chamoli district

The Badrinath temple in Uttarakhand's Garhwal Himalayas reopened its doors to devotees on Thursday morning after a six-month winter closure. Gates opened at 6:15 am with Vedic rituals, drawing pilgrims from India and abroad. Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and BJP state president Mahendra Bhatt attended the ceremony.

Uttarakhand government school teachers are requesting alternative arrangements for census and BLO duties, citing severe disruption to classroom instruction. Their year-long deployment risks prolonged teaching gaps, especially in single-teacher schools, impacting learning recovery efforts. Teachers urge the department to implement interim measures to ensure continuous student supervision and instruction.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Uttarakhand on April 14 will see the inauguration of the Dehradun-Delhi Expressway. He will first offer prayers at the Dat Kali Temple. The 210-km expressway promises enhanced connectivity. Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami highlighted preparations for the upcoming Char Dham Yatra and praised the Women's Reservation Bill.

Despite warmer weather in North India, Uttarakhand's high Himalayas are experiencing intense winter conditions with heavy snowfall in chamoli district, blanketing Badrinath and surrounding peaks. This severe cold has returned to the region, impacting Badrinath and lower areas. Preparations are underway for the Kedarnath temple's reopening on April 22, 2026, following a recent heavy snowfall event there.

Information was received about a part of a glacier collapsing beyond the Sumna Chawki near Malari in the Niti valley, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) officials, who were on their way to the spot, said.

At least two houses were washed away and three severely damaged after flash floods triggered by incessant rainfall hit chamoli district of Uttarakhand, in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Five people were killed and seven others were injured as a jeep fell into a gorge in chamoli district on Thursday afternoon

An earthquake of 3.2 magnitude rocked chamoli district of Uttarakhand today, the met office said.

Five persons were killed and seven others injured as a jeep fell into a gorge in chamoli district on Thursday afternoon. After the initial treatment at the Primary Health Centre of Pokhari, the injured have been referred to Karnprayag Community Health Centre.

Two persons were killed after the car they were travelling in fell into a 400-metre-deep gorge near Talsari on Narayanbagar-Silodi road in Narayanbagar block of chamoli district on Wednesday afternoon.

Four teenage boys drowned in a tributary of the Pindar river in Dewal area of Uttarakhand's chamoli district, a senior police official said on Saturday.

A woman died, and three were seriously injured in a chamoli district accident. Five family members from Kaswa, returning from a Roorkee wedding, were in the car. The SDRF, with police, rescued them from a 150-metre-deep ditch. The incident near Adi Badri on July 6 at 8:15 pm also resulted in one minor injury.

The rescue operations continued at Tapovan tunnel in chamoli district on the sixth day following the glacier burst, informed the state government on Friday. Around 30 people are feared trapped inside the tunnel. As many as 36 bodies have been recovered from different areas hit by the glacier burst in chamoli district, while 204 people are still missing.

In yet another major mishap on hill roads, a jeep fell into a deep gorge on the Chamoli-Laasi road killing eight including school teachers on Thursday afternoon. Besides, the condition of five others seated in the jeep was said to be critical and they have been brought to Dehradun for treatment.

An irrigation department executive engineer was arrested in chamoli district on Saturday by vigilance sleuths for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 to release a contractor’s payment amount. The contractor was earlier paid Rs 1.98 lakh for a project, and was supposed to get the pending amount of Rs 65,000

The structure of an under-construction bailey bridge, being built for transporting machinery and material as part of the Badrinath master plan, collapsed near the shrine town in chamoli district on Wednesday.

A moderate earthquake shook parts of Uttarakhand's chamoli district in the wee hours on Thursday jolting people out of their sleep.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted Uttarakhand on Saturday morning.

Chief minister Harish Rawat visited devastated pockets of Chamoli distrcit on Saturday, six days after floods and cloudbursts ravaged the region. He met with the flood victims of Tharali, Kulsari and Karanprayag and assured them compensation.