Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau The union environment ministry has notified Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026 for processing of waste by bulk waste generators under extended bulk waste generator responsibility (EBWGR), both expanding the definition of bulk waste generators and introducing the polluter-pays concept for the first time. Bulk waste generators include entities with a…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Pantnagar. The two-day 66th Research Advisory Committee meeting was organized by the Directorate of Research of the University at the College of Technology under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Manmohan Singh Chauhan. The objective of the meeting was to review the research work being carried out by scientists under various…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau SURAT: Fed up with her husband’s allegedsexually violent behaviour, which police said intensified after he consumed sex- enhancement pills, a 39-year-old woman allegedly poisoned and later suffocated him to death. The crime surfaced days later after a dispute over the victim’s last rites raised suspicion in the family, prompting police to order a…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau NEW DELHI: Amidst the dramatic downturn in their relations with the Donald Trump-led US, India and the EU announced successful conclusion of the FTA negotiations and signed another deal to formalise their security and defence partnership at the India-EU summit that, PM Narendra Modi said, history will remember as a tide-turning…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Texas governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered state agencies and public universities to halt new H-1B visa hiring. This marks a major setback for foreign professionals seeking to work in US, especially in the Red state. In a letter sent to agency heads, Abbott directed all state bodies to immediately freeze new H-1B…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Reaffirming his government’s resolve to protect Punjab’s interests, chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Monday hit out at the Union government for its “step-motherly” treatment and alleged that conspiracies were being hatched to snatch the state’s rightful claims. Addressing a function on the 77th Republic Day, Mann said Punjab continues to…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) marked National Voters’ Day on Sunday by holding rallies against the rules of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, as chief minister Mamata Banerjee attacked the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on social media. Election…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau MUMBAI: The death of a student by suicide at IIT-Kanpur on Tuesday again swivelled the spotlight on a mental health crisis on the campuses of India’s premier technical institutions: over a dozen young lives lost every year on average over the past five year At least 65 students have taken their own lives…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau AHMEDABAD: What survives a tragedy is often ordinary, yet unbearably heavy. Seven months after the ill-fated Air India 171 flight crashed in Ahmedabad, families continue to confront their loss through personal belongings salvaged from the wreckage and catalogued by the airline A prayer book, a child’s toy aeroplane, a single gold earring,…