Articles by Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand plans to introduce caravans in major spots to boost tourism
The Uttarakhand government also plans to encourage homestay facilities around known tourist spots to attract trekkers and hikers.

Published on Dec 18, 2018 03:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand govt rejects ‘Kedarnath’ director’s request to lift ban
“The story of the film ‘Kedarnath’ is communally provocative and may create tension between communities. We are now initiating steps to have the title of the film changed as the name of the revered shrine can’t be allowed to be misused.”

Updated on Dec 10, 2018 08:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Opposition creates ruckus in the Uttarakhand assembly on Lokayukta issue
Uttarakhand assembly winter session: The opposition Congress demanded that the BJP government appoint the Lokayukta within the next 30 days.

Updated on Dec 07, 2018 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Supplementary budget of Rs2,452 crore tabled in Uttarakhand Assembly
In an attempt to appease the salaried class and farmers ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Uttarakhand government has allocated a major portion of the budget for revenue expenditure and agriculture sector.

Published on Dec 05, 2018 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
‘Would’ve brought down Congress government if not for ND Tiwari’: Harak Singh Rawat
Paying tributes to former chief minister ND Tiwari during the first day of Uttarakhand assembly’s winter session, the former Congress heavyweight Harak Singh Rawat admitted that he was upset with him (Tiwari) because he didn’t induct him into his cabinet in 2005.

Updated on Dec 05, 2018 03:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand assembly’s winter session likely to be stormy
The winter session of Uttarakhand assembly begins on December 4. The Congress is preparing to corner the BJP government in the state on its ‘failure to resolve all pressing issues’ such as development, law and order and the state’s pemanent capital.

Updated on Dec 03, 2018 03:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand’s new tourism policy aims to facilitate reverse migration
An Uttarakhand Toursim Development Board official said the state government has an elaborate road map ready to achieve the objective of reversing migration from the hill state.

Published on Nov 30, 2018 03:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Uttarakhand CM Rawat launches India’s first hi-tech State Data Centre
The hi-tech State Data Centre has been set up on the premises of the Information Technology Development Agency (ITDA) in Dehradun’s sprawling IT Park area. Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said the state-of-the-art SDC was an online web space with a capacity for storage of the data relating to all departments.

Published on Nov 27, 2018 03:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand CM launches BJP's campaign for November 18 civic body polls
Over the next four days, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Sinhg Rawat is slated to address about two dozen public meetings besides leading BJP workers and supporters at various roadshows ahead of the November 18 urban local body polls in the state.

Updated on Nov 12, 2018 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
18 years since formation, hill-centric development remains a dream for Uttarakhand
The very purpose of carving a separate hill state - Uttarakhand - from the plains of Uttar Pradesh stands defeated and the reasons for it are many, say analysts.

Updated on Nov 09, 2018 03:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
‘Will ensure you a good life’: PM Narendra Modi celebrates Diwali with army, ITBP
India is continuously strengthening its defence weaponry but is equally mindful of the welfare of its defence personnel, PM Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he celebrated Diwali with army and ITBP personnel at a border outpost in Uttarakhand close to the China border.

Updated on Nov 08, 2018 09:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
PM Modi in Kedarnath to offer prayers today, will celebrate Diwali with jawans in Punjab
PM Modi will take a round of the Kedarnath shrine to review the Kedarpuri reconstruction project.

Updated on Nov 07, 2018 09:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
PM Modi to visit Kedarnath on Diwali to review progress of reconstruction project
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of Kedarnath reconstruction project in October 2017, four years after the temple town in Uttarakhand was ravaged by flash floods.

Updated on Nov 05, 2018 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Kedarnath: Priests in the shrine town threaten to hold protests if Sushant Singh Rajput starrer is not banned
Sara Ali Khan, Sushant Singh Rajput starrer Kedarnath has evoked strong reaction from the priests of the temple town, who have demanded a ban on the film, saying it promotes ‘love jihad’.

Updated on Nov 14, 2018 01:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
ND Tiwari, the veteran politician with a knack for befriending rivals
ND Tiwari was the only Indian politician to serve as chief minister of two states.

