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  • proper noun A state of the Republic of India, formed in 2000.

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Examples

  • Left, tourists performed yoga exercises at the Parmarth Niketam Ashram in the northern Indian city of Rishikesh, Uttaranchal, March 2011.

    India's Flourishing Medical Tourism 2011

  • "We also have a mobile repair unit that travels to the most interior places where these machines are used," says Amarpreet Anand, director of A&A Earthmovers, JCB's dealer for western Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal.

    JCB Hits Pay Dirt In India 2011

  • India's federal government on Aug. 21 scrapped NTPC's Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project, which was under construction in Uttaranchal state, as environmentalists protested about the impact of diverting a river for the project.

    NTPC Net Profit Flat Eric Yep 2011

  • Keshwa Nand Tiwari is a community organiser and gender equality campaigner, who was a founding member of Disha Social Organisation, a civil society group which has been committed to fighting poverty in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal since 1984.

    The International Development Achievement Award winner: An inspiration to all Sue George 2010

  • As poorest states like chattisgarh, Uttaranchal, UP, MP and others states like WB, TamilNadu, Andhra Pradesh, haryana were already accepted almost all recomendations of 6th pay pay commission, then why orissa govt would n't accept all recomendations?

    Fitment Committee prepares final report, Pay Hike likely in December 2008

  • Snow Leopard is globally endangered species as well as the most important flagship species of the mountain regions of J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim and Arunanchal Pradesh.

    Project Snow Leopard launched to save the species in Jammu & Kashmir 2009

  • Almora is one of the most beautiful places in Kumaon region in Uttaranchal.

    Famous Magazine | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Of these plants, 5 out of 6 species globally threatened are not found in Nanda Devi National Park or elsewhere in Uttaranchal: Aconitum falconeri, A. balfouri, Himalayan maple Acer caesium, the blue Himalayan poppy Mecanopsis aculeate and Saussurea atkinsoni. 31 species are classified as nationally rare.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

  • With support from the MAB programme initiatives of the Indian government and the latest ecotourism policy of the newly created state of Uttaranchal, regulated tourism has been allowed.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

  • The Park was only reopened in 2003 for regulated tourism following the new ecotourism policy of the state of Uttaranchal.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

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