Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Your heart is one of the most important organs, which helps pump life-sustaining blood through your body and constantly sends oxygen to your cells, taking away waste, among other vital functions. Therefore, it is essential to educate oneself about the measures that indicate the health of our heart. On December 21,…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau The new definition of what constitutes the Aravalli hills has triggered protests from Haryana’s Gurugram to Rajasthan’s Udaipur, with environmental activists fearing that the changed definition could prove detrimental to the ecological balance of one of the country’s oldest mountain ranges. According to the new definition, “Aravalli Hill is any landform…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Security forces in Manipur on Thursday recovered 16 abandoned improvised explosive devices (IED) at Lungdeiphai Leinom village junction, Kangvai area in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, officials confirmed on Friday. The explosives were recovered during a search operation in and around Lungdeiphai Leinom village junction, Kangvai area, Churchandpur”, officials said. The IEDs…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Three suspects, wanted for recently opening fire inside a grocery shop after a failed extortion bid on Fatehgarh Churian Road, were arrested, police said on Wednesday. Later, during a weapon recovery operation, one of the accused snatched a cop’s firearm, triggering an encounter following which he sustained a bullet injury in…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau DEHRADUN: Nineteen years ago, during Indian Military Academy’s passing out parade, then- President APJ Abdul Kalam bent down and held the hands of a bright-eyed three-year-old boy standing beside his father. Ye fauji ka haath hai (These are the hands of a soldier),” he told the child. On Saturday, those words…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau With a sharp drop in air quality in the national capital this morning, and the onset of winter reducing early morning visibility in several parts of India, the Delhi airport and the SpiceJet airlines issued separate advisories for passengers. The Delhi airport informed passengers about low visibility procedures in progress at…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Former home minister and Congress leader Shivraj Patil died aged 90 at his residence in Maharashtra’s Latur on Friday morning. He was keeping unwell for the past few days and breathed his last at his residence ‘Devghar’, his family sources told news agency PTI. Patil’s funeral is expected to be held…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Authorities in California have taken into custody Berri Vikram, a Silicon Valley resident and founder of India-based mental health startup BetterLYF Wellness, after a chaotic series of events at a Saratoga winery ended with a car crash and his arrest. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said the incident unfolded on…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau At least 21 labourers were killed while one person miraculously survived after a truck carrying them skidded off a narrow mountain road and fell nearly 700 metres into a gorge near Metengliang in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district, officials said on Thursday. Anjaw superintendent of police (SP) Anurag Dwivedi said the group…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau The girl’s family members and locals also clashed with the police and put up a blockade on a key road in Bagda area, disrupting traffic movement. Tension prevailed at a high school in Bangaon in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, after a large group of people vandalised the…