With the improvement in weather conditions, the Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand saw a surge in pilgrims, with 20,947 arriving on September 3...

Ahead of the opening of one of the country's holiest pilgrimage sites, the abode of Lord Shiva was decorated with 20 quintals of flowers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a holistic approach to developing tourism in the country and emphasised that this should involv...

Kedarnath valley residents, who lost their houses in Uttarakhand June calamity, have threatened to boycott the 2014 general elections.

B C Khanduri said hundreds of precious lives could have been saved if the authorities had responded to the situation in time.

ASI and GSI experts have also been roped in to provide technical advice to the EIPL team in the rubble clearing operations to prevent furth...

Nearly 8,000 quintals of food material were carried to Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh districts by choppers and mules.

Patkar also asked the Centre to prepare a policy to give economic security to people whose livelihood was linked to tourism and the chardha...

The state Disaster Management and Mitigation Department will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss how choppers capable of flying ...

Fresh showers in Uttarkashi district have swelled the Bhagirathi river once again prompting the administration to evacuate people living on...

Inclement weather badly also affected distribution of relief in over 200 segregated villages where people have lost their homes.

23 more bodies were cremated at Gaurikund and Junglechatti last night, DIG Amit Sinha under whose supervision the exercise is being underta...

Rescue operations to evacuate stranded pilgrims today came to an end in disaster-hit Uttarakhand with a group of 150 being safely taken out.

Rescue of pilgrims stranded in Badrinath came to an end today with about 150 of them being safely evacuated.

Despite bad chopper operations began to evacuate pilgrims and locals from Badrinath shrine from where they will be brought further down by ...

The rescue operations are coming close to a wind up and the focus is now on around 1,400 pilgrims reported to be stranded in Badrinath.

She said Shinde has assured all help. "Thousands of people have died and there is no rescue operation," Swaraj said.