Lalmani Verma

Uttarakhand's Principal Secretary (Forests) Anand Bardhan said proposals regarding land transfer for these roads will be sent to the National Wildlife Board next.

Chief Minister Rawat said Gairsain (or Bhararisain) would be developed as a hill capital, with the work plan being drafted in consultation with planners and experts.

Now, with the announcement of Gairsain as the summer capital, there is a lack of clarity on the status of Dehradun.

All hotels/ B&B/ Homestay & hospitality services shall be allowed to resume in areas, barring the containment zones and municipal area of Dehradun till further orders, the notification read.

Satpal Maharaj tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, a day after his wife tested positive.

Sources said the chief minister’s office in the Secretariat has been sanitised and sealed.

An Uttarakhand Transport Corporation official told The Indian Express that 100 buses were sent to Delhi on May 25, and the people who registered to return were given information in advance.

Trivendra Singh Rawat said, "A huge number of people from Uttarakhand live in other states. Many of them want to come back amid the pandemic. More than 2.5 lakh people have registered so far."

Goraji said she gets free food and medicines, and doctors inquire about her health, but she does not know why she is not allowed to go out.

With the return of migrants in Shramik trains, the doubling rate of cases has reduced to four days from 40 days on May 5.

Officials say that as per their records, not one of the more than two lakh residents of the state who have registered to come back have opted for its 1,700-odd “nirjan” villages, areas without road connectivity or opportunities, which now house just one-two families.

Fifteen new cases were detected on Tuesday, and officials said that all of them have history of travel outside the state. Seven cases were reported from Nainital, three from Udham Singh Nagar, two each from Pauri Garhwal and Bageshwar and one from Chamoli.

Prayers are being held inside the shrine daily since May 15 but there is no chanting by pilgrims outside, similar to the situation at Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri — the other shrines of the Char Dham — where pilgrimage has been prohibited, and markets and guest houses shut in view of the lockdown.

Fifteen new cases were detected on Tuesday, and officials said that all of them have history of travel outside the state.

College deputy registrar Dinesh Agarwal said that the girl was contacted on Saturday and she had denied the allegations and she also claimed that the ID shown in the post did not belong to her, but her photograph has been used.

But the growth of 25000 bulbs from various varieties of Tulip in an area of 1000-square metre area with larger survival period has given hopes to the state government that has planned to expand the Tulip garden to an area of 50-hectare.

Officials hope the app will substantially help in monitoring the large influx of migrants when the Uttarakhand government brings people from other states via trains.

According to Uttarakhand Cabinet minister and government spokesperson Madan Kaushik, there are around 600 people from West Bengal stranded in Haridwar.

Ashes of 26 other deceased people are also kept in the ‘asthi kaksh’ at the crematorium.

The initiative by the forest department has begun on a pilot basis in Rudraprayag district.

The report also looks at the problem of outmigration by suggesting to create self-employment opportunities for migrant workers and fill infrastructure gaps through schemes.

In Dehradun alone, more than 2,000 accounts of migrants labourers had been opened in the last one week, according to Ansuya Prasad, Senior Superintendent of Post Offices.

Aman Mani Tripathi, the MLA from Nautanwa in Maharajganj district, had sought permission for travelling to Badrinath and later to Kedarnath to attend the post-death rituals of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s father Anand Singh Bisht, who had died last month.

Lance Naik Dinesh Singh, also among those killed, was the son of a retired Army Subedar. The family hoped to get him married this year.