Silt chokes US Nagar reservoirs, threatening irrigation and flood control

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau Decades of neglect have left three major reservoirs in Udham Singh Nagar district—Haripura, Baur, and Tumaria—choked with silt, drastically reducing their water storage capacities and jeopardizing both irrigation and flood management in the region. Constructed between 1967 and 1975, these reservoirs were designed to support agriculture across Uttarakhand and parts of…

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Shriya Pilgaonkar opens up on playing cop in Chhal Kapat: ‘Society views female cops differently due to sexist biases’

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau She has played everything from a girl next door to an ambitious lawyer, but Chhal Kapat sees Shriya Pilgaonkar don the police uniform for the first time. The new murder mystery series on Zee5 has Shriya as a police officer investigating a murder in a small town. Ahead of the show’s…

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Mahua Moitra marries ex- BJD MP Pinaki Misra: Who is firebrand TMC leader’s husband?

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Born in 1959 in Odisha, Pinaki Misra is a well-known politician who has been an MP four times. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Puri in Odisha for the first time in 1996 when he defeated the then-Union Minister Braja Kishore Tripathy. It’s official now. Trinamool Congress Member of…

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Meghalaya: Machete, smashed mobile clues to murder of Indore tourist, missing wife

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Multiple agencies on Wednesday continued to comb a rugged and forested terrain in Meghlaya in search of a missing tourist from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, even as they recovered a smashed mobile phone and a machete from a gorge, where her newly-wed husband’s body was found near the Weisawdong Falls on Monday….

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Businessman mauled to death by lioness while camping with wife during safari trip

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. A lioness fatally attacked Bernd Kebbel, a prominent 59-year-old German businessman and philanthropist, during a safari trip in Namibia on the morning of Friday, May 30, while he was camping near the Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp in the Sesfontein area, according to media reports. At the time of the attack, Kebbel…

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Remaining S-400 defence system coming on time, says Russian envoy as he cites India-Pakistan conflict

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Russian deputy ambassador to New Delhi Roman Babushkin on Monday said India will receive the remaining regiments of the S-400 strategic air defence missile system by 2026, as scheduled. The S-400 missile system performed well in India’s Operation Sindoor against Pakistan, intercepting Pakistani drones and missiles. There have been talks of…

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Sheikh Hasina formally charged with ‘crimes against humanity’ in Bangladesh as key trial begins

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Bangladeshi prosecutors at the International Crimes Tribunal have formally charged former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of crimes against humanity during the mass uprising in the country last year, local media reported. According to the Dhaka Tribune, besides Sheikh Hasina, the country’s former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and ex-IGP Chowdhury Mamun…

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Colombia U-turns on deaths in Pakistan after Shashi Tharoor’s ‘disappointment’

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Shashi Tharoor of the Congress on Friday (local time) said Colombia has reversed its earlier stance on the India-Pakistan conflict – a position that had earlier drawn criticism for expressing condolences for “Pakistanis” following Indian airstrikes. Shashi Tharoor, who is leading an all-party delegation to different nations to expose Pakistan over…

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