Uttarakhand  

Today (January 24) is National Girl Child Day -- a day dedicated to promoting awareness about the rights of the girl child and to increase awareness on the importance of girl education, and their health and nutrition. One such initiative has been taken up Uttarakhand

 Mukhtar Ali, from Uttarakhand is a painter by profession. But his passion is to rescue snakes. In the last year alone, he has rescued not fewer than thousand snakes 

Authorities in Uttarakhand have introduced palanquin services to help would-be moms get proper treatment  
 

Uttarakhand has built an eco-bridge that aids animals cross a highway

34-year-old Janki Chand, hailing from Uttarakhand, afflicted by polio, teaches underprivileged kids 
 

 Shubham Dharmsktu hails from Uttarakhand. He has been doing his best to ensure girls get phones to get access to online education 

 Under the Namami Gange mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  inaugurated six sewage treatment plants worth over Rs 500 crore in Uttarakhand

Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Uttarakhand have joined the 'One Nation-One Ration Card' scheme, taking the total number of states and union territories connected under the scheme to 24
 

According to the Uttarakhand government, last year, more than 3.4 crore devotees from Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh took part in the Kavad yatra
 

Arvind Kejriwal, today, said the Lieutenant Governor's orders overruling his government's decisions on coronavirus would be strictly followed, without question. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a virtual review meeting on the Kedarnath Math development and reconstruction project with the Uttarakhand Govt.
 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a virtual review meeting on the Kedarnath Math development and reconstruction project with the Uttarakhand Govt
 

Army Chief Gen MM Naravane said there were reasons to believe that Nepal objected to India laying a road connecting the Lipulekh pass in Uttarakhand at the behest of someone else even as he asserted that the Army is dealing with incidents of face-offs with Chinese military on a case-by-case basis

During the lockdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal has donated money to help horses, donkeys in Uttarakhand

Maharashtra celebrates its formation on May 1. The day, however, brought controversy over a remark made on a cap revealing the battle for power in the state and also pointing out the symbol of pride in Uttarakhand.

Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs came to India as a teenager in search of enlightenment. He returned disappointed, following a brush with dysentery and a near mob thrashing after he protested at being sold watered-down buffalo milk. But the trip did mark a turning point in his life. In his own words, Steve Jobs says, "Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work."