities. At Chardham temple in Rani Katra, a silver palanquin (palki) adorned with flowers and lights was carried, promoting world peace. Devotees presented offerings of lassi, sharbat, kadhi chawal and samosas to Lord Jagannath at various locations.At Ravindra ...Read More >
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], June 28 (ANI): Continuous rainfall in Uttarakhand has caused severe disruptions, including the blockage of the National Highway near Nandprayag and Bhaneropani. In a post on the social media platform X, Chamoli Police Uttarakhand stated, "The Badrinath National Highway is blocked near Nandprayag and Bhanerpani. Work is underway to open the road." Also Read | Dausa Road Accident: 4 Die As Car Rams Into Truck in Rajasthan. The National Highway near Nandprayag is a critical route for pilgrims travelling to Kedarnath, making the clearance of the road a priority. ...Read More >
Dehradun, Jun 29: The Char Dham Yatra has been suspended for the next 24 hours following a heavy rain alert, officials said on Sunday. Garhwal Division Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said that the pilgrimage had been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure. "I have given instructions to the police and administration officials to stop the pilgrims in Haridwar, Rishikesh, Srinagar, Rudraprayag, Sonprayag and Vikasnagar," Pandey told. The suspension followed a cloudburst that hit Silai Band on the Barkot-Yamunotri road in Uttarkashi district, leaving as many as nine workers missing at ...Read More >
New Delhi/Shimla/Uttarkashi: A cloudburst in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district early Sunday left two construction workers dead and seven missing as monsoon covered the entire country almost a week earlier than usual, bringing rain in the national capital and other northern states, triggering landslides in several hilly areas and sending rivers into spate. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for heavy rainfall on June 29 and 30 in various districts of Uttarakhand, including Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Dehradun, Tehri, Pauri, Haridwar and Nainital. Authorities have put ...Read More >
Srinagar- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said foreign countries were told clearly during the post-Operation Sindoor diplomatic outreach that in case of a fresh provocation, India would repeat its action. Speaking at a discussion at the Ahmedabad Management Association, Tharoor said Indian delegations which visited foreign countries in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor managed to convey that India acted with restraint and responsibility. "In other places, we actually were able to get some very high-placed people to say not only that they respected and supported India's right of self- ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 1 (PTI) A group of tourists from Maharashtra is stranded at Yamunotri, a key Char Dham site in Uttarakhand, and efforts are on by local authorities to rescue and move them to a safer location, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Tuesday. The Maharashtra government is in touch with its Uttarakhand counterpart to ensure the safety of devotees, he said. Shinde, however, did not disclose how many tourists from Maharashtra are stranded in the hill state where the sacred Char Dham Yatra is currently on. "Some people from Maharashtra are stuck at Yamunotri Dham. I have personal ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal unit of BJP, under the leadership of its new State party President Samik Bhattacharya is making all efforts to ensure a political rally in the state, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing it, before Trinamool Congress's annual Martyrs' day rally in Kolkata on July 21. An insider from the state committee of BJP said that the week before July 21, the Prime Minister is scheduled to go for an election campaign in Bihar where the Assembly polls are scheduled later this year. "We are trying hard so that the Prime Minister can spare some time ...Read More >
Dhar (MP), Jun 28 (PTI) A couple from Madhya Pradesh, who was killed along with three others in the accident of a minibus in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag district, was cremated near Rajgarh in Dhar district on Saturday in the presence of a large number of people. Vishal Soni (45) and his wife Gauri (41) were killed after the tempo traveller carrying them fell into the Alaknanda river near Gholthir village in Rudraprayag on June 26. Their bodies were brought to Rajgarh town by the relatives during the day. As a mark of respect for the departed souls, local jewellers kept the shops shut as Soni b ...Read More >
Imphal, June 29 (UNI) A series of successful operations carried out by Manipur Police and security forces during the last 24 hours led to the arrest of several individuals involved in vehicle theft, insurgent activity, and the recovery of a significant cache of arms and ammunition. Police arrested a vehicle lifter identified as Syed Riyaj from his residence at Lilong Chaobok in Thoubal District. The arrest was made under Lilong Police Station. Authorities seized a blue two wheeler without registration number, along with a key and an Aadhaar card believed to be linked to the suspect. In a s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 29 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday attacked the Centre and Rajasthan governments over the reported plan to redraw the boundaries of the Sariska Tiger Reserve for the reactivation of over 50 mining operations, saying the move would be "ecologically devastating". The opposition party also said that with the Rajasthan and Union environment ministers both being from Alwar, this "double engine" cannot be supporting such a move. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared on X a media report which claimed that a plan to redraw the boundaries of Rajasthan's ...Read More >
