dehra dun

dehra dun: Sher Singh Rana, who had come to dehra dun to surrender after killing Phoolan Devi in July 2001, is now being searched by the Uttaranchal police at likely hideouts after he fled from Tihar Jail on Tuesday.

The fusion of different creative art forms during the ongoing Rishikesh Art and Film Festival have revived memories of the time spent by the Beatles at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ashram, now popularly known as the Beatles Ashram (one of the venues of the festival) in the spring of 1968 when they composed a number of songs which eventually made it to their popular ‘White Album’.

At least six persons, including three women, were killed and 40 others injured when a truck overturned on a bus packed with Maha Kumbh pilgrims on the Delhi-dehra dun national highway here early today.

dehra dun on Thursday broke the 39-year-old record when it registered 40.8 degrees Celsius in the month of April.

Forty mayors from 32 countries will participate in an Asian Mayors' Conference to be organised by the All India Council of Mayors from November 26.

In a gruesome incident, a software engineer allegedly killed his wife, cut the body into pieces and hid it in a deep freezer for nearly two months, police said on Sunday.

The first South Asian Winter Games, scheduled to be held in Auli and Dehradun early next year, will have two inaugural and closing ceremonies.

Five months after MBA student Ranbir Singh was killed in an alleged fake encounter in dehra dun, CBI has chargesheeted 18 police personnel, including seven for murder, in the case that rocked Uttarakhand.

dehra dun: Three former members of the Chhota Rajan gang were arrested by the Uttaranchal police for gunning down renowned trade union leader in Mumbai.

dehra dun: Health authorities have administered antibiotics, including tetracycline, to more than 600 people in villages of Chakrata Block in dehra dun district of Uttaranchal following a plague scare there, a top official said here on Sunday.

dehra dun: Uttaranchal police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two alleged assassins of renowned trade union leader Datta Samant.

NEW DELHI: Anguished at the massive depletion of forests in the picturesque dehra dun and Mussoorie, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to set up a committee to monitor the steps taken by the Uttaranchal government for protecting the environment.

Eight police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were suspended for allegedly beating up BJP MLA Rajkumar on Sunday night.

dehra dun: The road connecting Uttaranchal's capital with Mussoorie, which was closed for traffic since Sunday due to heavy landslides, has been reopened.

NAINITAL/dehra dun: With the death of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Aery) (UKD-A) leader Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi, the party has decided to intensify its agitation for shifting the capital of Uttaranchal from dehra dun to Gairsain. Baba passed away after fasting for 38 days on Monday.

dehra dun: In the first Lok Sabha election in the hill state of Uttaranchal, after it was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in November 2000, 45 per cent polling was reported.

Harbans Kapoor, six times BJP MLA, was on Monday formally elected new Speaker of the Uttarakhand Assembly.

dehra dun: The nine-day-old agitation by the Hardwar Bachao Sangharsh Samiti demanding separation of Hardwar from Uttaranchal has been called off, convener of the samiti has said.

dehra dun/NEW DELHI: Fearing crackdown following annexation of all powers by Nepal monarch Gyanendra, a number of senior political leaders and activists have slipped into Uttaranchal, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

It was the coldest day of this winter as minimum temperature in the state capital came down to 4.8 degrees Celsius.

Fulfiling a long-standing demand, the state government has decided to allow construction of highrise buildings in dehra dun.

dehra dun: Electioneering is warming up in Uttaranchal with several national leaders addressing public meetings, press conferences and hurling charges at each other.

In a development that could put the CBI on backfoot, three key witnesses have turned hostile in the Madhumita Shukla murder case.

Forest officials said the death of wild animals was caused apparently due to incessant rains lashing the area for the past two days.

The Goa state board for wildlife, which is headed by chief minister Digambar Kamat, has been reconstituted for a three-year term.

A woman and her minor son were killed after being run over by a car near Chief Minister's residence.

The group of four investigators released 'evidence' that might indicate Bose breathed his last at the ashram in 1977.

B C Khanduri will be the new chief minister of Uttarakhand.

Sent by grandfather to undergo military training, the prince pays to be allowed to serve in Indian Army.

Nostalgia overcame Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday as he visited his alma mater Doon school in Dehradun.