Updated on Oct 18, 2018 06:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
India set to be among world’s top three economies by 2030, says Rajnath Singh at Uttarakhand Investors Summit
Union home minister Rajnath Singh said that as a result of the economic policies pursued by the BJP government at the Centre, India has emerged as the world’s sixth largest economy and “will jump to the fifth position very soon”. He said this at the concluding session of the two-day Uttarakhand Investors Summit on Monday.

Published on Oct 09, 2018 03:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
India is becoming engine of global growth, says PM Modi at Uttarakhand’s first investors summit
Highlighting rapid growth in the infrastructure sector, the Prime Minister said 10,000 km highways have been built, which is double in comparison with what was done by earlier governments.

Updated on Oct 08, 2018 03:12 PM IST
Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand cabinet nod to new electric vehicle manufacturing policy to combat pollution
Under the electric vehicle manufacturing and battery charging infrastructure promotion policy, a number of exemptions and incentives would be provided to entrepreneurs to set up electric manufacturing units.

Published on Sep 28, 2018 12:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Tourism sector in Uttarakhand to get industry status
In an effort to boost tourism, the Uttarakhand cabinet on Thursday gave nod to a policy that accords industry status to the sector, besides listing a series of benefits and exemptions for some 28 related commercial activities.

Published on Sep 28, 2018 12:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Will study Act before taking call on Lokayukta appointment: Pant
The statement was made on the last day of the assembly session amid Congress members shouting slogans in the well of the House in favour of their demand

Published on Sep 25, 2018 06:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
CAG report reveals gaps in water plan execution
Passes strictures against govt for financial mismanagement

Published on Sep 22, 2018 11:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Uttarakhand assembly’s monsoon session from Tuesday
The Congress said that the state government’s failure to check the deteriorating law and order situation would also be prominently raised in the House.

Updated on Sep 18, 2018 02:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Destroyed in 2013 floods, Kedarpuri revamp on course, work may be over by October end
Work is in full swing with BJP insiders claiming that the official machinery is under pressure from the Centre to complete the project before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Updated on Sep 17, 2018 05:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Kedarnath | Deep Joshi, Kedarnath
Uttarakhand may lease out empty land to foreign investors to boost farm production
Plans are on to lease out abandoned land in Uttarakhand to foreign investors to grow crops, which would boost hill farmers’ income and check forced migration.

Published on Sep 15, 2018 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Former PM Vajpayee to be spirit of Uttarakhand BJP’s 2019 campaign
The Uttarakhand BJP will initiate the campaign with ‘Kavyanjali’ on September 16 — a poetic tribute to former PM Vajpayee. This will be followed by ‘Karyanjali’, a nine-day plan under which medical camps would be organised from September 17 — PM Modi’s birthday.

Published on Sep 14, 2018 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Two IAS officers suspended in Uttarakhand in NH-74 scam
Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat suspended IAS officers Pankaj Kumar Pandey and Chandresh Yadav on the basis of a report the Special Investigation Team recently submitted to the government.

Published on Sep 12, 2018 01:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Lok Sabha polls a challenge for Congress, warns former CM Harish Rawat
The Congress heavyweight, however, denied allegations that he had weakened the party organisationally by promoting his supporters during his three-year tenure.

Updated on Sep 08, 2018 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
Uttarakhand to get India’s first integrated cooperative development project
The scheme aims to drastically improve the rural economy by giving a boost to the co-operative, farm and allied sectors.

Updated on Sep 07, 2018 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun
Uttarakhand govt may lift import ban on exotic sheep to boost farmers’ income, check migration
A government official said the capacity of the indigenous varieties of sheep to yield meat and fine-quality wool has been affected owing to inbreeding caused by the ban on the import of exotic varieties.

Published on Aug 31, 2018 01:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi
RSS reprimands Uttarakhand BJP govt for dealing arrogantly with public, asks it to check migration
The BJP government was also directed to adopt “an innovative approach” to development and marshal all its resources to implement the party’s “vision for development”, which was unveiled in the run-up to the 2017 assembly elections, party insiders said.

Published on Aug 24, 2018 01:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Deep Joshi, Dehradun