The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday announced candidates for 59 of the 70 Uttarakhand Assembly seats, which included Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami from the Khatima constituency. The list included six women candidates, including former Congress MLA Sarita Arya who joined the BJP this week from Nainital. The party dropped 10 of its sitting MLAs, including Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, the …
The lockdown had a good effect on the environment but the increased use of masks, gloves, sanitiser bottles to fight the pandemic has given rise to new concerns, said Anoop Nautiyal. Dehradun: Single-use plastic has made a big comeback in the country with COVID-19 dealing a fatal blow to the campaign launched under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inspiration to discard …
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