Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Its headquarters is in the town of Pauri. It is sometimes referred to simply as Garhwal district, though it should not be confused with the larger Garhwal region of which it is only a part of.
Lansdowne is a cantonment town in Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Kotdwar is a city, municipal corporation in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India. It is just 101 km from Pauri, the district headquarter. It is the eighth-largest city in Uttarakhand. Its old name was "Kootdwar", which means the gateway of the high hill koot as Chitra koot, since it is located on the bank of river Khoh. It is situated in the southwestern part of the state and is one of the main entrance points in the state of Uttarakhand.
Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (Retd.), AVSM, is an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Garhwal parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand and is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Earlier, he was a cabinet minister, Ministry of Surface Transport of the government headed by the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Yogi Adityanath is an Indian Hindu monk and politician, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been serving as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 19 March 2017. He is the longest serving chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, being in office for 7 years, and the only UP chief minister to have two consecutive terms.
Satpuli is a town on the Meerut-Pauri highway, located approximately 50 kilometers from Kotdwar and 50 kilometers from Pauri, in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand.
Dr. Harak Singh Rawat is a prominent political leader of the Uttarakhand state in India. He is a member of Indian National Congress after being expelled from the BJP in 2022. After joining Congress he negotiated an MLA ticket for his daughter in law, Anukriti Gusain, from Congress party and worked as a star campaigner in 2022 Uttarakhand General Elections. He became the youngest Minister of Uttar Pradesh State in the year 1991 and also won assembly election from Pauri. He has also won as an MLA from Rudraprayag, Lansdowne and Kotdwar and is one of the few leaders in the state with a wide appeal in a large area. He was the candidate of Indian National Congress from Garhwal in 2014 Indian general election. He was expelled from BJP and the Cabinet led by Pushkar Singh Dhami stating that he has indulged in anti-party activities and he is demanding ticket for his daughter in law (Anukriti) as well for the Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022. He later joined Congress in the presence of former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat.
Trivendra Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand between 2017 and 2021.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uttarakhand:
Haldukhata is a village under tehsil Kotdwar in the Pauri Garhwal district of Indian state of Uttarakhand. Haldukhata is connecting place for Kalaghati and Kishanpuri.
Yogi Adityanath: The Rise Of A Saffron Socialist is a biography on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath authored by The Times of India Resident Editor in Lucknow, Pravin Kumar. It traces the journey of transformation and evolvement of Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht from Pauri in Uttarakhand to Yogi Adityanath of Goraksha Peeth in Gorakhpur, to the Parliament of India in New Delhi, and finally to the chief minister's post in Lucknow. The book is published by Times Group Books. The first copy of the book was presented to Yogi Adityanath on 24 November 2017. The book was released at the Times Literature Festival in New Delhi on 26 November 2017.
Kotdwar Legislative Assembly constituency Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand, a northern state of India. Kotdwar is a part of Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency.
Yamkeshwar Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 constituencies in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand state of India. Yamkeshwar is also part of Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency.
Ritu Khanduri Bhushan is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand who is the 6th Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly since 2022. She represents Kotdwar in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly since 2022 and from Yamkeshwar Assembly constituency from 2017 to 2022. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the daughter of B. C. Khanduri, former chief minister of Uttarakhand.
Renu Bisht is an Indian politician and MLA from Yamkeshwar Assembly, Kotdwar. In December 2023, Bisht's name was brought up in trial of the Ankita Bhandari Murder Case for alleged destruction of evidence. She is member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dhumakot is a tehsil, or administrative division, located in the Pauri Garhwal district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is bordered by the tehsils of Lansdowne, Kotdwar, Thalisain and Bironkhal. It is also bordered by the districts Almora and Nainital of Kumaun.
Jakhnikhal is a tehsil, or administrative division, in the Pauri Garhwal district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It contains 109 revenue villages taken out of Yamkeshwar and Lansdowne tehsils in 2017.
Rikhanikhal is a sub-Tehsil in the district Pauri Garhwal in the state of Uttarakhand. The sub-tehsil was created in the year 2016 and has 190 villages.
Ankita Bhandari was an Indian receptionist from Pauri who was allegedly raped and subsequently murdered at the Vanantra Resort in Ganga-Bhogpur in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. The case gained much publicity in national and state media due to its disastrous mismanagement and supposed involvement of a politically influential 'VIP' in sex coercion, but no identification has been made. The theory is supported by statements of her mother. Though the chats presented in the Chargesheet, did not mention any specific VIP Angle.
