Dehradun Oct 21 PTI Five members of a family were killed early on Thursday when their car fell into a gorge in the district police said The car fell into a 400-metre-deep gorge on the way to Banpur village at around 840 am killing all the occupants on the spot Tuni Police Station SHO Sandeep Panwar said The family was going to see the orchards it owned in Banpur village he said The deceased were identified as Sanjay 49 his wife Babli 44 their son Nikhil 13 Sanjays cousin Jagdish 34 and his brother-in-law Amit 23 he said PTI ALM AAR AAR
Dehradun Sep 27 PTI Purola MLA Rajkumar who recently quit the Congress to join the BJP on Monday resigned from the membership of the Uttarakhand Assembly The Congress was demanding his disqualification as a member of the House under the anti-defection law Announcing Rajkumars resignation Speaker Premchand Aggarwal said now that the MLA has resigned voluntarily the question of his disqualification under the anti-defection law does not arise Rajkumar had won the Purola seat on a Congress ticket in 2017 but joined the BJP in the presence of senior party leaders in Delhi earlier this month PTI ALM AAR AAR
Dehradun Sep 20 PTI Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday flagged off five financial literacy vans equipped with ATMs for remote hill areas of the state Belonging to the Uttarakhand Gramin Bank the mobile ATM vans which have been sanctioned by NABARD will move in remote hill areas and educate locals about the latest banking technologies like digital payments Besides helping people in monetary transactions through ATMs they will also help spread financial literacy among the locals Dhami said describing it as a significant step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modis financial inclusion initiative and Digital India Mission The chief minister asked Uttarakhand Gramin Bank officials to set up camps in all districts and distribute loans among the maximum number of people under state governments different self-employment schemes Dhami also released Uttarakhand Gramin Banks ninth annual report on the occasion PTI ALM AAR AAR
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