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TopicUttarakhand

Topic: Uttarakhand

If in live-in relationship, have gumption to own it — Uttarakhand Speaker Ritu Khanduri Bhushan on UCC

Through UCC, hill state has tried to bring out an act to help society develop in a better way in future, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan adds.

‘Brazenly aided illegalities’ — how SC panel indicted ex-Uttarakhand minister in Corbett safari case

SC indicted ex-Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Singh Rawat & a DFO for diverting forest land for non-forest use, felling over 6,000 trees in buffer zone of Corbett National Park.

Manish Khanduri joins BJP, day after resigning from Congress

Khanduri and veteran BJP leader Retd Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri joined the BJP in presence of CM Pushkar Singh Dhami at the BJP Mahanagar office in the state capital.

SC slams Uttarakhand ex-minister, DFO’s ‘audacity’ in flouting laws to aid Corbett tiger safari project

Classic case showing how politicians & bureaucrats have thrown public trust doctrine in dustbin, top court adds.

‘Mastermind’ behind Haldwani violence, Abdul Malik arrested in Delhi, son absconding

Malik & his wife face charges of criminal conspiracy, fraudulently using a deceased person’s name for illegal land plotting, construction, and transfer in Nainital.

‘Onus on citizens to help identify those who threw stones,’ DM tells Haldwani’s Muslim & Hindu leaders

Haldwani Municipal Corporation has issued recovery notice of Rs 2.44 cr to key accused. At meeting with communities' representatives, DM says locals were heard from before demolition.

Uttarakhand’s UCC rath—How Dhami govt beat Assam, Gujarat, UP to land the first punch

Unlike UP, the rising saffron tide in Uttarakhand has gone under the radar. So it's only fitting that Uttarakhand became the first state to pass the UCC Bill and fulfill a BJP poll promise that was the next logical step in the Sangh Parivar agenda after Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

Tale of ‘revenge’ to errand that ended in death — anger, remorse among families of Haldwani victims

Clashes which followed demolition of 'illegal' mosque in Uttarakhand's Haldwani claimed 5 lives. The deceased's families narrate stories of frantic searches & vengeful neighbours.

Among Haldwani violence victims, a 24-yr-old from Bihar in search of 1st job — ‘family left shattered’

A graduate from Arrah, Prakash Kumar was, according to his brother-in-law, shot thrice in the head amid violence that followed demolition drive at a mosque-cum-madrasa site on 8 February.

Subhash Barala, RPN Singh, Sudhanshu Trivedi make BJP’s list of candidates for Rajya Sabha polls

58 Rajya Sabha members from five states including 8 central ministers, ex-PM Manmohan Singh, and BJP president JP Nadda, are set to retire by May this year.

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A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.