In Dharchula town of district Pithoragarh of Uttarakhand, the local traders’ association has asked 86 traders of the Muslim community to leave the town. The association cancelled their licenses after the police arrested a barber of the Muslim community for allegedly abducting two Hindu minor girls and taking them to his UP hometown, Bareilly, in February this year. On 8th …
Fear and uncertainty has gripped shopkeepers in an Uttarakhand town after a traders’ union cancelled registrations of 91 shopkeepers – most of them from the Muslim community – belonging from other states and telling them to close their shops and leave. The traders’ union cancelled registrations of 91 shopkeepers Tensions rose in Dharchula town of Pithoragarh district in February a …
A campaign led by a traders body in Dharchula town of Uttarakhand wherein locals are being asked not to give shops and houses on rent to “outsiders”, especially to Muslims, who they claim are settling in the town for the last few years, is flaring up tension in the area. Meeting with landlords “Our organisation is now meeting all the …
Villagers from Nepal have again pelted stones on the Indian side at the Indo-Nepal border in the Dharchula area of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, officials said on Wednesday. The Indian side is constructing a 985-metre embankment on Kali river on the Indian side, to protect Dharchula town from monsoon floods. “The Nepalese citizens should come forward to stop such elements who …
After Nepal’s parliament endorsed the political map that shows the disputed areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as part of its territory earlier this month, some Nepalese FM radio stations close to India-Nepal border in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh have started giving weather bulletins of these three areas. Locals living in the bordering areas, especially in Dharchula, said that Nepalese FM channels …