In a bid to maintain cleanliness, the Uttarakhand Government has implemented a new rules mandating that all vehicles entering the state must be equipped with garbage bags or dustbins. This measure ...

Dharchula is a picturesque town located in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, India. Situated on the border between India and Nepal, it offers stunning views of the Himalayas and is known ...

The Uttarakhand disaster, which is believed to have originated from a landslide, contradicting the earlier report of a glacier burst, killed 39 people with attempts to find and rescue 169 missing ...

Home News: Cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods are an annual affair in Uttarakhand. The monsoon of 2010 brought with it such massive losses of lives, proper ...

The Rajpur Nature Festival hosts activities like nature and heritage walks, drawing contests, handicrafts and food-stalls. Rajpur: A two-day nature festival opened its gates in Uttarakhand's ...

In the year 2020, Asan barrage also known as Asan Conservation Reserve was declared to be the first Ramsar site from Uttarakhand state, India. Ramsar is a city in Iran where the first World ...

Uttarakhand is home to around 500 species of butterflies. The gallery displays 105 butterfly species from five different families- Papilionidae, Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, and Pieridae.

FPJ Editorial: Uttarakhand Tunnel Tragedy Prompts Call For Nature-Based Planning If this review, done thoroughly and honestly, leads to the conclusion that there is hardly an alternative to nature ...

The land subsidence in Uttarakhand's Joshimath was caused by human activities and nature, said Dr Satyendra Mittal, professor of Civil Engineering Department, Roorkee IIT on Thursday.

Uttarakhand high court declared Gangotri and Yamunotri as living entities. Friday, Jun 20, ... which also granted similar status to virtually every creation of nature in the Himalayan state. ...