UTTARKASHI/DEHRADUN: Bodies of two labourers have been found while seven remain missing after a cloudburst triggered a flash flood that swept through a resort construction site at Silai Bend on the Barkot-Yamunotri highway in Uttarkashi around 2am on Sunday. Twenty labourers managed to escape to safety. The rescue operation was suspended for the night due to poor visibility and risky terrain.The flash flood, caused by intense rainfall, flattened a tin-and-plywood shelter housing 29 workers engaged in hotel and road construction. The Yamunotri highway was damaged at three spots, including a 10- ...Read More >
Dakpatthar (Uttarakhand) [India], July 3 (ANI): On Thursday, the SDRF Dakpatthar team received information that some workers were stranded in the river near Badhwala Sadhna Kendra Ashram. On receiving the information, the SDRF team immediately left for the site of the incident and rescued the trapped workers. Meanwhile, as heavy rains, along with landslides, continue to affect the state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said, "...Considering the weather, the Char Dham yatra has been temporarily halted. In the future, we will proceed with the yatra in accordance with the weather. ...Read More >
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], July 7 (ANI): Traffic movement on the Badrinath National Highway resumed after a temporary blockade caused by debris near Nandprayag and Umatta areas was cleared by authorities on Monday morning. The Badrinath National Highway remained blocked for commuters near Nandprayag and Umatta earlier due to the debris following heavy rains in the district. Earlier on Sunday, the State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC) in Uttarakhand issued a high-alert landslide warning for four districts---Tehri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, and Chamoli districts. The alert, dated July 6 ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Two days after a law student died and his friend suffered critical injuries when a car knocked them down as they stood near railing on the service lane of Delhi-Jaipur highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a civil engineer was arrested on Thursday.Mohit (31), an employee of a private company in the city, told police that he got drowsy while driving. He is staying at a PG facility in Sector 14.The student who died, Harsh Singhal (25), was a resident of Om Nagar colony. His friend Abhishek Kumar (23), who is from Shanti Nagar in Sector 11, is undergoing treatment at a private hospital ...Read More >
Dehradun, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) In light of relentless heavy rainfall and heightened risk of landslides, the Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand has been postponed for a day as a precautionary measure, officials confirmed on Sunday. The move has been made to safeguard the lives and property of thousands of pilgrims and residents amid deteriorating weather conditions in the region. Garhwal Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey stated, "The Chardham Yatra has been postponed for a day in view of the continuous heavy rainfall and the possibility of landslides. This precautionary step has been taken fo ...Read More >
New Delhi: On this day in 2024, India defeated South Africa by 7 runs and lifted the T20 World Cup title at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. India posted a 177-run target for the Proteas in 20 overs after opting to bat first. Virat Kohli smashed 76 runs off 59 balls with the help of six boundaries and two maximums. Axar Patel also batted brilliantly and scored 47 runs off 31 balls, hitting four maximums and one boundary in his sensational knock. Chasing the target of 177 runs, Bumrah provided India their first breakthrough when he removed Reeza Hendricks in the second over of the run-chase, ...Read More >
Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], June 29 (ANI): A severe landslide caused by heavy rainfall struck a labour camp at Silai Band on the Yamunotri Highway on Sunday, resulting in nine workers missing while ten others were rescued. Officials confirmed that a 10-12 meter stretch of the highway was completely washed away, severely disrupting road connectivity and delaying immediate rescue operations. Also Read | Puri Temple Stampede: Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi Seeks Forgiveness From Jagannath Devotees, Tender Apology for Stampede During Jagannath Rath Yatra. According to officials, teams from ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 29 (ANI): Search and rescue operations are underway in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district after a cloudburst triggered a massive landslide near Barkot on Sunday, killing two workers and leaving seven others missing. Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the disaster management department, and the local administration are continuing their search to trace the missing workers, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said. Also Read | How To Spot a Fake Website? PIB Fact Check Shares 5 Simple T ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Char Dham Yatra resumed on Monday after the Uttarakhand government lifted a 24-hour precautionary suspension imposed due to adverse weather conditions, officials confirmed. Speaking to ANI, Garhwal Divisional Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey stated, "The 24-hour ban on Char Dham Yatra has been lifted." He added that all District Magistrates along the Yatra route have been instructed to monitor weather conditions closely and halt vehicular movement if necessary to ensure pilgrim safety. The Yatra was suspended on Sunday following a heavy rainfall alert and a subsequent cloudbu ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India] July 5 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday participated in the Vikas Sankalp Parv event held in Haridwar to mark four years in office. During this occasion, he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 107 projects, which are expected to cost around Rs 550 crore, a release said. The Chief Minister also visited the stalls set up by various departments on this occasion. The Chief Minister was overwhelmed by the immense love and affection received from people in the programme. On the occasion, the Chief Minister said that under the ...Read More >