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…
Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau As Elon Musk and Donald Trump traded barbs publicly on Thursday, the Tesla CEO alleged the files pertaining to the Epstein case were never made public since Trump’s name was there. However, Musk has now deleted the post claiming the same. As billionaire Elon Musk and US president Donald Trump traded…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. In a quiet compound in Cambodia, rats scurry across a field – not in search of food, but of danger. These are no ordinary rodents. Known as African Giant Pouched Rats or more affectionately as “HeroRATs”, they are trained to detect hidden landmines and explosives with stunning precision. Cambodia’s military has…