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2 days, 13 hours ago

Dehradun Diary: Tawaghat-Lipulekh highway blocked due to landslide

Tawaghat-Lipulekh highway blocked Dozens of vehicles became stranded on both sides of the Tawaghat-Lipulekh border area in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand after a sudden landslide blocked the highway on Saturday. Bhupendra Singh Mehar, the District Disaster Management Officer of Pithoragarh, stated, “The road leading from Pithoragarh to Dawa Ghat is blocked due to heavy debris near Romti Nala, but it is expected …

Pithoragarh

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pithoragarh linked by air to Delhi, first commercial flight lands at Naini Saini airport

The Hindu

The border district of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand was linked by air to Delhi on Thursday with the first commercial flight from the national capital landing at the Naini Saini airport here at 11 a.m. "The 42-seater Alliance Air aircraft will run three days a week from Delhi's IGI Airport to Pithoragarh. Today was the inaugural flight," Naini Saini airport manager …

Pithoragarh Naini Saini Delhi Saini Saini Airport Naini Saini Airport Flight Lands

1 year, 6 months ago

Uttarakhand's Naini Saini airport near China border to resume operations after regulator nod

India Today

Uttarakhand’s Naini Saini airport, which shut down within a year of beginning operations in 2019, will become functional once again. Confirming the news, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami tweeted, “I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for issuing an aerodrome license to Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority for Naini Saini Airport, Pithoragarh.” “I am …

India Airport Uttarakhand Saini Pithoragarh Dehradun Saini Airport

2 years, 3 months ago

Woman's Body Pulled Out of Sludge-filled Home as Cloudburst Triggers Flash Flood in Uttarakhand Village

News 18

A cloudburst in a border village of Nepal triggered a flash flood in Khotila village on the Indian side as waters of the swelling Kali river rushed into homes, filling them with sludge and killing a woman. The body of Pashupati Devi, a resident of Khotila village, was later pulled out of the sludge that had choked her house after …

Nepal Village Dharchula Khotila Village

2 years, 3 months ago

Uttarakhand: Cloudburst wreaks havoc in Pithoragarh; houses affected in flash floods

India TV News

Uttarakhand : As many as 28 houses were affected while a woman went missing after a cloudburst triggered a flash flood in the Kali river on Saturday. The cloudburst took place at a village close to the India-Nepal border thus causing a flash flood in the river Kali river. As many as 28 houses in Khotila, a village on the …

India Nepal Uttarakhand Kali Pithoragarh

3 years, 1 month ago

Pilgrims Will Soon Be Going to Kailash-Mansarovar by Car: Union Minister

News 18

Pilgrims will soon be able to visit Kailash-Mansarovar by car as Rs 60 crore has been sanctioned by the Centre to upgrade the border road from Ghatiabagar to Lipulekh into a metalled one, Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said. Making the announcement at the concluding ceremony of a religious festival at the high-altitude Gunji village in Pithoragarh …

Border Road Union Minister

3 years, 2 months ago

Uttarakhand: Influx of migrant Muslim population raises concerns, demographic shift evident in several districts

Op India

The demographic imbalance in Uttarakhand has become a cause of concern for the government and the administration of the state. Security agencies are concerned over the fact that there has been an unprecedented increase in the Muslim population in specific areas of the state bordering Nepal, which is seen as problematic. Seeing a specific conspiracy behind the sudden surge in …

Security Pakistan Uttar Pradesh Border Uttarakhand Muslims State

3 years, 4 months ago

Illegal crossing of Indo-Nepal border in Pithoragarh has forces worried

Hindustan Times

The recent drowning of a 33-year-old Nepalese national at Indo-Nepal border near Uttarakhand’s Dharchula town in Pithoragarh district has brought the focus back on Nepalese citizens illegally crossing the border to enter India. The SSB personnel deployed in the area also said that they often intercept such illegal border crossing mechanisms at the border in Dharchula and have often raised …

Border Indian Crossing Citizens River Illegal Wire

4 years, 1 month ago

With borders sealed, Uttarakhand man waits 8 months to marry Nepalese woman